March 2009 Archives
Ghostly International just released digitally the 5-song EP titled Vanitas from Australian producer Tim Koch under the alias of 10:32. The EP's opening track "Blue Little", that was originally included on the Ghostly Swim Compilation, lends to a more instrumental hip hop sound in comparison to Koch's more abstract, earthy electronic-based productions. Visit the links below for more information and audio clips.
The dude that is all the rage these days under his Mayer Hawthorne moniker, DJ Haircut, just dropped Shoot The Duck Vol. 2, a mix of classic disco roller-skating jams to hit the rink to.
DOWNLOAD: DJ Haircut - Shoot The Duck Vol. 2
TRACKLISTING:
01 La Famille “Dancer”
02 RB Hudmon “Searching For Your Love (Instrumental)”
03 Aaron Broomfield “I’m Gonna Miss Ya”
04 Dr. Togo “Be Free”
05 Garfield Fleming “Don’t Send Me Away”
06 Ago “You Make Me Do It”
07 Trilark “Check It Out”
08 Boeing “Dance On The Beat (Instrumental)”
09 Rainbow Team “Bite The Apple”
10 Firefly “I Just Wanna Be Your Lover”
11 Atlantis “Keep On Movin and Groovin”
12 K.I.D. “Fine Time Tonight”
13 Korja “My Mind 5’ (Instrumental)”
14 High Fashion “Next To You”
15 Freeeze “Can’t Keep My Love”
16 Bobby Broom “Find Yourself”
17 Blue Feather “Let’s Funk Tonight”
18 Rhyze “Having Fun”
19 Plush “Free and Easy”
20 Fantasy “You’re Too Late”
21 Carrie Lucas “Rockin For Your Love”
22 Finis Henderson “Skip To My Lou”
23 Cela “I’m In Love”
The 3-piece synth-pop group School Of Seven Bells (comprised of members Benjamin Curtis with sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza) recently released their latest single "Iamundernodisguise" via Ghostly International, the second from their album Alpinisms released late last year. The single, released digitally and on 7" vinyl, includes the b-side track "Trance Figure (Nobody Remix)", where the West Coast based produced gives the tune an abstract, dubby touch.
LISTEN: School Of Seven Bells - Chain | DOWNLOAD
School Of Seven Bells are currently rocking a bunch of showcase down at SXSW. Here's a listing of their shows:
3/18 Buffalo Billiards (KCRW Night Showcase) – Midnight
3/19 Mohawk (Rhapsody Daytime Party) – 2:10pm
3/20 Emo’s (Pitchfork/Windish Agency Party) – 3pm
3/20 Radio Room (Mojo presents Ghostly International/Full Time Hobby Showcase) – 10pm
3/21 Urban Outfitters – 5pm
Here's the video for "Fall Asleep", the first single from their Alpinisms album. Director Tony Halbrooks says, “The first thing that popped into our heads was the word ‘lush’,” about brainstorming about the making of this video.
For more information, and audio clips, hit up the links below.
LINKS: SVIIB GHOSTLY PAGE | SVIIB OFFICIAL SITE | SVIIB MYSPACE
Back in 2006, Public Media Group created a commemorative 24 x 36 poster as a tribute to the career of J. Dilla. They used over 3000 pictures, including everyone who has ever worked with Dilla to create this iconic image remembering him. It was limited to a 1000 pieces and sold out in days. Ma Dukes found a stack of the posters in the her basement so they have them available again, each one signed & numbered by Ma Dukes.
PURCHASE: Over A Billion Served Limited Edition J. Dilla Poster
Ghostly International recently launched a subsidiary site Audion.de, which will offer free downloads from Matthew Dear for his Audion dancefloor moniker. The first free download is for a track titled "I Am The Car".
DOWNLOAD: Audion - "I Am The Car"
The Czech Republic-based hip-hop webmagazine Cream.cz recently posted an interview with Buff1.
READ: BUFF1: I am the Buff1 of Detroit, the Buff1 of the world!
LINK: BUFF1 MYSPACE
Courtesy of the German-based Splash Mag, here's a video interview with Detroit's Frank-N-Dank.
Footage of DJ Dez and DJ Butter talking about how they met and about J. Dilla, Proof, and Eminem.
LINKS: DJ BUTTER MYSPACE | DJ DEZ MYSPACE
(source: press release) - By now most everyone is familiar with the story of musical legend J Dilla. The quiet, prolific producer collaborated with everyone from Eryka Badu to Common to Janet Jackson to Prince. Dilla was just beginning to capitalize on his cult status when he sadly passed at age 32 due to Lupus-related complications. Jay Stay Paid is a 25 track collection of unreleased Dilla beats mixed and arranged by Pete Rock. While mostly instrumental, "J$P" also offers a few guests vocals from artists that Dilla worked with or admired including Black Thought of The Roots, MF DOOM, and M.O.P.
