Will Sessions – Mix Takes: Take One & Two (Videos)

Will Sessions:

Bryan Arnold: Drums
Sam Beaubien: Keyboards
Ryan Gimpert: Guitar
Eric Kacir: Percussion, MPC1000
Tim Shellabarger: Bass, Synth Bass

impressed with the meticulous craftsmanship of their studio re-workings of the classic tracks on “The Elmatic Instrumentals.” With their new two-part video “Mix Takes,” the five-piece band is taking a similar approach in recreating some of their favorite songs--only this time it was all recorded and filmed live in real time.    Whether referencing music by jazz greats Herbie Hancock and Bob James or reinterpreting beats by J Dilla, Madlib, and Black Milk, it’s all presented with seamless transitions in the style of a mixtape, and “Mix Takes” both showcases the band’s individual talents and reflects the airtight performances that have made them one of the hottest live bands in Detroit.

The "Mix Takes" LP is available as a limited edition vinyl pressing.

#wishlisted

0hbliv - "RawOasis" Beat Tape

0hbliv released the refreshing instrumental "RawOasis" on Jul. 22, 2011; yet, it wasn't until yesterday that I was fortunate enough to enjoy the euphony of this project.


According to 0hbliv RO is:

A few previously released Soundcloud favorites plus one.

0hbliv's songs are unassuming.  Each is long enough to inspire another listen both now and later.


RO will steal your soundwaves, unperceived. 

Jaylib | Louder (Blast Your Radio Theme)

Jaylib - Louder (Blast Your Radio Theme)

From the Madlib Medicine Show #11: Low Budget High Fi Music here is a track from Madlib & J Dilla from their never-realized second album.

Jaylib was formed in 2002 as Madlib + Dilla recorded separately in Los Angeles + Detroit. Their one album, Champion Sound, was released in 2003.  When J Dilla moved to Los Angeles, he, Madlib + J Rocc began doing shows together as Jaylib, performing together for the first time at the Madvillain record release party in April 2004.

Madlib + Dilla collaborated primarily through the exchange of beat tapes, occasionally reworking each others material, or chopping the same beat in a kind of recorded call-and-response.


+SoundCloud

*Words plagiarized from ST.

J Period + Black Thought Present "The Live Mixtape" (Illadelph Edition)

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+J.Period + Black Thought “Live Mixtape (Illadelph Edition)” EP

100 Akres | The Janet Jackson Beat Tape [Update]

 

Finally, giving this mix a spin (listen).

Review forthcoming.


UPDATE

The percussion on "Wait B*tch" will encourage rain dancing in hurricane season.

The Clyde Stubblefield - "Funky Drummer" drums in "Pleasure 4 Janet" caught me by surprise - producers haven't touched these staple drums is ages. The drums are hard and push this R&B nugget to its extreme.

"Control Me" is what I come to know as signature 100 Akres - Hip-Hop overtones with Caribbean Caribana festive touched drums and ambient electro-funk that waft like kites in beach wind.

"ThinkofWHO" is the "digital confetti" that expositions, whether or not this Beat Tape keeps you on your feet throughout your listen or not, that 100 Akres is "dumb-nice".

In total, the short length of this Beat Tape along with the four weaker songs I didn't comment on left me wanting more of 100 Akres' interpolations of JJ.

Be it as it may, on balance, life is short and all else follows and throughout 100 Akres instrumentals will continue to blare from my speakers.

Keep It Thoro | Mixtape

 Hot off presses or at least - hot off being uploaded to SoundCloud last night.

This is how Hip-Hop should be converged + paired.

  Keep It Thoro by yasboogie

Tracklist available after the jump.

More after the jump…

Beat-Maker-Beat (BMB) AKA Space Kid | MacroKosmos

 

Friday perfect!

Experimental, spacey ambiance of dubstep jabbed with real-time, well-timed, electro/future-jazz constituents bound by the bravado of hip-hop drum bounce glue.

Dopeness.

Do the math.

MacroKosmos = d/l.

