Category archive: Audio

Jesse Boykins “The Beauty Created”, if you’re a reader of this website, this must be a album you’re looking to acquire. If you’ve been waiting for an album to finally replace your D’Angelo, Musiq Soulchild, Eric Roberson, The Foreign Exchange, Coultrain, Bilal album, this must be a album you’re looking to acquire.

Jesse will show you how 2008 soul music supposed to sound like. If you’ve been sleeping, read the introduction Kenny Fresh wrote a few weeks ago on Freshselects.

Jesse Boykins III is a young, talented singer/songwriter who grew up in Jamaica and Miami and had always been involved in music – leading up to him eventually getting recruited by the prestigious New School University in Manhattan (whose alumni include recent innovators Bilal, Tiombe Lockhart, and Robert Glasper). While attending the New School, Jesse has been making the most of his time in NY by not only establishing his presence as a solo act, but also collaborating with fellow Brooklynites like the Def Jux-signed live funk band, Chin Chin, one of their offshoots, Big Mono, co-producer & singer, J. Most, and members of Tiombe’s Army Of Love (namely, bassist Earl Travis and drummer Jamire Williams).

But all side projects and collaborations aside, Jesse has been making some serious noise on his own with the self-released EP Dopamine: My Life On My Back, and its lead single, “Tabloids” blowing up both on YouTube and BET Jazz – and rightfully so. With his pop-friendly sense of melody, dynamic voice range, and keen songwriting sense – all laced with a post-Soulquarians tyled production sense, JBIII manages to bridge the gap between underground soul and radio R&B. Photo by Maicol for Unique Photography.

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Jesse Boykins III – Fever

Jesse Boykins III – Connected Feat. Theophilus London & Keys Prod. Afta-1

Onra – #7 of 7 from French beatmaker Onra is a double sided dose of French bruk hip hop soul with a nod to the East. The young Parisian is already 2 LP’s deep – his incredible 2007 Chinoiseries LP is paid homage to Far Eastern pop music with beats plucked from Vietnamese records picked up on holidays. Alongside Quetzal he has released two “Tribute” EPs which layered soul samples with a hip hop backbone. As if that’s not enough he has just released his second solo LP – “1.0.8” which again looks across the globe for its inspiration, made up of Indian samples. So start diggin for Onra’s All City Beatstrumental series with the lush “My Comet” and flip side “Shhhhhhh”.

Onra – My Comet

Ubiquity White Compilation includes all exclusive previously unreleased tracks, and some mixes that will ONLY be found on this compilation.

Heavyweight soulsters SA-RA Creative Partners and PPP drop brand new exclusives from their highly-anticipated upcoming albums penciled in for release in early 2009. Nino Moschella presents a brand new lo-fi funky song from his awesome upcoming album, while the unstoppable Shawn Lee collaborates with both European soul star Nicole Willis (from his forthcoming “Soul In The Hole” soul-tribute album) and Desert-dwelling mad-genius Clutchy Hopkins (from their collaboration album called Clutch of The Tiger). LA-based soul-boy Damon Aaron is set to release his debut Ubiquity album this Fall, and his call for peace, “Better”, is remixed exclusively for this comp by our own Eric Lau. Our last release of 2009 will be a “best of” Greyboy called 15 Years of West Coast Cool. Featured on the comp are 3 previously unreleased tracks, including a collaboration with Detroit soulcrooner Jeremy Ellis which is included here. Lastly The Lions drop a nasty dubbed out version of “Cumbia Del Leon” from their Jungle Struttin’ album. Get the mp3’s here.

SA-RA Creative Partners – Spacefruit

PPP – Pigeon Hole

One third of the influential LA hip-hop group Dilated Peoples, Evidence masterfully launched his solo career last year with his debut solo album “The Weatherman”. An accomplished rapper and producer, his long standing video partnership with Decon director Jason Goldwatch makes him a perfect fit for a new installment of Decon’s multi-media series of releases, which combines audio and video content from the hottest hip-hop artists.

The Layover features 6 all new tracks from Evidence, as well a DVD featuring the first full video collaboration between Jason Goldwatch and Evidence focusing on the theme of The Layover. The long-standing relationship between the two have created some of hiphop’s most classic videos, including videos for Evidence’s “Mr. Slow Flow”, and for Dilated Peoples’ “Back Again”, “Worst Come To Worst” and “Work The Angles”. This new take on the video collaboration between two artists will result in a release peppered with the artistic, guerilla approach that the two share.

Evidence – To Be Determined Feat Elzhi & Aloe Blacc

Evidence – So Fresh

German based dj Paul Pre is globally known for his monthly mixes with exciting beats roaming from the underground.  He made this Best of 2008 mix for Nalden.net, as you can guess, the best of 2008.  Download Best of 2008 mixed by Paul Pre!  

Download Paul Pre Best of 2008

Here is an Exclusive new single ‘Watermelon’; a record Peter Hadar created with Nicolay, for a mixtape by DJ Jamad. A little Fruit for The Ladies!! 

Peter Hadar & Nicolay – Watermelon

Flying Lotus will continue his love affair with Los Angeles on the second EP in his L.A. trilogy. L.A. EP 2 X 3 consists of other folks’ remixes of tracks from Flying Lotus’ 2008 full-length Los Angeles. Warp will release the disc on November 24. Pre-order now on Warpmart.

Flying Lotus – Grapesicles (Samiyam Remix) Stream via Wuzz Magazine

Flying Lotus – Camel ( Nosaj Thing Remix)

Yes, it was kinda quit the last few days, but today we have two brand new FRESHCLUSIVES for y’all.. thanks to Kenny Fresh offcourse.

 Shafiq presents… Jank Random vs. Earl Leonne – The Frequency Cla$h,  is out now on Poo-Bah Records. The record marks his first solo venture – in which he takes us along for an experimental beat excursion through the minds of his alter-egos.

The second FRESHCLUSIVE is the demo version of Erykah Badu’s “Master Teacher” which Shafiq had co-produced with Georgia for SA-RA’s G.O.O.D. Music debut, Black Fuzz, which actually featured Bilal singing the lead vocals (who you can still hearing in the background of the Badu version), and Georgia on backing vox. All props goes to Freshselects..

Shafiq presents Jank Random vs Earl Leonne – The Frequency Cla$h: Side B

DOWNLOAD SA-RA – The “Master Teacher” Sessions EP

A new M-Phazes remix of Buff1’s “For U”. The original track was on Buff1’s album Pure. Thanks to our peoples at ASideWorldwide.

Buff1 – For U

00Genesis is a young beat maker from Maryland producing some of the most innovative tracks out there. Ill from start to finish, his E.P. Dream Catcher is a glimpse at is what’s to come, salty and stylish sound full of grit, cadence and personality. Check him out on MySpace…On the web….Get it here. Via YYY.

00Genesis – I Like You

00Genesis – EatShT