Lower Life Forms

As two thirds of the hip hop production squad, Team Demo, DJ Dialtone & Mister Wise have an impressive discography behind records for hip hop luminaries such as 50 Cent & Sean Price, but their music careers began in the early 1990s in Burke, Virginia as a duo known as the Lower Life Forms.

While still in high school, the Life Forms were spotted by 3rd Bass dancers, Ahmed and Otis, who signed them to a management deal. After prospects with two major labels dissolved, Wise founded Depth Charge Recordings, a label & recording studio facility centered around the group's family of artists, producers & djs, known collectively as Team Demolition. In 1997, the Lower Life Forms completed their debut album, “The Whole Universe is Ours,” & released their first 12 inch single, “Open Invitation," but the full album was never commercially released. Wise and Dialtone would spend the next 25 years amassing scores of artistic, production, and technical credits before re-emerging as the Lower Life Forms in late 2021 with the remastered pressing of “The Whole Universe is Ours” album on Back 2 Da Source Records.

After the release of Team Demo’s “It’s a Demo,” album in late 2023, Wise and Dialtone began exploring the idea of creating another Lower Life Forms album. The duo embarked on a project that begins set in the early 90s and with each subsequent track, progresses towards present day. “A Journey Through the Anthropocene,” will be released in Fall of 2025.