When I saw this new video on UGSMAG, purveyors of new hiphop media for those seeking refuge from the swag and trap stylings of the day, I rushed to the record shop and copped the album Dialogue. After listening through and blabbing to the homies about how dope the whole album is, I was surprised to find out that the album actually came out in 2009. I’m more than a little embarrassed for managing to sleep on Thavius Beck, cause the album is more creative and cutting edge than most of the hip hop I’ve heard for a minute.

“Go” and the rest of Dialogue speak to my love for lyricism. Beck’s rapid fire delivery kinda reminds of me of Living Legends Eligh, however unlike many dense rhymers he shares space with his epic, degenerate beats in a sonic dialogue that shatters the standard verse/bar formula. If I had to go into battle against an army of soulless terminators – this is what I would bump before facing my fate. A Mush records signee and certified Ableton guru, Beck boasts collaborations ranging from Cedric Bixler-Zavala of The Mars Volta, Saul Williams’, and 2MEX.  I will be  watching/hoping for some new face-mashing music from dude soon.

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.

LM007 – JACQUES GREENE – THE LOOK by Jacques Greene

Tracklist:

1. Jacques Greene – The Look (Koreless remix)
2. Ango – Love Me
3. Jacques Greene – Tell Me
4. Mood II Swing – Move Me
5. Machinedrum – DDD
6. Jacques Greene – Good Morning
7. Nu-Birth – Anytime
8. 24 Hour Experience – All Nighter
9. Ramadanman & Midland – Your Words Matter
10. James Fox – New Jack Swing
11. Sasse & James Flavour – The Right Way (Tony Lionni Rremix)
12. Jacques Greene – (Baby I Don’t Know) What You Want
13. Dubbel Dutch – Throwback
14. Aril Brikha – Groove La Chord
15. xxxy – Ordinary Things
16. Colours – Hold On (SE22 Mix)
17. Jacques Greene – Another Girl
18. Rick Ross ft. Drake & Chrisette Michele – Aston Martin Music

we have previously addressed how great jay electronica’s “exhibit c” is. as the soundtrack for the trailer for the boondock’s final season, it has to get the big screen treatment.

Each Sunday Palms Out also posts up a new “Remix Sunday” compilation/mix that’s guaranteed get it percolating. Tasteful selectahs transform cuts from artists as diverse as Busy Signal, Cherish, Prodigy, Massive Attack to Bill Withers, Blaqstarr, Debruit, Band of Horses, Udachi and yes -Jefferson Airplane.

Step your electronic game up with some grown folks techno – download these mixes and hit up the site – Peace.

Download Remix Sunday-Feb 21,2010 #143

image: Jelle Martens

Download Djuna – “Hippie not Hippie_3 – the heroin edition” Tracklisting after the jump

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Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan
Sleep Party People – In The Morning Sun We Stand
Low – (That’s How You Sing) Amazing
GraceBaxter Dury – Beneath the underdog
The papertiger sound – Out of the in scene
Spectrum – Waves Wash Over Me
Trespassers William – Vapour Trail Lawrence – Todenhausen
The Aliens -… Theramin
Wechsel Garland & World Standard – Solitude Sea
Broadcast & The Focus Group – Libra, The Mirror’s Minor Self
Build An Ark – In Her Smile (Daedelus Remix)
Taken By Trees – To Lose Someone
Damian Lazarus – King Of Fools
Sonic Youth – Little Trouble Girl
Lydia Lunch – Bowery Blues
Nico – Afraid Passengers – Corpse (These Chains Are Way Too Long)
Vitaminsforyou – Shelter (The XX cover )
PJ Harvey – Nina In Ecstasy
Julianna Barwick – Cloudbank
Lonely Galaxy – Have A Heart
Cass McCombs – I Went to the Hospital
Lou Reed – Coney Island Baby

Here is the first ever Grey Area Podcast to give you taste of what you might hear. Kicking it off with resident blapster Dead Noise and a bunch of his original tracks, mixed with some of his favorite tunes of the day. Rounding things out, Ill Cosby (Car/Crash/Set) brings a fine selection of glitchy, wonky sounds from the future!

