Rise and the Solar Sound System aka Mecca:83 has released projects under both names in 2011. The UK producer’s sound and influence is rooted in Spiritual Jazz and Hip Hop. Various samples and reworks can be found in his material from artists such as Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane and Jay Dilla. In his 2011 release “Messages” under the Rise alias he reworks various spiritual jazz records to give them a hip hop vibe but manages to maintain the energy and spirit of the sound nicely.
Here’s a lovely mixtape curated by Portishead for the I’ll Be Your Mirror music festival taking place July 23rd and 24th at the Alexandra Palace, London. Everyone featured on the mixtape will be playing the festival.
00.00 “…They Don’t Sleep Anymore on the Beach…” Monheim – Godspeed You! Black Emperor
13.19 We Carry On – Portishead
19.44 A Cold Freezin’ Night – The Books
23.04 Gazzillion Ear – Doom
27.15 You Fucking People Make Me Sick – Swans
32.20 Yang Yang – Anika
35.11 Real Love – Factory Floor
42.32 Infinity Skull Cube – DD/MM/YYYY
45.51 Untilted – Helen Money
51.42 “Four Spirits In A Room” Excerpt – Alan Moore & Stephen O’Malley
56.50 Plaster Casts Of Everything – Liars
60.43 8 Steps To Perfection – Company Flow
65.23 Written On The Forehead – PJ Harvey
68.49 Arabic Emotions – The London Snorkeling Team
71.27 Wulfstan – BEAK>
77.28 When My Baby Comes – Grinderman
84.09 Paris Signals – S.C.U.M.
88.30 Lovers With Iraqis – Foot Village
92.18 Gratitude – Acoustic Ladyland
96.29 Violence – The Telescopes
100.01 Hannibal – Caribou
106.15 Walk In The Park – Beach House
Jonti may not be a familiar name just yet but that’s no reflection of his resume. Multi-instrumentalist, arranger, producer, and vocalist, Jonti, began assembling music after his departure from South Africa to Australia in 1999. Spending countless hours studying records like they were books, processing each song, this became Jonti’s music school, testing his theories on a 4-track recorder.
If you love music, eventually you meet others who do too. In the past year, through different projects, Jonti has recorded with Mark Ronson, Santigold, Sean Lennon and the Dap-Kings, as well as producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Kurt Vile). Ironically, for Jonti’s solo album, he decided to purposely go the opposite route, doing everything himself, start to finish.
Although Jonti describes his music as simple, label head Peanut Butter Wolf sees it as anything but that. “I understand the pop references because his music is so catchy, but the arrangements blew me away. I couldn’t figure out how the hell he did what he did. That he did it all on his own at such an early age kinda scared me. I knew right away I needed to add him to the roster.” You will soon understand why Stones Throw is proud to present it’s first Australian signing Jonti as a new member of the family.
Prof.Logik an experimental hip hop producer from South Carolina delivers the raw Dust Fragmentation tape. Structured for a cassette tape release Dust Fragmentation offers dirty drums, raw basslines and lovely and lush synth work. The combination works beautifully like sweet and sour in fine cuisine.
from Prof.Logik bandcamp – “This is a hard copy cassette release. If you only want a digital copy its $5.00 just send me a message (dexx79@hotmail.com). Cassettes are not ready but you get a digital copy right away!”
Zenios is a producer from Springfield Ohio. Zenios’ sound could be described as electronic meditation in deep space. His influences often stem from Japanese anime, video games and the place in your mind between being asleep and awake. Zenios has released three albums, Ill Meditation, Mercury Crimson Dream and Pure Meditation; he also released Zeniosphere Slow Rotation Mix 1 & 2. The video post is a new collaboration between Zenios and two MCs, Stainless Steele and Maf Maddix. Look out for more from them in the near future.
Download: Zeniosphere Slow Rotation mix 2
This is a single Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron for being an inspiration by Maf Maddix, Introspective Minds, Carlleena Person and Marcus Kiser
1865 is a producer and MC originally from Colorado but more recently is living in San Francisco. His debut album “Dark Matter” was released in 2007 he then released an EP titled “Sodium Girl” about a year later. Dark Matter also had a short run release on vinyl. 1865’s style has a very original sound that is like mid 90s boom bap fused with down-tempo electronic music. 1865’s rhyme style is reminiscent of Andre from Outkast mixed with Del the Funky Homosapien but is unique to his own style and content. 1865 also majored in astronomy in college, his album title and song topics often touch on the science as well. 1865’s choice of production hardware is an ASR-10 which give his drums and sampling a mechanical feel but is layered with spacey and lush melodies. In more recent years it’s been more difficult to find any press/media from the artist but fortunately he’s left us with these two very original projects. Have a listen and support 1865 at 1865 at CDbaby
1865 – Danger Field
1865 – Lafayette Kids
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