Curtailing any notion of jumping on some sort of Dilla bangwagon, Jay Stay Paid was executive produced by Dilla's mother Maureen Yancey (aka Ma Dukes) along with the musical supervision of Dilla's only real musical idol, Pete Rock. "It wasn't rushed and it wasn't haphazard," explains Ms Yancey. "This album combines what he did in the beginning of his career, what he did in some of our early hospital stays, which was very deep, and some stuff pulled from old floppy disks & DATs. Its mind blowing...this is like the missing links to Dilla's legacy."
The format of the album plays like a radio show with Pete Rock as the program director. With regards to Pete's involvement, Ms. Yancey gets very excited, "Dilla wanted to pattern himself behind Pete. His dream was to become as close as possible to what Pete stood for. Pete meant everything to him. Dilla would have just been flabbergasted! " Pete's sentiments were the same toward Dilla, "Dude was amazing. He just kinda came outta nowhere and the more you heard his beats the better they got. He may not be here with us, but it's all good we're going to keep his music alive and well."
In the late 80s, Dilla founded the seminal rap group Slum Village and put Detroit hip-hop on the map, while the 90's saw him playing a major role in the production team The Ummah with Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad doing extensive work on Tribe Called Quest's last two albums.
Jay Stay Paid will be released on June 2nd on Nature Sounds.
Detroit's Motech Records has yet another release from Japan's DJ Compufunk, a two song digital single "Black Shadow" b/w "Ninja Clone" which is described as "soul fused with his trademark Japanese percussion and plucked instruments fitting perfectly with the Motech sound." Watch out for Compufunk's remix of DJ 3000 "Emotional Sequence" 12" along with new songs featured on the upcoming "Broken Research 2" compilation.
LISTEN: DJ Compufunk - Black Shadow
LISTEN: DJ Compufunk - Ninja Clone
LINKS: MOTECH RECORDS OFFICIAL SITE | DJ COMPUFUNK
Detroit producer D.L. Jones along with DJ 2nd Nature just did a remix of Ciara's "Love, Sex, Magic" giving it more of a club twist to it. Enjoy.
LISTEN: Ciara featuring Justin Timberlake - "Love, Sex, Magic (DJ 2nd Nature Remix)"
Here's a recent interview with Royce Da 5'9" courtesy of CultureVI.com in which he talks about the new album, Slaughterhouse, and working with DJ Premier.
More footage from the upcoming movie 7 Mile, a documentary on Detroit from DJ Butter as he takes you on a trip through his hood, Highland Park, MI along with Eminem, Proof, Bizarre cracking jokes on the mixtape veteran.
Here's the new Cymarshall Law track “Bullet Train” featuring Elzhi and Masia One taken from DJ Sarasa’s upcoming album out in April 2009, courtesy of Up On Thingz
DOWNLOAD: Cymarshall Law - Bullet Train feat.Elzhi & Masia One
Black Milk is featured alongside Big Pooh of Little Brother on the track "2 MC" from the forthcoming 21-track compilation titled Ms. One produced entirely by L.A. based soul singer & producer Georgia Anne Muldrow. The album, due to drop May 5th via E1/Koch Canada, also features Stacey Epps, Rickie BB, Dudley Perkins, and Jimetta Rose, amongst others.
LISTEN: Georgia Anne Muldrow feat. Black Milk & Big Pooh - "2 MC"
LINK: GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW
Exchanged Bureau Music just put together a compilation titled Assorted Good Vol. 1 highlighting their upcoming release schedule that they are debuting at the Winter Music Conference in Miami. The compilation includes tracks from Pirahnahead & Clara Hill, Exchange Bureau remixed by Daz-I-Kue, Midnite Jackers with a remix by Pat Nice, Octane and Andy Toth with Billy Love and others. All of the tracks are up right for preview on EXB'S blog.
LISTEN: Snowman Jack presents Magestik Legend - "Hey" (featuring Genevieve)
After all these years it looks like Kenny Dixon Jr. finally launched a web site for his Mahogani Music imprint at MahoganiMusic.com with a store to buy products such as shirts and vinyl. After the amazing vinyl release Det.Riot '67, Moodymann follows quickly up with another killer release with Anotha Black Sunday, both on sale on the web site.
Moodymann - "Desire"
Look for upcoming releases this year from Mahogani Music such as the Andres (DJ Dez) sophomore album.
This clip features their rendition of "Hoc N Pucky" ft. Kareem Riggins on the drums from Suite For Ma Dukes.
