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This classic Roots groove has been looping over and over in my head for a couple days now. I wonder why…
Named after The Love Unlimited Orchestra classic, BBE created The Strange Games compilation series to represent the blueprint for modern R&B and hip hop. Crate diggers will recognize most of the tracks right off the bat, and dedicated listeners will recognize them, perhaps after a couple spins, for the songs that relied on them for their samples – and in some cases the whole damn song. In other words, this compilation is for music lovers that grew up on hip hop and R&B and appreciate and respect the roots of the music. You know, grown folk.
The fifth volume in the series, which BBE started in 1997, comes out on August 28th. Sure, these aren’t the rarest of rarest tunes that nobody or their mom has ever heard of, but it’s good music that you’re never gonna find all in one place at the same time anywhere else. Go on and purchase this compilation from the nice people over at Barely Breaking Even and help ensure that this music will live on forever. Do it.
Oh yeah, I should also mention that DJ Spinna expertly blended the songs from this compilation into an awesome mix. You can stream it below or download it here, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t buy the actual album with the entire songs on them, okay? Okay.
Strange Games & Funky Things Vol. 5
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Once 1/2 of Abysinnian Creole, one of Seattle’s most beloved and down duos alongside Gabriel Teodros, The lyrically extraterrestrial Khingz has been traversing up and down the left coast of North America making music and being rad. Lately, the one and only Black Han Solo has been working on a live band+emcee project called Hi-Life Soundsystem , with some representatives from Seattle based Godspeed - album on the way.
As a prelude to the full course of the upcoming mixtape Khake and Khool Aid, Khingz blesses us with this summer mixtape Pho99, fresh and hot – add lime, plum sauce and Sriracha and your good to go, uyệt vời (great)!
Ooooooweeeee! Really?!? This is almost too good to be new Slum Village. It sounds like old SV came back from the past, but with a renewed, fresher sound. It makes me feel kinda guilty that I like it so much knowing that Baatin and Dilla are no longer with us. Is that wrong?
“Don’t Fight the Filling/Daylight” is basically one of those two-in-one combo deals. Elzhi and T3 spit some classic verses while Dwele softly kills the hook on the first half of the track . Don’t Fight the Filling then gives way to Daylight, which is basically the best use of funky hand claps and sitars I’ve ever heard.
This track is off the the Villa Manifesto EP, which came out July 27th - just in time for Slum Village to break up. Yup, that’s what I said. Ain’t that some bullshit?
Download “Don’t Fight the Filling/Daylight” here (right click, save as).
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Skratch Bastid and The Rub’s Cosmo Baker were rehearsing for their Let’s Build performance the other day, and somewhere along the way Cosmo decided to start fuckin with the beat to the new Dipset joint, “Speakin’ in Tongues.” Skratch Bastid threw Cutty’s classic acapella over it and “instantly smoke filled the room and an airhorn sounded from the distance.” The rest is mashup history.
Stream and/or download this magical musical mishmash below, but be mindful of where you are when you hit play. You definitely don’t want to play this song too loud in the office, unless, of course, your boss is cool with ganja smoke and airhorns at the workplace.
(On a somewhat related sidenote, have you peeped the free hip hop hisotry mixtapes that they’ve been droppin’ over at The Rub? If you haven’t, you really got get up on that. For real.)
“Dear God 2.0” is the new single and video from The Legendary Roots Crew. The album, How I Got Over, comes out tomorrow. Go to your local record shop and buy that shit with real money. Do it!
Word on the streets (and by streets I really mean blogs) is that Jahdan Blakkamoore is putting the finishing touches on his upcoming album, Babylon Nightmare. No release date has been announced yet, but while we anxiously await the return of our favorite genrebending, Guyanese-Brooklynite singjay we have the Global Warning! podcast/mixtape to hold us down.
This mix was put together by Digital Ancient for Lustre Kings, the record label behind Turbulence, Lutan Fyah, and now Jahdan, as a little preview of what’s to come on the LP. After only a couple of rotations, I’m ready to for some full-length tracks – especially the Eek-A-Mouse sampling, “Down in the Ghetto.”
Peep the tracklist and a little BTS video after the jump. Happy Solstice, suckas!
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Diamond District came through Seattle this past weekend. They performed at Chop Suey on Sunday night and I had plans to go, but I ended up passing out around 10pm instead. You’re probably saying to yourself, “Damn, Tang. That’s whack.” And I would agree with you, but some of us have to work in the morning and I was tired! Plus, (this is the part of the story where I redeem myself) the reason I was so beat on Sunday is because I was fortunate enough to catch a late Saturday night performance from Oddisee, put on by the good folks at Members Only, that didn’t wrap up until after 4am. Oddisee brought out yU and X.O. to do a little bit of their solo stuff too, and the gentlemen from DC did not disappoint. Oddisee performed a choice selection from his repertoire, including at least one joint from Odd Spring. YU showcased some songs from his well received first album, Before Taxes, and X.O. spit a couple tracks that I hope to hear on his yet- to-be-named upcoming album.
I had a chance to chat with the fellas real briefly and Oddisee told me to keep a look out for Odd Spring, his fourth and final installment of his seasonal free album series, scheduled to drop sometime this week. Sure enough, it dropped yesterday. (On sort of a side note, I gotta say, these Members Only parties are pretty dope. It’s like something straight out of a high school kid’s underground hip hop fantasy: rubbing elbows with rappers, hot girls, the homies, bluntsmoke, byob… shit, it’s kinda like my underground hip hop fantasy.)
I’m a big fan of the previous installments of the Odd [insert season here] series, and I would reccommend you check them out if you haven’t already. They’re free and you can find them at Put Me On It, or you can follow the links on the player below to Oddisee’s Bandcamp page. Not coincidentally, Oddisee is a blogger for PMOI. Bet ya didn’t know the rapper/producer was also a blogger! Ha! Anyway, peep the Odd Spring below and don’t sleep on Diamond District when they come through your town. That would be whack. Trust me, I know.
So last night my weekend told me it wasn’t ready to settle in just yet, so I said – okay weekend let’s bounce up off this couch. I landed at the always all ages, Seattle landmark venue Vera Project and ended up peeping out Javelin, a Brooklyn based duo – comprised of funky cousins Tom van Buskirk, 27, and George Langford, 29. Armed with drum pads, mpcs, a dollar store piano guitar, an electric kazoo and slew of other merry noisemaking tools – Javelin proceeded to rock the modest yet giddy crowd.
The set made me feel alot of things, a few I’ll name here: merry go rounds, mexican ice cream trucks, miami sound machine, that movie batteries not included, kisses, a quechua disco, Herbie Hancock, dancing like a kid at a Chuck. E. Cheese animatronic show, rainbows, Dilla. It was fun. These guys pride themselves on digging for dollar bin gems and transforming them into that new new. Javelin are signed to Luaka Bop the label of eccentric maestro David Byrne. You can download the very fresh, very free mixtapes World Midi Classics Vol.2 or Andean Ocean Tape below. Still, do yourself a favor and earn what! u aint up on this? points by copping the recently released, and thoroughly pleasing full length No Mas, here .
Here is vibrationz, a guaranteed summertime jam off of No Mas.
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Damn! Mix Master Mike calls in a dirty, dirty dubstep “combat strike”. The self proclaimed serial wax killer submits an onslaught of choice samples to his surgical scratching and mixing. Sure shot party-rock factor high. Face melt threat level – red. ‘Nuff sed. Click here to download Napalm Rockets.
