LA-based Record Label Sound in Color Partners w/Koch

Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens

Los Angeles-based record label Sound In Color, which has most recently released an album from Fishbone, has signed a distribution deal with Koch, says label's President Diego Carlin.

This is no shabby achievement and could in fact be a watershed moment for L.A.'s burgeoning underground scene, about which this journalist is working on a book. SIC's signing with Koch means that the new album from Blu, a rapper currently on tour with the Strange Fruit Project and one of my personal favorite up-and-comers out here in the West, will have national distribution. The album is called "Below the Heavens" and is produced by Exile.

The street date is July 17, 2007, and you can find out more about Blu here.

- Slav Kandyba writes Hip-Hop Files.