Young homie Joe Kay from Cali dropped another mix on us and we decided to host it. He named the mix “Telepathy” and it sounds hella refreshing if you ask me. The artwork looks crackin’ and was done by 96 from France. Download this free mix below and check the tracklist after the jump. Enjoy your weekend!
Joe Kay – Telepathy Mix
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Questlove just dropped a shitload of music via Twitter and man is this beautiful! The Roots did a bunch of Dilla tribute joints and it’s simply amazing how beautiful this sounds. Please enjoy these and may Dilla rest in power.
The Roots – Eve
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The Roots – Antiquity Ft. The Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Dillchestra
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The original BB Queen Bahamadia, with her distinctive smooth-monotone flow, has quietly faded into the background. Her first album “Kollage” was a hiphop classic and till this day still brings a smile to my face whenever I hear it. Don’t even get me started on that remix the Roots did for “I Confess”…
Anyway, in 2000 she came back with yet another (so forgotten) classic! For many people “BB Queen” was the first time they ever heard Dwele sing and produce & that joint with Slum Village…still sick!
It wasn’t a total surprise that Bahamadia left us with a 5 year hiatus again to come back in 2005 with the slept on album of the week “Good Rap Music”. In my opinion it’s not her best album, but still it does have a couple of nice joints on it worth checking out. The title track was produced by Kev Brown and it also features producers like King Britt and Hezikiah Davis. You gotta love the smart-ass rhymes and buttery flow she’s become so well known for. In case you’re curious and want to buy this album…try Amazon!
Oh peep this DJ Rahdu “Total Wreck: The Encyclopedia of Bahamadia” mix posted by our friends over at BamaLoveSoul. Since their podOmatic reached it’s bandwith be sure to download it HERE.
Bahamadia – Good Rap Music
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A while back the news surfaced that Nature Sounds will be releasing a brand new J Dilla LP executive produced by Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey on June 2nd. The album, Jay $tay Paid, is 25 tracks deep mixed and arranged by none other than Dilla’s musical idol Pete Rock. Guest appearances include Blu, Pacific Division, DOOM, Havoc, Pharoahe Monch, M.O.P. and Black Thought. Check out “Reality Check” featuring the latter (Thanks to Okayplayer).
J Dilla – Reality Check (featuring Black Thought)
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By now most everyone is familiar with the story of musical legend J Dilla. The quiet, prolific producer collaborated with everyone from Erykah Badu to Common to Janet Jackson to Prince. Dilla was just beginning to capitalize on his cult status when he sadly passed at age 32 due to Lupus-related complications. Jay Stay Paid is a 25 track collection of unreleased Dilla beats mixed and arranged by Pete Rock. While mostly instrumental, “J$P” also offers a few guests vocals from artists that Dilla worked with or admired including Black Thought of The Roots, MF DOOM, and M.O.P.
Curtailing any notion of jumping on some sort of Dilla bangwagon, Jay Stay Paid was executive produced by Dilla’s mother Maureen Yancey (aka Ma Dukes) along with the musical supervision of Dilla’s only real musical idol, Pete Rock. “It wasn’t rushed and it wasn’t haphazard,” explains Ms Yancey. “This album combines what he did in the beginning of his career, what he did in some of our early hospital stays, which was very deep, and some stuff pulled from old floppy disks & DATs. Its mind blowing…this is like the missing links to Dilla’s legacy.”
The format of the album plays like a radio show with Pete Rock as the program director. With regards to Pete’s involvement, Ms. Yancey gets very excited, “Dilla wanted to pattern himself behind Pete. His dream was to become as close as possible to what Pete stood for. Pete meant everything to him. Dilla would have just been flabbergasted! ” Pete’s sentiments were the same toward Dilla, “Dude was amazing. He just kinda came outta nowhere and the more you heard his beats the better they got. He may not be here with us, but it’s all good we’re going to keep his music alive and well.”
Jay Stay Paid will be released on June 2nd on Nature Sounds.
