Saturday, 5 December 2009

A Boom Bap Continuum Mix and Interview With DJ Kper & DJ 2Tall

Last week DJ Kper sent me a mix called A Boom Bap Continuum... ten years of beats from '99 to '09, which he and DJ 2Tall spent almost a year pulling together, with help from DJ Clockwork. This is one of those classic mixtapes that will go down in history - genre defining, thoughtful & insightful, and mixed to perfection. So many friends have sent this over telling me I'll love it (the playlist is a real dream come true for us beat-nerds) and they were right- so I had to shoot the guys some questions about what this Boom Bap Continuum means...



You put this impressive and definitive mix up a couple of weeks ago and it has been a big hit already - any producers you're kicking yourselves (or who have kicked you), for missing them out?

Kper
Even though we tried our best to include most of the producers we wanted to have on the mix, the thing about restrospective mixes like this is that you're always going to miss someone out - getting it 100% right for everyone is impossible. We had some funny moments in the last few months calling/texting each other every other day to check if producer X or Y was included in the other's mix (we worked on our mixes separately for most of the process). For example Joker was added at the last minute as we'd forgot him, and I somehow managed to slide in 15 seconds of one of his tracks on top of the mix which was already done. So yeah there's a lot of people I guess you could say I'm kicking myself for missing but that's the way it goes! Top of the head we missed guys like Edan, Mr Chop, Just Blaze... there's a few! And no one's kicked us yet for missing them out no! I'd like to think they'd understand why people are missing :)

2Tall Yeah Edan for sure, maybe a few more from Vadim, Spinna, Alchemist, and Pete Rock from my end. Also I'd like to have had some more UK producers in retrospect, people like Evil Ed, Lewis Parker, Last Skeptik, Ghost, IQ, Mentat, Stereotype and some of the other more new school guys - the list is long on that front, it'd be a good time for someone to follow suit with something exclusively UK maybe?

It's interesting you feel boom bap is an aesthetic rather than a genre - if you had to describe that aesthetic what would it look like?

Kper Ah that's the can of worms right there! For me the description of boom bap as an aesthetic rather than a genre stems from the work I did last year on a series of articles centered around the idea of a 'Return of the Boom Bap' in hip hop productions, looking at people like Flying Lotus, edIT, Nosaj Thing, LuckyMe collective etc... When we were going over the text for the website last month I think I wrote, unintentionally, something to the effect that boom bap was a genre and Jim pulled me up and was like 'nah'. Which is where I consciously started to write, and refer to, boom bap as an aesthetic because that's what it really is to me, in my head.
I dont know what it would look like, I don't see it visually but one of the defining things of a boom bap aesthetic for me is the headnod, or the head snap in some cases, that automatically happens when you listen to certain productions. That to me is the physical embodiment of boom bap and why it's not a genre, but rather something which transcends genre if you will. Classic 80s/90s hip hop productions have that boom bap, that neck snap, and to me the new generation, the one we've traced in this mix, has that same element in their music. So Premo or Marley Marl or Pete Rock made boom bap with their influences (soul, funk, etc...) and now people like Flying Lotus or Hudson Mohawke make boom bap with their influences (80s, video games, etc...)
If we take one of the dictionary definitions of aesthetic (the noun) as 'A guiding principle in matters of artistic beauty and taste; artistic sensibility' then to me boom bap is a guiding principle for production and beats - if your beat has that boom bap in it, chances are people's head will nod without them thinking, their bodies will start moving, there's just something in the music. And I hope we manage to translate that to the listeners with the mix, as for me every track in there has that 'je ne sais quoi' which is the boom bap aesthetic for me.

2Tall For me its just a taste thing, a lot of modern hip-hop or rap music production is centred around a straight 16th feel - i.e. its syncopation is based on triplets - so it looks more like a jagged angular design in my mind. The 'boom bap asthetic' is more of a loose thing, it's swinging and its heavier with the kicks and snares, the format has more freedom - it's more chaotic. Something about the unquantized groove to me engages you on a different level, my whole love for the style which has been sadly termed 'wonky' is that it forces you to listen and feel it, it's not so obvious and throwaway (although already the 'beat scene' has a stylised feel perhaps) - let's be honest, Dilla pushed that to the table, Madlib followed suit and between those two guys the whole world has taken note and ran with the ball to where we are now in this 'post Dilla era'.
For me its just 'the funk!' - when I was working with Georgia Anne Muldrow and Dudley Perkins on 'Beautiful Mindz' back in 2007, we would constantly be evaluating what they termed the 'fonk' which apparenly paraphrases an African term for the same meaning, i.e. the groove. For them and myself I feel rhythm is part of our spirituality as people, and it should be explored. So for me the idea of a heavy humanized groove is more of a deeper design. As someone who has taken part in shamanic drum rituals and the like, I can definitely see similarities between some of the more complex earth-based spiritual rituals and the music of Flying Lotus for example. So to me 'wonky' has more meaning than that - its design is more colourful - this is why people seem to approximate some of the new styles with 'cosmic funk' or 'space music'. I should add that to me a straight 16th pattern does not really engage me on that same level, and to me seems to be why the more club based 'banger' format doesnt either.

