MP3 Download: Sulaiman- Stay Cool

Chi Town MC Sulaiman drops off a fresh new summer track to stay cool with. Be on the look out for his upcoming record, We're Just Disappointed, with fellow Brainiac Society MC Vic Spencer coming at you very soon.


Download: Sulaiman- Stay Cool (Prod. Raw Stiles)

Video/MP3 Download: Black Spade- I Heart ft. Simeon & Vic Spencer

"i Heart" Black Spade from Drew Jordan on Vimeo.

I'm not too familiar with the versatile musician out of St. Louis known as Black Spade (other than the infamous Chuck Hamilton beat stealing debacle), but now I am all ears.

I Heart is a track off his upcoming mix tape, Build & Destroy, presented by The Smoking Section, Union LA, and Trackstar the DJ. The track features a nicely flipped Beatles sample, as well as vocal assistance from Simeon of The Primeridian and Vic Spencer.

Video above, download below.

Download: Black Spade- I Heart ft. Simeon and Vic Spencer

Sahtyre- Friday Raps (Week 1 & 2)

Sahtyre. Swim Team. Los Angeles. Recognize.

MP3 Download: Incise- Paving the Way ft. Okay City, Shad K and David Morin

In 2008 Canadian producer Incise came out of nowhere to share his debut record Nobody's Story, which featured numerous guest spots from Tunji, Muneshine, The 49ers, Don Cerino, and spotlighted his dreamy, feel good production talents that was then unknown. This year Incise brings us Daily Methods, which features almost the exact same cast, but a more polished and put together end product. This boast is proven in one track (my personal favorite) called Paving the Way-- an infectious tropical banger to blast on your next boat trip through the jungle.


Daily Methods (Goontrax) is currently only available in Japan, but keep your eyes peeled for a US release.


Download: Incise- Paving the Way ft. Okay City, Shad K and David Morin

MP3 Downloads: Raujika & Cradle Orchestra- The World Outside In ft. Othello (Remix) + City of Twilight

Jay love Japan and so does Ryan.

Over the years I have shouted from the hilltops numerous times just how much I love the jazzy hip hop instrumentals and collaborations making their way out of the land of the rising sun each year. After finding a new world of sounds through Nujabes, I continued to absorb beautiful compositions from Mabanua, Shingo Suzuki, Cradle Orchestra, Samon Kawamura, and many more-- each with their own style and twist on jazz laced hip hop, but all share a pristine sense of how to compose a serene and, well, beautiful hip hop track.

How many times have you said "that was a beautiful hip hop track" in your lifetime?

Composer/Violinist Raujika made me say that once again with the smooth remix of Cradle Orchestra's collaboration with one of my favorite American MC's, Othello, in The World Outside In. This track is featured on Raujika's debut record, Fairy Tale; a dreamy japanese record full of glistening classical compositions wrapped in boom baps. The record is available on iTunes and various Japanese online retailers now via Pallete Sounds.

Here is the Othello track and a bonus instrumental track from the record below.



Download: Cradle Orchestra- The World Outside In ft. Othello (Raujika Remix)


Download: Raujika- City of Twilight

Free MP3 Downloads: BLEE- The Beyond Here ft. Othello + Everything I Do ft. Substantial

Fresh off the release of his 2009 debut record, Solution, South Korean born producer BLEE connects with some familiar friends-- Othello, Substantial, Supastition, Mainflow, Wise Intelligent, and more-- to bring us an exciting new album full of sporadic jazzy collaborations and instrumental interludes entitled Cosmos Road.

It's obvious who BLEE connects best with (Supastition, Substantial, and Othello) and the obvious  disconnection with the other artists make the record sound confused and out of place at times. Despite the haphazard feel to the album, BLEE continues to grind and provides us jazz heads another cool collection of conscious candy to ride to in 2010. You can't go wrong with these four below.


Download: BLEE- The Beyond Here ft. Othello


Download: BLEE- Everything I Do ft. Substantial


Download: BLEE- Figured Out ft. Wise Intelligent & Othello


Download: BLEE- Speaking from the Heart ft. Supastition (Remix)

Big Bang Big Boom

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Big Bag Big Boom is the latest video to be released by the ridiculously amazing street painting crew Blu. Their explanation for the project is as follows: “an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end.”

Incredible.

Free Beat Tape Download: Dela- The Robert Glasper Beat Tape

I just flipped my late pass on your desk so I could share this fresh Robert Glasper influenced beat tape I missed while on hiatus.

French hip hop producer, Dela, who had every jazz-hop fanatic on the internet going nuts with his flawless Atmosphere Airlines series, has compiled a beat tape beautifully sprinkled with a mix of trickling ivory from the hands of Blue Note jazz pianist Robert Glasper and dreamy drums and samples from Dela. Sometimes sad, sometimes summery, but always crisp.

Dela continues his quest to make the hip hop world just feel good-- and executes once again.

Download: Dela- The Robert Glasper Beat Tape