This is my thread where I'll be posting album reviews/perspectives, and how each of them affected me at the time they were released and how they shaped my music talents as a producer/song writer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Sick Jacken and Cynic - The Terror Tapes Vol.1' This album had a huge influence on my production as an artist due to the raw beats and aura it projected at the time. Sick Jacken murdered it as always, but this album was something else. Cynic also delivered some heat but together this is a timeless piece of work. At the time this was released i had just left school to take up a career in music (Unprofessional, more for an exploration of music) and this drove me to find a more underground type of sound and had me searching for samples that mimicked "C.I.A Murder Me" a track featured on this. "Decade of dope" is an instant classic along with "Not Guilty" Both these tracks feature heavy content that opens your eyes to the life of gangsters in L.A. Since then my production has changed, but my love for this album remains the same. Definitely worth a listen if you haven't heard it, this shaped my love for a type of hip hop a lot of my friends can't appreciate but growing up with the access to information I had I learnt that this isn't music, but more of a reality of the world we live in. Go run it up.