The tracklist is heavily peppered with Madlib & J Dilla right up until 2006 where they both disappear, and the baton seems to pass over quite abruptly to names like Flying Lotus & Hudson Mohawke. Was the death of J Dilla in 2006 an intentional part of the narrative of your mix, or do you feel it reflected a natural watershed moment musically? 
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New Year 2009: Livin Proof, Pause, Eglo, PMOI

New Years is going to be good this year. Livin Proof have asked us to rock upstairs at Big Chill House so PMOI family Eric Lau, Hits, Juven, Alex Nut, Floating Points, Funkineven & Fatima will be providing you with the best music in LDN - £5 tickets if you're quick!! Click here for details...


Thursday, 3 December 2009

Paul White Sounds from the Skylight Part 2

The first half to this was just beyond dope, and whilst this is a bit more snippety and strange it's still very much worth a listen...



<a href="http://paulwhite.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-from-the-skylight-side-b">Alien Attack by Paul White</a>

Daru Jones - Spirit & Soul Hip Hop Sampler

Obligatory listening from Daru. This guy works damn hard, I have so much respect for him, and judging by the crazy list of features on here, so does everyone else in the industry. Cop this.



<a href="http://darujones.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-soul-hop-sampler-09">Phonte - PhontigalloTro by Daru Jones</a>

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Plays "Scrabble"

Art Don't Sleep & Mochilla seriously make me want to move to LA. Not in a jokey whimsical way either. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, The Miguel Atwood Ferguson Quintet, Aloe Blacc, Madlib, Coleman & B+. There's only one group of people in the world who could make that show happen.

On this exclusive video for The Sounds of VTech, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, teamed up with Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on viola, who wrote an arrangement specifically for them of the song “Scrabble”.  It is a song that influenced hip-hop producer J. Dilla.  Hypnotic rehearsed with Miguel that afternoon and the sold out and enthusiastic crowd of music lovers that packed their way into the Echoplex for this special show and were not disappointed at the magic they witnessed…. Exclusive music, top quality sound, stunning performance.


Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Shafiq Husayn - “Lil Girl” Video

Yeahhh, nice video but it features everyone in the world except the amazing Fatima who's singing the song! C'mon Son. Just so you don't walk past the girl on road, here's a photo of her taken at Broadcasting last month where she did an amazing job fronting IG Culture's Zen Badism.


*Photo by Simon Green

Shafiq Husayn ft Fatima "L'il Girl"

Lil' Girl from Plug Research on Vimeo.

Muhsinah "Always" (Video)

This video has to be an architect or Lego lovers wet dream. For more of the creators work check out Beeple.com. Refreshing and original, Muhsinah just goes from strength to strength.  Always is taken from The Oscillations: Triangle exclusively available on iTunes here.


Muhsinah // "Always" - The Oscillations:Triangle from Rock Slinger Incorporated on Vimeo.

Monday, 30 November 2009

Blur: No Distance Left To Run trailer


Blur will always be one of my favourite British bands, so you know where I'll be on January 19th when this hits cinemas...



Sometimes I wonder if they must get a bit bored with Song 2. I don't think I ever will. I'm very excited about seeing Blur back together and in their rightful places (not mashup trying to join in on stage with Hypnotic Brass Ensemble/Kanye West or writing food columns for the Guardian in pointlessly narrow scarves).

Still Obsessed With...Bat For Lashes.

I first fell in love with Bat For Lashes (or Natasha Khan) after the 2007 Mercury Music Prize because of this performance...



But it wasn't until Daniel came along from her second album Two Suns that I got a bit obsessive. I've seen this video, erm, too many times. I was thinking of posting the making of this video, but that often ruins the magic for me - and this is pure magic so I won't. I imagine you've seen it before but just in case there's one person who hasn't this post is completely justified.

