Kelly Price- 'Kelly'

Tracklist

01. Tired
02. And You Don't Stop
03. Not My Daddy (Ft. Stokley Of Mint Condition)
04. Himaholic
05. I'm Sorry
06. The Rain
07. Vexed
08. Speechless
09. Feels So Good
10. You Don't Have To Worry
11. Lil Sumn-Sumn
12. Get Right Or Get Left

Nicholas Ryan Grant-'Hittin' Switches

Jill Scott-Light Of The Sun new album coming soon!

Jill Scott - Shame by missjillscott

JILL SCOTT's new album ''The Light Of The Sun' will be released in the 28th June 2011. Jill’s funky new video for “Shame,” is from the forthcoming album on Warner Bros Records. The video was shot in the Philadelphia neighborhood where she grew up. The location of the shoot is the Cecil B. Moore Recreation Center, where Jill spent her summers as a kid. When she heard the recreation centre was closing, Jill and her Blues Babe foundation paid for repairs on the centre to keep it open.

The video features some old friends making cameos, such as Eve, who is featured on the track, and Black Thought from The Roots.



A second album is also due to drop by Ms. Scott this spring/early summer, a collection of rare and previously unreleased material called 'Just Before Dawn: From The Vault, Vol. 1 on the label she recently parted ways with, Hidden Beach Recordings.

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Brenda Russell- 'A little Bit Of Love'

Scientist Launches Dubstep Into Ouer space

Delving deep into dub theory and sound science, the man otherwise known as Hopeton Brown speaks on how a fervent interest in electronics and engineering and a knack for building amplifiers led to major recognition in Jamaica, establishing himself as a protege of King Tubby along the way. Breaking down everything from the ins and outs of his recording techniques to his bitter dispute with the Greensleeves label - with sage advice for up-and-coming musicians to heed - Scientist opens up on his time working at Studio One, changing the sound of Channel One, and his part in the rise of Tuff Gong.

Bringing things up to date, he touches on his father fiigure role within the dubstep fraternity, marked with his record Scientist Launches Dubstep Into Outer Space. A cross-cultural meeting of minds and a unique insight into the art of noise, Scientist Meets Son of Scientist is essential listening for true dub heads and novices alike.

Tracklist
CD1:
01. Pinch & Emika – 2012 (5:13)
02. Armour (Roly Vex’d) – The Long Way (4:30)
03. Guido – Korg Back (4:10)
04. Shackleton – Hackney Marshes (5:32)
05. King Midas Sound – U (4:31)
06. Asbo (Loefah & SGT Pokes) – Dog Money (Lovemix) (4:23)
07. Distance – Ill Kontent (6:08)
08. RSD – After All (Ft. Prince Jamo) (5:17)
09. Jack Sparrow – Red Sand (5:28)
10. Mala (Digital Mystikz) – City Cycle (5:34)
11. Cyrus (Random Trio) – Footsteps (5:15)
12. Kode9 & Spaceape – Abeng (4:33)
CD2:
01. Scientist vs Pinch & Emika – 2012 Dub (5:12)
02. Scientist vs Armour (Roly Vex’d) – The Long Way Dub (4:26)
03. Scientist vs Guido – Korg Back Dub (4:10)
04. Scientist vs Shackleton – Hackney Marshes Dub (4:43)
05. Scientist vs King Midas Sound – U Dub (Part 2) (3:34)
06. Scientist vs Asbo (Loefah & SGT Pokes) – Dog Money Dub (5:00)
07. Scientist vs Distance – Ill Kontent Dub (5:01)
08. Scientist vs RSD – After All Dub (Ft. Prince Jamo) (4:01)
09. Scientist vs Jack Sparrow – Red Sand Dub (4:57)
10. Scientist vs Mala (Digital Mystikz) – City Cycle Dub (4:10)
11. Scientist vs Cyrus (Random Trio) – Footsteps Dub (4:59)
12. Scientist vs Kode9 & Spaceape – Abeng Dub (3:49)

Peter Hadar- 'Your Body'

The Jersey based cool weirdo is back with a feel good upbeat electro, soca-esque track for the summer dedicated to heavenly "figures".....Pippa Middleton?...jog on luv!

Mayer Hawthorne- 'Impressions' The Covers EP

Michigan based blue eyed soul singer Mayer Hawthorne & the Stones Throw label released a glorious collection last week. Mayer put his fresh spin on some incredible songs by a wide range of recording artist including The Isley Brothers, ELO & Chromeo.

