After some requests I’ve tried to compile a “recordography”, of sorts, of old Smutsit & Royal Blood recordings. Some of y’all might remember us, but most of you have probably never heard of us. Smutsit & Royal Blood was two hiphop groups from Stockholm-Sweden, consisting of more or less the same people. Smutsit (tr. Dirty) was the Swedish version & Royal Blood the English.

We made hiphop similar to Wu-Tang, to try and draw some parallel to something you might have heard or know, and we were active between 96 and 01, give or take a year or two. We were played on Swedish radio, featured on a bunch of mixtapes, a couple of CD’s, had some articles written about us and did a bunch of live shows (for instance.. Stockholm Music Open in 2000 and a couple of times on Mejeriet with Non Phixion, Spotrunnaz and others). Most of the tunes are of pretty bad quality since I had to pull them off old cassettes and whatnot, but some are quite good non the less. And some of them have stood the test of time rather well as well (in my opinion at least).

We were three producers, me (magOwl), Wolf & Lion and five MC’s, all except me and Taro. We were all using the Ensoniq EPS16+ running Cubase on the Atari. Wolf later on bought the Ensoniq ASR10 and worked with the internal sequencer. I’ll ask Wolf & Lion if it’s alright with them that I put together some form of beat compilation as well, since we made alot of beats, and I know some people would like to hear the Royal sounds again.

We also had dealings with a bunch of other artists, mainly in the US and Canada, sadly nothing really came out of it. Some of the people we had a dialog with were Citizen Kane (Can), Royal Fam (US), Thirstin Howl III & Master Foul (US), Kool G Rap (US) and a bunch of others. Two tracks in the Download section feature a couple of overseas cats, the “Royal feat. COD” track & the “Royal feat. Unknown” (which I think is some Citizen Kane cat.. I have to ask Wolf about that tho). One of the MC’s on the COD track is Wen, which, if you know your graffiti history, should ring a bell or two, as should COD for that matter heh. And of course we have Blue, a lady with a great voice, two tracks with her in the download section. And from France, S.O.D., which have and old tune featuring, and produced by, Wolf on their Myspace page.

Maybe I should write down some form of alias list based on the two groups, because there was lots of aliases and I know there’s been some confusion about it in the past hehe.. I’ll use (R) for Royal Blood and (S) for Smutsit

• Drunken Lion (R) - Rusty Windpipe (R) - Råland Hustle (S) - Rolle Stoltz (S)
• Awesome Wolf (R) - Carl Hashilton (S)
• Cougar (R) - Terror Flynn (S)
• Iron Grip (R) - Hektor Detektor (S)
• Magnificent Owl (R) - Remington Stil (S)
• Paragon (R) (S)
• DJ Taro (R) - Hasse Taro (S)

That’s basically all, there were some others that were members/affiliates at one time or another, but those mentioned above were more or less the key members.

Here’s a direct link to the download page.. or you can click your way there by starting on the Download link in Navigation.

And finally a couple of links to some words & thoughts about Smutsit and Royal Blood from Mr. DJ Taro (Swedish only).