Erykah Badu-The Healer bw Real Thang

label universal motown
style hip hop/soul/rnb/beat
release 2008



01 04:00 The Healer (Clean Version)
02 04:00 The Healer
03 03:58 Real Thang (Extended Play Main)
04 03:50 Real Thang (Acappella)
05 03:43 Real Thang (Remix by Rashad Ringo Smith / Tumblin Dice)
06 03:13 Real Thang (Remix By Green Lantern)

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Sotu The Traveller- Daydreams

label: appletree records
style hip hop/soul/jazz
release 2007

1. Sotu the Traveller feat. Gregg Green & Tasha- Daydreams
2. Sotu the Traveller feat. Gregg Green- Bridges And Raps
3. Sotu the Traveller feat. Gregg Green & Tasha- Global Corner Conversation
4. Sotu the Traveller feat. Maya Azucena- Flow
5. Sotu the Traveller feat. Hicoup- Let em know
6. Sotu the Traveller feat. J.Keys & Maya Azucena- Skyscraper

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Amp Fiddler - Basementality ep

label genuine
style soul/downtempo/deep house
release 2002

A1 Superficial (Original) (5:11)
A2 Superficial (Jan Mix) (5:10)
B1 You (4:07)
B2 Eye To Eye (4:04)

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Eric Lau - Presents Dudley And Friends

Fat City Recordings furthers its adventures into the world of ace new hip hop with this EP from Eric Lau, Dudley Perkins and friends. All tracks were produced by Eric Lau and recorded in London whilst Dudley was touring Europe earlier this year. Dudley is joined by U.K songstress Rahel Dessalegne and Stones Throw partner Georgia Anne Muldrow.

label fat city
style hip hop/beat/soul
release 2006


A1 Ill Invasion
A2 Lost Love
B1 Yet & Still
B2 Ill Invasion (Left Steppin') (Instrumental)

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Moog: golden age

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Parov Stelar- Coco release september

Uyama Hiroto - A Son Of The Sun

Multi-instrumentalist and veteran Nujabes collaborator, Uyama Hiroto finally steps out with his solo debut, A Son Of The Sun. The album's style is very reminiscent of Nujabes, filled with multi-layered piano, guitar, saxophone and keyboards, but still sets itself apart by increasing the jazz factor and keeping things mostly rap-free. The album blends the borders between live instrumentation and samples. Aside from the occasional vocal sample, it's often very difficult to tell whether a melody was taken from somewhere else or made from scratch - often it sounds more like you're listening to a live jazz solo over a hip-hop beat. Once again, like Nujabes, Uyama takes hip-hop production to a higher level, bringing actual musicianship and performance to his songs, rather than just repeated loops. The result is an amazing album that is unique and deeply relaxing... and further evidence that Hydeout really needs to release its material outside of Japan!

label hyde out recordings
style jazz hop/instrumental
release 2008


1.81summer
2.Climbed Mountain
3.One Dream
4.Nightwood
5.Waltz For Life Will Born
6.Ribbon In The Sea
7.Port51 (Interlude)
8.Carbon Rose
9.Vision Eyes (feat. Golden Boy)
10.Fly Love Song (feat. Pase Rock)
11.Last Transit (Interlude)
12.Stratus
13.Walk In The Sunset

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Marco Brambilla : The world

Civilization by Marco Brambilla from CRUSH on Vimeo.

Madlib-Shades of Blue

Shades of Blue: Madlib Invades Blue Note is a unique project that turns over the legacy of the esteemed Blue Note jazz label to one of hip-hop's most unique artists, Madlib, aka Otis Jackson, Jr.

Madlib's ability to absorb his influences and reinterpret them in new forms makes him the quintessential artist for a project of this conception. He is considered to be one of hip-hop's most inventive visionaries. Those who know the enigmatic artist confess he is a quiet personality, but what Madlib doesn't reveal in public, he expresses absolutely in the studio – as a very prolific rapper, producer and DJ. Working diligently on music at all hours of the day, he employs any number of MC and production guises.

Madlib first came to prominence as an MC in the hip-hop trio, Lootpack. That group's debut album in 1999, Soundpieces: Da Antidote, released on Madlib's home, Stones Throw Records, received much acclaim – by critics, who praised it as a surprising indie hip-hop triumph, and by artists such as D'Angelo and The Roots' Questlove, who hailed it as their favorite album of the year.

As an MC, Madlib's rhymes are smart, visual and oddly poetic. He sees the world as if he were in a perpetual state of psychedelia, and his crafty verses reflect that kaleidoscopic perspective. His production acumen reflects the same – which makes Madlib's scope as an artist unparalleled in hip-hop.

Madlib draws from jazz, funk, Brazilian, rock and any other genre whose rhythms and melodies enchant him. His work for his own projects (e.g., Lootpack, Quasimoto, Madlib Invazion), for other Stones Throw artists (e.g., Dudley Perkins, Wildchild), and other contemporaries (e.g., remixes for Bilal, Zero 7) all reflect his quirky, patchwork musical sensibility. Madlib seems to balance the essence of the music he samples with a very knowing sense of a hip-hop beat, often times making music that sounds simultaneously classic and contemporary. Combined with his own abilities to play many instruments, his body of work yields a rich tapestry of sound.

The key is indeed the balance, Madlib says. "Just trying to connect with the old heads and the young heads at once. But it's not thought out like that. I do the music I want to hear."

Sometimes, both the rhymes and beats combine to transcend a simple project, as with the Quasimoto album, The Unseen, released in 2000. As Madlib's alter-ego, Quasimoto is a fictional creature whose rhymes are unmistakably those of Madlib but they're delivered via a nasally, high-pitched, studio-tweaked flow. The beats are just as animated, thrusting soul-jazz, funk bits and psychedelic rock into a vibrant hip-hop fantasy world. It reveals Madlib as an unparalleled hip-hop imagineer.

