On September 29th, Skyzoo will be dropping his first full-length LP, “The Salvation”, through Jamla/Duck Down Records. Production coming from the likes of Just Blaze, 9th Wonder, Best Kept Secret, Cyrus the Great, Black Milk, Illmind, Needlz, Eric G & Nottz. Big ups to Shake.

Skyzoo – Easy To Fly Feat Carlitta Durand (Prod. 9th Wonder)

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Announced only a few weeks ago, Oh No follows up Dr. No’s Oxperiment by diving again into Egon’s record collection for a region-based intrumental beat album. This time he’s headed into the album inspired-by and sampled-from rare 60s and 70s Ethiopian funk, jazz, folk, soul and psychedelic rock.

Even if you’ve never heard an instrument tuned to the qenet scale before, even if you’re more into ballads than you are tezetas, Oh No’s transformative effect on his source material will blow you away in its otherworldy funkiness. Stonesthrow

Oh No – Whoo Doo

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Oh No – Concentrate / The Funk

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We stumbled upon this Atlanta-based rap duo D-N-S aka Dip-N-Steam, who just dropped this wonderful joint called “Bread” featuring Paul Randolph on the hook and produced by Daz-I-Kue. It’s been a while since we heard some of those Broken Beat drums with some good ol MC’ing over it.

“I think the idea of Bread came from a collective idea because everybody was feeling the pinch”, Daz recalls. “So we decided to talk about on how the ‘credit crunch’ was effecting us and other people, because think no one was discussing it creatively…not that i came about. And Dip-N-Steam did a sterling job communicating that to all of us, which undoubtedly helped by the riddim I made. On completion I had the idea of getting the perspective from the city that got hit the hardest, Detroit. That’s when Paul Randolph, 5ELA and Dial 81 came onboard. Paul did such solid work on it I had to put him on the original… but look out the for the Detroit version real real soon!”

Consider “Bread” a sneak preview from D-N-S’ forthcoming album, “Don’t Worry…We’re Here Now!”, which is due early next year. Thanks to Red Bull Music Academy for the heads up..

D-n-S – Bread (feat. Paul Randolph) prod. by Daz-I-Kue

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written by nilez \\ tags: 5ela, atlanta, bread, broken beat, d-n-s, daz-i-kue, dial 81, dip-n-steam, don't worry...we're here now!, paul randolph, rbma, red bull music academy