Excellent blend tape of well known and more obscure Camp Lo accapellas remixed with original production (they ungayed Lumdi!!!), made even more worthwhile by a smattering of some great new exclusive freestyles over classic Pete Rock tracks. The content is very solid, and it’s elevated by spot on execution – smooth mixing, impeccable progression, uniform tone kept throughout, very little DJ interference – this thing is put together damn well. Honestly, considering how in recent years Camp Lo have done better on random freestyles and features than on their own official albums, I’m wondering if some of the stuff here will actually surpass the album the mixtape is meant to promote.
Cradle Orchestra are a Japanese instrumental neoclassical/souljazz outfit, their latest album features a bunch of familiar faces aside from Lo, you can check it out on itunes.
via Whiskey Teeth
I found these just casually cold lamping on a disc 2 of a random 2007(?) Best of Camp Lo compilation. That disc is kinda weird, I’m not sure how it qualifies as a ‘best of’ considering that many of the featured tracks are rather obscure. Anyway, the songs below are the standouts of the bunch.
Both of these show Lo at their ethereal best and by demo standards the sound quality is better than average. This particular version of Coolie High is actually the fourth ‘official’ permutation of the song (the others – 1, 2, 3), being fairly different from both the album version and the 2 remixes. I’m curious how much similar material Ski has laying around in the vaults, hopefully his recent resurgence will bring some of it to the surface. Uptown Saturday Night is due for a deluxe reissue treatment anyway.
Just for the hell of it, here’s the Camp Lo version of Feelin’ It. The story of how Jay Z ended up with this beat is now stuff of internet canon and the song has been around for a while, but I still never skip it when it randomly pops up on the ipod.
As we continue on, our Sounds Like Summer series adds another volume while the humidex/heat index pushes past 100 in the north east. Somethin’ for your car, somethin’ for your hangout spot, or just somethin’ for you to chill to. Hella shouts to dirt_dog from TROY for the artwork. Download link, tracklist and links to the rest of the series after the jump.
There is this duck who lives on the corner of Allerton Avenue in the Bronx who became sort of my best friend and encompassed a hell of a lot about what the year was like for me, what the fuck right?
Well let me explain, see I still make music full time “somehow” despite it being extremely hard to do. I’ve some how managed, save for the occasional bouncer/porter job and trips to Belmont and Saratoga Parks’ I made it through another one on music by the skin of my teeth. Mostly by not going near Manhattan and smoking more regs than exotics so all in all it was s good year. I made quite a lot of music in 09 in hopes of a long overdue (for me) 2010 release, we will see. One thing is for sure, music got made.
Being that our ace B. Ware has been M.I.A. for a bit True King has stepped up big time with his monthly mixes. Here is October V2. Tons of dope shit for your to marinate to. –Philaflava
About a week and a half ago Nahright premiered the video for Son of A… as part of their One Shot series. Now with some internet magic here’s is the mp3.
