Debut solo effort from West coast producer known for work his "Beneath The Surface" compilation and production for Freestyle Fellowship ("Can You Find the Level of Difficulty in This?"). Omid continues to build on his reputation as one of the Los Angeles underground's most respected producers for his remix of The Beastie Boys, his productions for Mary Joy's Tags of the Times, and his tracks for the cream of the LA underground (2Mex, Abstract Rude, Aceyalone, Busdriver, Dilated Peoples, and Sach).

Beautiful downtempo beats lovely & moving soundscapes. This album is an instrumental tour-de-force, taking many preconceptions that you might have had and smashing them against the floor. The structure of the tracks might have you wondering where the boundary of hip-hop actually ends, as he switches up different tempos and rhythms continually. The project is solid throughout, no matter if he's linking with Nikko and DJ Drez on the jazz-laden 'Ways Of The World' or rubbing the Eastern vibes on the Oriental-sounding 'Ease In The Middle Piece' - and for anyone feeling the DJ Krush kinda sound, but with even more emotion is gonna be needing a copy of this LP straight away.

For fans of the typical hip-hop sound, this is maybe going to confuse you. You couldn't categorize it very easily even if you were as open minded as possible - but then to throw this excellent album into a strict definition would be completely missing the point. It's simply 12 tracks of beautiful music.