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The Gaslamp Killer sign, seals, and delivers installment number 5 of the We Make It Good Mix series presented by Shilo. Made up of weird world psych, hip hop and grunge chopped up seamlessly and then perfectly adhesed to a tough as nails skeleton of chest thumping kick drums, machine gun snares, and deafening bass drops; this is quite different from what they have put out thus far and could only come from the deeply murky mental environs of San Diego’s mostly cloudy turntable destroyer.
Tracklist:
GLK INTRO
BUCKETHEAD – SKRATCH BEAT
UGK – INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS ANTHEM
ROBOTO – VORTEX COOKIES (fLako Rmx) – GLK EDIT
NIRVANA – SCENTLESS APPRENTICE
KALYANJI ANANDJI – DHARMATMA THEME – TOMMY’S EDIT
JAYLIB – CHAMPION SOUND
DABRYE – ENCODED FLOW INSTRUMENTAL
FUZZ FACE – BRAINSWAPPER
SAMIYAM – PORNO SLAP
THE ROOTS – GET BUSY
THE CLIPSE – GRINDIN’
DJ SIGNIFY – LISTEN / THE ISOLATIONIST – INSTRUMENTALS
ALEXANDERS DARK BAND – DRUM ATTIK
OHNO – FAST GAMBLE
BULLION – I KNOW THERES NO ANSWER
THE SLAPPED EYEBALLERS – REDE HET SIE GSEIT
LES MOGOL – KALEIDOSCOPIC DREAM
THE GASLAMP KILLER – SHOWSTOPPER
FLYING LOTUS & THE GASLAMP KILLER – GNG BNG
Gaslamp Killer “We Make It Good Mix”
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Hailing from the same Bed-Stuy blocks where The Notorious B.I.G. once roamed comes Spec Boogie, master storyteller and shit-talker extraordinaire. Equally adept at both razor-tongued braggadocio and introspective commentary, he is an artist that shadowboxes his way out of easy classification. Neither preachy nor sensationalist, Spec Boogies remarkable sincerity is the thread that weaves together his music — even the songs that deal with less-than-weighty subject matter inherit the trait of real honesty. Nut-grabbing boasts and masochistic posturing are staples of Hip-Hop, but when Spec Boogie says hes going to throw back a case of Sierra Nevada and steal your woman, goddamn it, you believe it. And when he talks about the tragic moments his young eyes have seen, the phrase old soul seems truly appropriate. A former member of The Sandhogs, a group which included indie favorite Tes-1, Spec Boogie relocated to The City of Brotherly Love in his late teens and eventually connected with Philadelphia heroes ?uestlove and the Grammy Award-winning Roots crew. Polishing his live stage show under the tutelage of the masters, he performed in both Philly and New York during the wildly successful 2000 Okayplayer Tour. But Brooklyn beckoned. Spec Boogie returned home and joined with several like-minded souls to found Loosie Music, a fiercely independent record label, online magazine and booze-addled political cabal. The fledgling label hooked up with Lower East Side boutique Staple Design to release the Grow single, a track that earned Spec Boogie a deluge of critical acclaim and immediately put him on the radar of indie Hip-Hop aficionados as far away as France and Japan. The buzz proved justified, as his dynamic first full-length compilation of material, Fresh Out the Box, moved several thousand copies as a promotional item with Digitalgravel-dot-com and Scifen Clothing. A brilliant live entertainer, Spec Boogie has delivered memorable performances at venues such as Nokia Theatre in Times Square, The Wetlands, Nuyorican Poets Café, Southpaw, The Knitting Factory and Hammerstein Music Hall alongside artists including The Roots, Mark Ronson, Melle Mel, Platinum Pied Pipers, Purple City, Theodore Unit, MF Doom, Little Brother, Pete Rock and Big Daddy Kane. Picture by Corren Conway.
