Audio: 14KT - 14KillaTape

Download: 14KT - 14KillaTape

Collection of Beats, 14KT produced in the past 3 years. Some of them appeared on DJ Graffiti's "Damm U" Mixtape last year. Every beat has his own story, read the facts behind the beats after the jump...

sOlo

Interview: Slug of Atmosphere // The Family Sign LP // Interview

Slug of Atmosphere Interview - excerpts (The Family Sign) by the-Rapohnelizenz

Homie G.Netzer did a phone-Interview with Slug of Atmosphere approximately a week ago, they spoke about the latest LP "The Family Sign", the Rhymesayers Label and some Hip Hop business rubbish. We have a short audio excerpt and the full interview in text format. Thx 2 Gerrit & Slug! (Complete Interview after the jump)


soLo

Audio: Tony Cook - What's On Your Mind feat. Dam-Funk // Stream // Stones Throw

Anthology of rare and unreleased 1982-1986 recordings from The J.B.'s drummer and creator of "the Graddaddy of all House Records," newly mixed by Peanut Butter Wolf.

Read full Stones Throw article and play the MP3 after jump.

solo

Interview: Robot Koch (German + English)

Our Friend Mandy Mozart (co-owner and artist of net-label  Shalom Salon) sat down with Robot Koch to discuss music and everything around it. Take your time with it. This is truly great and highly interessting.

Photo by Mandy Mozart himself.
Full interview (English/German) after the jump.

Audio: Dj Pratt & Rapohnelizenz pres. the "Beasts of the Leaks" Mixtape Nr.1

Cover Art : Jonas Schulte / Figures : Ignacio Mendez

Yo. Here it is. Our first Blog Mixtape "Beasts of the Leaks"", mixed by Homie and appealing figure DJ Pratt from Chicago! The idea behind the Mixtape was to drop some of the freshest leaks that crossed our blog with the time, on one Mixtape. In these times of acocalyptic winds and cloudy days, we try to rescue dope tracks before they sink into obscurity. Caution: The Mixtape reflects the likes of Dj Pratt & Rapohnelizenz and has no warranty for yours. So go and take a listen, we appreciate that. Thanks for reading, supporting, sending us your music and giving us so much Love! Rapohnelizenz & DJ Pratt. (Next Issues mixed by Geraet & Dj Wretch).

Dj Pratt Bio / Mixtape Download / Tracklist -> after the Jump

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HARD TO THE LEFT RAP PARTY KMD

Pre-Mask MF Doom era. KMD live, back in 1990. ruff.

rol

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Audio: The Left - Reporting Live (Featuring Guilty Simpson) // Mp3

The Left just dropped their album The Gas Mask. Here is another sick cut to promote the release. The Left consists of Apollo Brown (as the producer), Journalist 103 (as the rapper) and DJ SOKO (as the... well you already know).
This track featuring Guilty Simpson should be enough to convince everybody to buy the album.
Absolute banger.
Shouts to BH.

jimmy

Video: Sole - I Think I'm Ben Bernanke

The song itself is about the history of America's long decline, beginning with the exploitation of the natives, slavery and the post world war 2 american dominance over the globe. Once the world was sucked dry, the entire system caved in on itself. We have been living on borrowed time since day one, with nothing left to plunder all we can do now is make radical changes or suffer the consequences. Ben Bernanke, the head of the Federal Reserve has overseen many of the disastrous policies that have lead to the destruction of the middle class and american labor.  The video depicts Ben Bernanke in the near future as a homeless drunk living in a shanty, or possibly an Occupied space in the United States.

Download: Sole - Dispatches From The American Fall

Solidly united with the Occupy Wall Street movement, Mc Sole slips into the role of Ben Bernanke, the president of the Federal Reserve Boards. The days after dispersing the ruling elite.

sOlo..

Interview & Review: Chemo aka. Telemachus - The Stomach of the Mountain

If you are a frequent visitor to this blog you know about Chemo aka. Telemachus from London who sat down to answer some questions about his new album, his recent release and his upcoming projects. Interview & Review after the jump....

sOlo...

