January 2012
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Cecilia Stalin | Step Like A Giant [Preview]
Cecilia Stalin, Swedish-jazz vocalist [based in London] has been on hiatus for a little while so you can imagine how pleased we were to hear her latest project, Step Like A Giant !
The album pays homage to those who’ve layed the jazz groundwork for Cecilia and so many progressive jazz artists along the way. It is really a beautiful tribute.
Here is a both thoughtful and insightful note...
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Sabo | Berlin | Moombahton Mix
NYC’s DJ Sabo just posted up a super eclectic, midtempo Moombahton mix he created for DJ Shir Khan’s Berlin radio show. Some amazing gems on this one!
Enjoy!
Sabo Berlin Moombahton Mix by SolSelectas
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Unreleased Domu Surfaces
Spotted on one of our favorite blogs, Nutriot out of Brazil, we’ve found some 60 tracks previously unreleased by retired broken-beat master Domu. Enjoy this collection of some epic music, music that very few people are creating or will create again.
Domu “Unreleased, Alternate Versions and Demos” by TwoHungryGhosts
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Shafiq Husayn | The Loop Preview
WOOT! An official behind-the-scenes look at Shafiq Husayn’s forthcoming album, The Loop. An incredibly talented producer and curator of sounds so needless to say we are seriously looking forward to his next project.
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Pursuit Grooves | Let's Do It Winter
Pursuit Grooves a.k.a Vanese Smith, Brooklyn-based self-branded “soultronic” MC/producer/vocalist and then some is breaking in the new year with some fresh sounds. The latest, “Let’s Do It Winter” jam + video is an ode to the season complete with spaced out beats, crunchy percussion and a lovely mellow flow from PG herself. A second offering comes in the form of a...
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Robert Glasper | Black Radio Preview
Musical genius Robert Glasper curates some of the most influencial artists in their genre to create new jazz-based project, Black Radio to be released February 28, 2012 on legendary imprint Blue Note Records. Black Radio will include Erykah Badu, yasiin bey (Mos Def), Lupe Fiasco, Ledisi, KING, Chrisette Michele, Lalah Hathaway, Mshell N’Degeocello, Stokley, Shafiq Husayn, Musiq Soulchild,...
December 2011
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Mint Collective's Most Epic of 2011
We’ve been sifting through 2012’s stand-out music, events, mixes and much more and wanted to call out some amazing contributions we’ve seen both on and offline.
It’s been an epic year of infinite blessings shared worldwide and it’s most definitely our pleasure [and mission] to share with you some of the things we find. We appreciate the support from all of you...
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Trackademicks | Cherry 2k
Surfing through a sea of incoming tracks on Soundcloud and just came up on some amazingly fresh instrumentals from Bay Area Honor Roll fam’s Trackademicks. Beware - this is some sexy, grown people music! Nice way to close out the year!
Enjoy the continuous play of 4 tracks below and here and cop the separate tracks here.
Trackademicks- Cherry 2000 by The Honor Roll
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José James Interview
José James has masterfully combined jazz, hip hop, soul and freestyle elements into his music, has propelled some of the most epic musical projects of the past few years and is poised to elevate genre-blending consciousness for many years to come. From covering Coltrane’s “Equinox” - which got the attention of worldwide musical tastemaker Gilles Peterson who later put out his...
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DJ Ele | Winter Warmth
Minty fam’s own DJ Ele hits that deep house sweet spot again. Peep her “heartbeat” track we posted a few months back here. Yes, that is a picture of San Diego in the wintertime :)
Winter Warmth by Deejayele
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Quantic & Alice Russell Album Announced
An angel came down from heaven when we found out that two of our favorite artists of ALL TIME are joining forces to release an album next year! Quantic, the dynamic producer and live performer who’s been putting out amazingly unique and groundbreaking music for 10+ years under his own name, with his Combo Barbaro, Soul Orchestra and Flowering Inferno is back with yet another splendid...
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Eavesdrop Radio | Broken Beat Special
Our favorite Philly Radio show, Eavesdrop Radio, does it again with an amazing broken beat throwback episode. This is a nice reminder of the genre - that some of us often forget but love nevertheless. Thanks to Junior and Lil’ Dave for always keeping it fresh.
Download
New Sector Movements - The Sun ft. Dwele Eska’s World - Dream Saftey Mark de Clive Lowe - Relax Unwind Mark Force -...
November 2011
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Dirg Gerner | Preface EP
The Preface EP is launching on Ho Tep Records (London) from the mysterious Dirg Gerner featuring an all-star cast including Rahel, Fatima and Olmino. Drawing on soul, jazz, latin, hip hop and beyond the ep is a deep and colorfully layered affair, organic and warm, it displays an array of instruments and styles.