Tracklist
1. Work To Do
2. Dont Turn The Lights On
3. You've Got The Makings Of a Lover
4. Fantasy Girl
5. Little Person
6. Mr Blue Sky

Zebrahim-'In My Heart I Am'

Check out this project, a collaboration between Vancouver based singer, musician Ebrahim & French beatmaker Hazel. This project plays out like a freestyle jam session in the studio between the two with both throwing out ideas, beatboxing, singing & adding elements at a whim. Yet & still it is dope. I hope to hear a complete collab in the future. All proceed of this will go to Ride To Conquer Cancer so please support.

King-'The Story' EP

Over the past couple of weeks a bit of a storm has been brewing on across the web about the debut EP release from an american all girl collective known as KING.

KING are described as ”a soulful, organic trio of young women here to bring a fresh creativity to music and change the world through their art”. They consist of twin sisters Paris and Amber Strother and Anita Bias who hails from Los Angeles. They write all their own songs and Paris fully produces the tracks herself. These three talented ladies saw their musical stock rise considerably over the past month after Questlove and Phonte began tweeting about their love for KING. What ensued was a series of articles about the trio and their fantastic tunes. Their debut EP, The Story, is an amalgam of sounds that feature the best parts of R&B, soul, and electronic music. And it all makes for a vibe highly reminiscent of what we have heard from Blouse'n' Skirt favorite the Foreign Exchange.....I have listened to it myself and I gotta say it's pretty dope

Download EP!


1. The Story The Story by weareKINGworldwide 2. Supernatural Supernatural by weareKINGworldwide 3.Hey Hey by weareKINGworldwide

BIG K.R.I.T & Grillade-'The Wuz Here Sessions'

Get this project. Now. The BIG K.R.I.T. & Grillade The 'Wuz Here' Sessions presented by Yours Truly is a fresh live project featuring four tracks from the K.R.I.T. Wuz Here, with the smooth backing of Grillade. The joint is dope. That is all. Get it!


Tracklist
1. Intro
2. Neva Go Back
3. Hometown Hero
4.Something

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Coldplay- 'Strawberry Swing'


Frank Ocean- 'Strawberry Swing'

Baylon Musfall

Free Download Here!
'Big Ole Words'- Cee Lo Green
'Hypnotize' - Dan Black
'Electronic Love' (Nicolay Remix)- Vikter Duplaix
'Addictive Luv'- Don E
'Popular Too'- Jimi James
'Getting Nowhere'- Magnetic Man feat. John Legend
'You'- Ed Sheeran feat. Wiley
'They Don't Want'- Electric Wire Hustle
'She Got Soul' - NSM
'Maybe She'll Dream of Me' - The Foreign Exchange
'Miss Moral'- Benny Sings and The Rednose District
'Whoops' (Natural Self Remix)- Stac
'Lost In Translation'- Coultrain
'Think Of You' - Ledisi
'Green Lights' - Aloe Blacc
'Adore' - Nicolay feat Yahzarah
'Breathless' - Kevin Mark Trail

Free Download Here!

Dub Echoes

At first, one might think that reggae and dance music don’t have much to do with each other. But that’s a false perception. The documentary “Dub Echoes” aims to show how this Jamaican invention called dub ended up influencing much of the music we hear today, from electronic music to hip-hop, transforming the studio in a musical instrument and giving way to all of sonic experiments.

“Dub Echoes” was produced by a Brazilian crew, in Kingston (Jamaica), London (UK), NY, Washington, LA (US), Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (Brazil). Key names, from both reggae and the electronic music world, talk about the birth of this genre, how it helped to change the way we perceive music and how it’s presence can still be felt today.

Just follow the bass lines!

Dub Echoes (2009) - trailer from Bruno Natal on Vimeo.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7


This album is a celebration of all things Dub and related, featuring rare classics alongside new tracks from the pioneers and futurists of this electronic musical form. Musical worlds collide as Francois Kervorkian meets Jamaican DJ legend U-Roy, and German techno giants Rhythm & Sound meet Cornell Campbell. Also featuring Jamaican originators such as King Tubby, Lee Perry, Prince Jammy and Bunny Lee, alongside electronic futurists and Dubstep artists such as Kode9, Harmonic 313 (Warp) and LV (Hyperdub), as well as hip hop pioneer Roots Manuva and original junglist Congo Natty.



Tracklist
1. Roots Manuva — Witness (Walworth Road Rockers Dub)
2. Rebel MC / Congo Natty — Creation Rebel
3. Disrupt — Sega Beats
4. Dub Syndicate — Forever More
5. Harmonic 313 — Dirtbox
6. King Tubby — Psalms of Drums
7. Kode9 and Spaceape — Sine Of The Dub
8. Andre 'Suku' Gray — Sign Rhythm
9. U Roy and Francois K — Rootsman
10. King Tubby — Ruffer Version
11. LV featuring Dandelion — CCTV
12. Rhythm & Sound with Cornell Campbell — King In My Empire
13. King Tubby — Jah Jah Jehovah Version
14. Digital Dubs vs. Dubiterian — Deb Dub
15. The Congos — Congo Man Chant
16. Cotti — Run Tings
17. The Upsetters — Rejoicing Skank

Frank Ocean-'Nostalgia ULTRA'

Billy Ocean is his Uncle!


