Oldominion - Replacement Killers

14th track on Oldominions album "Zero" from around 1999, officially released in 2009. Verses by Onry Ozzborn, Bishop I, Pale Soul, JFK & Sleep.

Welcome to another chapter of the big "Oldominion-Story". First things first, this shit keeps getting more confusing. But I am trying my best to get the facts straight for anybody that might take an interest in Oldominion now or in the future. If I am not doing this, nobody will and everything will just be forgotten.
Check out the first part of the story here:
   • Oldominion - Book Of Fury (2000) - Fu...  

So let me just carry on where I left off: After doing my first bit of research and connecting with Smoke M2D6 I uploaded "Book Of Fury", since it seemed to be the first real Oldominion-release in the year 2000. Well folks, that info was wrong. It is correct that it was probably the first release but the year 2000 is wrong.
So let me start over again:
In the years 98 and 99, the crew that later would become Oldominion came together in Seattle. It started with two crews that formed a new one: Oracles Creed (Pale Soul, Sleep and Onry Ozzborn) from Seattle and FrontLine (NyQuil, Snafu and Destro) from Portland. They rented a weird looking house in Lake City, Seattle, called the place "Anchorhead" and started to make music there.
That attracted other artists from all over the US, who joined one after another: Azrael, Bishop I, Ruben "Rochester A.P.'' and Smoke. JFK, Eminence, L'Swhere and Syndel - to name a few but still not all.
It was the rapper Ruben "Rochester AP" who came up with the name Oldominion. "We were MCs who would talk about and express feelings that you weren't supposed to in rap - spiritual things. And Oldominion meant the way the spirit or spirituality played a bigger role in the daily life of ancient times", as Onry Ozzborn later pointed out in an interview.

In the first two years of the new supercrews existence tons of songs were recorded. Like really tons of songs. The house in Lake City had three studios in it and day and night the artists were just kickin it. As Smoke puts it: "You didn't come there for one day and you missed out on a bunch of awesome songs." Smoke estimates around 500-600 songs were produced in that time (!).
But all those young aspiring artists didn't really give much thought about releasing the music until Pale Soul (or other members of the group, no one really knows, it was the Wild West of music publishing) grabbed a few songs and released them via mp3.com. First "Book Of Fury", then Volumes 1, 2 and 3. The success of those releases that were downloaded hundred thousands of times laid the groundwork for what would follow. Suddenly Oldominion gained popularity and started to go on nationwide tours through the US.
By the year 2000, Oldominion had to leave the house, because it was discovered that some famous architect had built it (and someone else wanted to use it) so they all moved to New Mexico for a few months to record Oldominions first official release "One" that was put out by the end of that year. So, to get the timeline straight: "One" was released in 2000, every other unofficial album before that - most likely in 1999. Discogs.com, usually my best friend, says otherwise but my information is correct.

The album "Zero" I am uploading now is - together with Onry Ozzborns album "Owleye", that I am planning to work on next - pretty much the earliest Oldominion stuff you can find.

Zero is a collection of the groups favorite songs from around 1999, that could formerly only be found on many different "tour only CDs".
An Oldominion show back then pretty much consisted of the songs on this album. As Smoke puts it: "Everything from 'Zero' is how people came to know us. It is quintessential, it encapsulates what was happening before 'One'".

So after uploading "Book Of Fury" (that has a few songs from "Zero" on it, too), I am hoping that I now managed to finally start off on the right foot.
Oh yeah: if you are wondering about the name "Zero". The songs on the album are older than everything on "One" but were - as a collection - released later, so the CD was given the name "Zero".

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