Lead track ‘My Queen’ is a dusty and delicate, blue eyed soul ode, ...
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The Future of Funk II | Moovmnt
The homies over at Moovmnt are back with their second installation of Future Funk and it is fantastic. Stream, download, enjoy!
The Future of Funk 2 by Moovmnt
Tracklist 01 ARP 101 - Groove 02 Jon Phonics - The One 03 813 - Street Beats, Big Cloks 04 Sasac - Bourgies Must Chill 05 Def Chronic - Apple Juice 06 Bobby Tank - Tangent 07 DāM-FunK - Forever 08 Opolopo - Hexagon Love 09 East...
October 2011
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Bob Marley | "Chances R" | Red Astaire re.dub
Some new sounds from Stockholm’s Freddie Cruger aka Red Astaire have recently surfaced reminding us why there is a need for his niche sound in this musical landscape. Known since the early 90’s for his eclectic mashing of soul, funk, hip hop, Latin rhythms and dub - Red Astaire has been consistently throwing down fantastic music for party people worldwide. Play his music for your...
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Mike Baker The Bike Maker | Mike Plays It Cool
Got a back yard BBQ sneak-peek of Mike Baker The Bike Maker’s project a few weeks ago while we were visiting NY and thought “dayum, this shit is bangin’!” Big shouts to Mike and the whole bay area HonorRoll crew holding it down from east to west coast. This is Mike’s latest project and he definitely plays it cool. Listen, enjoy, download, share, dowhatchulike.
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M.E.D. - Blaxican Prod. Madlib
“Blaxican,” produced by Madlib from the album Classic dropping November 1 on Stones Throw.
Director: Eric Coleman (Mochilla); Editor: Luke Lynch; Camera Operators: Coleman, B+, and Mike Park; Producer: Maribel Chavez.
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Sarah White | Space Madness
Photo - Quazimotto.on.wax | Album Art - Neglakay Productions
A special surprise just arrived in our mailbox from Sarah White! Miss White has been making musical moves for quite some time now collaborating with everyone from Rucyl (SNS) to Dhundee to Phantom Lover and more. Her latest project, Space Madness is just that - out of this world beats layered with her sultry vocals and mellow...
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Ele | Heartbeat
Ele comes to us from San Diego, Cali via Sonora, Mexico. She’s been djing with strictly vinyl for 10+ years, always seamlessly blending deep house, drum and bass, hip hop, downtempo and much more. A solid dj, who knows how each sound comes together to create a feeling - Ms. Ele has started dipping into production and has shared her latest, “Heartbeat” track with us....
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The Stuyvesants | The Finer Things Vol. 1&2
These Stuyvesant dudes are kinda killin’ it with their latest double mix comp The Finer Things 1&2. Enjoy [and download] some smoothed out hip hop, funk, soul joints and let them make you feel wepa, namely with the “Last Day of Summer” jam on Vol 2 - so glorious!
“The Finer Things” Vol. 1 by The Stuyvesants
“The Finer Things” Vol. 2 by The Stuyvesants
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Best Of Quantic | Mixed by J.Rocc
Well this obviously needs no introduction. J.Rocc of the World Famous Beat Junkies and one of the best live djs EVER has remixed one of our favorite, continuously innovative producers EVER, Sir Quantic. Amazing.
Best Of Quantic Mix by J.Rocc by Tru Thoughts
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Lowriders Collective | Beatitude
Lowriders Collective Recordings has been putting out quality releases for years now. With the latest installation, Beatitude - the first in a series of 5 comps, reflects the diversity and creative nature of the label.
“Sometimes Beatitude is skewed as a hoop and mad and scary, sometimes funky as hell, sometimesit goes deep into the soul, but always with a special groove! This exciting...
September 2011
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MdCL presents Church vol.3 mixtape
This coming Sunday, October 2, Mark De Clive-Lowe’s monthly LA party CHURCH turns one year old. Over the course of the night CHURCH takes you from a live acoustic jazz trio to an improvised electronic beats session with special guests and guest DJ sets in between and after. You never know who’s going to turn up - whether it’s the likes of Chris Daddy Dave or Ohmega Watts...
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Onra | Change of Heart
Our favorite French boogie-esque producer Onra is back with a fantastic 7” vinyl set to drop on All City Records only in Japan and just in time for his tour in Asia. Enjoy this heavy bass, synthed-out, funky joint then download and party on!
Support the full release here and keep on the lookout for more releases from All City, an amazing label out of Ireland that has been putting out hot...