Frank Ocean is one of the many members of OFWGKTA, who for peple unfamiliar with them, have come to be synonymous with Tyler, the Creator and Hodgy Beats' The New Orleans-born, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter has become one of music's hottest commodities in a matter of weeks—but overnight success never occurs as quickly as it appears. Before his stellar self-released debut, nostalgia,ULTRA. (which you can download for free here), was clocking downloads at an unprecedented pace, the 23-year-old’s career was held up by obstacles ranging from Hurricane Katrina to industry politics, but those days are over.

Frank Ocean: "Billy Ocean is my uncle. I'm just fucking with you. The name Frank Ocean was born [Ed.—His government name is Christopher "Lonny" Breaux]. Allow me to tell that story another time, but I will say this: I changed my name on my birthday last year. It was the most empowering shit I did in 2010, for sure. I went on LegalZoom and changed my fucking name.

It just felt cool. None of us are our names. If you don’t like your name then change your name. I’m only a few steps into the process, so I probably shouldn’t even be talking about this, but by the beginning of summer I’ll be straight. I’ll be boarding planes as Christopher Francis Ocean."

Tracklist
1. American Wedding
2. Bitches Talkin'
3. Dust
4. Goldeneye
5. Lovecrimes
6. Nature Feels
7. Novacane
8. Songs For Women
9. Soul Calibur
10. Strawberry Swing
11. Street Fighter
12. Swim Good
13. There Will Be Tears
14. We All Try



pyrite (sketch) by Frank Ocean

Jamie Woon-'Mirrorwriting'

Tracklist
1. Night Air
2. Street
3. Lady Luck
4. Shoulda
5. Middle
6. Spirits
7. Echoes
8. Spiral
9. Tmrw
10. Secondbreath
11. Gravity
12. Waterfront

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30 years ago today!....R.I.P- Robert Nesta Marley



Annie Lennox- 'Waitin In Vain'


Ituana-'Waitin In Vain'


Floetry- 'Waitin In Vain'


Don-E- 'Waitin In Vain'


Bob Marley -'Waitin In Vain' (Alternate Version)

Musiq Soulchild- 'Musiqinthemagiq' (Deluxe Version)

TRACKLIST
1. ANYTHING (FEAT. SWIZZ BEATZ)
2. SINGLE
3. SAYIDO
4. LOVECONTRACT
5. SILVER & GOLD
6. WAITINGSTILL
7. BACKTOWHERE
8. DOWEHAVETO
9. BEFRIENDS
10. YES
11. MEDICINE
12. LIKETHESUN
13. CLUMSYLOVE (BONUS TRACK)
14. GOODGIRL (BONUS TRACK)
15. ANYTHING (FEAT. SWIZZ BEATZ) (MR. V & REELSOUL REMIX)
16. ANYTHING (FEAT. SWIZZ BEATZ) (VIDEO)

Booker T Jones- 'The Road From Memphis'

Tracklist
01. Walking Papers
02. Crazy
03. Progress (feat. Yim Yames)
04. The Hive
05. Down in Memphis
06. Everything Is Everything (Lauryn Hill cover)
07. Rent Party
08. Representing Memphis (feat. Matt Berninger and Sharon Jones)

09. The Vamp
10. Harlem House
11. The Bronx (feat. Lou Reed)

Summer Anthem?......

......Quite possibly!

Soulful twin sisters Ayana and Ayinke Hipps come with the perfect summer song, “Don’t Give It Up” possesses an old soul vibe, instantly reminiscent of Quincy Jones‘ 80′s production, while the ladies tell their respective beaus not to give up on their struggling relationships. Take a listen below:

Vikter Duplaix- 'For players Only

Check out a mixtape release from DJ Mars and DJ Doc featuring the music of Vikter Duplaix.
Download Here

Nicolay-The Nicolayaway EP

Tracklist
01. The Foreign Exchange feat. Muhsinah – Daykeeper
02. United Soul feat. Phonte & Yahzarah – Soul Clap remix
03. The Foreign Exchange – Nic’s Groove (Live @ Sirius/XM Radio)
04. Nicolay feat. Carlitta Durand – Lose Your Way
05. The Foreign Exchange feat. ?uestlove – Purple Flip
06. Victor Duplaix – Electric love (Nicolay Vocal Mix)