Audio: P.U.D.G.E. - ONE HAND BAND

Listen and Dl for Donation via P.U.D.G.E. Bandcamp

P.U.D.G.E. is a Producer/Mcee/Djay from New York whos living in Los Angeles.He represents the "Vinyl Junkies Crew" and is known by taking part at L.A.'s Beat Battle Scene.In 2009 he was involved in an incident that didnt let him use his left arm for a few months.

P.U.D.G.E. himself:THIS ALBuM WAS COMPOSED WITH ALL OF 5 FINGERS.SuMMER 09, I WAS THE VICTIM OF A uNFORTuNATE INCIDENT WHICH LEFT ME WITHOuT uSE OF MY LEFT ARM FOR A FEW MONTHS. IN THE THERAPY-REHAB PROCESS I DECIDED TO PuT A PROJECT TOGETHER, 1)TO HELP MYSELF FEEL SANE, + 2)TO GENERATE SOME FuNDS, AS I WAS LEFT uNABLE TO DJ,WORK, ETC.I AM CuRRENTLY BACK DJING HERE N THERE, BuT STILL CANNOT WORK, OR COLLECT DISABILITY. SO ANY DONATIONS ARE MuCH APPRECIATED, ENJOY!!!
*1 HAND ON YA!.

The "One Hand Band" project is a profound produced Album with many layers and the fact that the listener will detect more and more sounds and details by listening to it several times.Today he released the BlackNBling Podcast - P.U.D.G.E. you can listen @Blacknbling.Dope!For all Fans of L.A. producer scene // Brainfeeder // Low End Theory!!

S.trg

Rapohnelizenz

Audio: Apollo Brown & Hassaan Mackey - Volume // Daily Bread

 Download: Apollo Brown & Hassaan Mackey - Volume

The new album from producer Apollo Brown & emcee Hassaan Mackey, Daily Bread, is officially out today. Ascending production star Apollo Brown started making waves in 2009 after winning the Detroit Red Bull Big Tune Championship. The next year he signed to Mello Music Group and released a series of critically acclaimed albums: The Reset, Brown Study (selected by iTunes as one of the Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums of 2010), Gas Mask (with his group The Left, which made DJ Premier's Top 25 list in 2010), and most recently the instrumental opus Clouds. It's been a busy couple years. Add into the mix Hassaan Mackey of Rochester, New York, and the new group Daily Bread was formed. (Peep the Album after the Jump)

sOlo

Skyzoo - Theo vs J.J. (Dreams vs Reality) // Mixtape

Full Mixtape Stream and Purchase

In Skyzoo’s Words: "With this project, I wanted it to be a bridge between “The Great Debater” and “A Dream Deferred”. This mixtape literally picks up where “The Great Debater” left off and leads you directly into “A Dream Deferred." The tape is split into 2 parts, Theo Huxtable and JJ Evans. The first half of the tape has me rhyming as if I were Theo, with the world from his point of view. Being well off, having to live up to a family's expectations due to their success, etc. The second half is from JJ's view, with the sound being slightly more aggressive and the stories built with an "in need of something" attitude. The tape is the idea of the vast contrasts of a life that my people and I dreamed of and aspired to as kids (Theo) versus a life that was more of our reality (J.J). This one is for US. Enjoy”

rol

Audio: The Left - Gas Leaks Ep // Mello Music Group

The Left dropped one of the best or maybe the best album in 2010, "The Gas Mask". Mello Music Group has some more dope songs that dont appear on the new projects. You can digg, stream & purchase this 3 tracks on Bandcamp.

solo

Audio: The 70s Sound of James Brown - Midnight Soulstice

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Link & Tracklist - Thx. 2 Midnight Soulstice

Midnight Soulstice:
Returning from a two weeks tour in Australia with James Brown’s Soulsister # 1 Marva Whitney, Midnight Soulstice co-host DJ Pari will bring you his radio first show of 2010. He’ll pick up where he left off in December - introducing the sound of James Brown. Diggin’ through James Brown’s rarest material from the 1960s on the last show, we’ll focus on the sound of the following decade tonight. And just like the last time, expect some rather unusual James Brown releases as well as a long set of rare music by JB’s associated artists. Tune in from 11 pm until 1 am Eastern. If you miss the show, come back for the download, which will be posted here this weekend. Click “Read more” for the playlist of tonight’s show.

R.O.L.