Sunday, 29 November 2009

WE LOVE...VOL 7

This was such a joy to put together, there was loads of great stuff floating around this week, lots of exotic samples, soulful hooks, big horns and drums, classic boom bap, deep hypnotic rhythms and err, J*Davey. Sadly I'm not allowed to blog all of it but I hope you enjoy this selection. I love the Common track, so nice to hear music from him pre-midlife crisis, and Kev Browns' bell sounds are just beautiful. The Paul White tracks I've talked about - HUGE, and a few DJ friends have been jumping up and down requesting the DJ Kunto Marvin Gaye edit so the version on here is 320kbps. The Floating Points mix of Sebastien Tellier is predictably amazing, and the Soundspecies tune is also unsurprisingly brilliant (so needed right now, like summer in a bottle)... loving everything else on here too so just check it!

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Full tracklist 

Blitz the Ambassador - Breathe feat. Rob Murat
Common f/ John Legend prod.by Kanye West - Strange Fruit
J*DaVeY - Outta The Window
Kev Brown - What You Got (feat. Asheru, Grap Luva, & Hasaan Mackey)
Marvin Gaye - Calypso Blues (DJ Kunto edit)
Paul White - Ultra Violet
Paul White - Wait For Me
Res - Sunday Nite Res
Sebastien Tellier - L'amour Et La Violence (Floating Points Mix)
Soundspecies - Mas Del Bos
Strange Fruit Project - Home feat. Tre of Mojoe (prod. by Ninth Wonder)

Saturday, 28 November 2009

Matthew Herbert Big Band ft. Eska at the Barbican




To think that I almost missed this gig. For those of you with little time, I will spare any suspense you might have by getting right to the point. What I am about to write is not a review, it is a celebration. The British Council invited the Matthew Herbert Big Band and Eska to mark its 75th anniversary; and what these artists produced one late October evening must surely have been as magnificent as anything that had gone before.

To think that I almost missed this gig. It had been a slow, humid start to the working week, the day's only redemption being that it would soon be over. A ticket became available only hours before the event, and - mired in that familiar Monday misery - I initially turned it down, having a writing deadline awaiting me at home. But then I saw my folly. This was Matthew Herbert we were talking about. The man who'd produced Roisin Murphy's first album. Who'd produced for Björk (who in my creative affections I hold second only to Radiohead). So off to the Barbican I went.

The night was a sell-out; the first half featured three acts, the highlight tune being, on reflection, a collaboration between The Guillemots and the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Their first two tunes didn't hit the mark for me, the first being a touch twee, but the final one was the kind of folk you'd hear in the closing credits for Pan's Labyrinth. (Which is goooood.)

So. The Matthew Herbert Big Band. Let me run the numbers for you. One drummer, one double bassist, four trumpets, four trombones, five saxophones. Monstrous. This was not a horn section, it was a foghorn section. That brass would have had Fela skanking in his grave. And then there was the small matter of a 78-piece choir, drawn from Goldsmiths art college and a range of budding bands. Matthew Herbert stood centre left, immaculate in tails, crouching every now and then over a sampling machine; and before them all stood Eska. I have been marvelling at her vocal chords for a decade, and have watched her sing backing vocals for artists infinitely less talented, but more marketable (whatever that means). Now she was front and centre. She didn't just own it, she was imperial.



She swaggered out there in black with a twist of gold; Matthew Herbert gave the cue to his cohort; and they began. But where I can I begin with a performance like this? The opening horns on "The Story" were like those you'd hear accompanying a victorious general on his return to Rome; then Eska's voice rolled in over them, a tide washing onto God's beach. "Battery", an ode to the inhumanity of Guantanamo, saw the entire choir and Eska singing through meshed hoods. Meanwhile, Matthew Herbert's sampling was a thing of infinite wonder. In the same week that Jan Moir had seemingly called out Stephen Gately's sexuality as the reason for his untimely death, Herbert opened one tune by asking each member of his ensemble to tear a copy of the Daily Mail to shreds, taking a recording of the resultant sound. Then, as his musicians playfully showered each other with this paper's entrails, Herbert - in an inspired act of recycling - turned his recording into dubstep, turning a middle-class missive to an urban anthem. Yet the clear highlight of this gig - which was by turns joyful and mournful, but always passionately political - was "One Life". Herbert told the story of how the NHS had tenderly brought his prematurely-born son to health, whilst at the same time his Government was complicit in the deaths of thousands of Iraq. He laid down the soundtrack of a life support machine, each soft beep representing the death of 100 Iraqis, over which his choir and orchestra layered six minutes of soaring, sorrowful harmonies. "One Life is...One Life is..." came their final refrain, with a resonance that could make the soul burst at the seams. This show was monumental; there was no act that could have followed it, save the last Tube ride home. And this review can only be ended by quoting, with vigorous approval, the cover of "There's Me and There's You", the Big Band's album: "We...believe that music can still be a political force of note and not just the soundtrack to over-consumption". Hear, hear, hear.

