Sep 17

slimkat78-soundfreakers-1

Live from Chocolate City Slimkat78 brings us another hot one. This producer has been making some noise for a while now with beats on Muhsinah’s & Diamond District their album. Some fresh beats for ya’ll to chill to and the project goes by the name of “Soundfreakers Vol #1″. Now what could be greater than a FREE download?!?! Enjoy this one and thanks to Slim & BamaLoveSoul..

Slimkat78 – Soundfreakers Vol #1

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Sep 15

aDaD

In response to the recent announcement from Exile regarding the upcoming album between himself and ADaD, they decided to let loose a few new tracks from the this Chi-Town MC. Check out this bass heavy chorus-less beast (produced by ADaD)… 4 minutes of a grimy, head knockin beat alongside ADaD’s precise lyrical delivery. Here he tackles the missteps and realizations of taking a realistic approach to accomplishing his objectives. Big shout outs to all the Chicago artists working hard trying to “Get it”

ADaD – Get It

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ADaD – Sunday Morning (Dirty)

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Sep 15

Just in…brand new Pac Div video of with the title “Pac Div” from the “Church League Champions” album! Big ups Fresh Milk for the 411..

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Sep 14

skyzoo_salvation

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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Sep 14

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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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Sep 14

DNS

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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Sep 11

luckyme_ballers

Two years of Buckfast and beats from the likes of edIT, Chesca, Cool Kids, Gaslamp Killer and many, many more – it’s our second home, it’s LuckyMe’s Ballers Social Club. To celebrate their upcoming birthday weekender on the 11th (at Stereo) and 12th September (at The Ivy) with Darkstar, Rustie, Fulgeance, Dema, Dante Fried Chicken and Jamie Vex’d, LuckyMe’s head honchos The Blessings flex this mix with a ton of unheard exclusives.

Now I don’t have a clue what the official name of this mix is, but here are some options to choose from. LuckyMe’s “Ballers Social Club Exclusive Mix”Dazed Vs LuckyMe “B5C 2ND Birthday Mix 1″ or “The Blessings Ballers Dazed Mix”..no matter how you wanna call this mix, it’s DOPE and contains some fearsome exclusives. Download it now…you know the drill!

LuckyMe’s – Ballers Social Club Exclusive Mix

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Sep 10

floating_points_vacuum

As one of the UK’s most hyped and anticipated new producers, 23 year old Sam Shepherd aka Floating Points, has been busy in the studio crafting a warm and soulful blend of house and boogie. Consisting of three new tracks the “Vacuum Boogie” EP is a club friendly groove. Don’t even think twice about buying this EP that came out on Eglo Records. Digitally available via BLEEP !

Floating Points – Vacuum Boogie

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Sep 09

turboweekend_2000F

Turboweekend is a three piece band from Copenhagen consisting of Martin Petersen (Drums), Silas Bjerregaard (Vocals) and Morten Køie (Bass), and adding Anders Møller on synths and backing vocals live. The music is part dark synth pop, part bouncy electro-rock with a soulful twist. Pretty nice if you’re into that kinda sound, but what caught our attention was this mind-blowing soulful Dubstep remix by 2000F & JKamata. Get your digital copy at Juno Records or Boomkat..

Turboweekend – Something Or Nothing (2000F & JKamata Remix)

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Sep 09

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REPOST: Shibuya is the new project from the creative minds of Nicolay and Phonte Coleman, better known as THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE, whose sophomore album, the independent R&B/Soul smash Leave It All Behind (TFE/Hard Boiled; Oct. 2008), continues to gain momentum as the duo and their extended family of singers and musicians currently tour the United States and Canada with their critically acclaimed live show. The countless performances together have added a new level of sophistication to the musical output of Nicolay and Phonte, resulting in what they themselves consider to be one of their most ambitious projects yet.

The idea for Shibuya, which is the second installment in Nicolay’s City Lights series of albums, was first conceived after his first visit to Tokyo, Japan. Once back home, he wrote and recorded with a new-found sense of freedom, laying the groundwork for the albums Time:Line and Leave It All Behind as well a third album, a deeply personal homage to the Tokyo district of Shibuya that illustrates both the grandeur of Japan’s age-old heritage (”Meiji Shrine, “Rain In Ueno Park”, “The Inner Garden”) as well as the hectic city life of one of the world’s busiest metropolitan areas (”Crossing”, “Satellite”, “Bullet Train”) through two suites of richly multi-layered instrumental pieces.

Where City Lights Volume 1 was primarily instrumental, on Shibuya, the instrumental pieces are book-ended by several vocal songs written by Phonte, who keeps showing remarkable growth as a songwriter and vocal arranger, for up and coming fellow North Carolina vocalist Carlitta Durand, who previously collaborated with Phonte on Little Brother’s Getback album (ABB 2007) and many other projects. Also appearing is “FE” liveband-mate ZO!, who adds his virtuoso keyboard solos to two songs. From UGHH.com.

Nicolay City Lights Vol.2 Shibuya is NOW AVAILABLE on AMAZON.. Nicolay and Phonte advise *not* to buy this through iTunes, however. Purchase it through Amazon, Rhapsody & eMusic. You’ll find more info about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVgpPlKUH9Y and here: http://www.nicolaymusic.com/2009/09/a-message-from-phonte-and-nicolay.php.

Nicolay – Wake Up In Another Life Feat Carlitta Durand

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