April 2009 Archives
If you have enough money in these hard times after buying Rick Ross this week and hopefully NOT buying Asher Roth, the sophomore album The Art Of Link from Detroit's Big Tone seen its release via TRES Records (home of Ta'raach, Blu).
PURCHASE: iTunes | Fat Beats (CD)
LISTEN: Big Tone - "The Look"
The homie DJ 3000 (from Motech Records) recently sent over a new mix he did called Diligence full of fly Detroit techno joints and some unreleased jawns from the man himself too.
LISTEN: DJ 3000 - "Diligence" | DOWNLOAD
Tracklisting:
1. DJ Compufunk - Orbit - Motech
2. Los Hermanos - Dazed and Deceived - Submerge
3. DJ P-Ben - Believer (DJ 3000 Motech Mix) - PBR Music *unreleased
4. Perception - Collagen Ear - Submerge
5. Subotika - Dais - Motech
6. Los Hermanos - Festival Parade - Submerge
7. DJ 3000 - Waiting In The Dark - Motech *unreleased
8. UR - Baghdad Express - UR
9. Nomadico - Tazumal - UR
10. UR - Technology Gap - UR
11. DJ Compufunk - Ninja Clone - Motech
12. DJ 3000 - Darjeeling Sun (Gary Martin remix) - Motech *unreleased
13. Los Hermanos - Dark Samba #7 - Submerge
14. Subotika - Moving On - Motech
15. Mark Flash - Minha Mocambo - UR
16. DJ 3000 - Coat Of Arms (Alexander Robotnick remix) - Motech *unreleased
17. DJ 3000 - The Highlanders - Motech *unreleased
18. DJ Dex - Kawak - Los Hermanos
19. DJ Bone - Thursday Night - Subject Detroit
LINKS: DJ 3000 MYSPACE | MOTECH RECORDS
Recently released via Capitol Records is the Nat King Cole remix album titled Re:Generations which features the likes of The Roots, TV On The Radio, Cee-Lo Green, Nas, Cut Chemist, will.i.am, Natalie Cole, and Bebel Gilberto, among others, paired up with the legend. Among the selections is the Amp Fiddler produced "Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere". Enjoy a clip of the song below.
LISTEN: Nat King Cole - “Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere” (produced by Amp Fiddler)
LINKS: AMP FIDDLER MYSPACE | RE:GENERATIONS INFO
Detroit area emcee Theologic is set to release his new album Innerworld on April 25th. The album is mostly self-produced but features production from Jae-ss, Che' Nazzarith, and IWight along with guest appearances from Skillful, 14KT, S.U.N., and Jewelz. Theologic describes the album: "The album invites the listener into a mystical place in existence. This place is the deeper part of the human spirit that contains rooms like Joy, Love, Pain, and Victory, all housed under one roof of 15 blazing tracks."
WATCH: Theologic - "Resurrection"
LISTEN: Theologic - "Little Brother"
LINK: THEOLOGIC MYSPACE
Here's the video for Octane's "Leave Me Alone" from Octane & Illites album The Forgotten...Chosen. The song is produced by 14KT of the LabTechs/AML and the video is directed by Gerard Victor Atillo.
LINKS: OCTANE MYSPACE | 14KT MYSPACE
New York/Detroit producer/drummer Daru along with recent Dwele/Slum Village collaborator AB just dropped their new project A.W.I.P. (A Work In Progress) for free download. The project features guest appearances from Elzhi, T3, and Black Milk, among other. Visit the link below to download and for more information on AB and Daru.
DOWNLOAD: AB & Daru A.W.I.P.
LINKS: AB MYSPACE | DARU MYSPACE
The good people at Jazzy Sport in Japan just laced me with DJ Mitsu The Beats' second album Word To The Wise, due out in May. The album include the track titled "Elzhi" featuring Elzhi (duh), along with guest appearances from Jose James, Kev Brown, Black Spade, and Mark de Clive Lowe, among others. We got a little sneak peek of the Elzhi track for you, so enjoy.
LISTEN: DJ Mitsu The Beats - "Elzhi" (featuring Elzhi)
LINKS: JAZZY SPORT OFFICIAL SITE | DJ MITSU THE BEATS MYSPACE
Right now, DJ Dez is killin' it out in Japan schooling them on Detroit. Coming soon through Kenny Dixon Jr.'s Mahogani Music label is the new album titled Andrés II from Andrés, Dez's dance music moniker. The album will be broken up into two vinyl releases. The CD version will include everything on those vinyls plus all the songs from the two previously released 12"s from last year "Moments In Time" and "About Time".
LISTEN: Andrés - "Let's Talk About"
As a bonus, here's the audio from when DJ Dez was on Deviation with Benji B on BBC 1xtra a few years back.
