Biography
Hip-Hop mainstay and underground veteran, Nick Wiz, shares his vast catalog of rare, unreleased, and 12” only productions. Having first impacted the early 90’s Hip-Hop scene with his beat contributions to Ecko Unlimited’s “Underground Airplay” cassette series (which are now highly collectable); Wiz’s sound was a considerable part of the early Lyricist Lounge movement. Working with Lounge alum, The Cella Dwellas, on their classic 1996 debut album, further cemented Nick Wiz as an up-and-coming beat phenom. From there his unique fusion of filters, horns, smacking SP-1200 drums and dense bass-lines were soon heard on projects from Mad Skillz, Darc Mind, Chubb Rock, Chino XL, Rakim and others. With this influx of production work coming his way, Nick’s New Jersey studio, appropriately named “The Cellar”, was constantly flooded with both Hip-Hop’s elite talent and the best of the 90’s underground scene as well. While a lot of the material produced and recorded by Wiz found its way to full-length CD releases, countless other tracks were unreleased, relegated to vinyl bootlegs / 12” only versions, or cassette only
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.