Detroit rappers Black Milk and eLZhi are embarking on a month-long, 14-venue tour across Europe later this month to promote Black Milk's latest solo album TRONIC, which was released in October. eLZhi, member of the Detroit rap group Slum Village, released his Black Milk produced solo album The Preface on Fat Beats Records in August. The dates are as followed:
Thurs-March 19 Mainz, GERMANY TBA
Fri-March 20 Manchester, UK Mint Lounge
Sat-March 21 London, UK Cargo
Tues-March 24 Heidelberg, GERMANY Karlstor
Wed-March 25 Berlin, GERMANY Cassiopeia
Thurs-March 26 Duisburg, GERMANY Hundermeister
Fri-March 27 Arnhem, NETHERLANDS Loxor Live
Sat-March 28 Paris, FRANCE Batofar
Tues-March 31 Bremen, GERMANY Zucker Club Delmenhorst
Wed-April 1 Copenhagen, SWITZERLAND Rust
Fri-April 3 Barcelona, SPAIN Rote Fabrik
Sat-April 4 Madrid, SPAIN ClubbersDay Fest Telefonica Arena
Wed-April 8 Basel, SWITZERLAND TBA
Thurs-April 9 Biel, SWITZERLAND Coupole
Fri-April 10 Zurich, SWITZERLAND TBA
Sat-April 11 Cologne, GERMANY Luxor
LINKS: BLACK MILK MYSPACE | ELZHI MYSPACE
Here is video footage of Danny Brown freestylin' at Fat Beats LA. Courtesy of Sweeney Kovar.
Courtesy of Sweeney Kovar.
Directed by Jay Edgar.
LINK: NAMETAG BLOG
(source: press release) - After innovating the new genre of "docu-music video" with the acclaimed Locusts film, Invincible applies the same treatment to her award-winning song, "People Not Places."
The People Not Places docu-music video will premier on the closing night of the Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival, Saturday, March 14, 8PM, screening alongside Slingshot Hip Hop.
Featuring Abeer, Suhell Nafar (DAM), and Shadia Mansour, People Not Places takes the listener on a "birthright" tour of Israel where the buried Palestinian significance of each location comes to light. Along the route the video exposes the process of historic and continued colonization as being even deeper than land seizure and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, but one that is invested in erasing the indigenous language, culture, and memory. Intertwined between verses are interviews from various perspectives exposing the the myth of a "Jewish birthright" to a land to which Palestinians are denied the Right of Return. These insightful voices break down the importance of Palestinian Right of Return, how it can be actualized, and how it connects to the resistance of displaced communities from Iraq to New Orleans.
INVINCIBLE TOUR DATES:
Mar 5, 2009 - Judson Memorial Church - NYC, New York
w/ Climbing PoeTree, Ganessa James, JODA!, and more.
Mar 6, 2009 - OneTaste - San Francisco, California
w/ DJ Emancipacion, Mahaliya Ayla O, Lubna Morrar, Maria Poblet
Mar 7, 2009 - Trocadero’s - Minneapolis, Minnesota
w/ ?uestlove feat. Black Thought, King Britt, Ursula Rucker
Mar 10, 2009 - Activism Right There (ART) Festival - Berkeley, California
w/ Zion I, K-Salaam, Bambu, and more
Mar 14, 2009 - SXSW Film Festival - Hideout - Austin, Texas
Locusts docu-music video feat. Invincible & Finale
Mar 14, 2009 - Ann Arbor Palestine Film Fest - Ann Arbor, Michigan
People Not Places docu-music video feat. Invincible, Abeer, Suhell Nafar, & Shadia Mansour. Screening alongside Slingshot Hip Hop.
Mar 19, 2009 - SXSW Film Festival - Paramount - Austin, Texas
Locusts docu-music video feat. Invincible & Finale
Mar 20, 2009 - SXSW Music Festival - Austin Convention Center - Austin, Texas
"Hip Hop In The Age Of Obama" panel discussion
Mar 21, 2009 - SXSW Music Festival - Back Alley Social - Austin, Texas
w/ Mr. Lif, Pigeon John, Buff1, Truth Universal, & more
Mar 28, 2009 - Muhlenberg College - Allentown, Pennsylvania
w/ ANOMOLIES
Apr 4, 2009 - Elements Gallery - Detroit, Michigan
w/ Finale - A Pipe Dream and a Promise release party
Apr 11, 2009 - Ohio University - Athens, Ohio w/ Finale
Apr 16, 2009 - Minneapolis, Minnesota
w/ Leo Tardin and Mr. Lif
Jul 9, 2009 - Hultsfred Festival - Hultsfred, Sweden
July 16-19, 2009 - Allied Media Conference - Detroit, Michigan
Aug 1, 2009 - Hip Hop Congress National Convention - Seattle, Washington
Aug 10, 2009 - Under The Volcano Festival of Art & Social Change - Vancouver, Canada
LINK: EMERGENCE MUSIC
Illa J, 2dopeboyz.com, Delicious Vinyl, and Audible Treats have joined forces and are proud to bring you the Illa J Remix Contest. After downloading the hook-included instrumentals of "R U Listening" and "Showtime" (found at the links below), contestants will have two weeks to rap their best verses based around the concept of Illa J’s hooks and submit their versions of the songs to be judged by Illa J and Delicious Vinyl. For information at the link below.
MORE INFO: Illa J Remix Contest @ 2DopeBoyz.com
LINKS: ILLA J MYSPACE
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