DOWNLOAD: Live On Deviation w/ Benji B on BBC Radio 1Xtra | PART 1 | PART 2
While the NCAA Final Four was in town, I played at yet another Blackbyrd Revue show at the Jazz Cafe in Detroit in the Music Hall with Allan Barnes & The Gorilla Funk Mob spinning Jazz records. We had a nice intimate crowd that night. The band sounded nice. There was this guy drunk as hell there celebrating his birthday, dancing all around the place singing along with every song. Hilarious. Below is audio of my first set from the nice. Enjoy.
DOWNLOAD: K-Fresh - Live At The Blackbyrd Revue @ The Jazz Cafe, Detroit - 04.03.2009
And here's my sets from the first Blackbyrd Revue last June at Alvin's.
DOWNLOAD: K-Fresh - Live From The Blackbyrd Revue: 06.07.2008 @ Alvin's | PART 1 | PART 2
Detroit emcee (and even comedian) SelfSays takes us on a hilarious trip in the woods of Michigan talking about the types of things that give him inspiration, and messing with nasty ass socks. The video is produced by Notion Tha Bartender. Be sure to download SelfSays' free album Something Out Of Nothing, featuring production from Feux, Knowledge, Devonwho, Dak, Jack High, Bullion, Beatmongers, and Samiyam.
DOWNLOAD: SelfSays - Something Out Of Nothing
LINKS: SELFSAYS OFFICIAL SITE | SELFSAYS MYSPACE
The former cool kid of our Detroit hip hop scene and now Detroit's ambassador via Los Angeles DJ House Shoes is set to release The King James Version, his tribute to the greatest to ever do it, the late geat legend J. Dilla. House Shoes takes us on a journey through the records that James Yancey used to craft the classics we all fell in love with. If you thought Dilla's beat were nothing special and easy to create, you'll second guess that idea and realize the genius of his musical process while listening to The King James Version. House Shoes has offered the first chapter of the mix for free download to give you a taste.
DOWNLOAD: House Shoes - "The King James Version: Chapter One: Verse One"
And here's thoughts from artists hat were close to Dilla regarding The King James Version:
T3 (Slum Village) - "This king james shit is nutz. no homo."
Amir -"Mad people always talk about how much they love music but my man houseshoes is THE only one I know that consistently holds it down! His knowledge and skill cannot be questioned...basically he is the MAN! I am just the man siitin' next to the MAN!"
Rhettmatic - "The King James Version is a must for all you hardcore Dilla fans or for Sample Heads. Shoes is the only person besides J.Rocc who can put something together like this.....listening to this will make your head crack! Don't sleep!"
J-Rocc - "Houseshoes seems to have it all....life isn't fair sometime. After listening to this you'll ask yourself how did Dilla do it. All Hail King James (both of em)"
Black Milk - "House Shoes just showed us how much of a genius dilla was even more with this cd and how crazy dillas record collection was im just now finding some of these samples...dilla was light years ahead of us..."
As being the flagship of the Dilla movement online for almost 8 years now, Rensoul.com is offering online ordering for The King James Version. Pay via Paypal at the links below or pay via money order at the address below. Orders will be shipped regular mail domestically and regular air mail internationally.
CD TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT
PURCHASE: iTunes
As a little Detroit bonus, here's a couple of my favorite House Shoes productions.
DOWNLOAD: Proof of D12 featuring Journalist 103 & Mu - "Broken"
DOWNLOAD: Marvwon - "Remember When"
LINKS: HOUSE SHOES MYSPACE | SHOES HOUSE PODCAST
Its that time again. Every Memorial Day weekend of this decade, Detroit hosts the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, now known as Movement. Taking place May 23-25 at Hart Plaza in Downtown Detroit, heavy hitters in all genres of electronic such as Afrika Bambaataa (pictured), Bad Boy Bill, Bassnectar, Derrick May, among others bang out the Motor City for the weekend. While straight up hip-hop has seem to be non-existent outside of Bambaataa, experimental hip-hop artists such as Flying Lotus, RJD2, and Z-Trip will hit the stage at Movement.
“Every year our goal is to build upon the success of the previous year by bringing the best available local, national and international talent to Detroit in order to create a weekend experience unlike any
other in the World,” said Jason Huvaere, president of Paxahau and organizers of the festival. “Our team spends a lot of time selecting artist and DJs that will appeal to electronic music enthusiasts. This year there will be a major Detroit presence at the festival as well as some performers that rarely set foot on stage in the United States.”
To open up festivities this year ravestyle, The Prodigy (of "Firestarter" and "Smack My Bitch Up" fame) will play at The Fillmore on Friday, May 22. Chuck Flask, Paxahau Resident DJ and Evan Evolution will be performing in the State Bar. The doors open at 7 p.m. Early bird tickets for this all ages show
are available starting at $20 by visiting www.livenation.com. VIP tickets are available.
