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We just got word that both DJ Spinna‘s “Sonic Smash” album and Fresh Daily‘s “Fresh Daily is the Gorgeous Killer in Crimes of Passion” album, have been pushed back. Get Spinna’s album July 21st and Daily’s album August 13th. To make up for this, we are leaking this Fresh Daily joint produced by DJ Spinna entitled “Gotta Go” that isn’t on either of their albums. As if this wasn’t enough we decided to share this killer track from Spinna’s upcoming album. “Still Golden” features Tiye Phoenix and is one of the hottest tracks on Sonic Smash in my opinion. Massive thanks to Jonathan and High Water Music…

DJ Spinna – Still Golden Feat. Tiye Phoenix

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Fresh Daily – Gotta Go Feat. DJ Spinna

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To celebrate the release of Tony Allen‘s new album “Secret Agent”, World Circuit Records are very excited to announce the Tony Allen remix project. World Circuit in collaboration with the good folks at SoundCloud and Propellerhead software are offering the opportunity to remix the title track from the album – “Secret Agent” – a majestic slice of hardcore roots Afrobeat featuring a driving groove, penetrating guitar, pulsating horn riffs and stirring vocals. Simply put, one of the greatest drummers of all time is giving you the chance to get creative with his legendary beats.

Some very cool prizes are awaiting the winner and the runner-up, who will be chosen by Tony himself. Full competition details can be found here, but basically this is how it goes:

1. Download the stems. By downloading the stems, you agree to be bound by the Terms and Conditions of the competition
2. Remix the track
3. Upload your music using our Soundcloud dropbox or by email no latter than 7th July, 2009
4. Winners will be notified and winning entries will be posted online

Good luck and please be sure to send all your remixes to us as well. Here’s the first remix we’ve received from La Schmoove..

Tony Allen – Secret Agent (La Schmoove Edit)

Now in case you haven’t heard…it’s all L.O.V.E. between GAS’D, AFTA-1 and MOOVMNT. The heavily anticipated “Love Suite Pt.2” by AFTA-1 – which features a vary of pieces from the fall/summer collection of GAS’D – is coming to a MOOVMNT near you real soon. Check out a little preview of the Love Suite Pt.2 below and don’t you just love that cutie Malia for making a heart shape with her hands! Forgot to add that you can follow GAS’D on Twitter too.

AFTA-1 – Love Suite Pt.2 (Naked Edit)

It was an honor when the guys from Laid Back wanted us as guest of the week on their Laid Back Radio project. Also check out homeboy Nalden‘s show and next week it’s Future Vintage their turn to be guest of the week. The LDBK player adds an extra dimension to audio streams by providing you with information related to the artist being played, the program grid, news from the Laid Back website and more. This player has been developed using Adobe Air, a technology allowing to build rich Internet applications that run outside the browser on multiple operating systems. To put it short…the future of radio!

You might have seen us twit about it on Twitter, but in case you haven’t check out our daily music selection of vocal Lovetronica HERE.

Laid Back Radio – Program Grid

• Thursday 16:00 – 16:30
• Friday 19:00 – 19:30
• Saturday 06:30 – 07:00
• Sunday 13:00 – 13:30

Time expressed in CET (GMT+1)

Tokyo Beat Science brings you the complete future beats based from TOKYO/JAPAN. This Project mainly features undiscovered, fresh producers/DJ’s/designers who are about to blow up worldwide. Our buddy Kazzzz sent us some ill music from Japan last month, but we had to let it simmer for a while. A lot of artists and designers are down with these cats so be sure to keep an eye out for each and every one of them! My favorites are..

Nitta
HEADZ
The Astronotes
Toi73

I heard The Astronotes‘ “Space Water Babies” featuring Kissey Asplund and Rep Life last year and kinda forgot to do anything with it.

The Astronotes – Space Water Babies Feat. Kissey Asplund & Rep Life

Now I’ve been watching Nitta for a while too. “Bring The Light” is down right dirty, electronic space funk with a twist of nastyness. This got me very curious about upcoming future releases.

