The abundance of quality mixtapes and free downloads that I alluded to in Monday’s post has kept me pretty preoccupied over the last year or so. That’s awesome and all, because it’s renewed my faith in a format I’d become disenchanted with and given me countless new reasons to love Hip-Hop and appreciate it’s […]
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Tagged Adrock, Animal Collective, Bark Bark Bark, Beck, Izza Kizza, Justice, MC 900 ft Jesus, Mgmt, Muse, The Mae Shi, The Mars Volta, Yea Big + Kid Static
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Yesterday I bigged up Blueprint for sampling classic Soul. Today I’ve gotta give it up to some folks who are recreating that vintage Soul sound the old fashioned way. Yeah, I know, the whole retro-Soul thing is like the biggest fad of the last two years and everything. But being the ubiquitous […]
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Tagged Amy Winehouse, Baby Charles, Gladys Knight, James brown, Kylie Auldist, Mavis Staples, Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators, Nina Simone, Ohio Players, Prince, Rick James, The Bamboos, The Supremes
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It wasn’t billed as a mixtape like those profiled yesterday but Columbus, Ohio-based emcee/producer Blueprint’s Blueprint vs. Funkadelic project from earlier this Summer might as well have been one. Its underlying concept, building tracks on samples from Funkadelic songs, bordered on the sort of mashup-style shenanigans mixtapes are often made of these days. […]
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Tagged 100dBs & Ryan O'Neil, Blu, Blueprint, Cool Calm Pete, Elliot Smith, Envelope, EPMD, Funkadelic, Iller Than Theirs, Jeff Buckly, Junk Science, Marley Marl, Nuclear Family, P.O.S., RZA, Slick Rick, Wu-Tang Clan
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When I started slipping posts about mixtapes into my blog repertoire last year I felt it necessary to point out that I had been turned off by the whole mixtape subculture for a number of years. Regardless of my reasons (and if you really want to know what they were, you can go back […]
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Tagged 88 Keys, Amanda Blank, Andre3000, Aretha Franklin, Benga, Benny Blanco, Chill Will, Crookers, Desmond Dekker, Devo, Diplo, Dirt Nasty, DLake, Fred Wesley, Gnarls Barkley, J. Dilla, J. Rocc, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Kid Sister, Kylie Minogue, Lazy K, Lil Wayne, LL Cool J, M.I.A., Madonna, N.E.R.D., Nelly Furtado, Panda Bear, Plain Pat, Radioclit, Ratatat, Rhettmatic, Rye Rye, Santogold, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Sister Nancy, Soulja Boy, Spank Rock, The B-52's, The Clash, The Count & Sinden, The Dixie Cups, The Mamas & The Papas, The Village People, Wale, Yelle, Young Dro
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I alluded to it last Friday, but I just haven’t been in the mood to revisit grit-encrusted pieces of vinyl the last couple of weeks. I’m positive this is due in large part to my own familiarity with my collection. And when I say familiarity I mean it. These are albums I […]