Spec Boogie – Bed Stuy
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Spec Boogie – Psychotic Girl
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+ Madlib – The Payback
+ Ryan Leslie – Diamond Girl (SirOJ Remix)
+ Flying Lotus – Tealeaf Dancers (Hayzee Remix)
+ Rhian Benson – Say How I Feel Remix
+ Jean Grae & 9th Wonder – Love Thirst
+ Bahamadia – You Know How We Do
+ J Dilla – Remember Ft. Bilal
+ Sa-Ra – Bone
+ Aqeel – Bone Song
+ Jazz Liberatorz – U Do Ft. Stacey Epps
+ Bahamadia – Beautiful Things Ft. Dwele
+ The Roots – Rising Up Ft. Chrisett Michelle & Wale
+ Slum Village – Hotness Ft. Bahamadia
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01 Dwele – Truth
02 Esthero – Superheroes (Afta-1 Remix)
03 Hi-Tek – Know Me feat. Jonell
04 Slum Village – Fall In Love (Remix)
05 Steve Spacek – Days of My Life
06 Hocus Pocus – Du Sable Les Paupiere
07 Jamiroquai – Butterfly
08 Marcos Valle – Aqua De CoCo (Coconut Water)
09 Jneiro Jarel – Lock Down
10 Johnson & Jonson – The Only Way
11 Nicolay & Kay – Tight Eyes
12 LMNO & Kev Brown – Selective Hearing
13 J-88 – The Things You Do
14 Slum Village – Things U Do (Remix)
15 Stacey Epps – Skin Play feat. Madlib
16 Exile – Silver Moon
17 Dela – Rosorio Dawson
18 Frankie Valentine – Marinheiro So (DJ Mitsu The Beats Remix)
19 Jazz Addix – Serenade
20 Mr.J.Medeiros – Silent Earth (Ohmega Watts Remix)
21 Othello – Fly feat. Ohmega Watts & Braille
22 Zo! – Rudiment
23 Muneshine – Today’s Special feat. Dminor
24 Infamous MC – The Ex Files
25 Jazz Liberatorz – The Return feat. Sadat X
26 Oddisee – The Perch
27 The Roots – Get Busy feat. Dice Raw & Peedi Peedi
28 Theory Hazit – Emit Gninrut
29 Heralds of Change – Sittin’ on the Side feat. Oddisee & Unknown
30 DJ Mitsu The Beats – My Lament feat. Hanif Jamiyl
31 United Soul – Soul Clap Remix feat. DP, Jean Grae, & Phonte.
32 Nujabes – Beat Lament The World
33 Flying Lotus – Roberta Flack feat Dolly
34 Freddie Joachim – Insomniac
Picture Courtesy of Joycesu
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The man SDot from blindi has put together a real dope double disc mixtape and has posted it on his blog. I really think it’s worth checking out if u see the tracklist, and go and thank the man at his page for it!
- Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf – My World Premier
- El Prez – UAINTUPONTHIS!
- Cloud – Dont Blink
- Drake – City is Mine
- Buckshot & 9th Wonder – Be Cool f. Swan
- C.R.A.C. Knuckles – Love Don’t
- J-Live – Don’t Play
- Damu – Rather Unique 2
- Santogold – Shove It
- Cloud – Flowers
- Graig G – Catch A Lyrical Beatdown
- Damu – Work In Progress
- Kenn Starr – Walk the Walk (remix)
- Damu – Leo the…Part 1
- L.A.T. – Take
- The Thyrday – Fantastic (prod. Nicolay)
- Exile – Maintain f. Blu,Donel Smokes,Cass & Jontel
- Katalyst – Dedicated f. Diverse
- The Roots – Criminal f. Truck North & Saigon
- Jay Electronica – Victory Is In My Clutches
- Kev Brown – Allways (9th Wonder remix)
- Styles P – Am I In The Right Game
- Georgia Anne Muldrow – Ms One
- 88-Keys – Deal Breakers f. Mr. Bently
- Median – Give A Little Bit f. Joe Scudda
- The Away Team – The Blah Blah
- Elzhi – Save Ya f. T3 (prod. t3)
- Cloud – Like Sirens
- Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf – Soon To Be Large
- NYOil – Seems Like
- Buckshot & 9th Wonder – No Future
- The Roots – Birthday Girl
Disc One [tracks 1-14]
Disc Two [tracks 15-32]
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