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Years active
  
1999-present

Website
  
www.cyne.net

Record label
  
City Centre Offices

Associated acts
  
Nujabes, Four Tet

Past members
  
Akin Yai

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Origin
  
Gainesville, Florida, United States

Labels
  
Botanica Del Jibaro, Hometapes, City Centre Offices

Members
  
Cise Star, Akin, Speck, Enoch

Genres
  
Alternative hip hop, Experimental music

Albums
  
Water for Mars, All My Angles Are Right, Evolution Fight, Collection (1999‑2003), Pretty Dark Things

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Cyne, often stylized as CYNE ("Cultivating Your New Experience"; pronounced "sign"), is an American alternative hip hop group originating from Gainesville, Florida. The group consists of MCs Akin Yai and Clyde "Cise Starr" Graham, and producers David "Enoch" Newell and Michael "Speck" Gersten, and are currently signed to Hometapes.

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History

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CYNE's 2005 release Evolution Fight was named Album of the Week at Stylus Magazine for the week of August 29 – September 3, 2005. In 2007, CYNE released the Grey Matter EP on their website to be downloaded, free of charge. In 2014, the group released a studio album, All My Angles Are Right, on Hometapes.

Style and influences

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Their often socio-politically charged, culturally introspective, and motivational lyrics find influence rooted in blues, jazz, highlife, activism, humanities and philosophy.

Studio albums

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  • Time Being (2003)
  • Evolution Fight (2005)
  • Tour CD 2005 (2005)
  • Starship Utopia (2008)
  • Pretty Dark Things (2008)
  • Water for Mars (2009)
  • All My Angles Are Right (2014)

    • Compilation albums

  • Cyne (Collection 1999-2003) (2003)
  • Wasteland Vol. 1: Killmore (2011)

    • EPs

  • Growing (2004)
  • Running Water (2005)
  • Grey Matter (2007)

    • Singles

  • "African Elephants" (2001)
  • "Midas" (2002)
  • "Movements" (2002)
  • "Out of Time" (2003)
  • "Due Progress" (2003)

    • Guest appearances

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  • Supersoul - "Sattva Guna (Make It Happen!)" from 40 Acres and a Moog (2002)
  • Nujabes - "Lady Brown" and "High 2 Lows" from Metaphorical Music (2003), "Feather" from Modal Soul (2005)
  • Daedelus - "Drops" from Exquisite Corpse (2005)
  • Depth Affect - "One Day or So" from Arche-Lymb (2006)
  • Deceptikon - "Montana" from Greater Cascadia (2007)
  • Supersoul - "Satellites" from Plastic Rap (2007)
  • Seven Star - "Speak the Truth" (2008)
  • Haruka Nakamura - "The Sun" from Melodica (2013)
  • Ficus - "Level Up" from Black Foliage (2013)
  • Uyama Hiroto - Soul of Freedom from Freedom of the Son (2014)

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    Songs

    400 YearsMovements · 2002
    Pretty ApolloWater for Mars · 2009
    Arrow of GodEvolution Fight · 2005

    References

    Cyne Wikipedia
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