Produced by Kno. 5th sneak peek from the upcoming “Strange Journey Volume Three”.

On the 4th sneak peek into Strange Journey Volume Three, Deacon The Villain, Aesop Rock & Sadistik confront their inner demons over an infectious Kno production. Pre-orders for Strange Journey Volume Three begin March 24th at www.CunninLynguists.com.

On the 3rd sneak peek into Strange Journey Volume Three, Deacon The Villain trades verses with J-Live while Kno handles the beat and hook to reveal the concept for the project — space explorers sent on a strange journey to Earth from a distant galaxy to find intelligent & empathetic life. Do they succeed? Find out April 1st when Strange Journey Volume Three hits stores everywhere! Photography by Sol Exposure.

Taken from the forthcoming release, Strange Journey Volume Three. Produced by Thomax. Photography by Sol Exposure.

Taken from the forthcoming release Strange Journey Volume Three. Produced by Kno.

Produced entirely by Kno, the album’s pace is handled excellently as each song bleeds into the one right after it. Many listeners won’t pick up on the subtleties of Kno’s well placed samples, such as “Predormitum (Prologue)”, which teases a classic B.I.G. verse, only to literally lead into “Darkness”, at which point the dream has taken shape. This brooding vibe carries throughout much of the record, excellently manifesting itself in both “Hard As They Come (Act 1)” and “Murder (Act 2)” – two back to back songs in the same key (another subtlety) – where Deacon, Kno, Freddie Gibbs, and Big K.R.I.T. ponder the meaning of death at their hands.

Kno’s sound is as ethereal as usual, using 60′s folk vocal samples, slow burning drums, and heavy, atmospheric basslines. Much like early Dungeon Family records, his production takes the listener into the abyss, as Deacon paints steam-of-consciousness pictures on tracks like “Shattered Dreams” and “Starts Shine Brightest”. The crown jewel is the topic at hand itself, “Dreams”, as Deacon and crew claw at a blurred barrier of waking life.

Phenomenally produced and soulfully rhymed, Cunninlynguists have done it again with Oneirology. While it did take the crew a while to settle in on a defined membership and style to call their own, at this point they have easily carved out their niche and are filling it perfectly. Finally earning their respect in the rap game, Oneirology is the group’s dream defined.

On the heels of the new CunninLynguists album Oneirology which dropped March 22nd comes the video for the acoustic version of the lead single. Sick.

CunninLynguists team with Freddie Gibbs for this single from their Oneirology LP, hitting March 13th.

LISTEN: CunninLynguists – “Hard As They Come (Act I)” (feat. Freddie Gibbs)

CunninLynguists – “Hard As They Come (Act I)” (feat. Freddie Gibbs)

Natti, Deacon The Villain & Kno return with the first leak from Oneirology, their newest studio album since 2007′s Dirty Acres. “Stars Shine Brightest (In The Darkest Of Night)” is a battle-cry for anyone just trying to make it through the struggle, which nowadays includes nearly all of us. Keep on pushing!

Cunninlynguists preview their 3.22.11 release Oneirology. Directed by Landon Antonetti AKA Steven Mossberg.

Cunninlynguists have released a teaser image for their next LP, Oneirology, hitting 03.22.11. Click the image for a larger version.

Official video for Kno’s (CunninLynguists) track “La Petite Mort (Come Die With Me),” off his debut LP, Death Is Silent. Video directed by Matt Hobbs.

Here are a few words from Kno about the video: “The treatment of the video as I wrote it was to tell the story of what I like to call the ‘Jesus Complex’ in relationships, where people have a tendency to be attracted to those who appear to need help or were mistreated by others. We often think our new object of affection is perfect and simply met with a string of bad luck or cold-hearted suitors only to realize that the problem in that person’s past relationships may have been, in fact, that person themselves. If you have issues finding true love maybe YOU’RE the asshole — it isn’t necessarily everyone else’s fault. One to grow on.”

Death Is Silent, the solo debut from CunninLynguists‘ producer and emcee Kno, is set to be released on October 12th 2010.

While handling nearly all of CL’s production since the group’s inception in 2001, his emceeing has more recently taken a backseat to his beats — and it has shown. Fueled by Kno’s lush production techniques, A Piece of Strange currently ranks as the #8 release of 2005 (and the only hip-hop release in the Top 30) at high traffic web community RateYourMusic.com, Dirty Acres was awarded “Album Of The Year” honors by UndergroundHipHop.com for 2007 and both of 2009’s compilation releases, Strange Journey Volume One and Two, were given “Top Ten Albums” honors at 2DopeBoyz.

After amassing only 4 verses over the CunninLynguists’ last four releases, the Atlanta-based artist is set to step out from behind the boards on Death Is Silent, both producing the entirety of the record and handling the majority of the vocals. The record’s concept involves the inevitability of death and its impact on love, life, family and friends. The artwork was realized by Argentinian visual artist Diego Fernandez.

Kno will still see plenty of activity on the production side of things, as the next 6 months will see the release of Oneirology, CunninLynguists’ newest studio album in 3 years, Chico and The Man, the long-awaited concept album with fellow QN5 Music artist and longtime friend Tonedeff as well as MacheteVision, a joint project with emcee Marq Spekt.

While all of these releases will be produced entirely by Kno, his production will also be featured on upcoming projects by Freddie Gibbs, 9th Wonder signee Tom Hardy as well as the album Niggaz With Latitude, a group project from CL’s own Deacon The Villain and Sheisty Khrist.

Death Is Silent will be released on CunninLynguists’ own imprint APOS Music and will be distributed by Traffic Entertainment Group.

Pre-orders begin right here at QN5.com on September 3rd 2010.

Taken from CunninLynguists’ newest CD, ‘Strange Journey Volume Two’. Produced by J-Zone // Directed by Kno & Matt Hobbs // Videography & Editing by Matt Hobbs for Vital Films. ©2010 APOS Music / QN5 Music. Credits — Alexandra Lee (Guard #1), Bill “Barefoot Bill” Pacer (Judge), Toiya Dean (Guard #2), Robert Anthony (Warden), Rickey Goldsmith (Cop #2), Lilly (Secretary).

The label with no rich relatives, QN5 Music, released this tantalizing image today, stating QK10, announcing a list of projected releases scheduled for release this year. No dates have been attached, but the list reads like this:

PackFM & Domingo – I F*cking Hate Rappers
Substantial – Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood
Tonedeff & Kno – Chico And The Man
Mr. SOS – Cassette Verite
QN5 Music – Asterisk:Five
Kokayi – Robots & Dinosaurs
Kno – Death Is Silent
Deacon The Villain & Sheisty Khrist – Niggaz with Latitude
CunninLynguists – Oneirology
Tonedeff – Deffinitions Vol. 2

Nice title Deacon and Sheisty. But are you guys trying to start a beef with the Brothers With Longitude?