An alphabetical listing of Movement 2009 Artists confirmed to date is
as follows:
Adam Beyer
Adultnapper
Afrika Bambaataa
Al Ester
Anthony Attalla
Anthony Rother (Live)
Audion (Live)
Bad Boy Bill
Bassnectar
Benga
Benny Benassi
Busy P
Buzz Goree
Carl Cox
Carl Craig
Chloe Harris
Chuck Gibson a.k.a. Perception (Live)
Clark Warner
Craig Gonzalez
Damian Lazarus
Delano Smith
Dennis Ferrer
Derrick May
DJ Deeon
DJ Godfather
DJ Omega
DJ Slugo
Drumcell (Live)
Ellen Allien
Exchange Bureau (Live)
Flying Lotus (Live)
Francois K
Frankie Vega
Guy Gerber (Live)
Heidi
Innervisions Live: a critical mass (Live)
Jay Denham
Kate Simko (Live)
Kero (Live)
Kevin Reynolds (Live)
Kevin Saunderson
Krazy Baldhead (Live)
Lee Curtiss
Liz Copeland
Loco Dice vs. Luciano
Los Hermanos (Live)
Luke Hess (Live)
Lusine
Marc "MK" Kinchen & Scotty Deep (Live)
Marco Carola
Mieka du Franx
Mike Clark
Mike Huckaby
Neil Landstrumm (Live)
Nic Fanciulli
Nikola Baytala
Norm Talley
Octave One (Live)
Osunlade
Rick Wade
RJD2
Ryan Elliott
Seoul vs Linder 2x4
Seth Troxler
Shaun Reeves
Starski & Clutch
Steve Bug
The Glitch Mob (Live)
The Sight Below
Tiefschwarz
Tiga
Wighnomy Bros
Will Web
Z-Trip
Weekend Passes for Movement 2009
Discount presale Movement 2009 weekend passes are available for purchase at www.Paxahau.com for $40. The weekend passes give electronic music fans access to the festival from 12 noon to 12 midnight on May 23, 24, and 25, 2009.
It's finally here. After years of asking this dude from the album is dropping, Finale's A Pipe Dream And A Promise is available today via Interdependent Media. Last Saturday, we had a DOPE album release party here in Detroit with me, DJ Sicari, and House Shoes spinning along with a gang of awesome performances. The buzz from the show and the album has been heavy. It was also an honor to be witness to the finishing of this album, so please go out and support some real Detroit hip hop.
PURCHASE: iTunes
LISTEN: Finale - "One Man Show" (prod. by Black Milk)
LISTEN: Finale - "One Man Show" (A Rival 8 Bit Remix) featuring Casual | DOWNLOAD
Finale is currently on the road supporting the album release. The following are the dates confirmed right now. I'll be out spinning at the Chicago dates on April 13th.
The Palestinian hip-hop crew Dam, Rebel Diaz, Invincible, Finale, DJ Oja
What: Homeland Hip Hop: A Benefit Show for the Indigenous Youth Delegation to Palestine
When: April 7, 2009, Doors open @ 8pm, Show begins @9pm
Where: Southpaw, 125 5th Ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn NY
How much: $12 in advance, $15 at the door
Finale & Invincible
What: A Pipe Dream and a Promise Listening Party
When: April 8, 2009 @ 9pm
Where: Homebase NYC Wednesdays
Finale, Marv Won, Sincere
Where: Mac's Bar, Lansing, MI
When: April 9, 2009 @ 9pm
Finale, Vandaylyzm, Black Spade, Gotta Be Karim & Rockwell Knuckles
When: April 10, 2009 @ 9pm
Where: The Gramaphone 4243 Manchester Avenue, Saint Louis, MO
Finale & Invincible
When: April 11, 2009 @ 3:30 pm
Where: Ohio University, Athens, OH
Finale, DJ Sean Doe, Prime, Thaione Davis and more
When: April 12th, 2009
Where: Dark Room, 2210 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL
Finale, Moe Dirdee and more
When: April 16, 2009 @ 9pm
Where: The Bullfrog - Redford, MI
Finale & Invincible
When: April 18, 2009
Where: TBA, Baltimore, MD
Finale & Invincible
When: April 21, 2009
Where: TBA, Washington, D.C
Zion I, Thaione Davis, Finale
What: Thaione Davis Album Release Party
When: May 7, 2009 @ 9pm
Where: Morseland, 1218 W. Morse Ave., Rogers Park Chicago, IL
Finale, Invincible, Hassaan Mackey, DJ Quarter Pound
When: April 22, 2009 @ 9pm
Where: Dubland Underground, 315 Alexander St, Rochester, NY 14607
LINKS: FINALE MYSPACE | IM RECORDS OFFICIAL SITE
Sorry for the lack of updates recently. DJ gigs here in Detroit started crackin' among other things. Well here we got another web exclusive track from Black Milk called "Mo Power". And I also included the previous web exclusive "Dreams" because, geez, I forgot to post it haha. Black Milk is currently touring Europe with Elzhi murdering each and every city!!
LISTEN: Black Milk - "Mo Power" | DOWNLOAD
LISTEN: Black Milk - "Dreams" | DOWNLOAD
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