What's good Seattle?! From the place where people digest salmon and hot dogs with a slab of cream cheese comes a cosmic hip hop group: Common Market. You need celebratory music where horns bounce around the room? Or are you more the downtempo/psychedelic type? Well, this group's got it all.

The DJ/producer, Sabzi, is able to sling beats at listeners like a musical superhero, and is also the brain behind the melodies of Blue Scholars.

The first track on their album, Re-fresh , is brass-punching frenzy with stuttering samples. It is a strong opener and transition into Push , a reactionary ballad where the emcee RA Scion might have written his verses in military fatigues. The melody relies on a lofty sample and incendiary lyrics.

One of the smoothest tracks on the album is Poison . It begins with a jazzy keyboard intro and then comes piercing drum taps as if we were listening to The Roots. The track My Pathology is one that lets the guitar run loose, taking on a bad-ass blues personality.

Others to check out are G'Dang Diggy , which gives you more of those pounding horns and Love One , a track with a sixties melody beneath the lyrics.

Seattle's hip hop scene is burgeoning, and it's clear that the jazz movement that took place there so many years ago has influenced artists such as these. Move over Nirvana.

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