For the past two or three years, Tokai's RCSLUM has been putting out hip-hop with a bitter bite found nowhere else, in any other city or local scene. Now, in collaboration with PRESIDENTS HEIGHTS, comes a polished record that glows with an even duller light. Tracks come from C.O.S.A., whose COSAPANELLA release still feels fresh, sworn ally RAMZA, TONOSAPIENS from Tokyo, plus the equally noteworthy YOSHIMARL and SH BEATS out of Osaka. The only guest appearance is MADS from Osaka — a strikingly deliberate lineup. TOSHI MAMUSHI, renowned as a freestyle master, and CAMPANELLA, who jacks the club and the internet in equal measure, mingle with these beats and spit greetings and rhymes that hit hard. A crystallization of oddly shaped alternative hurled out of Tokai — a scene you can't help but recognize as one of a kind, even within Japanese hip-hop.