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Circus

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Real Name:Marcus Aureli
Profile:Circus is a blur of Krylon stained free-verse, conspiracy theories, and socio-political insight. The Los Angeles-based emcee/visual artist became part of the famed graffiti crew CBS in the early '90s, and was soon inducted into the first incarnation of the hiphop supergroup The Shapeshifters. Known for spinning tales of cavemen, primates, and aliens, he'll even drop the occasional Jane's Addiction cover just to make sure you're paying attention. His work has earned him massive coverage in Vice, URB, Thrasher, Life Sucks Die, and countless others. An engaging live performance is all but expected from Circus. He's rocked stages at home and abroad, from Compton to Cologne, leaving audiences moved and left struggling to figure out what they'd just been a part of.
URLs:http://www.theshapeshifters.net
Aliases:Marcus Aureli
In Groups:Shape Shifters, The, Stuffed Animals
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Releases:
Gangstahz Fo Gawd (CD) Champion Sound 2002
Bootlegs (CDr) Not On Label 2003
Gawd Bless The Faceless Cowards (2xLP) Mush 2004
Gawd Bless The Faceless Cowards (CD, Album) Mush 2004
Production:
Planet Of The Shapes (Cass, Album) Champion Sound 1998
Triple Threat (12") Swollen Brain Fish Not On Label 1998
2012 (12") Mos Eisley Not On Label 1999
Word 2 Yer Mudda-Ship (7", Ltd) Nimrod It's Yer Birthday! Weapon-Shaped 1999
Adopted By Aliens (CD) Mos Eisley Celestial Recordings 2000
Know Future (2xCD) Mean Street 2000
Planet Of The Shapes (2xCD) Nitrous Oxide Records 2000
Adopted By Aliens (2xLP, Ltd) Mos Eiseley Twentyfour:Seven Records, subversiv*rec 2006
Mix:
Planet Of The Shapes (Cass, Album) Champion Sound 1998
Appears On:
Manual Labor Pains (Cass, Album) Pepsi On The Record Homeless Productions 1998
Planet Of The Shapes (Cass, Album) Word To Your Mutha Shi... Champion Sound 1998
The Evil Cow Burger (Cass) Broken Chain Shifters,... Records Broken 1998
Triple Threat (12") Swollen Brain Fish Not On Label 1998
Anticon Presents: Music For The Advancement Of Hip Hop (CD) Holy Shit! Anticon, Massmen Records 1999
Blindfold (CD, Album) Not On Label 1999
Blindfold (Cass, Album) Not On Label 1999
Fake It Until You Make It (CD) Unraveling, Upside Down 6 Concentrated Entertainment 1999
Noise Pollution (Cass) Ducks On The Pond Highground 1999
Who Woulda Thunk (Cass) Intellectual Holy Ches... Homeless 1999
Four Eyed Mortalz (CD) Gull Powa, Hometown Heros Records Broken 2000
Anonymous Inc. (CD, Album) Death Bed Of...., Poin... Anonymous Inc. 2001
Lost Angels (CD, EP) This Stuff's Really Wacko Celestial Recordings 2001
Lost Angels (12", EP) This Stuff's Really Wacko Celestial Recordings 2001
Patterns (CD) American Tragedy Sounds Are Active 2001
Quarter Life Crisis (CDr) Big Boned Homeless 2001
Rhythm (12") Confusion Mean Street 2001
We Came From Beyond (2xLP, Comp) Rob One Rock On Razor & Tie 2001
We Came From Beyond (CD, Album) Rob One Rock On Razor & Tie 2001
Blindfold (CD) A Purple 100 2002
Propaganda (CD) Downside Out Massmen Records 2002
Propaganda (2xLP) Downside Out Massmen Records 2002
Rebirth (CD) Upsidedown 6 Full Circle Records (2) 2002
Speakerface (2xLP) Keep The Rat's Movin Mean Street 2002
Speakerface (CD) Keep The Rats Movin' Mean Street 2002
Cell:Three - Penchant For Buggery (DVD-A, 5.1) This Stuff's Really Wacko Myutopia Recordings 2003
Every Other Day Is Ok / Tear Dropping Science (CDr) Farmers Market Of The ... Anti-Party Music, Styge Recordings 2003
Just A Little Sample (CD) Stitches Bomb Hip-Hop Records 2003
The Shape Shifters present Ex Vandalz (12", Pic) Neon Genesis Vandal Squad Records 2003
The Weather (CD) Barely Music Mush 2003
The Weather (2xLP) Barely Music Mush 2003
Joyful Misery / That One Song (7") That One Song Not On Label 2004
Knowhawk (CDr, Album, Ltd) Confusion Biofidelic, La2TheBay, Invisible Enemy Records 2004
Rebirth (CD) Upsidedown 6 Cornerstone R.A.S. 2004
Reborn (CD, Album) Stitches Not On Label 2004
Self Titled (CD) S.O.T.F., Matters, Gag... Paladin Creative Superco. 2004
Was Here (CD) Pindar, Psycho Stick Cornerstone R.A.S. 2004
Lost Angels E.P. (File, MP3) This Stuff's Really Wacko Alpha Pup Records 2005
Souldoubt (CD, Enh) Confusion Cornerstone R.A.S. 2005
Exitos Y Mas Exitos (Ediciόn De Lujo) (CD, Enh, RP) Night And Day Temporary Whatever 2006
Afterbirth (CD, Album, Dig) Bearly Music 2.99 2007
Scraps (CDr, Comp) Mossman Not On Label (Bomarr Self-released) 2007
Tracks Appear On:
Anticon Presents: Music For The Advancement Of Hip Hop (CD) Holy Shit! Anticon, Massmen Records 1999
Beneath The Surface (CD, Comp) Night And Day, Farmers... Celestial Recordings 1999
DJ Rob One Presents... The 12" Bootlegs + Mo' (Cass, Mixed) Mos Eisley Not On Label 1999
Hip-Hop Music For The Advanced Listener EP (12", EP) Holy Shit! Anticon 1999
Beneath The Surface (3xLP, Comp) Night And Day, Farmers... Celestial Recordings 2000
West Koast Indie's Vol.1 (Cass, Mixed) Intro Not On Label 2000
Quarter Life Crisis (CD, Album) Big Boned Homeless 2001
Beneath The Surface (CD, Comp, RE) Night And Day, Farmers... Beneath The Surface Music 2003
The Shapeshifters Present... Ex Vandalz (CD, MiniAlbum) Neon Genesis Vandal Squad Records 2003
Soulows Two (CD) John Godly Dead Guy Records 2004

User Reviews:
ecuadorian_bass, Nov 21, 2008

Not everyone's cup of tea, but I for one am a fan of his rambling, inebriated, monotonous delivery. The guy is simply having a ball chatting bollocks about alien abductions, conspiracy theories and Star Wars of course. He's an instrumental and fundamental part of one of the greatest hip hop crew's (big up the Shape Shifters) ever to roam the earth and a perfect ringmaster in his Circus of hip hop weirdness and sci-fi goofballery. Gawd bless the faceless coward!

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