Tinashé

This is why I blog.



Tinashé is the best thing since sliced bread in my book right now. Originally from Zimbabwe, lately of Hackney, soon the world. I'm totally in love with his voice. You can see him live on Thursday 3rd December at the Lock Tavern (Young and Lost Club) for free...





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Friday, 27 November 2009

Paul White Sounds from the Skylight Part 1

This doesn't need a review - "Brilliant" will do.

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<a href="http://paulwhite.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-from-the-skylight-side-a">Intro by Paul White</a>

The facts as we have them...

'Sounds From The Skylight' contains 19 weird and wonderful beat constructions fresh from Paul White's South London attic studio, known as 'The Skylight'. It's a free download available until Christmas. You can also buy it as a 12".

This is the first half of Sounds from the Skylight, the second half will be available next week.

If Wait for Me and Ultra Violet don't make you completely lose it you need help.

His next album 'Paul White & The Purple Brain' is finished and set for Spring 2010. It will be co-released by One-Handed Music and Stones Throw's sister label Now-Again.

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Skye "I Believe"






I Love swiping links from Twitter. This one came from the lovely @SOUL_Magazine. I come from Brighton on the South East coast of England, where to this day every cafe and shop you walk in to will definitely be playing Morcheeba (of which Skye Edwards was the lead singer), Bonobo and Zero 7 albums from 10 years ago (probably Cinematic Orchestra and Air as well) every. single. day. Nice then to hear some new music from Skye... taken from her  second solo album Keeping Secrets, is I Believe 

SADE. SOLDIER OF LOVE. FEB 8TH 2010. EPIC.


Wednesday, 25 November 2009

PMOI Recommends...

Click flyers for Facbook info... I like Autumn, loads of good events. More next week.

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Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Blitz The Ambassador

It seems Ghana is getting 'nuff love on the blog today. Just spied the trailer for the new Blitz The Ambassador live @ MTVu session at 2DBZ, looks like it's going to be dope. I posted a video of the one of his (fast becoming legendary) live shows directly on Facebook & Twitter a couple of days ago, which got hundreds of hits so I figured you lot must be fans - as am I of anyone who has a great band and also has Hypnotic Brass Ensemble on their album.


Blitz the Ambassador LIVE Sessions from MVMT on Vimeo.

Blitz's new album "Goodbye Stereotype" comes out in the UK this Friday, and this is my jam.

   Bliz The Ambassador "Something to Believe"   by  ameliaideh

Loving this one too...

Calypso Blues - Marvin Gaye (DJ KUNTO funky edit)


Kunto Ofori aka DJ Kunto is a Ghanaian DJ based in South London. Not only is she a great DJ, she is an amazingly accomplished lady with a Masters in forestry, cooks the most awesome jollof rice, and is actively working with her family's charitable foundation which provides help for orphans in Ghana. She's also the only DJ I know who has long nails.

In the past months, she's been coming through with some interesting edits which are mainly afro/funky based.

Here's one of those - an upbeat Afro house (sort of) edit of Marvin Gaye's Calypso Blues.



download here

Monday, 23 November 2009

Kiwi Steez


Some people might not associate New Zealand with a thriving music scene, yet this is just the case. When I've talked to people in NZL, I'm surprised at how much the people here appreciate/love/spend money on/prioritise music. Currently rocking the local music scene are Electric Wire Hustle, Isaac Aesili, Julien Dyne, Fat Freddy's Drop, Ladi6.... - all are Kiwi artists making amazing music.

I got to know a lot of this music thanks to Cian and Bobby from Conch Records - a great record shop in Ponsonby that is oldschool in the best of ways. The owners believe that a record shop should be a place to hang out so there's a cafe at the front and in Summer they open the back porch for some drinking and partying.

