Independent hip hop label Peanuts & Corn has recently released their first out-of-family album, Alleged Legends, with two of the independent hip hop scene's most respected talents, DJ Moves featuring Birdapres. The first made a respectable name for himself by being a prolific DJ/producer who has worked with artists from Halifax to Vancouver, while the second once worked with Moka Only in the duo The Golden Section.

Two of the more well-known groups Moves has rocked spots with are Hip Club Groove - one of Canada's early rap groups - and Len, who last year cascaded all over commercial radio with hit singles from their fourth and most successful album, "You Can't Stop The Bumrush".

"It's weird. I'm in a pop group and not even compromised."

He is also one-half of the duo known as Tachichi and Moves and co-owner of a new label called Low Pressure with Josh Martinez. "Alleged Legends" would have come out on their label if the business had been ironed out but it was only recently that everything had been made nice and legal. As an introduction to the label, they have released the "Low Pressure Sampler", fourteen tracks of Moves and a whole rice cooker of affiliated emcees.

"It's gonna be redone because we got distribution in Canada through Sonic Unyon."

They are have also harnessed a distribution deal in the US with Mean Street, while "Alleged Legends" is distributed via Peanuts & Corn on No Distribution and both are available online through various websites.

"I'm hearin' some good stuff about it," says Moves about the response to the album. He had always planned to do an album with Birdapres, who he met while touring back in the day. Moving to Vancouver a year and a half ago made it possible since it was there that Bird called home.

"The funny thing is, he hated the album the whole time until we finally released it."

Peanuts & Corn honcho Rod Bailey aka mcenroe saw potential in the album, which he fell in love with. Since their label was not quite off the ground, Bailey offered to put it out. Following the recording and mixdown of "Alleged Legends" at Moves' Halfway House Studios, it was passed to Bailey who mastered it at his new South Slope Rhythm Repair studio.

The two initially met in 1995 when Farm Fresh opened for Hip Club Groove in Brandon and Winnipeg, where they played the Pyramid, whose huge disco ball remains forever memorable to the Nova Scotia-bred beatsmith.

With the promotion of the "Low Pressure" compilation and the "Alleged Legends" album, four new albums finished - including a new one with Tachichi - Moves remains busier than an LAX air traffic controller. With a new Len record coming out, the cryptically souled ones will be heading down to the Florida Keys to film the first video, which should make some opportunity for downtime for the nine-year, fourteen-album veteran.

As for Hip Club Groove, well, what did happen to them?

"I hated doing it the whole time. Me and the other two guys never really got along in the musical sense," says Moves.

One of the two, D-Rock, did join Len with Moves but has since been "booted out over creative differences."

Don't matter. Pick up "Alleged Legends" like, now. Keep a lid open for "Low Pressure Sampler" at a record store near you.