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Mixtape Madness – October 10 (late edition)

Don’t know who Proton is? Check out this interview I did with them back in March. Download: Proton – Red and Blue Vol. 1

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Panacea’s “On a Mind on a Ship Through Time”

Washington, D.C. duo Panacea will release a new album, On a Mind on a Ship Through Time, on October 14. It’s the follow-up to The Scenic Route (featured on Plug One’s top 50 albums of 2007 along with other year-end … Continue reading

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Panacea plans “Reroute”

Freshly empowered by its underground success, Washington, D.C. duo Panacea is working on a remix companion to their enchanting second album The Scenic Route. Better yet, they want all you bedroom producers to get involved, too. Set for sometime next … Continue reading

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Review: Panacea, “The Scenic Route”

On The Scenic Route, Washington D.C. group Panacea continues its exploration of lyrical epiphanies over abstract beats. Continue reading

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Panacea takes “The Scenic Route”

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Last year, Washington D.C. duo Panacea gave a pleasant surprise in the form of Ink is My Drink. The album was part standard-issue backpack rap, but it had a wonderful dreamlike quality, like the musical equivalent of Margaret Brown’s Goodnight Moon, or a B-boy version of Carole King’s "Chicken Soup and Rice."

Producer K-Murdock and MC Raw Poetic will bring back its Christopher Cross-styled hip-hop with The Scenic Route. Set for release on September 4 via Glow-in-the-Dark (which enjoys a distribution deal with Rawkus), the sophomore disc takes Panacea’s panacean qualities to gauzy extremes, and soul dynamo Raheem DeVaughn makes an appearance. "It’s really dynamic this time around. I consider it my masterpiece," says K-Murdock in a press releae. "If you want to get away, but can’t afford the vacation, this is for you." The track listing for The Scenic Route is below.

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