This is the third 7” in a series of 4 featuring tracks taken from the forthcoming Producer 2 album set for release in the Autumn. The compilation brings together all the most exciting elements around today from Hip Hop, electronica and beyond in the post - Dilla generation.
Secondhand Sureshots is a filmed experiment in creative sound recycling. Dublab director Bryan “Morpho” Younce sent some of the World’s best Beatmakers (Daedalus, Nobody, J.Rocc and Ras G) on a safari into L.A. thrift stores with orders to make new music out of five finds while the cameras filmed the entire process.
The renown party now comes to life in the form of a Limited 10-inch record series featuring exclusive tracks from guests of the party. Each volume is limited to 1,000 copies, featuring deluxe artwork/packaging by a different graphic designer.
Unreleased shit.
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DEEVO - Crime
It is with great excitement we can announce full details of Flying Lotus’ glorious second album space opera for Warp - Cosmogramma.
All info below including a Zip file with 3 recent *non-album* tracks!
When global bass music matriarch Mary Anne Hobbs recently told The Fader “Flying Lotus, for me, is like the Hendrix of his generation” it seemed more then an audacious opinion, and with the arrival of Cosmogramma, it’s revealed as a revelation. In the past couple of years, Flying Lotus has grown into the position of being far more than a producer, he has helped materialize a far-reaching strain of musical ideology that has encompassed not only a global family of like-minded artists, but also a nearly infinite palate of planetary (and interplanetary) sonics.
Looking back, his full-length Warp debut, Los Angeles appears to be much more of a mission statement than a simple introduction – laying the foundation for a field on which an entire generation of artists would soon be playing. While that album was an introspective, moody travelogue through the Californian metropolis, it certainly hinted at Flying Lotus’ inclination to expand his sound beyond terrestrial means.
As you may deduce from the title of his latest opus, he’s done just that. Not only has an entirely new range of sounds been unlocked by our intrepid astral traveler, but every genre touchstone associated with his name has been merged into a self-described “space opera”. Seamless in execution and too wide in scope to properly describe, it is the authentic embodiment of his unique musical heritage. The spirit of his famed aunt, Alice Coltrane permeates the record, notably in the powerful collaborations with relative Ravi Coltrane, bass virtuoso Thundercat and the brilliant harp prodigy, Rebekah Raff.
Certainly these are further reaches into a musical space that Flying Lotus had hitherto been exploring, however other collaborators such as Erykah Badu and Outkast string arranger Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and guest vocalists Thom Yorke and a returning Laura Darlington (featured on Los Angeles’ epic closing track ‘Inifinitum’) help deliver Cosmogramma to dizzying new heights. All this name-dropping, however, is not to detract from the genius of the wizard-like figure behind it all. The most powerful aspect of FlyLo’s output has always been it’s ability to communicate his boundless love and enthusiasm for music in all it’s forms and that is what is boldly on display here.
People speak about ‘important’ albums all the time, but rarely is it so apparent that person behind them is following their own, chosen path – Flying Lotus is one of those precious few artists. When one is presented with an invitation for space travel, it’s not something to pass up.
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Flying Lotus - Quakes
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Flying Lotus ‘Cosmogramma’ Tracklisting
WARP195
3/4th May 2010
Double Gatefold Vinyl / CD / Digital
01. Clock Catcher
02. Pickled!
03. Nose Art
04. Intro//A Cosmic Drama
05. Zodiac Shit
06. Computer Face//Pure Being
07. ..And The World Laughs With You ft. Thom Yorke
08. Arkestry
09. Mmmhmm ft.Thundercat
10. Do The Astral Plane
11. Satelllliiiiiteee
12. German Haircut
13. Recoiled
14. Dance Of The Pseudo Nymph
15. Drips//Auntie’s Harp
16. Table Tennis ft. Laura Darlington
17. Galaxy In Janaki
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Jaylib Vs. J Rocc (MP3)
29 mins., mixed by J Rocc
The year was 2003. J Dilla and Madlib had just wrapped up their album Champion Sound, recording as Jaylib, with Dilla then still in Detroit and Madlib doing all his work from his bomb shelter studio in Los Angeles. J Rocc - who would later become the third member of Jaylib, on the turntables for each of the shows the guys did together - put together this mixtape of Dilla, Madlib and Jaylib songs, as well as some of their sources, essentially telling the story of this group.
We had some promo copies of this CD floating around for a while that year, then took the Jaylib section and pressed it on a 45, which was released as the bonus 45 with Champion Sound. Both the CD and 45 are long out of stock.
