It`s good to see one of the best albums this year getting so much support they had to re-issue as a 2xLP. This is the new edited cover above. This track will be on there as bonus. Fire.
More Marcberg shit over here.
I don´t get the whole storyabout the girl and the moon.. but the music fits quite well to a journey through the dark.. To me it´s a diverse collection of wintermusic: Some laid back, jazzy, some more modern, glitchy and really banging tunes. The focus is on the instrumentals nevertheless we find voices in one or another track. Overall, everything suits together as a good musical collage for the dark time of the year. get lost- jo
for more info: projectmooncircle.com
Stalley shared the first song "Hercules" from his upcoming album Intelligent Trunk Muzik. Stalley on that 2 Live crew sample makes hungry for more. Stay tuned.
Oh No & Alchemist with a 3-minute nightmare/mini-horror movie for “Take Drugs” off the new album Gutter Water on Decon. We've got a bonus track version of the album available now in the Stones Throw store.
MelloMusicGroup yet again blesses us with another great instrumental compilation. We like Trek Life and Oddisee equally well so this of course has to get a post.
The WOW instrumental is sick.#
FSD put together this compilation of the samples Kanye used for his new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasies which I am playing a lot these days. Even Rihanna and Rick Ross can not keep me away from it. Mainly because the beats and the melodies are simply beautiful. I would have definitly dropped Swizz and RZA, because they totally ruin one of the best beats on there.
Listening to Devil In A New Dress you just want to now what the sample is. Here you go. Great job Ty Kidd.
01. Mike Oldfield – “In High Places” (Dark Fantasy)
02. The Turtles – “You Showed Me” (Gorgeous)
03. Cold Grits – “It’s Your Thing” (Power)
04. King Crimson – “21st Century Schizoid Man” (Power)
05. Continent No. 6 – “Afromerica” (Power)
06. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – “You” (So Appalled)
07. Smokey Robinson – ‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” (Devil In A New Dress)
08. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth – “The Basment” (Runaway)
09. The Mojo Men – “She’s My Baby” (Hell Of A Life)
10. Black Sabbath – “Iron Man” (Hell Of A Life)
11. Aphex Twin – “Avril 14th” (Blame Game)
12. Bon Iver – “Woods” (Lost In The World)
13. Manu Dibango – “Soul Makossa” (Lost In The World)
14. Lyn Collins – “Think” (Lost In The World)
15. Gil-Scott Heron – “Comment #1″ (Lost In The World)
16. Backyard Heavies – “Expo ’83″ (Runaway)
17. Tony Joe White – “Stud-Spider” (Hell Of A Life)
Staten Island, home of 8,000 Liberian immigrants,
might have the largest concentration of child soldiers in North America. US citizens used to see these kids on CNN -carrying a Teddy bear in one hand and an AK-47 in the other- during the Liberian civil war.
Ten years later, they observe this lost generation out their window.
This story has no heroes, only survivors.
Great series. Plus the fact that this is also HipHop, in the way of approaching this whole thing, makes you forget about all that other bullshit in HipHop generaly.
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Sampling is archeology. Digging through crates for obscure old records and drafting the sounds of times past into contemporary music is as much about preserving the past as digging for bones is. Few producers take that pursuit as literally as LA native and Armenian beathead Bei Ru, who has traveled across Armenia, Lebanon and Syria on a mission to hunt and rescue rare, out-of-print Armenian 12"s and 45"s from oblivion. He breathes new life into the sounds on those records on Little Armenia (L.A.), an intoxicating voyage through rhythm and melody that serves not only as a dedication to the under-appreciated Armenian musicians of yesteryear and a homage to the Little Armenia section neighborhood of Los Angeles, but also as a musical map of the Armenian diaspora and a wake-up call to his people to take pride in their rich musical history.
Electric instruments and modern sounds began creeping into traditional Armenian music between the 1950s and the 1980s, the era Little Armenia focuses on. These are the songs Bei Ru grew up on, songs he says most Armenians have forgotten. "What inspired me to make this project was all the incredible music I'd find on these old records that most people - even most Armenians - are unaware of," he says. Bei Ru's inspiration to take Armenia's musical past into its future manifests itself in everything from the album's sound to its name. "You walk down a street in the Little Armenia section of Los Angeles, and it's as if the people brought their home country with them. These people, who keep themselves so surrounded by their culture, have forgotten how important the role of music is. Contemporary Armenian music is virtually devoid of any of the aspects of what made those old records so awesome. I felt that Armenians and non-Armenians alike should be exposed to this lost era of music that no one seems to remember." Little Armenia drops November 19th on Musa-Ler Music.
This is a very interesting project by Bei Ru. Sampling armanian music only. Makes me think of the "Syria" beat tape. The whole thing is dropping tomorrow via Musa-Ler Music.
This one beat is for free. Get the rest via Amazon.
We showed you the video release of Bring it some days ago, here we have the complete EP, sent by mr. Kaine Karrera himself. Ep is hot and Kaine drops it dope on that banging Lee Bannon beats (Dude serves always fresh prodcutions), all that releases with LB on the prodcution table comes along with good lyricist, you have to pic ChuuWee & Willie the Kid too, if you missed them. Keep on the Good work Kaine & Lee Bannon.
'Voltage Controlled Feelings' is the sonic testimony of more than two decades of serious electro, funk and boogie studies from Swedish synth commander Opolopo!
Blending epic Blade Runner soundscapes and Krautrock sequencer lines into cruising west coast beats and beyond, he proves that science fiction and funk are not only compatible, but have always belonged together. 'Voltage Controlled Feelings' is a newly discovered planet orbiting a distant star, that also pays homage to the synthesizers, drum machines and the artists who influenced Opolopo's music. Echoes of Prince, Herbie Hancock, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream and Isao Tomita can be heard throughout the album. Fellow electronauts include L.A. vocalist Erik Rico, known for his work with Marc Mac and Tupac Shakur, UK acid jazz hit singer Farah, Toronto-based jazz vocalist Sacha Williamson and Stockholm-based oral transmorpher of sounds and words Amalia 'Miz Fuze' Townsend, who will soon also release her debut album via TDR produced by Opolopo. Supported by respected funkateers such as Dam-Funk, King Britt, Daz-I-Kue and Laurent Garnier, you best put on your finest space suit and dappest boogie shoes to catch the Opolopo starcruiser!
This is an impressive release, finest Future(Cyber) Funk with the dancefloor Boogie Guarantee. The vocal features are outstanding and make this album very special, You ever heard Soul or Jazz vovals over the Jingle of your favourite Action Hero series? Opolopo - Voltage Controlled Feelings is fantastic and is in advance of his time. BigUp to Peter Major!
BraBra!!!! Robox presents Doshy Scatter Rmxes !!!!!!!!!!!!! Put out your space suits and reload your lazahblastahs we are goin on a neonlight mission. We got 13 mindbleeping Rmxes from Doshy tunes who already killed some kneecaps out there on the dancefloors. This digital laserpie contains rmxes from Monky, Rudi Zygadlo, CocoBryce & Halp, Demokracy, Zeno, Pixelord,P45, Curtamos, Lakritze, Didjelirium, Esia and Doshy himself. STARDRIVER-MODE ON! 10001011001010100beepbeep if u still know what i mean!!!!!