Great new music coming from Congo via Belgium. Baloji has a new album coming later this year and you need to keep your eyes pealed for it. Here’s one of the many stand out tracks from it with an awesome video. Find out more here.
Great video to accompany a great track from a great album. Simple!
The Bare is back with seriously dope beats, rhymes and blap to keep your I-Tunes, I-Pod wielding, Hip Hop infused head nodding all day long.
Here’s what you’ll be listenning to:
1 Talib Kweli & Hi Tek – This World
(Talib Kweli & Hi Tek – Revolutions Per Minute)
2 The Roots – How I Got Over ft, Dice Raw
(The Roots – How I Got Over)
3 Beautful Love – Vinnie Paz
(Vinnie Paz – Season of the Assassin)
4 Exile – Population Control
(Exile – Radio)
5 Kal Sereousz – See You
(Jon Phonics – Half Past Calm 2)
6 Teardrops – Skitz ft, Taskforce
(Skitz – The Skitzman Lp)
7 Brother Ali – Tight Rope
(Brother Ali – Us)
8 Johnson & Jonson – Hold on John
(Johnson & Jonson – Powders & Oils)
9 Little Brother – So Cold ft, Chaundon
(Little Brother – Leftback)
10 Grieves ft, Cunninlynguists – Heatstroke
(Grieves – The Confessions Of Mr. Modest)
11 Kal Sereousz – Work Brain
(Kal Sereousz – Terrorist City)
12 Smokey & Bobby Drake – Live
Beat 1 . Smokey Beat 2. Flying Lotus Beat 3. Bare Smoke
13 Invisible Inc – Paradise
(Invisible Inc – The Exit Strategy)
14 Bunny Sigler – Half a Man
(Bunny Sigler – I’ve Always Wanted to Sing… Not Just Write Songs)
15 Looptroop – New Day
(Unknown)
16 87 Blimmy – Mac Lethal
(Mac Lethal – Love Potions 5)
17 The Black Keys – Too Afraid to Love You
(The Black Keys – Brothers)
18 The_Roots – Right On ft, Joanna Newsome
(The Roots – How I Got Over)
19 Paper Tiger ft, Dessa – Palace
(Paper Tiger – Made Like Us)
20 Astronautalis Avalanche Patrol
(Astronautalis – Pomegranate)
21 Astronautalis – The Story of my Life ft, P.O.S
(Astronautalis – Pomegranate)
Check out Bare’s music:
http://www.bare-records.co.uk/
The Bare Beats blog is well worth checking:
http://barebeats.blogspot.com/
Bare Beats on Takaba Records:
http://www.takabarecords.com/barebeats.htm
Basement Sessions DJ and seriously fresh beatmaker and producer IV The Polymath comes correct with a live Jam featuring ‘Check It’ and ‘Soak it Up’.
IV’s dusty sound resonates throughtout this simple yet dope video live from the Bee Hive earlier this year:
If you’re feeling the beats, check out IV’s free downloadable project Live! Live! Live!
Basement Sessions DJ of Play Jazz Loud has put forward an entry in the BBE mixtape competition. For fans of the show, this is a great mix that’s right up your street. For those who havent, this is a great introduction!
Please check the mix here:
http://www.mixcloud.com/playjazzloud/bbe-mixtape-competition-2010-playjazzloud-sessions/
If you’re feeling it, please vote, its that simple!
support good music!
Basement Sessions are proud to introduce Bare Radio!
