Calm

calm. is made up of two people, TIME & AwareNess(beats). TIME has already released a solo LP “Litterture” sold and reviewed world wide. AwareNess keeps his production pimp hand strong. In 2002 TIME and AwareNess would join forces and let their powers combine. They’ve been making music since.

“calm.’s music keeps you entertained with thumping melodic beats that mesmerize while enchanting your imagination with solid lyrics” -The Rappers Review “TIME is the future of hip hop” – Bokson.net

“This music is something else, it’s like a plant, it just keeps growing” – San Francisco Guardian

“Calm. is the Radiohead of Hip-Hop”- Coke Machine Glow

“The album is a fucking masterpiece”- Rehab Hymn

“AwareNess’ beats recall earlier work by RZA, Pete Rock and Large Pro but he manages to transcend all of them by incorporating his own particular sound, previously undefined”- Rapreviews.com

“Calm. is a bunch of amateurs, they suck”- Mean People

“Time’s personal and heartfelt lyrics accomplish his goal of writing songs “that give people the chills and goose bumps on their necks.” And AwareNess’ eclectically cerebral production lays perhaps the perfect canvas for the words, stories and contemplations presented in the music."- Hiphoplinguistics.com

“Anti-Smiles” could possibly be the intellectual hip-hop album of the year."- Hiphoplinguistics.com

With very quiet samples which often privilege the melody, a flow very clearly, a production without overload, Anti-smiles appear quite simply like one of the best heard albums of hip hop these last months- www.BenzineMag.net (France)

Anti-Smiles boasts a litany of thoughtful literary and cultural allusions, including an especially evocative use of a sample from Thomas Newman’s “American Beauty” that serves to dissect and expose the general malaise that has plagued America in recent years. Although Anti-Smiles reflects the dark side of our collective psyche, it’s also a statement of hope in the face of fear and self-doubt. – Tom Murphy- The Westword

If there was an award for the “sound hardest to place a finger on”, then up-and-coming rapper Time would certainly win it. Time’s lyrics are chalked full of Salvador Dali-esque psychedelia and metaphors. -URB

Calm. has written the perfect prescription for a musical form whose exterior facade is often slick while being filled with insipid cultural detritus. His poetically brilliant words incisively point out the core issues plaguing our culture and the modern psyche over deeply evocative music that matches its dark subject matter. — Murphy