The Shape Shifters is a Los Angeles based underground collective of hip hop artists, currently consisting of Awol One (real name Tony Martin), Existereo (real name Courtney), Die Young (real name Jose), Life Rexall, Akuma, Radioinactive

Radioinactive

Radioinactive is an underground hip hop artist from Los Angeles. He has released a number of solo albums, as well as collaborating with artists such as Busdriver, Daedelus and Antimc. He is currently signed to Stranger Touch Records, from which Soundtrack to a Book was released in 2006...

 (real name Kamal), Circus, LA Jae, and DJ Rob One (deceased).

The group prevented another act from the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, The Shapeshifters, from using the name in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. That resulted in the latter changing its name to Shape:UK

Shapeshifters (band)

The Shapeshifters are Simon Marlin and Max Reich, a house music production duo based in London, England. They have a recording contract with Defected Records, and were previously signed to Positiva...

, but for the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 only.

Albums

• Planet of the Shapes 1998
• Know Future 1999
• Adopted By Aliens 2000
• Soul-Lows 2001-2002 (many versions of this album)
• Ex Vandalz 200x
• Soul-Lows II 2004
• Was Here 2004

External links

• The Shape Shifters Official Retailer