"Back 2 Basics" is featured on Configa's "Calm Before The Storm" mixtape, now available on iTunes.
Leave the bootleg vinyl pressings, mp3s and YouTube clips alone and get yourself a copy of this boxset, available here at Undergroundhiphop.com and Amazon.com
Audio: Madlib Visits Jazz Trumpeter Stanton Davis' Record Collection
By JR on 10:37 AM
Filed Under: Digging Documentaries , Jazz , Madlib , Stanton Davis And The Ghetto Mysticism Band
Stream and download the mix here: http://listn.to/djtotaleclipse/player
14KT – F What They Say -
Ohmega Watts – At The Oasis
Interlude -
Hazel – Eyes In -
Reflection Eternal – On My Way -
Madvillain – Eye feat. Stacy Epps -
Afta-1 – (hidden beat after Believe) -
Zebrahim – Zizzle -
The Randy Watson Experience –
Philip Michael Thompson -
fLako – Butcher You -
Common – Thelonius -
Yesterday’s New Quintet – That Girl -
Koen – 289 -
Dert Floyd – Untitled 25 -
Mike Slott – Home -
Tall Black Guy – Lone and Gone -
Hazel – (hidden beat after Fantastic) -
Abjo – Kalimba Song -
Jaisu – El Dot -
Dert – San Franangeles -
DJ Day – Close Your Eyes -
People Under The Stairs – Flex Off Instrumental -
Que D – Rock Box Instrumental -
Oddisee – Get In Touch Instrumental -
9th Wonder – Untitled -
Gagle – Return of the Three Men Instrumental -
Slakah The Beatchild – Something Forever -
Freddie Joachim – Waves -
Freddie Joachim – Hours -
Freddie Joachim – Untitled feat. Carlitta Durand -
Freddie Joachim – Untitled -
Freddie Joachim – Better Days -
Freddie Joachim – Talk -
Freddie Joachim – Make Love -
Freddie Joachim – Untitled -
Freddie Joachim – Slut Sample -
Freddie Joachim – The Days Revisited
This song is from the forthcoming PVD & John Robinson record (due out early 2012). Written, Produced, & Recorded by PVD & John Robinson. Horn Line written by Rich Polatchek.
Listen to the full song above and check out the full list of MC features here at Undergroundhiphop.com where the green vinyl pressing is now available.
DJBooth.net's 20/20 artist showcase features the reflective music of Montage One and Jake One on "Find One", a song which focuses on memories of the past to find the most ideal position in life towards the future. This song hits with soulful creativity in the vein of tracks like "Hangin' Out" by Main Source and "Stunts, Blunts & Hip Hop" by Diamond. These are the thoughts of an adult who is aware of the responsibilities that lie ahead, laying his thoughts and concerns on track rather than trying to escape from them.
Lewis Parker - "Great Adventures" feat. Planet Asia, EastKoast and Tah-Born
By JR on 11:24 AM
Filed Under: EastKoast , Hip Hop , Lewis Parker , Planet Asia , Tah-Born
"Short lived funk band from Lurgan.
P-P as they became known where inspired musically by deep funk styling of George Clinton's 'Funkadelic', 'The Gap band' and 'Prince' and lyrically by the political middle ground of the Northern Irish 'Alliance' party. They came to prominence when they recorded an election song for the Alliance party during the run up to the the 1986 local elections entitled 'Roll'in with Alderdice'. The song landed at number 37 in the local charts. In search of a larger crossover audience the band released the soft funk synth ballad 'I gotta thing for yo thing' but the song failed to chart. During the recording of their debut album BOOTYBIB in 1986 tensions amongst the band members surfaced when vocalist Neil Jones attempted to introduce the use of a Vocoder into the sessions prompting the other members to quit shortly after session. Jones was noted for taking on a number of unusual persona during the bands brief history including 'Mr Shuggles', 'creamblowsausageskin' and 'Master Frotingler'. The Group where also well known for their extravagant stage costumes and once took to the stage in massive nappies,oversized flip-flops and ornate cardboard mummer masks."
It's not just the sound of Focus' music, but the passion with which he and Torae, Nikki Grier & Ill Camille do their thing over his track that makes it good to the ear and soul.
The virtuoso band known as BADBADNOTGOOD take their experimental approach to Hip Hop influenced Jazz further still on "Doom Medley", a free download which features their interpolations of MF DOOM's music. Fans of the metal-faced MC are in for an ear-opening experience as this band expands upon songs like “Supervillian Theme”, “Fazers”, “Vomitspit” and more with drum-heavy grooves and lots of improvisation.