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Goapele | Play
The Bay Area’s own Goapele is set to drop her 4th album Break of Dawn, at the end of October and needless to say, we are VERY excited! Today she released the lovely, creatively sexy video for “Play” which accompanies the amazing song with Goapele’s voice we have all grown to know and love.
Enjoy “Play” and just as a little throwback, we’ve included...
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VIDEO: SBTRKT | Hold On Feat. Sampha
Minty fam’s own Melinda James (About Her Films) just put together an amazing visual to accompany SBTRKT’S “Hold On” jam featuing the super talented up-and-coming vocalist, Sampha.
“SBTRKT has the illest beats. Sampha has the illest voice. I heard this song one late night and knew I wanted to set visuals to this track. Many thanks to Laura, who laid on her...
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Kinetica | Desencuentro
Emiliana Araya also known as Kinetica - a beat maker, producer, musician, songwriter and singer comes to us from Chile, the most southern tip of South America. Her compositions fuse electronic elements of hip hop with ethereal traditions adding in a dash of nostalgia. Have a listen to her latest jam “Desencuentro”, a super creative remixe of the jam by DJ Dacel and added bonus song...
August 2011
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Hindi Zahra
Gorgeous Parisian vocalist Hindi Zahra is poised to release her first full length masterpiece Handmade in just a few weeks. We’ve long awaited Handmade since first introduced to Hindi’s voice on the Blundetto project. As the mystery behind this amazing voice continued to build, Giant Step - as they tend to do so well, introduced Hindi’s blessings to many worldwide causing quite...
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Full Crate | Woofers & Dirt
Bangin’ new uptempo, broken-beat, dancey mix from Amsterdam’s own Full Crate. Enjoy and download an amazing variety of his other mixes here and his productions here. Thank to Szjerdene for the heads up on this one - check out her equally amazing music here.
Full Crate - Woofers & Dirt by FullCrate
Tracklist
01. Recloose - Electric Sunshine 02. Omar & Zed Bias - It’s So…...
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Pablo Ygál | Scarabs
beautiful mystery…
Scarabs by Pablo Ygál
Bird Tribes Return by Pablo Ygál
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Quantic Podcast by Robert Luis + North American...
We are such huge fans of Quantic - the globally influential artist who over that last 10 years has bridged hip hop with dance, soul with funk and beyond, dub with cumbia and sooooo much more. His musical contributions are so fruitful and to celebrate, Robert Luis (Tru Thoughts A&R) plays some of his favorite Quantic tracks and tells some of the stories behind the music and Quantic’s...
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Excentrik | Dheisheh
Tarik Kazaleh a.k.a Excentrik is a Palestinian-American producer, composer and MC from San Francisco, CA. Tarik began playing guitar and Arabic tabla in 1992 and soon after he began producing hip hop beats in 96’ and went on to perform with some of the finest emcees in the Bay Area and Detroit. He recently teamed up with Zatoon Records to release his Now Here Nowhere album from which...
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AbJo | Sankofa EP
A couple months ago we let you in on the secret known as AbJo, a San Diego-based musical genius making waves worldwide. Recently signed to Soulection, AbJo is slated to release his Sankofa EP shortly which proves to be a masterpiece (listen below) of epic proportion. Not only is AbJo an excellent musician, he is also a very awesome, down-to-earth, stylish dude! We can’t wait to hear more...
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LA Tomorrow - Win Tickets to Strictly Social's 4...
Our good friends at Strictly Social are celebrating their 4 year anniversary tomorrow at Little Temple bar in Los Angeles. For the past 4 years Norman Mayers (Nu Soul Magazine) and Aaron Paar (DJ Destroyer/Umoja Hi Fi) have put together an event that celebrates soul music with a slew of amazing guests like Jessie Boykins III, Mark De Clive Lowe, Sy Smith, Shafiq Husayn, Afta-1, Sa-Ra and many...
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Central Line - Surprise Surprise (O.Boogie Edit)
A nice re-edit of the 1983 jam “Surprise, Surprise” by Central Line from O.Boogie. Super funky and ready for you to jam out to right now!
CENTRAL LINE - SUPRISE SUPRISE (O.BOOGIE EDIT) by oboogie
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Wonway | Makossa Classics V.2
Wonway as painted by Mincho Vega (Trust Your Struggle)
The Bay Area’s own Wonway has been connecting friends and strangers alike through eclectic sounds from coast to coast for years. As his dedication to bringing people together via sound grows stronger, he releases a sequel to his first Makossa Classics mixtape, Makossa Classics V.2. MC V.2 is really an amazing treat for any time of...