Nitta – Bring The Light

Brand new Waxpoetics, issue #35 features a  melting pot of innovative artists across a wide range of styles, including articles on Ralph MacDonald, Byron Lee, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Dust Brother Mike Simpson, Def Jef, and Roger Troutman!!! The late Roger Troutman graces the cover to remind us that his talkbox holds the eternal trump card over Autotune.

If you haven’t checked up on the subscription lately, now is the time to make sure you’re up to date. You can also get this at Fatbeats.

WaxPoetics finally brings us the “The Jazz Issue.” Cover stars are trumpeters John Coltrane and Freddie Hubbard, with additional features on Melvyn Sparks, Horace Tapscott, Richard Evans, and the Rhodes Piano, and a thorough and all-too-welcome profile of Creed Taylor–the genius behind the CTI / Impulse / Verve dynasty of diggers’ favorites from the 60s an 70s. Get it at Fatbeats..

Legendary hip-hop group House of Pain made a special side trip from their current tour to visit Boston, MA yesterday in celebration of their Adidas x House of Pain collaboration sneaker for St. Patrick’s Day. The group worked with Concepts on a green Adidas Campus sneaker to celebrate the holiday. As well as the Campus sneaker, a special t-shirt by Slick from Dizzisit, who was also in attendance, was developed.

After the Concepts event, House of Pain performed a private St. Patrick’s Day show at the Roxy in downtown Boston – one hell of a special treat on the holiday of the Irish. (Source: Highsnobiety)

A new rapgroup has been born and goes by the name of Diamond District. Here’s an introduction and some audible goodies from their upcoming album In The Ruff that drops 4/14/09.

“The District of Columbia is home to our nations politics and some of the wealthiest African Americans in the country. It is also home to one of the nations largest income gaps with some of the highest crime, murder and STD rates. It is the culmination of these statics that defines DC Hip Hop. Oddisee (producer/MC from Prince George’s county, Maryland) formed this group with solo artist, XO and YU. The idea was to create a mid-90’s boom-bap themed record for the DC, Maryland & Virginia metropolitan area. XO, (born & raised in North West DC) defines what it is to be a black male raised in the district, with lyrics that have a way of philosophizing that street life. Oddisee defines the experience of growing up in black middle class Maryland. Bordering the poverty his and many other families fled to escape, they found the troubles of the inner city came along with them. YU, having been raised in the district, Maryland & Virginia, shows that DC culture exceeds it’s 10 mile radius. “In The Ruff” is the DMV’s soundtrack. It’s street savvy, politically conscious lyrics and grimy beats depict life in and around our nations capitol.”

Diamond District – Get In Line (instrumental snippet)

Diamond District – Who I Be

By now most everyone is familiar with the story of musical legend J Dilla. The quiet, prolific producer collaborated with everyone from Erykah Badu to Common to Janet Jackson to Prince. Dilla was just beginning to capitalize on his cult status when he sadly passed at age 32 due to Lupus-related complications. Jay Stay Paid is a 25 track collection of unreleased Dilla beats mixed and arranged by Pete Rock. While mostly instrumental, “J$P” also offers a few guests vocals from artists that Dilla worked with or admired including Black Thought of The Roots, MF DOOM, and M.O.P.

Curtailing any notion of jumping on some sort of Dilla bangwagon, Jay Stay Paid was executive produced by Dilla’s mother Maureen Yancey (aka Ma Dukes) along with the musical supervision of Dilla’s only real musical idol, Pete Rock. “It wasn’t rushed and it wasn’t haphazard,” explains Ms Yancey. “This album combines what he did in the beginning of his career, what he did in some of our early hospital stays, which was very deep, and some stuff pulled from old floppy disks & DATs. Its mind blowing…this is like the missing links to Dilla’s legacy.”

The format of the album plays like a radio show with Pete Rock as the program director. With regards to Pete’s involvement, Ms. Yancey gets very excited, “Dilla wanted to pattern himself behind Pete. His dream was to become as close as possible to what Pete stood for. Pete meant everything to him. Dilla would have just been flabbergasted! ” Pete’s sentiments were the same toward Dilla, “Dude was amazing. He just kinda came outta nowhere and the more you heard his beats the better they got. He may not be here with us, but it’s all good we’re going to keep his music alive and well.”

Jay Stay Paid will be released on June 2nd on Nature Sounds.