The Angel

Appearing alongside hip-hop innovators DJ Shadow, the Bay Area's Blackalicious, and rap act Ultramagnetic MC's, remix artist the Angel adds her signature electronic flavors to 3-2-1 Records' 1998 release Connected with "Selector (On Tha Otha Side of Midnite)" featuring Cokni O'Dire. With a portion of sales proceeds benefiting PAX, an organization dedicated to anti-gun violence, this compilation offers complex perspectives on urban existence through hip-hop-based sonic artistry. The Angel's dark down-tempo roller cuts and pastes elements from Dub Reggae, jazz, Drum 'n' Bass and hip-hop, merging influences from varying music scenes associated with the metropolitan locales of New York, London, Bristol, and Los Angeles. Call her production techniques a vision of hip-hop's future, a jazzy take on Drum 'n' Bass or a fresh approach to Trip-Hop. This choice semi-instrumental is ultimately a positive expression of healed-over social wounds.