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Recently I've been listening to this mixtape from the turn of the millennium by DJ Werd called "The End of Western Civilization...and Return to Mother Earth". Yes, this was an actual mixtape on cassette circa 1999. It features a number of underground MCs with vocals spit over hip hop and trip hop instrumentals (DJ Krush, The Herbaliser, Thievery Corporation...) as well as quality beats and now classic hip hop vocals (Atmosphere, Outkast, Kool Keith). The track choices are awesome and well-blended, but I especially love the verses from the unknowns about, what else, the end of western civilization and return to mother earth. There's some real poetry in there.
I recently converted the tape to an mp3 so I could listen to it along with the rest of my digital music collection. I remember listening to this in high school (I bought the tape at Amoeba Records in Berkeley) on the bus on the way to Lake Tahoe to go snowboarding and lovin' it.

DJ Werd was kind enough to allow me to share the mix as an mp3. Bear in mind this is a recording of a tape cassette...I've done my best to preserve the original sound and enhance the quality of the original recording.

The original album featured the Salvador Dali painting titled "Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man" (1943), pictured here. Thanks to the National Gallery of Canada for providing the image.

Tracklist [MCs in brackets]:

Side A - The End of Western Civilization...

Teao - R.E.B.Earth
P.E.A.C.E., Mikah Nine - Brainwash
DJ Krush - On the Dub-ble [Epic Paradox (Definitive Juice, Kefing), Eldon, Dime]
Purple Penguin - Return
The Herbaliser - Moon Sequence [Parillax (Pasha, Shamako), Ultraman, Persia]
Automator w/ Kool Keith - A Better Tomorrow Z-Trip Final Mix 1
Slide Five - KC Doppler [Sapient, Jager, Intellect]* *(Nomadic Mind Travellers)
Atmosphere - The Outernet

Side B - ...And Return to Mother Earth

The Herbaliser - ft. What What - Let It Go
Hive - Moves Within Time [Dave Dub]
Thievery Corporation - DC3000 [Sundiata (the Anti-Werd)]
Definitive Juice - Beauty & the Bitch
Molasses - Meditation [Sundiata]
Rabb Chillin' - Under the Sun, Under the Sun
Visionaries - Revision
Da Damn PhreakNoisePhunk - Dazzafact
Kruder & Dorfmeister - Deep Shit Pt. 1 & Pt. 2 [Kaotic Souls (Soil, Quasar, Dempswa)]
Outkast - Da Art of Storytellin' Pt. 2
Teao ft. Dren & Bioplanet - Organic Hybrid