Around 1994, this trio is preparing to release its debut album, "Of Human Balance and Steamed Rice", however, after the release of an EP in the same year, the album is not released. A few years later, the guys release another EP and their debut album, which becomes the main work of the group 10Bass T formed by rapper Slim Daddy Milo, Brooklyn DJ, producer and rapper Carlos Mena and Bay Area DJ and producer Selector G.
The album takes up many previously released tracks and is produced almost entirely by Selector G, who leaves a couple of rhythms to Carlos Mena aka Solrac, without much imagination his first name backwards, and a production to Peanut Butter Wolf and the late Charizma, to which the record is dedicated. The CD is raw, jazzy, equipped with a basic instrumentation with horns scattered over a normal drum kit while the guys spit bars in a calm way. It's not bad and clocks in at under forty minutes, so it would have good replay value if it weren't for some exhausting hooks repeated an excessive number of times across multiple tracks.
The album comes out of the bay, but it turns to New York with several nods, including Black Moon's "I Got Cha Opin (Remix)" on "Open Your Eyes": it's a rare West Coast jazz rap album recorded in the early nineties like The Pharcyde and Souls of Mischief, but in my opinion it's more akin to Freestyle Fellowship's "Innercity Griots" and Capital Tax's "The Swoll Package". It's also a rare perfect score from the guys at RapReviews, so I think it deserves some attention for an album released by San Jose Sound Recording (SJSR) in 1996 that is totally forgotten a little under thirty years after its release.
Rating: 7/10.
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