Now Bobby Mukai aka DJ Bobbito Brazuka (a Brazilian Japanese living in Auckland) who works there, has to be one of my favourite DJs ever. His selection is always on point which has made him busy with organising music for venues and events in and around the city. A strict vinylist (like many DJs here in fact - although Serato is a Kiwi company based in Auckland!!), he runs his Half the Size, Double the Flavour nights as well as being a resident at Auckland's good music night "The Turnaround". If Bobby's not at the record store or DJing, he's touring, playing football or doing radio shows at George FM next door, another Auckland institution.

Below is his latest mix in 2 parts: Ciudado Mundo Vol 2, pt1&2. The first draws mainly from his Brazilian/Latin background and the second from his Kiwi and Japanese side. Yes it's winter in the Northern Hemisphere but this will give you a taste of the summer to come, south of the equator.

MIX 1
1. VINICUS DE MORAIS &TOQUNIHO - CARTA AO TOM 74
2. WERTHER - LENDA
3. JORGE BEN & TOQUINHO - CAROLINA CAROL BELA
4. SONIA SANTOS - POEMA RITMICO DO MALANDRO
5. OS INCRIVEIS - UMTA ROSA PRA DITA
6. EDSON FREDERICO - BOBEIRA
7. SUPER SOM LORD - BR SAMBA
8. QUARTETO EM CY - SALVE O VERDE
9. CAETANO VELOSO - IRENE
10. RAUL SEIXAS - MOSCA NA SOPA
11. NOAH FEAT. BLU - JUST RELAX (DAN AIKIDO REMIX)
12. WAAJEED - JEEDO SUAVE
13. UNO MAS TRIO - NOVA DO BRASIL
14. GREENWOOD RHYTHM COALITION - SALSA VERDE
15. GRC VS LUZ MOB - TABACO Y RON
16. MOCAMBO - THE NEXT MESSAGE (KENNY DOPE)
17. JULIEN DYNE - LAYER FEAT MARA TK
18. OS MUTANTES - A MINHA MENINA
19. QUANTIC AND HIS COMBO BARBARO - UNDELIVERED LETTER

(don't panic! There's like a 15 sec silence before the music starts)
Bobbito Brazuka - Cidadao do Mundo - Volume 2 by Bobby Brazuka

MIX 2
1. WILD COOKIE - SERIOUS DRUG
2. JULIEN DYNE - FALLIN DOWN (DJ MITSU & THE BEATS REMIX INST )
3. JULIEN DYNE - FALLIN DOWN FEAT PARKS (DJ MITSU & THE BEATS REMIX)
4. DJ MITSU & THE BEATS - PROMISE IN LOVE FEAT JOSE JAMES
5. ISAAC AESILI - RED HORIZON FEAT. DEVA MAHAL
6. ALISTER JOHNSON - INVITATION (INST)
7. ALISTER JOHNSON - INVITATION
8. ELECTRIC WIRE HUSTLE - PERCEPTION
9. DJ VADIM - THRILL 103
10. WAVELENGTH - FUNK DREAMS
11. GECKO TURNER - MONOSABIO BLUES FEAT ESKA (PHILIP OWUSU REMIX)
12. SPINNERTY - TIME TO CUT FEAT MILES BONNY
13. ARETHA FRANKLIN - ONE STEP AHEAD (FEATURECAST RE-EDIT)
14. FRANK NITT - L.O.V.E. (INST)
15. PIMPS OF THE JOYTIME - BONITA (DJ VADIM REMIX)
16. J.BOOGIE'S DUBTRONIC SCIENCE - REVOLUTION FEAT LYRICS BORN & THE MAMAZ
17. DJ MITSU & THE BEATS - LOVE NOTE (INST)
18. TRICK TURNER - I BE BLOWIN' UP
19. DAN AIKIDO - SOULJAH STRIDE
20. DAN AIKIDO - FLASHING TEA LEAVES

1- Bobbito Brazuka - Cidadao do Mundo - Volume 2 - Disc 2 by Bobby Brazuka

Kathy Diamond is the don


Hello it's DJ TKO here!!!! Bringing you the best of whatever music I've been playing on my belt drives!

Here's one from Kathy Diamond - a cracking Sheffield lass who I used to date back in the 90s, just before she got famous. She's been championed by many including Mo'Funk, resident at Pacha Ibiza and DJ Barry Peters of Halifax Hospital Radio, also manager of Zany's nightclub in Skipton and Corfu.

