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    Black Milk “Synth Or Soul” Pre-Order & Stream | @Black_Milk


    Although now sold out on vinyl, Black Milk and Upendo Taylor‘s collaborative Synth Or Soul project is available for stream and digital pre-order. The instrumental project is the first installment of his visual art and sound series entitled Fuzz, Freqs & Colors. You can pre-order digital now via iTunes.

    Black Milk collaborates with illustrator Upendo “Pen” Taylor (Nike, Leroy Jenkins, Gatorade) for the music-meets-visual instrumental/art series Fuzz, Freqs & Colors (FFC). Synth or Soul is the first volume in the FFC series. The process for each volume starts with Black and Pen trading beats and sketches and refining their works along the way. Throughout that exchange, the music is shaped by the visual art and the visual art is shaped by the music.


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    Black Milk “Computer Ugly Ugly/Why Worry?” | @black_milk


    Black Milk is back with another double up of new tracks. This go round its for his upcoming instrumental album Synth or Soul dropping 4/20/13 which you can pre-order here. Read more about the release below.

    Black Milk collaborates with illustrator Upendo “Pen” Taylor (Nike, Leroy Jenkins, Gatorade) for the music-meets-visual instrumental series Fuzz, Freqs & Colors (FFC). Synth or Soul is the first volume in the FFC series. The process for each volume starts with Black and Pen trading beats and sketches and refining their works along the way. Throughout that exchange, the music is shaped by the visual art and the visual art is shaped by the music.

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  • Adrian Younge x The Delfonics ft. Souls Of Mischief “Stop And Look” (Black Milk Remix) | @black_milk @SOMHIERO @AdrianYounge

    Adrian Young:Delfonics

    Check this single from Adrian Younge‘s upcoming remix album with the Delfonics. Nice.

    “Stop and Look,” the first single off Adrian Younge Presents the Delfonics, dropped back in December and pretty much blew our minds. William’s voice was so pure and Adrian’s symphonic production was so lush. So, we are super pleased to give you guys the remix of that amazing track, which features production by Detroit MC Black Milk and rhymes by Cali hip-hop legends Souls of Mischief. Look out for the album on March 12.

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  • Nottz “In My Mind” (EP Stream) | @NottzRaw



    VA producer/mc Nottz is geared up to release In My Mind tomorrow, and you can stream the album now on Spin. The line up on here is nice including features by Black Milk, Asher Roth, Pusha T, and Pete Rock to name a few. Be sure to cop the album when it drop on iTunes.

    Via: SPIN

    On “What Would You Do” off Nottz’s In My Mind, the masterful boom-bap beatmaker and gruff, ornery rapper threatens to take out any producers who swipe one of his basslines. It’s a funny though genuine threat from someone who takes their craft quite seriously, having built their reputation by lacing major label rap albums with the right kind of hard-ass, irregular hip-hop (Kanye West’s “Barry Bonds” and G-Unit’s “Footprints”). In My Mind teams Nottz up with other sample-slicing virtuoso producers with worker bee rap skills like Pete Rock, Black Milk, and the Alchemist, as well as MCs Royce Da 5’9, Asher Roth, and Pusha T, all the while, circling a “real hip-hop” sound (sorry!) that isn’t afraid to deviate from the formula: A dreamy country-soul sample bookends the title track; crunchy metal guitars rip through “Blast That”; blaxploitation score congos vibrate at footwork-speed on “The 1Ne”; there’s widescreen Rick Ross-ian yacht rap on “You Need This Music,” featuring Pusha and Dwele; and on “Cars,” the sound of a car honking is used like an old-school soul horn stab. In My Mind is available on iTunes tomorrow, but you can stream it below, exclusively at SPIN.

    Stream In My Mind: SPIN

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    Black Milk “Claps&Slaps Tour: Episode 1 & 2″ Video | @BlackMilk


    Episode 1


    Episode 2

    Check these out.

    Black Milk recently finished his US “Claps&Slaps” Tour alongside J. Pinder and ADd+. FLüD Watches and director Erick Lee traveled with Black Milk throughout the US to document the tour, capturing live performance footage, and more. Enjoy episode 2 where Black Milk talks about record digging and his process for sampling records. Director Erick Lee also captured some funny moments while shopping for records with Black Milk and band at Groove Merchant in San Francisco.

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  • Slum Village “The Dirty Slums” Release | @SlumVillage313

    Here’s a new release from Slum Village that dropped a few days ago. T3, Young RJ, and Illa J continue to keep SV alive on this with the help from Black Milk, Phonte, Big Sean, De La Soul and others. Check the track listing below and you can grab it HERE.

    01. Mick Boogie & nVMe Intro
    02. God Sent (f/ Rapper Big Pooh & Vice)
    03. Just The Past (f/ Big Sean & Black Milk)
    04. Music (f/ Focus)
    05. Slum Talks About The Evolution
    06. Hunger (f/ Vice & Focus…)
    07. Church (f/ Focus…)
    08. Fresh (f/ Rapper Big Pooh & Vice)
    09. Turnin Me Off (f/ De La Soul)
    10. Slum Talks About Native Tongues
    11. Beats and Breaks
    12. Special (f/ Phonte)
    13. They Say Remix (f/ Rapper Big Pooh & Phife)
    14. The Hard Way (f/ Focus… & Joe Scudda)
    15. Slum Talks About The Legacy
    16. They Don’t Know (f/ Vice & J Ivy)
    17. Mortal Kombat (f/ Vice & DJ Bonics)
    18. Slum Talks About The Future
    19. Da Essence (f/ Vice)
    20. Reppin