01 Nu World pt.2 f. Nutso & Soul Khan
02 Nu World (iStandard Remix) (prod. Cimer Amor)
03 Everyday In The Street (Can You Dig It Remix) (prod. Dukes Go Up)
04 Everyday In The Street f. Rah Digga & Tame One) (prod. !llmind)
05 2 The Death (M-Phazes Remix) f. Mela Machinko
Absorb these futuristic sounds of Jazz by a collective of talent led by Nicolay of The Foreign Exchange. The opening track "Shibuya Station" really is an adrenaline booster with an upbeat rhythm and amazing drumming skills throughout. From their Nic and the band continue to take you on a musical journey of fine contemporary Jazz with the variety of mellow moods of each composition. Here is a description of the project by FE Music:
“+FE Music proudly presents the “Shibuya Session EP”, a collaboration between Nicolay and the Raleigh-based exploratory jazz trio The Hot At Nights, led by 8-string guitar virtuoso (and The Foreign Exchange guitarist) Chris Boerner with Matt Douglas on sax/woodwinds and Nick Baglio on drums. The EP was recorded at Sound Pure Studios in Durham NC and features new interpretations and arrangements of eight instrumental compositions from Nicolay’s 2009 album “City Lights Vol. 2: Shibuya”. ”
Tracklist:
Shibuya Station
Rain In Ueno Park
Satellite
Meiji Shrine
Inner Garden
Crossing
Bullet Train
Departure
See: Heavy D & The Boyz 1987 Spin Magazine Article For "Mr. Big Stuff"
By JR on 10:49 AM
Filed Under: Articles - Golden Era Hip Hop , Heavy D , The Golden Era
Here is a review of Tall Black Guy's 7" project:
Listen to snippets and purchase "Water No Enemy" 7" here at CrossTalk and Turntable Lab.
Neco Redd Feat Miss Nissa and Nation of Groverton Finch - "Xanadu"
By JR on 7:16 PM
Filed Under: Miss Nissa and Nation of Groverton Finch , Necro Redd , RandB
Tracin' Tracy provide energetic grooves to keep you moving with excellence in 70's Jazz/Funk fusion revival. Their approach is based on creating a musical vibe reminiscent of "a smokey club where people were groovin' and movin' 'till the sun came up", devoid of any programming, strictly live energy and funky instrumentation. Grant Green fans will be happy to hear the band's homage to him on "Green Groove #2", a groovy Hammond/guitar-based tune which flows in the spirit of Richard Groove Holmes, Grant Green and Boogaloo Joe Jones.
released 01 August 2011
Jasper Kuper - guitar, composer
Alexander Hulshof - keys
Sander Koole - bass
Dennis Nederhof - drums
mixed an mastered by Marcel Gerardts (BestTrex Studio)
Here's a treat from The Roots' "Illadelph Halflife" sessions, courtesy of YouTube user anatomyspills. This is an alternate version of "No Alibi" which has a little more "live", spontaneous feel than the album version as if they were just recording the song as a demo to be further refined into song form later. This brings back great memories of my personal favorite Roots album, something about those songs capture a nostalgia and moments of life like none other in my opinion, especially Thought's visual lyrics on "No Alibi".
In moving forward to 2011, The Roots album entitled "undun" marks their first ever conceptual music project as a re-telling of Redford Stephens which illustrates "the intersection of free will and prescribed destiny as it plays out 'on the corner.
"At this point in our career we'd like for our work to have a unifying theme, and an experiential quality,î says "?uestlove". ìWe've been intentionally making our albums shorter in length so that they can be experienced as a continuous work. The music is band-oriented with an eye on the moody cinematic. As a DJ, I am the King of playlists, but I don't want our albums to feel like a playlist or a mixtape for that matter. We want to tell stories that work within the album format and we want the stories to be nuanced and useful to people. undun is the story of this kid who becomes criminal, but he wasn't born criminal. He's not the nouveau exotic primitive bug-eyed gunrunner like Tupac ís character Bishop in Juice.. he's actually thoughtful and is neither victim nor hero. Just some kid who begins to order his world in a way that makes the most sense to him at a given moment... At the end of the day... isn't that what we all do?"
"undun" is set for release on December 6th. Check out the tracklist for "undun" below:
1. Sleep
2. Make My
3. One Time
4. Kool On
5. The Jump
6. Stomp
7. Lighthouse
8. I Remember
9. Tip The Scale
10. Redford