Archive for the ‘Free’ tag
Some of you may be up on this mix already, but for the rest of you I feel obligated to put you on to this here hot ish.
By the tasteful selection and mature vibe of the mix, its hard to believe that Greene is just 21 yrs old. The mix has all of the nostalgic warmth and soulful sonic foundation of the house and garage you fell in love with- but weaves in the creative blippage and vocal experimentation of the new school.
Overall it feels like a smooth but high energy contrast to the epic and raunchy booty tech sound that seems to be carrying the banner for house at the moment. Look out for Greene’s upcoming album “The Look” in just a few days on Jan 5th, released on NYC label LuckyMe also home to LxNxM faves Lunice & Hudson Mohawke. Download the mix, check out the teaser for “The Look” the below, tracklist for mix after the jump.
Merry Christmas, y’all! Hope you’re having a good one. Here’s a dope new album I’ve been bumping for the past few days and that I’ve been meaning to share. Hella blogs posted this already, but I think it’s well worth reposting. Consider it the best re-gifted Christmas present of the year.
It’s a compilation by French dude Brodinski, and he goes hard on this one. He commissioned a bunch of his homies to create the illest electro remixes of mainstream hip hop and r&b tracks they could, and they’re pretty much all done to perfection. Hence the title, The Best of Everything Vol. 2.
BEST OF EVERYTHING vol.2 by BRODINSKI by brodinski-boe
Peep vol. 1 here.
Not sure if you’ve recovered from the epic Das Racist x Mash Hall x Militant Child x Toast & Tang show on Friday, but regardless, coming down to Moe Bar tonight for The Red Eye should help. Resident Red Eye DJs the Filejerks (big shouts to Astronomar and Shorthand) will be playing only the choicest of cuts along with LxNxM’s own Toast and Tang (that’s me). If you read our blog and you like the tunes we put up on here, you’ll definitely appreciate the vibe at Red Eye tonight. Drink specials, good music, good people – Sunday nights don’t get much better than that. See you there. Bring a friend or eight.
1425 10th Ave. (between Pike and Union)
10 PM/21+/no cover
This one’s been floating around the blogosphere for a few days now, but it’s well worth posting. I agree with the consensus: It’s good to hear some classic, slowed-down, souled-out Kanye and not that 808s and Vocoder shit. But make no mistake, my friends. This is not Yeezy on the beat. The beat was made by Norfolk, VA native and longtime Roc-A-Fella associate Bink, who’s worked with everyone from Jay-Z and Rick Ross to Kurupt and Nate Dogg.
At first I assumed that this was gonna be on Kanye’s new album, but apparently it’s just the third in a series of free downloads that Kanye said he will drop every Friday until Christmas. He’s calling the whole thing G.O.O.D. Friday.
If this track does make it to his new album, which is supposed to come out sometime in November, they should raise Kanye’s vocals or lower the beat a little. The beat’s kinda swallowing Kanye on this recording. But who knows, maybe it’s better that way. This beat kills.
Kanye West – Devil in a New Dress (via Fader)
Update: J. Cole murdered Kanye on this beat.
Busy Signal is crazy. He’s crazy talented, crazy versatile, and he’s crazy prolific. Throughout the past year or so, Busy has dropped so many hot tracks that he could have probably put out a double album. Instead, Busy’s third album, D.O.B., which drops on Wednesday, only has like three songs you’ve heard before and about a dozen all new tracks. No doubt, he gets his name from being so damn busy, but shit. He’s like the James Brown of dancehall or something. Here are two new tracks that you probably haven’t heard before that will be featured on the album. Di Genius kills the beat on this first track, “How U Bad Suh,” on some crazy techno dancehall madness. I’m feelin it.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
The next track Read the rest of this entry »
Bilal‘s first album in 9 years, Airtight’s Revenge, is set for release on September 14th via Plug Research. Some blogs are saying that this track will not be on the new album, but some blogs are saying that it will be. At this point, I don’t think it really matters. Its free and on the internet. Just enjoy this shit. It’s smooth. Props to Nottz for the production. I’m definitely feeling this more than the Bilal/Shafiq Husayn collabo that Nottz produced for Shafiq’s LP, Shafiq En’ A-Free-Ka. Just sayin.
Sometimes great minds really do think alike, and sometimes they even collaborate. And today has brought together two of my favorite musical forces, Seattle space travellers THEESatisfaction and LA/NYC/Milky Way future sounds pioneers Sa-Ra Creative Partners. Wordlush hit you with the early release of the single, but now we have the whole five-song enchilada. And it sounds so NICE.
It’s not a straight up collaboration – THEESat is jacking some of Sa-Ra’s instrumentals, but the results sound intentional. THEESatisfaction has worked with an array of producers, who together have supplemented their natural galactic inclinations and pushed them beyond the musical stratosphere.
But Sa-Ra is some next level stuff. They exist on a funk-soul plane of existence. When the ladies of THEESatisfaction join up with them, it’s no longer about what part of space they’re in, but which dimension. That is to say, this five song EP feels like a natural fit, as if someone planned it all along. Here’s hoping that perhaps they will…
DOWNLOAD: THEESatisfaction Loves the Sa-Ra Creative Partners
