Next month Black Milk‘s highly anticipated “Album of The Year” is due to hit streets. Other than the heavy contributions from both members of his live band (vocalist/keyboardist AB and drummer Daru Jones), the album exclusively features players and vocalists from his hometown of Detroit. Vocalist Melanie Rutherford, bassist Tim Shellaberger, and the versatile horn player and string arranger Sam Beaubien (who arranged horns and strings on Mayer Hawthornes “A Strange Arrangement”) are just a few names. Peep the latest “Deadly Medley” video featuring Royce Da 5’9 and Elzhi and pre-order the CD via Fatbeats while you’re at it.
Slum Village shocked the hip-hop community when Elzhi and T3 took to their Twitter profiles to announce that the group’s next album, Villa Manifesto, would be their last. But they’re going out on a high note. The group’s sixth studio LP, set to be released via E1 Records on July 27, knocks with the cushy precision of its predecessors while featuring new verses from all five members: T3, Elzhi, Baatin, J Dilla and Illa J. With production from Khrysis, Young RJ, Dilla, Hi-Tek, Mr. Porter and Dave West, the album marks the end of an era for not only Detroit rap, but for hip-hop culture. Fortunately for us, they close the SV chapter with a bang. The album is now streaming fully on the Slum Village Myspace. DONT BOOTLEG SV. YRB
Slum Village – Scheming Feat (J Dilla), Posdnuous, & Phife (Prod. Young RJ)
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Slum Village – 2000 Beyond
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I’m sure we all haven’t forgotten about what happened in Haiti in January. With the “Notes For Haiti” compilation album, Detroit and L.A. join unite and come together on one album to show love and support. Most songs you might already know, but still well worth the support! Check the official press release…
Moved by the catastrophic earthquake and aftershocks that ravaged the island nation of Haiti, a group of artists is asking the public to remember the difference each of us can make. The project, “Notes for Haiti”, is a way for the collective to thank the public for their support of the island nation to date – and hopefully inspire folks to give more of the help that’s that still needed.
Estimates are that beyond the more than 230,000 Haitians who lost their lives as a result of the earthquakes, another 300,000 were injured and over one million were left homeless.
The album is available digitally in a “pay-what-you-want” format as of Tuesday, June 1, 2010 through the website notesforhaiti.bandcamp.com. All proceeds from album sales and donations are funneled directly to Oxfam America’s ongoing Haiti relief efforts.
The compilation features exclusive content and album material from Karriem Riggins, eLZhi (Slum Village), Blu, Fashawn, Exile, Aloe Blacc, Crown Royale (Buff 1 and DJ Rhettmatic), Invincible, Now On (Mayer Hawthorne, IX Lives, Jackson Perry), 14KT, Houseshoes, Co$$, Sene, AB, Marv Won, Jordan Rockswell, and SlopFunkDust.
The concept behind the “pay-what-you-want” format (used previously by bands such as Radiohead) is that the user can dictate the price paid for the album as a whole, or for each song purchased individually (for as little as $1). The donations are processed directly to Oxfam America through the secure BandCamp-PayPal portal, removing unnecessary overhead or infrastructure costs at the point of sale.
Oxfam is working in multiple locations to provide clean water, sanitation, shelter, seeds and running cash for work programs. Though their public appeal to Haiti has closed (for the time), this project will continue to affect their ongoing efforts on the island.
Detroit natives Niles Heron (Los Angeles) and Sarah Lockridge-Steckel (Boston) executive produced the album with gracious contributions from artists, promoters, managers, and good people nationwide.
Please visit the Notes For Haiti Bandcamp page and give generously! I just donated $5 and I truly hope that you, you and yes you have a heart as well and dig deep into your pockets. We’re only streaming these two bangers at a low bitrate, cuz for only $1 you can BUY the entire album.
Now On (DJ Haircut, Jackson Perry, IX Lives) – Doo It
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Co$$ & Sene – Let’s Begin
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Now I’m not going to rant on and on about this Slum Village – “Villa Manifesto” EP, but man that “Nitro” joint is blazin’! It reminds me of some ol’ Wu-Tang type of ish, with a touch of Detroit added to the mix. Hurry up and buy via iTunes!
Slum Village – Nitro Ft. Young RJ
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This Friday Today eLZhi from Slum Village, drops his “The Leftovers Unmixedtape”. This free release is available via eLZhi.com as we speak, so get your ass over to his website for a free meal! The album features Rapper Big Pooh, Phat Kat and Royce Da 5’9. On the production tip it, this album is even more impressive. Oh No, Black Milk, DJ Spinna, Jake One and DJ Dez are the big names production wise. Raw, unmixed…boomin’ through your speakers.
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Dope Man is the first single from Slum Village‘ The Villa Manifesto that drops December 8th, which leads up to the full-length Villa Manifesto LPnext year, which will feature tracks as the fully united Slum Village. Shouts to Meka & Michigan HipHop .
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Straight from the D we bring to you Ro Spit. This performer has rocked mics at venues across Metro Detroit area, Chicago, and Ohio. Vastly expanding his fandom eventually opening national acts including The Clipse, Wale, and Talib Kweli as well as performing with seasoned veterans such as DJ Premier and Slum Village.
RO will be droppin’ his album, “The Closest Thing to Him”, early 2010 and we were excited to hear our buddy Koen (from Blocnotes) has produced it entirely. It features artists such as Black Milk, Marvwon, Guilty Simpson, Illite, One Be Lo, Monica Blaire, Elzhi and more. Also Ro Spit has a collaboration EP with 14KT coming out.
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Harmonic 313 (Mark Pritchard) came to Sixty40 for his first ever film clip. Despite releasing seminal records since the 90′s and being on Warp Records since 1994 and being the poster child for super-technical, superbly-crafted, bass heavy, crazy-ass electronica there’d never been anything to translate his floor-filling tracks on TV.
Shot stereoscopically (i.e. on 2 identical cameras separated in space to mimic 2 eyes) the clip uses a flicking technique that was inspired by 2 frame animations of 3D photos. In this technique, a sense of depth is provided to the footage by changing between the left and right eye views between each frame. In moving footage, not only does it add a sense of depth but also a definite intensity and alternative reality to each scene. For different people, it can create a curious mental floatiness in some shots.
Dang…this takes me back to the nineties! Straight sick Slum Village joint produced by Karriem Riggins and the video was directed by Dwele. Hope to hear more music like “Actin Normal” this year. Big ups Scrapdirty for the video.
It’s here! Been waiting for this one for a while now and I have to say it’s nice. DJ Spinna‘s return was highly enticipated by me eversince I met him last year at Black Soil. He was telling me he was coming back with another hiphop album and here it is. I suggest you take a minute to relax, pop the “Sonic Smash” album in your sound system and let it take you there. It has some great featuring artists like Phonte, Yazarah, Shabaam Sahdeeq, John Robinson and Erik Rico on there and “More Colors” featuring Elzi from Slum Village is definetely one of the dopest joints on there. The sample really takes me back to: That’s how it was, this is how it is, you gotta keep it real when you deal with them Brooklyn kids. Oh you know you want to BUY the album via iTunes…so just do so.
DJ Spinna – More Colors Feat. Elzhi
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