Audio: Rock Bottom - Expanding the Cage // Album

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Visit: Rock Bottom

Although Rock Bottom have been involved in the underground hip hop scene for a few years, they still consider themselves new to the game. Refusing to let themselves be sandboxed into any one category, Rock Bottom mixes musical perspectives and styles to distill an art form out of a saturated industry. With contemporary artists flooding the market and blurring the lines between hip hop and pop, the average listener's experience has been turned into a cheap thrill lacking any replay value. Music enthusiasts are jaded, casual listeners are left wanting something more...Enter Rock Bottom... with nowhere to go but up. This is not an attempt to 'take it back.' This is not an attempt to revive the 'golden era' of hip hop. This is an entirely new approach with a mix of RAW talent and RAW sound refined by five plus years of improving their style to create truly TIMELESS music.

Solo

Audio: Daily Breed Mixtape // MMG - Hassaan Mackey & Apollo Brown

The MellowMusicGroup provides this highclass one week freedownload mixtape. Daily Bread (Hassaan Mackey & Apollo Brown) will be in stores August 9th.

The House Shoes mixtape features a variety of past tracks, collaborations, features, rare and unreleased tracks, along with new material including a sneak peak at the track "Weak Won't Do" from the upcoming Daily Bread album, and the Apollo Brown Troubled Waters Remix of The Trenches featuring Sean Born. Other mix guests include Invincible, Nick Tha 1Da, Danny Brown, Black Milk, Emilio Rojas, Diamond District, Kenn Starr, The Left, Elzhi, and more.

YackFou

Audio: Anathallo - Japan Set at Domo Arigato (2009)(Anticon)

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It’s fitting that Chicago indie art-pop ensemble Anathallo traces its origins to a small Michigan town named Mt. Pleasant. There was no actual mountain nearby, but like most middle-class burgs, the place begged for input from active imaginations—for makeshift raft races on the Chippewa River, bridge dives in the summer, and rollerskating down the abandoned slides of an old water park. In the 16 years before the founding of Anathallo, Matthew Joynt’s days were filled with these things, and what space was left went to the arts: music lessons, theater productions, dance companies, limited engagement lip-sync shows (co-produced, for a parental audience of two, by his big sis), and a proto-grunge band called Clockwork that rehearsed like its namesake (6:30 a.m. every day before school). In 2000, Matt finally got serious, and with a crew of self-taught musicians and marching band ruffians, he assembled an ensemble that, to this day, exists at the exact intersection of innocence, optimism, ability and curiosity.continue reading @Anticon.com

Ein Set aus Pop,Electropop,gefühlten HipHopBeats und eigentlich einen Hauch von Trash.Da wär ich gerne in (im) Domo Arigato gewesen, aber nicht nüchtern!

R.O.L.

Video: German Electronic Music History/ BBC documentary

German Electronic Music History from Jose Rodriguez on Vimeo.

Yes y´all. To all you people who are interested in musikhistory. This is a very nice documentary about the evolution of electronic musik through the "krautrock" music scene in post war germany.
All important bands like tangerin dream, cluster, can, neu, kraftwerk aso. are featured with interviews. Even iggy pop where connected to some of these guys and tells some funny storys. You get a lot of background information about the musicians and the enviroment in the (left-)revolutionary political scene in the 60/70.
so, take a trip, lean back and enjoy..
jönäs

Audio: O-Phrap featuring Belvi - Left side of the Map remix ( prod.by Dibiase)

"Left side of the Map (rmx)" (feat. Belvi) is one more dope tune by "O-Phrap".The Man behind the Scene is "Dibia$e",one of the illest names in HipHop Producing these days!We posted some leaks in the past time,so cuddle through the blog and have a nice sunday.

visit: O-Phrap Ophradelic

S.o.lo

Qwazaar & Batsauce - Love Liez

Qwazaar and Batsauce bring in the New Year with an ephemeral masterpiece entitled "Love Liez."  Under the direction of Arvid Wuensch, Qwa and Bat serenade Berlin's Underground with a song that is at once dark and somber, divine and liberating.  Qwazaar solidifies his reputation as a virtuoso, continually evolving over the dusty yet innovative sounds of Batsauce.  Their Stress Chasers EP drops on January 28.
"It said tonight the moon we see it/ will be falling from the sky/and there's nothing left to do but watch it dim, let it die/eat the worm, love the lie"

roly