Here’s the followup to Alvin Black III’s Legend of Arnold Palmer mix rom last summer. Artists include Jamiroquai, Tall black Guy, D’angelo and many more! Soul + HipHop, mostly indie, blended for a midsummers day. enjoy! Get the DL HERE
Arguably one of Hip Hop’s most clever emcees and recent Grammy nominated singer/songwriter Phonte is releasing his new album September 27, 2011. I’m sure the
Multi-Instrumentalist/Producer Zo! has been crafting his brand of #jazzysoulful instrumentation for the past decade… If you’re not in the know or have no clue who Zo! is, who The Foreign Exchange are (or why he has the exclamation mark after his name) and why in the last four years their brand has become essential to the independent music scene, I’d like to be the first to welcome back to the world on the other side of the rock you’ve been residing under these last few years.
The collective known as Idle Warship (Talib Kweli, Res and Graph Nobel) are not defunct, as some may have thought.
Continuing with the mixes for the Summer theme, here are two more that are staples for me and possibly for you as well.
Not all mixtapes are created equal and these days, for one to be considered a success, the artist has to be able to keep the audience just as captive with random tracks as they would like to hopefully do with a full length album. Healthy doses of wit and personality have been known to go far in this respect as well.
Re:ill from groundbreaking Tokyo beatmakers Super Smoky Soul created a mix of 100% Japanese material that you don’t know and you should hear. Japan’s had
I was excited, first and foremost. just to hear that Boho Fau & Elevated Soul were working on a sophomore album and thoroughly enjoyed the lead
GW is a drummer/composer from Leeds, UK and his album Absolute is one of the most thoughtful joints Ive heard in a while. GW is member of a prog/metal/jazz band, so he says working on Absolute, an electronic based EP has allowed him to explore a completely different approach to creating. You can peep it HERE and it will officially be released August 8th on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, Spotify as well as being available to pre order from bandcamp
This documentary now showing in the film festival circuit, follows German DJ and record collector Frank Gossner through the West African countries of Benin and Ghana
Social Studies is a dope album that was released at the beginning of this year that has recently been fitted with some nice remixes! At
Wow. Never thought I’d be saying this but the future generation has hope AFTER ALL but it’s going to be a little ODD. While this
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