 

*Fir(1)st spotted at Moovmnt .

++BMB MySpace + Twitter.

Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names

 

Names x (Hip-Hop + Rap) x Taxonomy =Grand nomenclatorial flowcharting.

Learn something! 

+Full-sized chart courtesy of WFDJ.

Freddie Joachim | Olive Juice (Love Remixes v1)

Free downloads for the first 500 (minus 1, me,= ~499). 

"Olive Juice" finds Freddie J remixing tracks from arstist such as, Alicia Keys, Esthero, Floetry and Vikter Duplaix; inluding, an FJ original: I Want To Know (256kbps).

Freddie Joachim other releases can be found at Mellow Orange.

 

*MP3 courtesy of Moovmnt.

Koen | Output

Making it possible to function on a Monday is this wondrous se(7)ven tracker by @koenblocnotes.

I'd buy a car made on Monday, if and only if (mathematical probability), the assembly-aligned auto-industrious workers jammed to Koen's Output .

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble f. Bilal | Someday We'll All Be Free (Donny Hathaway Cover)

 

From MIguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble Live In Los Angeles, Jul. 23, 2010

Released: Aug. 16, 2010

Produced: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

Co-Produced: Andrew Lojero

Recording + Mixing Engineer: Benjamin Tierney

Features

Bilal (vocals)

Flying Lotus (laptop)

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (violin)

Evan Francis (flute)

Dontae Winslow (trumpet)

Joey Dosik (alto sax)

Kamasi Washington (tenor sax)

Garrett Smith (trombone)

Rebekah Raff (harp)

Marcel Camargo (guitar)

Brandon Coleman (keys)

Stephen 'Thundercat' Bruner (bass)

Chris 'Daddy' Dave (drums)

Nikki Campbell (percussion) 

+As this is a cover of Donny Hathaway – Someday We'll All Be Free please visit DG to check out the Donny Hathaway – Someday We'll All Be Free (4CD set).

*Post inspired by Rappamelo.

DJ Premier | Malcom McLaren Tribute Mix

Malcolm Mclaren Tribute Mix by Dj Premier Blog Radio on Mixcloud

Malcom McLaren passed away on April 8, 2010; warrantably, DJ Premier pays homage to McLaren reawakening an uncounted legacy consigned to oblivion.

My MM anamnesis sings, "...buffalo gals go ’round the outside, ’round  the outside, ’round the outside..."

Hats off to o(1)ne of Hip-Hop’s silent pioneers.

+Modcast |  #46: Malcolm McLaren Mixtape (48min | 66mb).

Apatight | AyePee Beat Library v3

Producers I Know brings you the thir(3)d and final part of this thr(3)ee-part series in the form of the AyePee Beat Library.

Pro — v3 was finally released. Con — this series had ended.

Illvibe Blends | Mashups, Mixes + Re-Edits

Hashtag synopsis #thereitis.



*(c) IVC

Eternia x MoSS | The BBQ (Remix) f. Tiye Phoenix + Jean Grae

From Eternia + MoSS "At Last" EP.



Hashtag synopsis #ladiesfirst.

*Murs Pontificates On The Lack Of Women In Hip-Hop | SB

Apatight | AyePee Beat Library v1 + v2

Fir(1)st spotted at RIK.

Producers I Know brings you the fir(1)st + seco(2)nd part of this th(3)ree-part series in the form of the AyePee Beat Library electro, golden-era — drum-laden, Hip-Hop instrumentals.

Effortlessly actualizes nod-bop (nonsexual).

Turbidity

REDEYE GRAVY



Chubb Rock featuring Howie Tee 'Caught Up' From: And The Winner Is... (Select, 1989) is the GOP's leitmotif.
Now You Tell Us... by Eric Alterman discusses the role of newspapers and blogs in exposing the Bush administration's firing of eight federal attorneys.


*Turbidity
*Redeye gravy - as a vegetarian gravy made from ham and coffee (which I love) is a rather nauseating hodgepodge slurry thusly less for food and more for repointing mortar joints in historic masonry.
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