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pyramid vritra - indra - stones throw - vinyl

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Genre: Hip Hop

1. Vanessa Hill
2. Impulses
3. DNTSLP
4. Monkeybread
5. Cherry Ave
6. Spyglass
7. Drown
8. Cruel
9. Shining
10. Tea & Lemonade
11. Spool
12. Eleven12
13. Lemo

The debut album from Hal Williams, a.k.a. Pyramid Vritra, the newest signee to Stones Throw Records.

pyramid Vritra is Hal Williams, prolific producer and rapper.
22 year-old, LA-based Pyramid Vritra has been making beats
and writing rhymes since he was just ten years old. When he
was in high school in Atlanta, he founded the hip hop collective
NRK (Nobody Really Knows) and subsequently linked up with
Matt Martians of Odd Future after Martians heard NRK�s tracks
on Myspace. When Pyramid Vritra and Matt Martians met, they
naturally clicked and the collaborations began. They formed
The Super 3 production group, and soon after, he and Martians
formed the Jet Age of Tomorrow releasing their music via Odd
Future.
During the day Pyramid Vritra drives a forklift around a home
improvement store in South Los Angeles. His co-workers have
no idea he makes music, he says �he tries to not talk to anyone
there.� Introverted in nature, Pyramid Vritra allows us to find out
a bit about him through his debut 16-track record, Indra. The
album swings in and out of darkness and highlights Pyramid
Vritra�s knack for rhyming and making obscure beats � all
sample free.
Pyramid Vritra reveals that on Indra his production and lyrics
contain a lot of emotion. Adding, �there�s fluidity and a calm
in the midst of complexity.� Which might explain his name,
Pyramid Vritra, which has two parts to it, he adds, �the pyramid
has sides that are steep and smooth. Vritra is both a god and
demon � a demon who kept the waters of the world captive until he was slain