The photos were taken by B+ of Madlib in his studio in L.A. and Dilla in his in Detroit, and also came up with the concept for this packaging: a cutout photo sleeve with a second sleeve inside, juxtaposing the photos of Madlib and Dilla.
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Synesthesia is the long-awaited debut EP by Swiss producer Aid Copelj a.k.a. AEED. Purr! Cats have been waiting for this one. AEEDís roughneck Hip Hop bangers are exclusively available as a free MP3 download here at Error Broadcast.
The nine tracks on Synesthesia feature mangy electronic Rap beats that wonderfully stumble & stutter but make you shake your ass nevertheless. With his barefaced synthesizer melodies and angular production, AEED manages to establish a unique sound between Hip Hop, IDM and candy Pop music.
Synesthesia is a sparkling gem of a record. A bling gem made of plastic, but cutting edges all over.
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MP3:AEED - More Time
Tracklist
01 - Coccospace
02 - Elektricity
03 - Cry Now
04 - Strange Dreams
05 - Elephants Dance
06 - More Time
07 - Morning Walk
08 - Interstellar Travel
09 - Velvet Night
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Gonjasufi has delivered his inimitable and enigmatic debut album “A Sufi & A Killer” which will be available 8th/9th March 2010.
Produced by Los Angeles heavyweights Flying Lotus, The Gaslamp Killer and Mainframe, this deep and compelling collection embraces aged Eastern influences, reanimated hip-hop and vintage psychedelia - laced with Gonjasufi’s cryptic lyrics and captivating vocal delivery.
“Timeless, incredible filth” - Flying Lotus.
“Contender for album of the year” - Guardian Guide.
“In order to get the conviction behind the words, it took 30 years of a lot of frustration and despair…continual tests of faith. Day to day struggling. Bottled-up energy, then all of a sudden, the way it came out seemed perfect…it kept flowing. Continually flowing out of me.” - Gonjasufi
“I just hope this record reaches people at the point when they’re one foot out the window and looking down and that song comes on through the speakers and they pull their foot back through the windows and say “wait a minute - let me re-evaluate the situation..”. If anything I would pray that people find the ability to find themselves in the music.” - Gonjasufi
Preorder A Sufi and a Killer CD or Limited Vinyl at Bleep
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If you have watched Italian movies from the 1970s, you know Edda Dell’Orso, even if you’ve never heard the name. From Sergio Leone-directed masterpieces to giallo programmers starring Edwige Fenech, Dell’Orso performed her haunting wordless solo vocals over the music of maestro Ennio Morricone, as well as such less-known composers as Piero Piccioni, Luis Bacalov, Bruno Nicolai, and Armando Trovaioli.
Her work, mostly uncredited, was one of the key components that made the Italian soundtrack scene as influential and progressive as it was. Al Cinema con Edda Dell’Orso is a superb introduction to her work that touches upon her collaborations with most of the key composers of the time. The selections beautifully showcase her range, which is at times soothing (”Gott mit Uns”), eerie (”Lo Straniero”), sensual (”Il Vichingo Venuto Dal Sud”) and even spiritual (”I Bambini Ci Chiedono Perche”). She is equally capable of projecting her instrument to operatic heights (”Deserto di Fuoco”), as she is playfully cooing to a jazzy go-go beat (”Kill!”). When the music is above the norm, as in Morricone’s haunting theme melody to Once Upon a Time in the West, the record reaches impossibly gorgeous heights.
Most of the material is from lesser known movies, and it’s a testament to both the work of the composers as well as Dell’Orso that the music has a consistent quality — however offbeat — regardless of the quality of the film. Al Cinema con Edda Dell’Orso contains a total of 23 cuts and manages to even include some raw, wonderful, unaccompanied material and rehearsals, yet it’s not nearly enough. The CD is missing many of the more recognizable pieces (”Il Vizio d’Uccidere” from For a Few Dollars More, or “Faccia a Faccia” from the Sergio Sollima film) and some of the more extravagant avant-garde selections (like Morricone’s compositions for Dario Argento or the material John Zorn memorably interpreted on The Big Gundown with vocalist Shelley Hirsch). After whetting the appetite with this marvelous souffle, it would be a treat to hear composer-specific collections featuring the hauntingly sensual soprano of Edda Dell’Orso. (_ArtistDirect)
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MP3:Edda Dell’orso - Deserto di Fuoco (Main Titles)
Artist: Edda Dell’orso
Album: Al Cinema con…Edda Dell’orso
Label: Gdm
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