J Todd is another producer from the Frite Nite camp (home to B. Bravo). He has a wicked way of making synths sound downright sexy, and when he meshes them with his funky, glitchy, satisfying beats, he creates a sound that hits all the right spots.
“Luxxxurious”, taken from his XOXO album, is a prime example [...]

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Thanks to DJ Rahdu at BamaLoveSoul for this great podcast. Check out the tracklisting below and grab the download here
1. Lootpack – Crate Diggin’
2. Rapper Big Pooh – Rear View Mirror
3. Keelay & Zaire; Tunji – Addicts for Real
4. OlivierDaySoul – Brain
5. OlivierDaySoul – Breathe
6. Choklate – To Whom It May Concern
7. Q-Tip – We [...]

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Here’s a soulful sampler courtesy of souldiscoveries.wordpress.com. With a healthy mix of familiar and up and coming names, you might unearth some soulful gems.
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01.  Jeff Bradshaw – Guess You’ll Never Know
02.  Lizz Fields – Say The Word
03.  Monique De Bose – Captivity
04.  Myron – I Can’t Deny
05.  Abenaa – Rain
06.  Eric Roberson – [...]

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Quite Nyce & Raydar Ellis recently released an excellent indie hip-hop album Champs Vs. The League which you should definitely check out if you like Zion I, Kero One, Little Brother and other soulful hip-hop acts. Here’s another track for your listening pleasure, “The Spirit”.

According to Raydar Ellis “The Spirit” is “a song about having [...]

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Thanks to the lovely EMusic I recently grabbed Lisa Shaw’s brand new album “Free” and I’m pretty much in love with it. It’s full of the soulful downtempo-y, housey goodness you would expect. Lisa Shaw does this better than anyone else so grab this album for a wonderful end-to-end listen.
She has just released a video [...]

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Producer/composer The Angel is doing a 1 1/2 hour guest DJ spot on Kristi Lomax’s “Restless Soul” show on KPFK this Monday, March 23rd, at 10:30pm.
You can listen live at:
http://www.kpfk.org/listen-live.html
The Angel will be playing some of the new material from her next album release, “Supa Crucial Downtempo Remixes & Rarities” which includes DJ Drez’s new [...]

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Two of hip-hop’s finest, and most under-exposed (in my opinion) collaborate on this track which has a real nice dusty jazz vibe. John Robinson is on the vocals and J Rawls taking care of production.This is taken from their album The 1960’s Jazz Revolution Again… which I believe is a Japan-only release. Do some homework [...]

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I do love me some Paul Pre. Here’s his latest selection of tastiness, this time in conjunction with YesYesYall.org and tRUEradio mhz. Savor the tracklist below and grab the download.Thanks Paul!
tracklist:
01. Dorian Concept – Fort Teen
02. Exile – Your Summer Song
03. Floating Points – For You
04. Slumgullion – Disko Bowler
05. Devon – Houston
06. 14KT – [...]

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So let me get you up to speed on this No Sense dude: he’s from the Netherlands and he makes dope instrumental tracks that are hip-hop based, but also kinda downtempo-y, melancholy at times, and very atmospheric. OK now you know as much about him as I do.
Oh yea, and he has a nice free [...]

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As I wait patiently for a new Little Dragon album, I’ll basically take what I can get in the meantime. Garth Trinidad just threw us this none-too-shabby bone – a badass remix of “After The Rain” by Floating Points. Floating Points has got dopeness a-plenty goin’ on for himself – http://www.myspace.com/floatingpoints
Listen to “After The Rain [...]

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