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I have to apologise to the Herring Heads for the crazy amount of time since the last 90's drop on the label. Demico dropped in October last year and it's been way too long - won't let that happen again - just had delay after delay...but anyway, back to the program...
 
This is peak mid-90s Herring - classic, low key, demo flavas out of Miami, FL, but with that proper East Coast feel. Low Life grew up in Brooklyn & Queens County so that musical influence we all love was always around him. He dropped a cassette-only release called 'Burnin' in 1995 and that was it!  A couple of those joints were upped to the Tube about a year back [shout out to Orionhiphop] and garnered a bunch of plays and exposed a small section of this project for the first time. What we have here is the complete 11 track EP transferred from the OG 4 Track cassettes, for a really chunky sound. Peep the interview below for more info on this project.
 
Big shout out to my man Thomas L Stephansen for the connect - always coming through with that underground Herring sound - much love.
 
 
There are 125 copies on Solid Turquoise Coloured Vinyl.
 
White Jacket  with traditional Herring Black/White Sticker!!!
 
 
PEEP THIS SHORT INTERVIEW WITH LOW LIFE:
 

Where did you grow up? 
 
A chunk of Flatbush Brooklyn, little bit of Port au Prince Haiti,  Dash of Rosedale Queens and a whole lot of Dade County 
 
 
What are your earliest memories of the culture? 
 
My very first hip hop memory is La Di Da Di by Slick Rick and Dougie Fresh. Me and a bunch of my cousins in Haiti for the summer, with 3 channels on the TV and no such thing as cable, that song changed my life that summer.  I was 8.
 

How was the scene in the 80s/90s in Miami? 
 
In the 90's there was two different scenes that rarely crossed paths and  I was lucky to be a part of both, one hand you had the local bass heavy music like 2 Live Crew and Luke, other southern acts and the west coast dominated that side. On the other side you had the New York transplants mostly Caribbean and Hispanic -  it was rare to get both crowds in the same spot though it did happen on occasion. Funny enough I was one of the first transplants coming in the mid 1980's so by the 90s I was a local.  I grew up here, but i spent my summers in New York and I bled hip-hop so I was at home in both scenes and would be at places like the booty shaking super ratchet and raunchy Pac Jam (which is probably why I'm writing this in a strip club) and the open mics and ciphers at places like the Sugar Shack and the warehouse parties and after hours ghetto spots.
 

Were there many cats like you from the south influenced by the north east? 
 
Too many to count, some were born and raised in Miami most weren't but they are what I like to call Southern Fried New Yorkers. It's a vibe that held sway in Hip-hop for a while but that's another story.
 

When did you first start to rhyme?
 
I think like 11 or 12 so like '88-'89 maybe.
 

Were you trying to get a deal back then?
 
Half of Burnin is actually my demo tape. Those are all the first songs I ever recorded in a real studio by myself. And that was mid 1995.
 

How did that go? 
 
Welp, let's just say we shit the bed. I take full responsibility but I was 18 and buckwild. Long story short I turned down all the deals till people stopped offering, I was never satisfied with the terms. I wanted ownership stakes and autonomy and I couldn't get it, so I stayed in the streets where I could.
 

How many tapes did you manufacture back then? 
 
500 tapes at first and 100 were hand delivered to the influential before we knew what influencers were we knew who had to have it, which I think helped it achieve a certain status with the people. The bootlegging didn't hurt either lol.

 
Did you plan on doing some vinyl too? 
 
Yea it was in the works when shit hit the fan!
 

How do you feel about cats checking for your old music 30 years after it was recorded? 

Vindicated that I wasn't wasting my time, that I didn't waste my life. That I made timeless music as a kid. Schemes and Scams was my first song ever and they played it on the underground radio stations in Miami. I just knew BURNIN was gonna blow up, it never did though. Who knows, maybe now it will. 
 
 
 
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