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The Ill List – spoken word DVD
WordGroove Studios Presents The ILL List Vol. 1 DVDSpoken word is rapidly growing into one of underground culture’s hottest scenes. Drawing on the self-affirming attitude and political energy of hip-hop culture; spoken word artists unleash their rhymes acapella. With nothing but their voice, cadence and stage presence they spit verses on everything from race, love,…
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Pete Rock "The Surviving Elements" (BBE)
Beatheads have probably already gobbled this up on vinyl, but for those who haven’t, it’s definitely worth your while to pick this up.So either this was a well-thought out marketing strategy, or Pete Rock’s throwaway beats are REALLY this good. The story goes that these are beats that were intended for the Soul Survivor II…
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Soulstress Sy Smith @ MobileUnderground
Soul singer Sy Smith has more than paid her dues in the industry. An accomplished singer/songwriter she has toured with Usher, Me’shell Ndegeocello, Eric Benét, Somthin’ For The People, Ginuwine, Brandy, Whitney Houston and Macy Gray. Her first solo album “Psykosoul”, which she also co-wrote and produced, dropped in spring 2000 on Hollywood Records. It…
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GB "Soundtrack for Sunrise" (Sound In Color)
This is one of the best end-to-end listens I’ve had in a while. As the title suggests, it’s an emotive and thoughtful album, steeped in soul, with a futuristic edge courtesy of a selection of varied broken and downtempo beats.Some highlights: “After All” is a soulful broken beat featuring the vocals of one Joy Jones,…
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JT Donaldson & Lance DeSardi "San Francisco Sessions Vol. 5" (Om Records)
Om’s excellent San Francisco Sessions series continues in style with a blinding double mix cd set from brothers in funk JT Donaldson and Lance DeSardi. These Dallas, Texas natives each lay down a bumpin’ set packed with glistening and chiseled dancefloor gems. Donaldson gets a little deeper and more soulful in places, dropping tracks such…
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High Contrast "High Society" (Breakbeat Science)
Lauded for his debut album, True Colours which was hailed as a raising of the bar for drum n’ bass, High Contrast has again created a stir with this follow-up. High Society sees him borrowing influences from the house world to create uplifting and soulful drum n’ bass like you’ve never heard before. At its…
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Ninja Tune Downloads
well looky here….was just checking out the excellent Ninja Tune site, listening to the brilliant-sounding Ammoncontact album One In An Infinity of Ways (hopefully we’ll have a review copy of that in our grubby mitts shortly and can tell you more about it), when I came upon a couple of MP3s:Amon Tobin “The Lighthouse” taken…
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Sebastien Tellier
I first heard about this guy on Gilles Peterson’s radio show – he’s been playing this song La Retournelle for a minute. Anyway, the folks over at Music For Robots recently posted it up for your listening pleasure. It’s a really great track, taken from the album Politics which I have not yet heard, and…
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One Be Lo "Sonogram"
Seems to be a fair bit of buzz about this cat One.Be.Lo at the moment. Previously known as One Man Army from the lauded Binary Star crew, his solo album s.o.n.o.g.r.a.m just dropped on Fat Beats….sounds like there’s some nice tracks on there from what i’ve heard. decide for yourself if its any good… http://www.subterraneousrecords.com/sonogram.html