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    BDTB Presents: Favorite Releases of 2011



    We decided a few weeks ago to put together a list of our favorite projects this year. Locally, globally, hip hop, eclectic, and instrumental wise. We also want to state that this is by no means a “best of” list, just the projects that Jay Diff and myself were bumping and/or feeling the most. We each chose 25 hip hop releases, 10 eclectic and/or instrumental releases, and came together and chose a few local projects. We suggest you check out anything we post, but being said, we REALLY suggest checking out these projects:

    = we both selected it
    g = seangevity chose it
    d = jay diff chose it

    Favorite Hip Hop Releases:
    Action Bronson – Well Done () [Buy]
    Big K.R.I.T. – Return of Forever () [Free]
    Common – The Dreamer, The Believer () [Buy]
    Danny Brown – XXX () [Free]
    Grumpy Old Men – Sunday Skool () [Free]
    Kendrick Lamar – Section 80 () [Buy]
    Mighty High Coup – Boom Rap () [Buy]
    Pac Div – The Div () [Buy]
    Pharoahe Monch – W.A.R. () [Buy]
    Phonte – Charity Starts at Home () [Buy]
    Random Axe – Random Axe () [Buy]
    Skyzoo – The Great Debater () [Free]
    The Roots – undun () [Buy]
    Torae – For The Record () [Buy]
    9th Wonder – The Wonder Years (d) [Buy]
    Astronote – Weapon of the Future (g) [Free]
    Charlie Smarts – LowBottomMe (g) [Free]
    Co$$ – Before I Awoke (g) [Buy]
    DTMD – Makin Dollas (g) [Buy]
    Elzhi – Elmatic (d) [Buy]
    Evidence – Cats & Dogs (g) [Buy]
    Exile – 4trk Mind (g) [Buy]
    Fabolous – The S.O.U.L. Tape (d) [Free]
    Game – The R.E.D. Album (d) [Buy]
    J. Cole – Cole World: The Sideline Story (d) [Buy]
    Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne (d) [Buy]
    Laws – Yesterday’s Future (g) [Free]
    Local Nobodies (Sulaiman & Mathien) – One (g) [Free]
    Luckyiam – I Love Haters (g) [Buy]
    Meek Mill – Dreamchasers (d) [Free]
    Rapsody – For Everything (d) [Free]
    Saigon – Greatest Story Never Told (d) [Buy]
    Statik Selektah – Population Control (g) [Buy]
    TiRon & Ayomari – A Sucker For Pumps (d) [Buy]
    Thurz – LA Riots (g) [Buy]
    Wale – Eleven One Eleven Theory (d) [Free]

    Favorite Eclectic/Instrumental/Other Releases (Not Hip Hop):
    Iman Omari – Energy () [Free]
    Mayer Hawthorne – How Do You Do () [Buy]
    14KT – 14 Killa Tape (g) [Free]
    Apollo Brown – Clouds (g) [Stream/Buy]
    Eric Lau – Quadrivium (g) [Stream/Buy]
    Eric Roberson – Mister Nice Guy (d) [Buy]
    flaKo – Carving Away The Clay (d) [Stream/Buy]
    Frank Ocean – Ultra Nostalgia (d) [Free]
    Hawthorne Headhunters – Myriad of Now (g) [Stream/Buy]
    J*DaVeY – New Designer Drug (g) [Buy]
    Jhene Aiko – Sailing Sounds (d) [Free]
    Nicolay & The Hot at Nights – Shibuya Sessions EP (d) [Stream/Buy]
    Nikkiya – Speakher (d) [Free]
    Mecca:83 – Life Scetches (Volume 1 & 2) (g) [Stream/Buy]
    Radio Galaxy – We Come In Peace (d) [Stream/Buy]
    Sunclef – The Tesseract (g) [Free]
    The Weeknd – House of Balloons (d) [Free]
    Vlooper – COPYCAT (a Dilla Tribute) (g) [Free]

    Favorite Local Hip Hop Releases:
    alpha.live – Soul Cinema [Free]
    Blake Allee – My Best Friends Are Machines [Free]
    Future5ive – Somewhere in August [Free]
    J.Brookinz & Grey Granite – Gateway 2 [Free]
    Hinx Jones – Frozen Liquor [Stream/Buy/Free]
    Mr. Kinetik – Sounds of Soul [Stream/Buy]
    Mr. Kinetik & Rusty Redenbacher – The Professor & The Hustler [Free]
    Roskoh Deyvis – Welcome to the Wiz [Stream]
    Scoot Dubbs – The Time Has Come EP [Free]
    Skittz – Rhymestrong [Stream/Buy]
    The Proforms – Atavism [Buy]
    Tony Styxx – It’s Bigger Than Me [Stream/Buy/Free]

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    BDTB Presents: BDTB’s Favorite B-Side Tracks of 2011 (Release)



    Well, it’s that time of year again. Here are some of my favorite B-Side joints from this last year. Obviously, there are a lot more I would have liked to add, but give this a listen and get up on some cats you may have been sleeping on! If you missed last years, it’s still available here. Enjoy, and happy holidays to all.

    DOWNLOAD

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  • Ro Spit “The Glass Ceiling Project” Release | @OhShitRoSpit



    Released about a week ago, Ro Spit let go The Glass Ceiling Project on Bandcamp (free) and iTunes (purchase). The album features the talents of Freeway, 14KT, Phil Ade, Jon Connor, Black Milk, Guilty Simpson, and many others. Grab this.


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