Little Brother is back for the very last time with a new album. The North Carolina duo, made up of hip-hop heavyweights Phonte and Rapper Big Pooh recently announced the upcoming release of their fourth and final album, “LeftBack”, available April 20th via Hall of Justus. With production from the likes of Khyrsis, Denaun Porter, Zo!, Symbolyc One, J. Bizness and King Karnov, LeftBack is poised to take listeners on an epic auditory adventure. Phonte and Rapper Big Pooh will also be extending invites for the farewell party to fellow emcees Torae, Truck North, Jozeemo, Chaundon and Median, while crooner Darien Brockington and chanteuse Yahzarah are on hand to add a touch of the melodious to the album. Enjoy the first official leak produced by Khrysis called “Curtain Call”.
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Recently Damon aka Dam-Funk aka the ‘Ambassador of Boogie Funk’ was in London and visited the Red Bull Music Academy to do a lecture. I must say I found it very intriging and too bad we had to miss this one. Hopefully next week we’ll have the honor of seeing Muhsinah, J.Rocc or even Flying Lotus on that couch. Really feeling D-F on never giving up on your dreams and letting nobody hold you back. Check out what else he had to say and get out the popcorn for this…enjoy!
Heard Dorian Concepts “Play With Sand” a while back on Ritornells “The Absence of One” mix for Percussion Lab. Now I just received this in my inbox, and feel like i should share this with you. It’s only a stream cause we don’t know it this will be an official release, but if he ever decides to release it we suggest you to buy it. And if you feel like you should buy something right now you can still get “When Planets Explode” on Rushhour. Dorian Concept – Play With Sand
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Mayer Hawthorne & James Pants have covered each other’s songs, Mayer doing “Thin Moon” and James doing “Green Eyed Love“. Stonesthrow pressed a small number of these on 45 which they wi’ll be giving away to the first couple hundred people that show up to the March 17 event 45 Live at SXSW (a Stonesthrow collaboration with Converse & Wax Poetics). Stonesthrow
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When our colleagues at Laidback Radio asked us to do the ‘Pick of the Week’, we were like lets do this! Now our very first pick is one that we are truly very excited about. We’ve been friends with Jay Hats for a while and admire his musical genius. Just like LaMelodia, Jay is also from Eindhoven. And next to being a producer, he’s also a sound engineer.
Jay Hats’ music is best described as a crossing between tropical world music (loaded with frantic percussion) and contemporary club music. Jay’s music sounds like an honest breath of fresh air on a warm summer night and we dare you to take a dive into this tropical, future vintage. Let Jay take you on a trip around the world with a wide variety of arrangements cleverly blended into one album.
Together with Jay we’ve been working on getting his debut album the release it deserves and we are happy to inform you that it will be out this summer. Stay tuned on more music from the tall man…soon! Keep smiling bro..oh and follow Jay on Twitter or Facebook!
Jay Hats – Playing Her Feat. Rones (Laidback Intro)
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If you’re old like me you might just remember the movie Spaceballs with the late John Candy. Anyhow…the track that stands out on Joob‘s “Nebula” EP is “Sagatriaus B”,which begins with a short sample from that movie. With other tracks like “Galactic Geek” you can really feel that spacey vibe he tried to give out with this EP. Shit is pretty much out there so I suggest you give it a listen…it’s FREE! Download it HERE and props to Olof for the heads up.
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Mayer Hawthorne wishes it would rain, but frankly I don’t. Here in Amsterdam the sun has just began to show itself and already women are pulling out their short skirts upon feeling the very first rays of sunlight. Anyhow…this is a fantastic video for a fantastic song. Can’t really add a lot more except that it was directed by Henry DeMaio and that Stones Throw deserves some props for this one again.
I just wanted to share this Dam-Funk pickup with you, because this is one of the few records I’ve actually bought in the last year. The packaging of the “Toeachizown” box set crazy nice and I urge you all to pick this one HERE at the Stones Throw webshop. It’s well worth the money if you ask me. Shout out to Damon & Jamie for this one!
Emmanuel is Colin Emmanuel AKA C Swing, a musical genius and producer of hit singles and albums for the likes of Jamelia, Beverly Knight, Terri Walker, and Estelle. The album “D’Illusions Of Grandeur” was released 3 years ago, but Emmanual put it up for a free download for 24-hours. This is just as a reminder before he starts to do the Black Einstein material. Now if you’re quick you can still get the full download, if not you can just check the 2 tracks below.
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The long awaited Eric Lau“Kilawatt: V2″ is finally out!! After his debut album “New Territories” came out we were amazed by it’s sheer dopeness. Now we hadn’t heard Muhsinah sing like this in quite a while and always a pleasure to see genius artists like Kaidi Tatham and Oddisee on a release like this. If you don’t believe in buying music please hold up for a second, because if you look at the value for money on this baby it’s not to be fucked with. For only a measly few dollars you’ll have that stupendously, insane shit pumpin’ through your speakers. Visit for that digital crack or check for that CD via Rush Hour.
Eric Lau – Always Will (Ft. Muhsinah & Kaidi Tatham)
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Eric Lau – No Regrets (Ft. Oddisee)
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