Giant Step:
Kutiman has a new YouTube piece out and it’s kind of rocking our world. Part of hisThruYou series, this one’s a little different; Instead of trawling the web for obscure snippets and masterly weaving them into a single piece of audible glory, Kutiman chose to work from original content this time. Traveling to Jerusalem, he met with and filmed different musicians in the historic and diverse city. The piece is pretty epic; Kuti’s signature treatment serves as a beautiful reminder of how different but similar everything can be. Take a look at previous works of Kutiman we’ve posted, as well.
New FREE summer jam from Jamiroquai. Get happy!
Stevie Wonder x Charlie Brown - Shoo Be Doo Be Doo Be Doo Da Day (1968)
Happy Friday!
New album coming from guitar goddess Annie Clark AKA St. Vincent, “Strange Mercey” out 9.13.11 on 4AD
Enjoy this in-store performance.
SAMIYAM
“SAM BAKER’S ALBUM”
(Brainfeeder)Download the track here from XLR8R: http://t.co/y3UlBdP
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Blazing back onto the radar with one of the most anticipated and long-awaited albums yet on Brainfeeder is SAMIYAM. Sam Baker’s Album is 40 minutes of deviant listening pleasure, a series of woozy, off-center hip hop instrumentals drawing heavily on Baker’s love of electronic funk but never obligated to it.
Intensely detailed and carrying considerable emotional weight, this is not Rap Beats Vol. 2, but rather an album of fully realized tracks that stand on their own, knee-deep in the groove and bent to the side. Sludgy, chunky beats mesh with organic sounds and fractured stops and starts, all coming together like the pieces of a demented dream.
SAMIYAM moved to Los Angeles from Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2006; in his short time on the West Coast he has become one of the city’s most progressive and recognized producers, a man who has helped spearhead the revival of interest in instrumental hip-hop music. His album Rap Beats Vol. 1 was the first release on the Brainfeeder label, and SAMIYAM’s raw hip hop sound with a psychedelic edge and off-kilter beats could be called quintessential Brainfeeder style.
Keep Glidin’ (unmastered/unreleased) - DāM-FunK
Solar Bears - Dream Valley (Young Montana? Rework)
SYSTM - Videodrone.
You’re gonna want to here this:
Gilles is joined by highly respected and highly praised drummer, Richard Spaven. Having drummed for the likes of the late Guru, the Robert Mitchell 3io, 4Hero, Jose James, Cinematic Orchestra and Mark De Clive Lowe to name a few, Richie has in recent times broken ground as an artist in his own right and his debut album in the Jazz re:freshedseries shows just what the man is capable of.
The two talk about his latest album, playing in Dubai and working with great artists, as well as playing a bunch of killer music.
Loving how smooth this sounds.
Preview Tom Veks entire upcoming album, Leisure Seizure, over at hypem
New track from Washed Out AKA Ernest Greene
via Gorilla vs. Bear
Download the opener from Washed Out’s forthcoming debut LP Within and Without, out July 12on Sub Pop
