Love me some c&s reggae, even when its this early in the day and I’m woefully sober. It’s temping to dust off the old discussion about similarities between c&s and dub, but that’s a convo for another time.
DOWNLOAD: Bob Marley – Stir it up (C&S by Slim K)
I’m really diggin how Quelle dropped a very good (undeservedly underrated) Detroit garage soul inspired underground rap record last year, and then moved far into the left field to do things like this and this and now the track below. Even if the minimal wave stuff isn’t always my bag, I got tons of respect for his willingness to experiment with a completely different sound.
spotted at Grandgood
Trillevator muzak, very soothing floating down a river of dreams in a warm blanket kind of sounds. Jokes aside, if you like Friendzone when they’re in near-ambient mode this one is a must. That applies to everything I found on the Persona La Ave bandcamp page, this one EP just happened to jump out at me more than the others. Unfortunately I know nothing about it except that it seems to be from Knoxville.
A couple more streams from this person(s?) are linked below.
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Main Attrakionz live at New Parrish. Once again we did the best we could. Thankfully Space Age Hustle supplied us with the instrumentals, and we had an isolated track for the vox, but as it turns out the playback speed of the beats was slightly slower than the instrumentals. It’s funny how the slightest of technical difficulties–like this .5 second discrepancy int he overall length of the track–can totally ruin something. Well anyways, it wasn’t totally ruined. And we did our best to find a happy medium between not working too hard, and getting the music to sound clear. We’re happy with the final product, and we hope you will be too. Check www.radreef.com for a .zip when the downloads here expire.
Some recent favorites and a rare live performance of ‘Legion OF Doom’. MAz are far from polished as a live act, but they make up for the rough spots with sheer enthusiasm and a genuine appreciation for the crowd. This recording captures their exuberance pretty well.
DOWNLOAD: Main Attrakionz Live At The New Parrish (DIVSHARE LINK)
Dam-Funk & Master Blazter “Songs from Scratch” from Yours Truly on Vimeo.
Live improv jam recorded shortly before J-1′s tragic untimely passing.
Best use of ‘Feel It All Around’ to date. Could use more Pat in the end though.
DOWNLOAD: Project Pat vs Washed Out – Ballers vs Feel It All Around (Stumble’s Low Country Blend)
via Stumble’s soundcloud
13 minute long, ambient, no drums. This gets the coveted ‘facemelting’ award gif.
DOWNLOAD: Blue Sky Black Death – 13
I put together a compilation of some overlooked and/or underrated songs for the good peoples over at Passion Of The Weiss. Not meant as a comprehensive overview or a best of anything, just a bunch of random enjoyable tracks that mostly went under the radar. Full tracklist and dl link are below, please go read the fully annotated write up over on P.O.W.
Emcee Jermaine – Crazy 88
Flatbush ZOMBiES – Gucci Gucci
Troy Ave – Motion Picture
Shady Blaze – Machine Gun Spit
Western Tink – Practice Looking Hard Jr. Ft Shady Blaze
Hail Mary Mallon – Table Talk
Rittz – When The Sun Goes Down Ft. Starlito
Silky Johnson – Fast Life Instrumental
Danny Brown – Cartier Glasses
AZ & Cormega – murder on the daily
Yelawolf – Shit I’ve seen Ft Trae the truth
Ethereal – Recovery RMX ft. Micah Freeman and Opio
Zilla – Like A Jungle Ft Clova and Bentley
Marq Spekt & Kno – All Smiles (Plastic Mask)
ShowYouSuck – All Chill Everything
LG – Kool & The Gang Ft. Bonka
KD – Let Me Ride ft. Freddie Gibbs
The Outfit – The D-Funk Era
Davinci – Pangea
Sleepy Brown – You’re My Lady
Our friends at Purple Tape Pedigree run a bitchin rap radio show called Fresh Out The Box, which happens every Thursday via BBOX radio. I had the honor of guesting on two few episodes so far, here is my most recent appearance. Lots of good music was played, year-end lists and fine meats and cheeses were discussed, and we randomly drank some wine from plastic cups. You should give it a listen, and don’t sleep on their other episodes, especially the XMAS one. I will be returning there again tonight, so listen to that too.
STREAM/DL: Purple Tape Pedigree Presents: Fresh Out The Box #13 (Guest Starring Alex from Steady Bloggin)
Tracklist for the show is below
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