Back in the day before this net ish really took off, Bare Beats use to chuck out free cd’s packed full of the latest underground Hip Hop. Once the net took hold Bare’s hobby turned into a nice little radio show featuring some sick artists, live interviews and exclusive tracks dropped over the couple of years it was running. Since then Bare Beats has been taking some time out to make albums and grow up a bit. Now he’s back on Bare Radio / Podcast tip. This is the first show, which is just a few things Beats has been bumping lately, not all strictly hip hop now, but just good music full stop. Look out for future shows coming to you real soon courtesy of Bare Beats and Basement Sessions…
01. Everybody Does It – LDZ
(LDZ – London Zoo EP)
02. Maaad Tight – Mudmowth ft, SonnyJim & Skamma
(Metabeat & Mudmowth – Sledgehammer Kisses)
03. Ty – Something Big ft, Carroll Thompson
(Ty – Special Kind of Fool)
04. Struggla – Skitz ft, Rodney P, Kardinall Offishal & Skibadee
(Skitz – The Sticksman)
05. Bang (Chemo Remix) – Micall Parknsun ft, Jehst
(Micall Parkinson – Everybody/Bang)
06. Speak Low – Mac Lethal
(Mac Lethal – Love Potions 5)
07. Nina Simone – I Can’t See Nobody
(Nina Simone – The Essential Nina)
08. The Ecology – Fashawn
(Fashawn – Boy Meets World)
09. Love – Exile
(Exile – Radio)
10. Your Boyfriends a Coke Head – Modulok
(Modulok – Cities & Years)
11. Crew – Dessa
(Dessa – A Badly Broken Code)
12. Die For You – Mr SoS
(CunninLynguists – Strange Journey Vol 1)
13. Never Know What Love Is – Chris Harwood
(Chris Harwood – Nice to Meet Miss Christine)
14. Lost – King Midas Sound
(King Midas Sound – Waiting for You)
15. Pray for Rain – Massive Attack ft, Tunde Adebimpe
(Massive Attack – Heligoland)
16. Untitled – P.O.S ft Astronautalis
(P.O.S – Never Better)
17. Best of Times – Sage Francis
(Sage Francis – Li(f)e)
18. After Laughter (Comes Tears) – Wendy Rene
(Wendy Rene – After Laughter Comes Tears)
Check out Bare’s music:
http://www.bare-records.co.uk/
The Bare Beats blog is well worth checking:
http://barebeats.blogspot.com/
Bare Beats on Takaba Records:
http://www.takabarecords.com/barebeats.htm
New Show with exclusive music from Cyrus Malachi, Sav Killz, Kil Ripkin, Blacastan & Branspark & Nut So, plus a 90′s throwback all mixed of course by DJ 456.
Tracks:
Urban Flex Show Intro
The Roots – The Day ft. Phonte & Blu
Crankz – Livin’ Life Inst (Talk Over)
DJ Phantom ft. Rosewood – Prelude To A Funeral
Sav Killz – We Don’t Look To The Skies
Mr Flex – Nothing To Prove ft. Sophie Rose Harper (prod by Beat Butcha)
Kil Ripkin – Not You
Blacastan – Hey Young World (prod by DJ Doom)
TY – Get Up ft. D-Cross
Endemic – Eagles
Branspark & Nut So – It’s A Shame
Cyrus Malachi – 1000 Daggers (prod by Diplimat)
Reef The Lost Cauze – What We Rep ft. Big Noyd
Meyhem Lauren – Glorious
Roc Marciano – Ridin’ Thru
Cyrus Malachi – 7 Plagues (prod by Blasta Beats)
Capital R – City (prod by ATG & cuts DJ 456)
Soul Avenue (Baker & Cutta Chase) – UMC’s
Nas – The World Is Your Remix (Inst Talk Over)
90′s Throwback
A Tribe Called Quest – Award Tour
Erick Sermon – Stay Real
Nas – The World Is Yours
Fab 5 – Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka
Redman – Pick It Up
Erick Sermon ft. Redman & Keith Murray – Open Fire
Black Moon – I Gotcha Opin
2pac – Temptations
Lost Boyz – Jeeps, Lex Coups, Bimaz & Benz
Redman – Can’t Wait
CNN – Illegal Life
Mobb Deep – Give It Up Fast ft. Nas & Big Noyd
Akinyele – 30 Days
Edo G & Bulldogs – Skinny Dip
Black Moon – Who Got The Props
Edo G & Bulldogs – Love Comes & Goes
Vice, who spends most of his time promoting good music from around the World rarely gets time to make his own tracks anymore! But on the rare occassion that he does, the reactions tend to be pretty damn good! So, in the spirit of Summer Vice’s offers up ‘Gone’, a free downloadable beat with the aim to get your head nodding and the summer vibes rolling
Check out more of Vice’s beats on his Soundcloud page, and look out for Vice’s debut LP coming later this year on Street Soul Productions.
Here’s the full version of Mystro’s Around My Way, which was revealed only as a snippet a few weeks back. Its a great summertime banger with Mystro as ever delivering ingenius rhymes with humour and honesty, and that dirty laugh!
