Clever Austin – Drummer/producer for the Australian band Hiatus Kaiyote drops a 40 min beat mix for Wax Poetics entitled Hide-Away Headshell for free DL.
Sir Froderick – Consolidate LP (limited cassette release)
Josh Hey – Staycation Mix (Casette)
Dirty Tapes DT003 – Brrd & Wodoo Wolcan
Ohbliv and Fitz Ambro$e drop a split release on Cascade Records entitled Zen Vapors
Ahnnu out of Richmond, VA now residing in LA releases a new cassette World Music out on Leaving/Stones Throw records
Stainless Steele, MC/Producer in the genre of hip hop/psychedelic/electronica drops his latest release Nothing is Sacred, Everything is Sacred. The album includes 50% production from Stainless and the other half from a handful of experimental beat scene producers including; ProfLogik, Deflon, Iller the Abstract Giraffe, Pogflipper and Ohbliv with one vocal guest appearance from Maf Madix. You can also purchase a 7″ vinyl single that includes High Lander Grammar from the new album and three other rare underground hip hop cuts. Digital download of the album is included with purchase of the vinyl.
Via Pragmatic Theory Bandcamp –
After five months since the last Pragmatic Theory mc album, the Pragmatic Theory collective with addition to contributed tracks from acts such as The Doppelgangaz x Apathy, Sene x blu, & UK’s Melanin 9, Verbal Architecture is an international coalescence of hip hop poetry.
Featuring :
TASK1ne, Melanin 9 x Triple Darkness, Slim Pickens, The Doppelgangaz x Apathy, Jondis, Sene x Blu x Anthm x Britain Parker, Stainless Steele, Chromadadata, Supreme Sol, Chel Strong, Kal-L, Phlo Deli, W.O.L.M, Wood Ox, Defcee, Praverb the Wyse x Don Streat, Cayoz, The Benchwarmers Clique, Reflectionz, Corsairs (Cor Stidak x RaSun), Redi Brown, The Paramedics, Benjamin Earl Turner, Ibn Hasan x Glyph
DJ Harrison – ColorJazzMixtape
Matatabi – Levitation Vol.1 (underground hip hop mix)
Knxwledge – Ovrstnd B.Sde_
Ras G – All is Well (official video)
Rxn – Footnotes
Danny Watts – Messenger Series Vol.1
Knxwledge – WrapTaypes PRT 5.5 (bootleg)
Spaceghost – A Patient Mind (short documentary)
Sir Froderick – D’Void of Funk (mixtape for Wax Poetics and Insect Records). Sir Froderick’s D’Void of Funk mixtape. Composed of his favorite Funkadelic samples, the tape sees Froderick chopping up George and crew in his unconventional on-beat/off-beat style.
Mndsgn – Subtle Movements mix for B – Side records out of London.
Mndsgn /// “Breatharianism is a related concept, in which believers claim food and possibly water are not necessary, and that humans can be sustained solely by prana (the vital life force in Hinduism), or, according to some, by the energy in sunlight (according to Ayurveda, sunlight is one of the main sources of prana).”
Knxwledge – karma.loops.PRT.5
Christoph El’ Truento – someanimmolz “this is not fine art, this is me throwing paint at the wall.”
Iman Omari releases his latest album (VIBE)rations, a 90% self produced album that features production from Knxwledge on one track. The album is an experimental jazzy, hip hop and R&B album with Iman Omari laying floaty vocals and rhymes.
BONES, rap artist out of Los Angeles with a grimey nostalgic west coast style mixed with trill drops a streak of videos with the same feel. Download the new mixtape CREEP from BONES here.
Caliph8 producer from Manila, Philippines drops a lovely instrumental cassette for Sub Culture featuring live electronics, drums and sound manipulations.
Paxico Records out of NYC recently (6.8.13) held one of their many Paxico Powwows, a live audio and video broadcast that is held from a secret location around New York City. The lineup featured Mndsgn, Suzi Analogue, Swarvy, Noah B, Malik Abdul Rahmaan and more. Check out the GodsConnect video from that evening featuring the live set from Mndsgn and download the mp3 of his set here.
Hiatus Kaiyote – Tawk Tomahawk an amazing release from 2012 we just discovered. An Australian band that brings future beats, neo soul, avant garde and r&b together, extremely impressive stuff.
N.O.M.A.D. drops another lovely experimental jazz project D U N E
Black Jungle Squad (Jeremiah Jae & Tre) – Gesus
Zeroh – Bred: A Dedication
Noah B – Awakening Power (cassette)
Knxwledge releases Part 5 of his WrapTaypes series that features warm and dirty remixes of some well known and obscure verses from a variety of rapper.
Thundercat is set to release his new album Apocalypse on Brainfeeder records produced by Flying Lotus. Here is one of the first singles off the album. Stream his new album in its entirety on NPR here.
Flako, electronic producer from the UK remixes “Youthern” by Cloud Boat
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