One of my favorite tunes for the year!

Artist: Nohelani Cypriano
Album: Around Again (circa 1995)
Song: Lihue

Written, Produced, Peformed, & Engineered By Everett James
Sounds like the house version of “Hip Hop” by Dead Prez

During the amazing success of I Want You and his stellar Live at the London Palladium album, Marvin Gaye was served with divorce papers from his then-wife Anna Gordy Gaye (sister of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy). When they got married, Marvin was 24, Anna was 41. One of the conditions of the settlement was that Gordy Gaye would receive an extensive percentage of royalties as well as a portion of the advance for his next album. Initially, Gaye was [...]

More music to replenish your itunes. This mix of goodies is brought to you by DJ Black Santa.

No words necessary, just bump. 2 volumes, 40 tracks of gently rearranged records, brought to you by the dynamic duo, The Stuyvesants.

Download Finer Things, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2

Makin’ Dollas by DTMD

I got the same text twice, from two different people in completely different social circles, on the same day:

have you checked out that new Thundercat album?

So I immediately got Stephen “Thunercat” Bruner’s new album, The Golden Age of Apocalypse.

A few bloggers rightly used the following phrases to describe the listening experience:

full of spaced-out ’70s harmonies, jazzy drums and musty bass…late-night astral wheeze…production is held together by a waterfall bassline as tiny synth embellishments spark off in different [...]

ProtoCosmos: Thundercat and Karriem Riggins. from MOCHILLA on Vimeo.

Artist: DTMD
Song: Keep on
Album: Makin Dollas (circa 2010)

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