If you can make it out to Grey Area this Friday, Feb.12 – you can catch LxNxM’s very own Toast and Tang on the decks as special guests. Peace.

Now Bullion packs more flava for ya ear with the new single “Say Goodbye to What” along with a free mix composed in cahoots with the freshcheckers at FACT magazine. The single and mix are a gumbo of Krautrock, afro-funk, avant-garde electronics and dreamy 70s rock. For god’s sakes have the friends over for a potluck and dance already… Download the Bullion FACT magazine mix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=men-jcslePU

Folks are sometimes too quick to make the Jay Electronica/Nas comparisons if you ask me. A writer from Pitchfork wasted half of a review on it this morning. There are some similarities I suppose but I’d say he sounds more like Rakim to me if anybody.  Either way, he’s spitting out proverbs and ghetto psalms on just about every track I’ve heard from him thus far and “Exhibit C” is hip-hop’s New New Testament. The number of pure quotables he drops on this track is ridiculous and if you haven’t heard it yet, the first listen is the best.

If you’re already a fan of the “Exhibit” series (Jay Elec+Just Blaze), then you know “Exhibit A” is smoldering but “Exhibit B” with Mos Def was just so so. Trust, “Exhibit C” rectifies all that. You can stream the song and download it right here.

Keep your eyes and ears peeled for a new Statik Selektah X Reflection Eternal mixtape coming out on New Year’s Eve and a new RE album, Revolutions Per Minute, in 2010 – yet another sign that 2010 is gonna be a good year.

Reflection Eternal ft. Mos Def, Jay Electronica & J. Cole – Just Begun

The mix goes by the handle i can’t help it, and it’s good isht, running the gamut from some BK-One/Haiku d’Etat to Senegal repper/rapper Sister Fa. The full tracklist is below the jump, so start downlading that goodness, and peruse the full selection. Get that!

Wongweezy – Mixtape from Last Night #1, i can’t take it

i can’t help it tracklist

On the Vista (feat mos def) — Blakroc
Exhibit A (transformations) — Jay Electronica
Make it take it — Amanda Blank
Soldier of Love — Sade
Selebou yoon — Sister Fa
The National Anthem — Lupe Fiasco
Mega feat. Acelyone, Myka 9, Abstract Rude — BK-One
Finding emo — iLL-Literacy
I can’t help it — The Roots
Show me the good life — Blu & Exile
Big Homie Style – Jake One, ft. GMK, J Pinder and Spaceman
Help I’m alive — Metric
Mind sex remix — Canary Sing
Rabbit heart (the Lionheart remix) — Florence and the Machine
Spitter — Rafael Casal
The giver — Sene

Hailing from the francophone Montreal city , Vlooper identifies himself and his art with the struggle/re-definition of Quebecois sovereignity, so don’t call a brother Canadian. When not grinding on the 40-hour a week hustle and or making dope music alongside comrades Kenlo and his stateside westcoast clique Homeless Royalty, Vlooper and his wife engage in community based projects such as running Ociel “ A sovereign teashop/refuge for artists of all disciplines”.

Vlooper’s  music sounds like a house party wafting of sweet tobacco full of head nodding, funky, sexy revolutionary cyborgs – full of love and posted up – sharing pastiche nodes of human joy through music.  Peep the mixtapes here.

http://www.divshare.com/download/9003327-978

http://www.divshare.com/download/8198578-5f9

Dang, this track is just off the motherfrickin chain!

Courtesy of okayplayer, this song, which was likely made in the early 2000s, was produced by Dilla while he was still alive.  Jay Electronica didn’t actually meet Dilla to work on this project, but it’s fire nonetheless.

Okayplayer, why isn’t this shit out yet?  This teaser video came out almost three months ago already!  Y’all are killing me!  I guess I have to settle for this live version for now.  Listen to and/or download the full live set here.