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Label Love III
Artwork by the talented Greg Ponstingl
Our L.A. music gem of a gal - Jasmine De La Paz, is back with another amazing installation of Label Love. Label Love’s 1 and 2 were pretty mind blowing - both with eye and ear-opening hidden treats that left you wanting more! Label Love 3 is yet another beautifully compiled sampling of unreleased music from some of the best independent labels...
July 2011
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∂eƒS❍und & NiKK❍ GR▲Y | Lunar.Sun.Light
Once again beautiful love music from these two.
Enjoy.
www.DefSound.Bandcamp.com www.NikkoGray.Bandcamp.com
<a href=”http://defgray.bandcamp.com/track/lunar-sun-light” _mce_href=”http://defgray.bandcamp.com/track/lunar-sun-light”>Lunar.Sun.Light. by ∂eƒS❍und &amp; NiKK❍ GR▲Y</a>
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Amy Winehouse
“Amy was about LOVE” -Mitch Winehouse, Amy’s Father
I never thought I would be so saddened by the death of a creative artist that I never had a physical connection with. But, the truth is, I cried when I learned Amy Winehouse passed this last weekend. She was such an amazingly talented singer/songwriter that served as a huge source of inspiration and creative energy for me....
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Dark Time Sunshine - "All Aboard" feat/ Reva...
Dark Time Sunshine is comprised of Onry Ozzborn of Grayskul (Rhymesayers) and producer Zavala. Apparently they came out with an album Vessel last year that we totally slept on! In particular we just found this song with our girl Reva Devito, who’s sultry, soulful voice can make any song sound like gold.
Enjoy
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noon ep | Ichiro_
Just found some amazing spaced out melodic beats from Japan’s own Ichiro_. Every track from the noon ep is so rad that we’ve previewed them all below. Buy the EP for just $3.00 on Ichiro’s bandcamp and support good music! Thanks to Shigeto for the heads up!
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June 2011
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Mux Mool Interview
What do you get when you grow up going to raves, listen to Wu Tang and have a dad who makes you personal mixtapes? Mux Mool. What the heck is a Mux Mool? Nobody really knows what this name means as it was given to Brian Lindgren as a idea for his music project via a Myspace bulletin in 2006 (remember those?). Besides rolling off the tongue nicely, Mux Mool has absolutely no deep meaning,...
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The Park | The Process
The Bay Area’s The Park rules. They’ve been teasing us with a track here and track there leading up to this amazing project The Process which they finally layed on us yesterday. The Process is the perfect combination of soul, funk, rock and roll guitar and glorious melody. Support fabulous music here.
theparkmusic.com
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Favorite Flava | VII
Erik Lidén, Mattias Axelsson and Paul Mac Innes are Sweeden’s Favorite Flava. Been following their funky, eletronic neo-soul for quite some time and happy to say they have a new (lovely) single “VII” out this week on Exceptional Records. Enjoy VII below and check their Facebook to hear the B Side.
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Nikko Gray | LIVE @ t h e br e a th
Photo By: Chris Captain Last weekend marked the first m o o n f e s t i v a l in Pamona, CA with many of the fest happenings going down at The Breath, a boutique label, gallery, & workshop of artist ken barrientos (KenBTS). We just came across a whole live set from the uber talented Nikko Gray from last weekend’s m o o n f e s t i v a l and really wanted to share it with all of you. ...
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Dego (2000Black, 4Hero) Interview
The intersections of music always create a unique space for exciting, new sounds to rise. Intimately involved with the creation and propagation of future music for the past couple of decades, Dennis “Dego” McFarlane, half of the super group 4Hero, is putting out his first solo album. Over the years Dego has experimented and lead new developments within drum and bass, hip hop,...
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Tenka | Summer Nights
Wow, totally overwhelmed by the absolute raw, awesomeness of “Summer Nights”. Recorded and produced by the mysterious Tenka, this dubstep-soulhop kind of jam blends simple vocals with even simpler keys and bassline.
Download, enjoy.
Tenka - Summer Nights by TENKA
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FreeLVE | DICE - w/ Albert Vargas
“Dice” is the first release off of the upcoming FreeLVE Compilation coming out this summer which features Albert Vargas, Mr. Familiar and Jesus “Zues” Muñoz. Download, share + enjoy!
http://Twitter.com/FreeLve
http://Twitter.com/_AlbertVargas
http://Twitter.com/MrFamiliar
Free LVE - Dice ft. Albert Vargas by LE Music Group
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Soulection | Summer SOULstice | Mixed By Andre...
Another amazing mix of music for your summer cruisin’, chillin’, ragin’ or art goonin’ from our family over at Soulection.
Summer SOULstice by SOULECTION
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