Pete Philly & Perquisite

Vocalist Pete Philly and producer/instrumentalist Perquisite met up for the first time in 2002 in Amsterdam, where both were living. Perquisite, who also ran the Dutch indie now jazz/hip-hop label Unexpected Records, liked what he heard in the Aruba-born singer and rapper, and by the next year the duo had issued its first EP, Mindstate. In 2005 the EP was released again, now as a full-length album, including a guest appearance from Talib Kweli. In 2006, the album came out in North America and Australia.