Sediminotaur
The first official step.
Released in Japan in 2003 by producer Maliks as part of an early Box Reb collaboration, Sediminotaur marks the first official release in the Boxguts journey.
ARTIFACT DATA
Release: Sediminotaur
Year: 2003
Country: Japan
Project: Maliks featuring Box Reb and others
Format: CD
Label: Ancient Bamboo Temples and Mondrian Sound
Role: Writer and performer
Featured track(s): Under A Broken Wing
THE STORY
In the early 2000s, Box Reb had begun recording demos and searching for producers whose style felt like a natural fit. We mailed out recordings, started conversations, and waited to see where the music might lead.
One of those conversations became a friendship.
Maliks, an exceptional musician and hip-hop producer from New York, connected with what we were creating. Before long, we were trading ideas through emails, phone calls, and new recordings. At the time I was living in Florida, while Maliks was based in New York. Despite the distance, the collaboration felt immediate.
The first songs we created together were “Under A Broken Wing” and “Kartoonz.” They were recorded in my apartment using a Roland VS-890 workstation with our friend and producer DJ Caution engineering the session. During those recordings, Box Reb consisted of HaacWon and myself. Saurus wasn’t present for those sessions, and Red Ox had not yet officially joined the group.
When Maliks decided to release Sediminotaur in Japan, it became the first official release connected to my musical journey.
That meant a great deal to us.
HaacWon had moved from Japan to the United States only a couple of years earlier, and long before that I had developed a fascination with Japanese cinema, manga, and the country’s visual culture. Seeing our first official release arrive there felt strangely fitting—as though two different paths had quietly converged.
Sediminotaur was released alongside another project produced by Maliks, Dragons of Edin, a collaboration between an American emcee and a Japanese emcee. Their album, Sediments, was released in 2004, and both groups appeared together on Sediminotaur, making the project feel like more than a compilation—it became the beginning of a creative community that stretched across countries through hip-hop.
FROM MY NOTEBOOK
“I still remember recording those first sessions on the Roland VS-890 in my apartment. At the time, none of us knew we were documenting the first official chapter of what would eventually become the Boxguts journey.”
WHY IT MATTERS
Sediminotaur matters because it marks the point where the work moved beyond private recordings and informal circulation into an official release. It was the first documented step in a journey that would later grow through Box Reb, solo projects, collaborations, compilations, performances, and the evolving Boxguts catalog.
NEXT STEP
This release became an early link in the chain—leading into further Box Reb material, new collaborations, and the growing body of work that eventually developed into the Boxguts catalog.
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