Mostly produced by Maurice Fulton of MU, her 2007 debut album contains some proper gems. This track from the album "Miss Diamond to you" will set your heart racing, feet shuffling and send your consciousness out into the ether.
This is one of my favourite tracks and I'm sure it's one of your favourites too. What a cracker!



Kathy Diamond - Racing thru time
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Sunday, 22 November 2009

WE LOVE...VOL 6

You know the drill by now, We Love is a collection of the weeks' free downloads, a few exclusive and under the radar bits, and older gems, carefully sifted through for you. I'm particularly loving the Micachu refix, Muhsinah and Oddisee "That Day" is gorgeous, "WhateverUWant" remix is on repeat, and of course the old PMOI exclusive from Eska is beyond stunning. Enjoy!

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Tracklisting

Blackroc - Dollaz & Sense (f. Pharoahe Monch & RZA)
Consequence - WhateverUWant Rmx (Feat. Common, KiD CuDi, Big Sean, John Legend & Kanye West)
Eska - Walking On The Moon - The Police Rework
Fyfe Dangerfield - When You Walk In The Room
Micachu - Turn Me Well (Tommy Tempa Refix)
Muhsinah prod. by Oddisee - That Day
Res - For Who You Are
Strange Fruit Project - Day by Day feat. Supastition (prod. by S1)
Theophilus London - Humdrum Town
Timbaland - Crazy Girl (Feat. Justin Timberlake)

Saturday, 21 November 2009

Andrew Meza "Lucky Me £ and Pancakes Mixtape"

Food porn alert...

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Found the info about this via Twitter, then Lucky Me, then !NS with the tracklist, then a website with really hot pics of food - guess what I'm making tomorrow morning? Mmmmm. It doesn't quite make up for the customs debacle that lead to Andrew not being able to DJ at Pause last week (Note: even if you're not getting paid it apparently counts as working in the UK, and they will Google your ass my DJ & promoter friends!), but I'm sure we'll find a way to smuggle him in. As a terrorist might be easier than as a DJ.

Ludacris - MVP (Island Def Jam)
Cupp Cave - Quarth (Thin Consolation)
Ras G - Alter Destiny 09 (CDR)
Paul White - We Want It All (One Handed Music)
Beastie Boys - Super Disco Breakin' (aka Monster) (Instrumental) (Grand Royal)
J Dilla - Shouts (Alt) (Stones Throw)
QB Finest - Da Bridge 2001 (Columbia)
Jay-Z - D.O.A. (Chase & Status Remix) (CDR)
I.N.T. - Beat #020 (CDR)
Nadsroic & Hudson Mohawke - Step Back (Instrumental) (LuckyMe)
Juelz Santana - There It Go (The Whistle Song) (Instrumental) (Def Jam)
Samiyam - Beat #013 (CDR)
Devonwho - Holup (Klipmode)
DJ Cam - The L (Inflamable)
Snoop Dogg - Drop It Like It's Hot (Geffen)
JR & PH7 - Let's Move (feat. Skyzoo) (Clonious Remix) (CDR)
Guilty Simpson - Run (Instrumental) (Stones Throw)
Dibiase - Raw Original (CDR)
Black Milk & Fat Ray - Welcome To The District (Barak)
Break Reform - What Do You Do (Abstract Blue Recordings)

Baaba Maal "International" (Extended Version)

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Baaba Maal released his album "Television" <(iTunes link!) this year, after a hefty break, and "International" became one of the favourites at his live shows. The song has been reworked and extended with extra layers of horns (ah, the magic words!), strings and rhythms, giving it that live feel but recorded quality. Listen below.

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Wiley - Take That

Feeling this, and looking forward to hearing the remix with JME, Scratchy & Lethal Bizzle.

Friday, 20 November 2009

Shafiq Husayn EPK #6 with Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

En' A-Free-Ka by Shafiq Husayn has to have had the best promotion for an album in 2009.  The more I hear about the heart and soul and detail that went in to the making of it the more I notice it and enjoy listening to it. That is the best promotion there is - when the music sells itself. I'm waiting for RBMA to edit the footage from last night's Broadcasting event at Cargo, (where I shook hands with Mr Atwood Ferguson as we left), before writing my review. I'm hoping some genius rubbed off during the handshake and now I can become an incredible composer/arranger too.


Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka EPK VI from Plug Research on Vimeo.

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