“Ishmael Butler has little to prove. One half of the peerless Shabazz Palaces, one third of Digable Planets, and collaborator, rapper, producer and remixer extraordinaire, his shadow stretches long and heavy over the alternative hip-hop landscape. Yet on ‘1 Time Mirage’, the debut LP from his Knife Knights project with Erik Blood, he continues to break new creative ground.
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