Mumbles

Mumbles production career got started at the age of 15 under the guidance and influence of his older brother, DJ Marvski, and Cut Chemist, of the Unity Committee (Now Jurassic 5). These champion DJ's showed him the ropes of record digging, sampling, and putting tracks together. Within a years time, while he was still in high school, Mumbles musician stepfather bought a new Ensoniq EPS 16+ for them to work on, and shortly thereafter his production style took a more concrete form. It was during the later part of his high school years (1992-1993) that the bulk of the album "A Book Of Human Language" was composed. The early tracks from this era included "Makeba" (off All Balls Don't Bounce) and "Caution" (later used by Dark Leaf), "The Thief In the Night", "Prelude to the Hunt", "The Hunt", "The Catch", "The March", "The Vision", "Walls and Windows", and "The Grandfather Clock". Within the next year (1994), Cut Chemist and Mumbles had put together "The Guidelines" and "The Hurt". Also in the same year, Mumbles put together "Hold On", "Balance", "Faces", "The Greatest Show on Earth", "Human Language", and did a remix of "Grandfather Clock", which made the album. During his freshman year in college (UCSD), Mumbles met Aceyalone through a connection at Grand Royal Records. A friend working there took a copy of his beat tape (which he had been playing for theBeastie Boys) out to Aceyalone who was then putting together his first solo album on Capitol Records, All Balls Don't Bounce. Acey heard the tape, liked the beats and called a few days later to put some songs down for the completion of the album. Most everyone loved the songs they did together, and shortly thereafter the pair decided to record a full album together, which turned into A Book of Human Language (1998). The album was not immediately well received when it was released, but over time, it grew to accumulate the cult status of a hip-hop classic. Unfortunately, the company through which it was released, Nu-Gruv Alliance, went bankrupt and folded out of business, leaving the artists largely unpaid for the work they had done. Fast forward to 2005. Sound in Color and Mumbles took the instrumentals, re-mastered them, and are now re-releasing the album with new artwork, producer's liner notes, a remix of The Energy and a new bonus track "A Tapestry of Folk Tales" for the heads. Look out for Mumbles forthcoming album on Sound in Color, Illumination / Transformation, coming late 2005.