DC and Baltimore representers, Eightsense x Anonamas combine to form 8ormas, a freshman duo who released their 1st album Warm Tones last month (March 2011). Described as “an eclectic groove of hip hop rhythms, and soulful under tones,” Warm Tones has something for everyone. Check it out and cop the album HERE
Finally, some new music from Havana! We’ve been talking about her sophomore album Entervention since 2009 and you can get your preorder HERE. Repeat Offenderis a sure headnodder that is available HERE as a free D/L. She has this to say about the promo single
It’s amazing how you can be in the mood for something and it falls directly into your lap! It’s so beautiful outside and the one thing
Madlib Medicine Show #9: Channel 85 presents Nittyville is a full-length hip-hop album featuring Detroit’s Frank Nitt. Nittyville is the most traditional of the Madlib Medicine Show series: one MC, one producer, and a rap record all about stunts, blunts and hip-hop.
As for “Channel 85,” it is far off most dials. This album’s concept TV station runs one show only: the comic-drama, reality-musical called Nittyville, featuring Frank, MED, Oh No, Madlib, and a supporting cast of extras. Download the single HERE
Here’s a project that I’m expecting to let me down; I love eLZHi as a spitter and as a Golden Era Hip Hop head illmatic is one of my favorites. eLZHi has some big shoes to fill with eLmatic and with the help has on this one (peep the trailer) he just may pull it off, but I’m skeptical. I’m gonna support though. I’ve always liked eLZHi
it takes some moxie to touch it and some serious talent to pull it off. Enter South Carolina’s Collette, who jumped on the scene in 2008 and has been keeping it thorough ever since. Her version is completely different than the original, uptempo and with a hip hop feel, but still somehow evokes the same feeling
Africa for Africa is in several ways a return to Femi’s roots. He recorded the album at Decca/Afrodisia, the same studio where he produced his
We turned you on to Thomas Berghaus AKA Shareholder Tom’s second album Havanna – Asmara, via Colonia HERE. If his second album was a “musical trip around the world” then his 3 track Wanna Dance EP is “straight for the dancefloor”. Ishaga, the final track on side B is “a lively track with flickering afro-inspired analog synthesizer-sounds and jazzy transverse flute” that reminds me of going to a “day party” where you can dance in the sun or just chill out and enjoy beverages w/friends. Enjoy!
Ebo acknowledges the influence of US jazz rockers Blood Sweat & Tears and – less obviously, perhaps – Deep Purple on this easy going mid-tempo piece, written a few years before it was recorded, when Osibisa and various ‘blaxploitation’ themes were hip. “I was trying to fuse rock and jazz together with highlife,” Ebo recalls. “This kind of music was ahead of its time – not very popular when we recorded it
Italian DJ and producer Deep88’s Italo82, with its elements of disco and early house, is three minutes or retro modern goodness. The track gets its name, Italo82, in honour of the vintage synthesizers, samplers and drum machines which were used to give the track the groovy sound that both Deep88 and The Huge love.
More treats from J-Live who’s been doing a great job of blessing us with songs this year. If you haven’t picked up the Undivided Attention
Chicago’s Vertual Vertigo have unleashed their Drink Tickets Remixed project and it has some really great reworks. It’s no surprise that they enlisted known Cognac connoisseur Suff Daddy to remix Can I Drink It? , which he completely freaks. Don’t stop there though, peep the other great remixes on this FREE release HERE
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