Cincinnati · Psychedelic Hip-Hop
Live instruments. Heavy psychedelia. Hip-hop that refuses the mirage.
From the album · A Welcomed Struggle
“When will this desert end?” — a circling mantra through mirages, muscle memory, and the long walk home. Psychedelic hip-hop with live heat. Out of Cincinnati. Onto every platform.
Walking in circles, I’m back where I begin
When will this desert end?
Catalog
Albums, tapes, and the long road through the Scheme.
July 2026
Latest album · 16 tracks
The Band
The American Scheme is psychedelic hip-hop with live instruments — a project that treats the stage like a laboratory and the studio like a highway at night. Loops dissolve into band energy. Bars hitch a ride on guitar, bass, and drums.
From early tapes like Cave Drawings and Paper Staircase through Discordia, Buffalo, and Dog Music, the Scheme has chased the mirage and the map at the same time. A Welcomed Struggle is the next stretch — crowned by the single Desert End.
Based in Cincinnati, Ohio · schememusic.com
Everywhere
Same Scheme. Every platform.