Bay Area hip-hop’s moment in the sun may have passed — hyphy is so 2006, y’all — but the fertile scene continues to crank out fine rap artists and send them our way.

The latest to roll into Bend: Zion I, who aren’t exactly newcomers. For more than a decade, the duo has been making fresh tracks and scattering them across six albums and a slew of mixtapes, EPs and such, consistently exploring only the most interesting, untrampled corners of hip-hop.

On the mic is Zumbi, a man gifted with the ability to take on a variety of topics — from serious to silly and all points between — and deliver them via a flow as effortless as it is urgent. Making the beats is AmpLive, who knows you’ve heard enough standard boom-bap rap for 1,000 lifetimes. Instead, he keeps things funky and jazzy and progressive and, above all, dope as insert-your-own-curse-word-here.

Right now, the fellas are between a set opening for Black Star in their home town of Oakland, Calif., and the release of a new album, planned for later this year. Keep up with them at www.zionicrew.com.

Zion I, with Enzyme Dynamite and U.D.O.N.; 9 tonight; $13; Domino Room, 51 N.W. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-388-6868 or madhappymusik@gmail.com.