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insight-updated software v. 2.5

artist ........  insight
title .........  updated software v. 2.5
release date ..  2002
label .........  brick/grit
cat. no .......  n/a
url ...........  www.insight.fm

rip date ......  07-2004
genre .........  hip-hop
quality .......  VBRkbps / 44.1Hz
time ..........  84:38 min
size ..........  97,2 MB
source ........  cdda

release info

This is the CD version of Insight's debut album. I included all
of the bonus material that comes on both CDs with the exception
of certain insignificant files on CD two.

All vocals, mixing, mastering, cuts, production, recording and
scratching done by Insight (Andre Todman).
Executive producers: Truth Elemental and Papa D! for Brick
Records and Mahlon Williams for Grit Records.
"Rap Religion" video by Ethan Lader.
"Mind Shocker" video by Dan Weisman and Joel Walker.

"Brick is elated to present these companion LP releases of
Insight's debut LP "Updated Software V. 2.5" This is the first
official full length release from hip-hop maverick INSIGHT - who
has been blessing the underground for years with his impressive
discography, which incudes tracks for Mr. Lif, Jedi Mind Tricks,
Edan, Scum, and many more...

The first piece of vinyl (BRK021) features 11 brand new vocal
tracks, while the other (BRK022) features 21 serperate and
original instrumental tracks; including the full instrumental
version of Mr. Lif and Opio's "Fulcrum" (DEF JUX II) - which is
exclusive to this LP.

The CD version of "Updated Software V.2.5" is an enhanced double
CD banger - containing all the tracks from both slabs of vinyl,
plus 2 videos, video footage of Insight in the lab, and an
interactive game/program developed by Insight that allows the
listener to remix an Insight track ala an emulated digital
SP1200 classic sampler.

In the tradition of great artists such as Pete Rock, Madlib, MF
Doom, El-P, Evidence, Godfather Don, etc., Insight crafts
everything himself - holding down every aspect of this double
album. From all the rhymes and vocals, production, and cuts - to
the mixing and mastering, this is truly an impressive feat.
Artistry of this magnitude is hardly displayed in today's sea of
mediocre one-dimensional artists. No wonder Insight was voted
"Best New Artist" in the 2001 Boston Music Awards. This is one
of many great collections you can expect to see and hear from
the multidimensional artist known as Insight."

Cited: http://www.brickrecords.com/story.php3?id_story=157

"Producer, DJ, and rapper Insight (born Andre Todman) lived a
peripatetic life as a child owing to a calypso artist father who
performed with his band throughout the Caribbean. Born on the
island of St. Thomas, he migrated to the United States at the
age of five with his family, which eventually settled in the
Boston area. An introverted musical prodigy, Todman had taught
himself to play the piano by the time he was seven, but his
world was turned upside-down in 1982 upon hearing a song by the
rap group the Sugarhill Gang. The young virtuoso forthrightly
plunged himself into the hip-hop world entirely, spending hours
alone in his bedroom learningùagain on his ownùevery facet of
the genre by deconstructing songs and sounds and then building
them back up in his own image. In the process he also became an
electronics wizard, a skill that would eventually manifest
itself in his cutting-edge music. As Insight Todman began to
make a name for himself in the burgeoning Boston rap scene of
the late 1990s. He particularly became an in-demand producer and
DJ, and included among his early credits was fellow Bostonian
Mr. Lif's first single, the underground classic "Triangular
Warfare." Todman would go on to contribute tracks to projects by
KRS-One, Edan, Jedi Mind Tricks, and Big Daddy Kane, among
others. At Boston's 2001 Nemo Awards, Insight was voted Best New
Hip-Hop Artist. He completely fulfilled the promise such an
honor bestowed on his debut solo outing, released conjointly by
Brick and Landspeed Records in 2002. The ambitious, double-disc
Update Software v. 2.5 was a multimedia labor-of-love comprised
of one side of proper songs and another of experimental beats,
videos, and a simulated SP1200 sampler game, designed by Todman
himself, that allowed listeners to "remix" Insight songs. On the
side, he continued to provide tracks to outside artists and to
record with his side project, the quintet the Electric Company.
At the outset of 2003 Insight released his second Brick album,
the Crooked Needle on a Square Record LP, a vinyl collection of
previously unreleased, exclusive, and instrumental tracks."

By: Stanton Swihart
Cited: http://www.sohh.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-334255

track list

cd1

01 music lover                                           03:04
02 the oracle                                            02:12
03 ghetto blaster                                        03:16
04 true to the game                                      04:01
05 submit                                                03:32
06 version 2.2                                           03:04
07 voice of reason                                       03:21
08 drama                                                 03:02
09 back up                                               02:17
10 words of encouragement                                02:46
11 summon power                                          00:37
12 humanity                                              03:56
13 mind shocker                                          04:08
14 sabotage                                              02:17
15 swift                                                 02:32
16 that shit ain't hot                                   03:05
17 motivated                                             08:38

cd2

01 theme                                                 01:32
02 12 monkeys                                            01:53
03 grinding machine                                      00:51
04 dejavue                                               00:28
05 problem                                               01:48
06 electric co                                           00:40
07 mankind                                               00:37
08 distortion                                            00:40
09 humanity                                              01:21
10 106 bpm                                               00:52
11 stay focused                                          01:13
12 batman arrives                                        00:49
13 breath                                                00:28
14 low gain                                              00:48
15 b-world                                               01:11
16 funk groove                                           01:14
17 triangular warfare                                    00:54
18 sight video game                                      00:55
19 the one i hate                                        00:30
20 power up                                              00:25
21 pulse cannon                                          01:35
22 shortest song ever                                    00:06
23 interlusion                                           01:16
24 fulcrum (exclusive instrumental)                      03:24
25 funk groove 2                                         00:56
26 outro                                                 02:24

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the hip-hop, trip-hop, lo-fi and turntablism that has been slept
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