Under the moniker Yesterday's New Quintet, Madlib unfurled new perspectives on a genre of music that is true to his heart: jazz. Madlib is the nephew of Jon Faddis, the respected jazz trumpeter who has played as a soloist and with Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Mingus. From a very young age, Madlib developed a sophisticated ear for music and jazz in particular. YNQ is his "modern" jazz project, comprised of five fictional players but really guided on all fronts by Madlib himself, using a sampler, drum machine and live instruments.

If Madlib seems prodigious in the studio, he is. Recently, he released Blunted in the Bomb Shelter, a DJ-ed mix-CD of reggae jams from the vast Trojan Records catalog. Upcoming projects include, the debut album from Wildchild, which Madlib co-produced; the soon to be legendary Dudley Perkins album, which Madlib produced; Jaylib, a collaboration project with hip-hop producer Jay Dee; and Mad Villain, an already acclaimed collaboration with MF Doom, an MC and producer perhaps as enigmatic as Madlib.

label blue note
style jazz/beat/hip hop/
release 2003


1 Madlib Introduction (0:33)
2 Madlib Slim's Return (3:56)
3 Madlib Distant Land (3:59)
4 Madlib Mystic Bounce (3:56)
5 Morgan Adams Quartet Plus Two Stormy (3:42)
6 Madlib Blue Note Interlude (0:42)
7 Madlib Please Set Me At Ease (5:03)
8 Morgan Adams Quartet Plus Two Funky Blue Note (3:08)
9 Madlib Alfred Lion Interlude (0:45)
10 Madlib Stepping Into Tomorrow (7:37)
11 Madlib Andrew Hill Break (1:07)
12 Madlib Montara (5:52)
13 Sound Directions Song For My Father (5:46)
14 Yesterdays New Quintet Footprints (4:58)
15 Joe McDuphrey Experience Peace/Dolphin Dance (5:39)
16 Madlib Outro (0:15)

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world music

James Brown Regrooved

Goodgroove Records background...

Originally a prolific club night deep in the south west of England, Goodgroove was known for serving up a unique mash up of disco, funk and breaks. As the popularity of the Goodgroove sound grew, starting record label was a natural evolution because the music played in the club was highly sought after, but not easily available for DJ's to buy. The first EP to be released on Goodgroove 'The Regrooved Series 1' is a collection of the best tracks straight from the original club night which proved to be even more popular than anticipated, and so this successful theme has expanded into the Goodgroove label releasing the best tracks from funky club nights around the world. Fans and followers of the label include; Norman Jay, Andy Smith, Freddie Fresh, Daddy G (Massive Attack), DJ Yoda, Craig Charles, Boca 45, A Skillz. Why all the support? Well, once a DJ buys a Goodgroove record, it will be in that DJ's record bag for every gig - because every cut is a straight up floor filler.

So all you have to do is burn up those dancefloors worldwide and tell the people where the music comes from.

Visit www.myspace.com/goodgrooverecords for updates and new releases.

label
style funk/re-edit/disco
release 2009

James Brown tracks Regrooved are..

Super Bad - Regrooved by The Sly Players

Get Up Off That Thing - Regrooved by Featurecast

Can't Take It With You - Regrooved by The Breakbeat Junkie

Woman - Regrooved by Fuzzbox INC

It's A New Day - Regrooved by Slynk

It's A Man's Man's Man's World - Regrooved by Parker

Mind Power - Regrooved by Basement Freaks

My Thang - Regrooved by DJP

Sunny - Regrooved by Featurecast

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Vinyl release shedule...

GG16 - Artist Series 8 - The Sly Players EP - OUT NOW

GG17 - Artist Series 9 - Parker EP - approx. release - July 09

GG18 - Regrooved Series 9

GG19 - Artist Series 10 - The Breakbeat Junkie & DJP EP

GG20 - Artist Series 11 - Featurecast EP

Guilty SImpson - Man's World

Some of you might have heard this killer tune on the Stones Throw podcast a few weeks back, and now it's finally available on wax. Produced by the late J Dilla who to some will be remembered as one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time this samples James Brown's classic track and has Stones Throw's Guilty Simpson drop some verses over the top to create one of the most memorable hip hop 12"s I've heard on the label in the last few years. A killer tune that's sure to get some serious rotation - this is one you won't lose sight of...
label stones throw
style hip hop/beat/re-edits
release 2007

01. Man's World (Street)
02. Man's World (Radio)
03. Man's World (Instrumental Produced by J. Dilla)

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Guilty Simpsons- Stress

label stones throw
style hip hop/beat
release 2009

01 Stress
02 Stress (Instrumental)

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Nosaj Thing- Unreleased remix nuggets

label unreleased
style glitch hop
release 2009

01-daedelus- its madness
02-health - tabloid scores
03-lazer sword-igetmoney
04-nalepa flatlands
05-plastic - little

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Bullion- Young Heartache

Wonderfully well-made psych-soul productions from Bullion, combining chopped-up digitised hip hop with an ear for warped pop narratives. The EP's title track leads the way with disorientatingly high levels of compression and sliced-up, pitch-scrambled samples. For all its eccentricities the production retains a solid song-like focus, maintaining a heavy duty beat in the process. Another EP highlight is the gauzy, altered-state disco of 'Time For Us All To Love', which has a magical Boards Of Canada-visit-Studio 54 feel. Highly recommended

label one handed music
style beat/wonky/psych/hip hop
release 2009

01 - Young Heartache
02 - Are You The One
03 - Time For Us All To Love
04 - Long Promised

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