Blue Sky Black Death

Blue Sky Black Death (abbreviated BSBD) is a production duo based in Seattle, Washington.). They are known principally for their hip hop and instrumental music, made with a mix of live instrumentation and sampling. Their name is "a skydiving phrase alluding to beauty and death".

History

Kingston and Young God met and began collaborating on music in 2003. Young God, working under the name Rev.Left, began creating beats to rap over, but abandoned rapping and started producing exclusively around 2000. Kingston, working under the name Orphan, began his solo producing career collaborating with rapper Noah23 and the Plague Language collective (to which Young God also contributed production). Kingston produced the entirety of Noah23's 1999 debut album Cytoplasm Pixel, and the two collaborated closely until 2004's Jupiter Sajitarius, after which they parted ways. That same year Kingston worked on projects for Virtuoso's Omnipotent Records. He contributed a number of tracks to Jus Allah's scheduled Omnipotent debut All Fates Have Changed, but the album was shelved. The...
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