Category archive: Audio

Announced only a few weeks ago, Oh No follows up Dr. No’s Oxperiment by diving again into Egon’s record collection for a region-based intrumental beat album. This time he’s headed into the album inspired-by and sampled-from rare 60s and 70s Ethiopian funk, jazz, folk, soul and psychedelic rock.

Even if you’ve never heard an instrument tuned to the qenet scale before, even if you’re more into ballads than you are tezetas, Oh No’s transformative effect on his source material will blow you away in its otherworldy funkiness. Stonesthrow

Oh No – Whoo Doo

Oh No – Concentrate / The Funk

We stumbled upon this Atlanta-based rap duo D-N-S aka Dip-N-Steam, who just dropped this wonderful joint called “Bread” featuring Paul Randolph on the hook and produced by Daz-I-Kue. It’s been a while since we heard some of those Broken Beat drums with some good ol MC’ing over it.

“I think the idea of Bread came from a collective idea because everybody was feeling the pinch”, Daz recalls. “So we decided to talk about on how the ‘credit crunch’ was effecting us and other people, because think no one was discussing it creatively…not that i came about. And Dip-N-Steam did a sterling job communicating that to all of us, which undoubtedly helped by the riddim I made. On completion I had the idea of getting the perspective from the city that got hit the hardest, Detroit. That’s when Paul Randolph, 5ELA and Dial 81 came onboard. Paul did such solid work on it I had to put him on the original… but look out the for the Detroit version real real soon!”

Consider “Bread” a sneak preview from D-N-S’ forthcoming album, “Don’t Worry…We’re Here Now!”, which is due early next year. Thanks to Red Bull Music Academy for the heads up..

D-n-S – Bread (feat. Paul Randolph) prod. by Daz-I-Kue

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Two years of Buckfast and beats from the likes of edIT, Chesca, Cool Kids, Gaslamp Killer and many, many more – it’s our second home, it’s LuckyMe’s Ballers Social Club. To celebrate their upcoming birthday weekender on the 11th (at Stereo) and 12th September (at The Ivy) with Darkstar, Rustie, Fulgeance, Dema, Dante Fried Chicken and Jamie Vex’d, LuckyMe’s head honchos The Blessings flex this mix with a ton of unheard exclusives.

Now I don’t have a clue what the official name of this mix is, but here are some options to choose from. LuckyMe’s “Ballers Social Club Exclusive Mix”, Dazed Vs LuckyMe “B5C 2ND Birthday Mix 1” or “The Blessings Ballers Dazed Mix”..no matter how you wanna call this mix, it’s DOPE and contains some fearsome exclusives. Download it now…you know the drill!

LuckyMe’s – Ballers Social Club Exclusive Mix

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As one of the UK’s most hyped and anticipated new producers, 23 year old Sam Shepherd aka Floating Points, has been busy in the studio crafting a warm and soulful blend of house and boogie. Consisting of three new tracks the “Vacuum Boogie” EP is a club friendly groove. Don’t even think twice about buying this EP that came out on Eglo Records. Digitally available via BLEEP !

Floating Points – Vacuum Boogie

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Turboweekend is a three piece band from Copenhagen consisting of Martin Petersen (Drums), Silas Bjerregaard (Vocals) and Morten Køie (Bass), and adding Anders Møller on synths and backing vocals live. The music is part dark synth pop, part bouncy electro-rock with a soulful twist. Pretty nice if you’re into that kinda sound, but what caught our attention was this mind-blowing soulful Dubstep remix by 2000F & JKamata. Get your digital copy at Juno Records or Boomkat..

Turboweekend – Something Or Nothing (2000F & JKamata Remix)

REPOST: Shibuya is the new project from the creative minds of Nicolay and Phonte Coleman, better known as THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE, whose sophomore album, the independent R&B/Soul smash Leave It All Behind (TFE/Hard Boiled; Oct. 2008), continues to gain momentum as the duo and their extended family of singers and musicians currently tour the United States and Canada with their critically acclaimed live show. The countless performances together have added a new level of sophistication to the musical output of Nicolay and Phonte, resulting in what they themselves consider to be one of their most ambitious projects yet.

The idea for Shibuya, which is the second installment in Nicolay’s City Lights series of albums, was first conceived after his first visit to Tokyo, Japan. Once back home, he wrote and recorded with a new-found sense of freedom, laying the groundwork for the albums Time:Line and Leave It All Behind as well a third album, a deeply personal homage to the Tokyo district of Shibuya that illustrates both the grandeur of Japan’s age-old heritage (”Meiji Shrine, “Rain In Ueno Park”, “The Inner Garden”) as well as the hectic city life of one of the world’s busiest metropolitan areas (”Crossing”, “Satellite”, “Bullet Train”) through two suites of richly multi-layered instrumental pieces.

Where City Lights Volume 1 was primarily instrumental, on Shibuya, the instrumental pieces are book-ended by several vocal songs written by Phonte, who keeps showing remarkable growth as a songwriter and vocal arranger, for up and coming fellow North Carolina vocalist Carlitta Durand, who previously collaborated with Phonte on Little Brother’s Getback album (ABB 2007) and many other projects. Also appearing is “FE” liveband-mate ZO!, who adds his virtuoso keyboard solos to two songs. From UGHH.com.

Nicolay City Lights Vol.2 Shibuya is NOW AVAILABLE on AMAZON.. Nicolay and Phonte advise *not* to buy this through iTunes, however. Purchase it through Amazon, Rhapsody & eMusic. You’ll find more info about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVgpPlKUH9Y and here: http://www.nicolaymusic.com/2009/09/a-message-from-phonte-and-nicolay.php.

Nicolay – Wake Up In Another Life Feat Carlitta Durand

From where?!?! That’s right…this young cat Annu hails from Virginia and is making some noise. I like the raw, yet soulful sound and I hope we’ll be hearing more from this guy in the years to come. Visit my man Henri at 92bpm and download this GSTMX v2 feat. Fitz Amrbo$e. It contains some hot joints including Annu’s “Strawberry Surf”. Download the entire “Dream Runner” EP HERE for FREE…go get it!!! Just got some more info from Annu about his upcoming “Def Vibrations” release. Be on the lookout..

Annu – Runner

Annu – Juice Smoke

For those in need of a quick fix…my man FS Green just dropped a rusty ass beat by way of his blog. Hope you’re having fun in New York with the Patta crew and holla when you’re back…JEEJ!

FS Green – Rusty Beat

It’s Sunday afternoon, so you know we in chill mode. No Slept on Sundays today, but instead a nice mellow ass joint from Keyel. Maybe it’s because fLako produced it, but this track is right up my alley. Shout out to Heart & Sole for putting us on to Keyel…

Keyel – Mary Jane (prod. by fLako)

Early this month I had the honor to meet the one and only B. Bravo and his little bro Kent. I really had fun with those guys and thanks for coming to the Beat Battle at the Rooms of Red Bull. Now I know the album art is not finished yet, but we just had to share this ill remix joint from the upcoming “Computa Love” EP that’s due on Fritenite. Glad we could be of help on your European trip and happy you met cats like DJ Lefto, Simbad, Morgan Zarate, Bullion, Floating Points, Flyherro, Chima, etc. Next time we’re in Frisco you know we’re doing an L.A. trip fo sho! In case ya’ll haven’t heard of B. Bravo before, please check out his last “Anolog Starship” release and buy it at Fritenite or iTunes while you’re at it.

Epcot – Grav I Be (B. Bravo Remix)