MustardSeed out of Canada drops a lovely remix of City and Colour’s track “Fragile Bird”. Video done by UK videographer Tom Hardy. The song is available for free download on the SoundCloud player. Both MustardSeed and Tom Hardy are members of The Midnight Kids Academy.
This is the fourth mixtape from Mix Master Mike that we’ve posted on Extra Lovely entitled “Rescue 916” originally released on cassette in 1996. The style in which Mix Master Mike delivers can be compared to the hip hop version of improvisational free jazz. His rapid fire blends transition into live scratch solos that keeps your mind and ear hearing and seeing something new almost every second. Check out our previous post from May 2011 which includes three other mixtapes from Mike for free download.
Download: Rescue 916_Side A
Download: Rescue 916_Side B
Thin Space is an all vinyl spiritual jazz mix by Stainless Steele consisting of mostly jazz from the late 60s and early 70s on the Impulse! record label. “Thin Places” are places where the spiritual and the natural world intersect. It is a place where it is possible to touch and be touched by God. “Thin Spaces” are the moments when we experience a deep sense of God’s presence in our everyday world. Download the mix here.
Tracklist:
1. Pharoah Sanders – Greeting to Saud
2. Alice Coltrane – Paramahansa Lake
3. Monk Hughes and the Outer Realm – Welldone
4. Flying Lotus – Mmmhmm
5. Pharoah Sanders – Healing Song
6. Michael White – John Coltrane was Here
7. Flying Lotus – Arkestry
8. Alice Coltrane – Blue Nile
9. Goodie Mob – Free (Instrumental)
10. Lonnie Liston Smith – Sais (Egypt)
11. Pharoah Sanders – Astral Traveling
12. Lonnie Liston Smith – Peaceful Ones
rMell a young MC/producer from the DMV/Virginia area drops a new cut entitled “Huffy Music” that features rapper Nando. The track is a free download via rMell’s soundcloud…
“I’ve been making beats for the better part of 4 years, but I’ve been musically involved since I was 9, so about 13 years now….There are a lot of influences in my life, but the biggest ones were my father’s music collection, my classical music background, The Roots (my favorite hip hop band, period), Dilla and Madlib, and jazz music in general. These days, though, cats like Dibia$e, Freddie Joachim and FlyLo are my biggest inspirations…Sankofa means “to return from whence you came”, but to me it also means to re-complete the cycle, the same cycle you’ve been completing since your soul has inhabited this existance; to basically go back to your roots again, renewed and evolved from the last time you progressed, to reflect and be one with yourself again, as you always have been…”
–AbJo
Chits is an electronic/hip hop beat producer originally from Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania who recently moved to LA last year. He’s released two projects since residing in LA, this is his most recent entitled “Young Battle”. Here’s what Young Chits had to say about it, “Yo, I’m dumb clueless. This is my music about young life. Thanks for your support.”
Dexter Fizz a young MC from Maryland drops a lovely 11 track album entirely produced by German producer Thallus and is mixed by DJ SYLO. Dexter Fizz is an artist on KC.93 the record label of The Midnight Kids Academy. Download “The Joy of Thinking Big” here.
Track 2: Magic Handclaps
Track 3: Two Cents
promotional video for “The Joy of Thinking Big”
Via Stones Throw –
Jonti is the newest artist on Stones Throw, with a 45 released today – Firework Spraying Moon – and his album Twirligig coming in October.
From the artist: “Sine N’ Moon is a collection of songs I made before i started to work on Twirligig. It starts with the first song i ever recorded called ’Saturday Night Songs’. While Gathering around a 4-track on a Saturday night doesn’t exactly paint the perfect adolescence out of a Skins script (Ukulele solo’s don’t help either) It does show the role and beautiful friendship I’ve had with music since i left South Africa. The Stones Throw Podcast #67 can be downloaded through iTunes here.
TRACK LIST
1. Saturday Night Songs
2. Red On Green Ft. Jonwayne
3. Confused Birds
4. Nagoya Train Station 3 am
5. Nightshift In Blue/Koi Moon interlude
6. By This Shore
7. Flesh Of Morning
8. Lost Machines
9. Young Wildebeest
10. Nagoya Interlude
11. Moon Goddess
12. Sugar High
13. Passaros (Lovers Stone version)
Check out Stainless Steele’s track using Jonti’s beat from the podcast…
B-Ju an electronic beat producer from Germany releases “Minor Works, a random selection of (minor) works made between 2006 and 2010 for free download.
This is a new mixtape by Jeremiah Jae entitled Lunch Special Pt 4. A collection of new, old, rare, and completely raw joints for your mental palate. Play this in your cars, or set up your old AV speakers, or burn a compact disc and pop this in your walkmen to feel the rawness smack you across the face with love and knowledge. 12 Tracks. Production by Natural Cure, Flying Lotus, Raga, Projeck, & myself. And special guests! HOTEP XX YM GR – Jeremiah Jae
Download: Lunch Special Pt 4
As the two iconic giants set to release their first album together, Jay-Z and Kanye West prepare to remind fans and doubters that they remain kings of their craft. The album features, Beyonce, Frank Ocean and additional production from the RZA and Pete Rock. The album is set for official release on August 12,2011. Here’s a preview of some select tracks from Extra Lovely and a complete tracklist…
“N0 Church in The Wild” feat Frank Ocean
“Lift Off” feat Beyonce
“New Day” produced by RZA
Watch the Throne:
01 No Church in the Wild (ft. Frank Ocean)
02 Lift Off (ft. Beyoncé)
03 Niggas in Paris
04 Otis (ft. Otis Redding)
05 Gotta Have It
06 New Day
07 Prime Time
08 Who Gon Stop Me
09 Murder to Excellence
10 Welcome to the Jungle
11 Sweet Baby Jesus (ft. Frank Ocean)
12 Why I Love You (ft. Mr Hudson)
Bonus tracks:
13 Illest Motherfucker Alive
14 H*A*M
15 That’s My Bitch
16 The Joy (ft. Curtis Mayfield)
14 H*A*M
15 That’s My Bitch
16 The Joy (ft. Curtis Mayfield)
Ackryte & Culprit release one for the FutureScience beattape series. Limited press on cassette. Original Artwork by _lip. Includes immediate download of 11-track album in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
Bueller a French-Canadian electronic/hip hop beat producer out of Montreal drops a lovely Gil Scott-Heron tribute in the form of a 10minute beat session for free download. Bueller is also down with fellow Canadian producers KenLo Craqnuques and Vlooper.
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