Flying Lotus: Lovers Melt 2 mix

Flying Lotus bestämde sig att den första delen av Lovers Melt inte var nog med sina 32 minuter så han gjorde en del två på nära två och en halv timme. Oh shit! tänker du säkert, det gjorde jag i alla fall. Flylo själv beskriver den själv med följande ord: “Lovers Melt 2 will hopefully be part of your summer sound. Some of my favorite songs ever.. Some you know, some you might not..”.

LINK: Flying Lotus - Lovers Melt 2 (Mix)

Hypefaktorn stiger ytterligare. Så hur låter den då? Det börjar nice med en massa soul klassiker och låtar som samplats (Bobby Womack, William DeVaughn, Curtis Mayfield, Anita Ward, Bill Withers, m.m.) i ca en timme, därefter är det flum deluxe á la Los Angeles style med Brazilutflykter, enstaka jazz/fusion alster (George Duke, Donald Byrd, Elvin Jones, Sun Ra, m.m), lite Rhodes, lite proggflum för sist men inte minst hamna i något som låter som en John Coltrane och Alice Coltrane combo. Kanske inte sommarens självklaraste mix men absolut en upplevelse i sig. Give thanks still.

Sound System: Sound of Dub

Malawi: Untitled Play 05

Malawi ser sig om i rummet, sträcker sig mot högen av böcker på golvet, greppar en tjockare pocket, bläddrar osäkert, skinner upp och läser:

"Den unga mannen försjönk också i tankar: "Och denna 'nån' är alltså du, Nakata?", "Ja, det stämmer."

LINK: Malawi Stoner - Untitled Play 05_2011-07-03


Malawi Stoner - Untitled Play.05_2011-07-03 by RnB

George Duke: Feel 1971-1980

saxat från Brainfeeder:

"ThunderCat’s recent cover of For Love I Come inspired me to have a listen again to the amazing music of George Duke. When most of the records on this mix were made it was an extraordinarily creative time in LA. A family of musicians were bringing new rhythms, new instruments, new humor, new international influences to jazz. CannonBall was an important figure and his partner David Axelrod – but the new arrivals Airto Moreira and Flora Plurim were also instrumental and then George Duke from the Bay Area who had collaborated with Frank Zappa.

LINK: Feel:
George Duke 1971-1980 (Mix)

George Duke has been an inspiration to hiphop for many many years…… Back in 1991 an album came out called Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest. You may know the name for another reason but anyways on a song called The Infamous Date Rape Tribe sampled Steam Drill by Cannonball Adderley featuring George Duke and we were off to the races. Ice Cube sampled Duke for True to the Game from Death Certificate that same year. Since then many more beat heads have been attracted to Mr. Dukes amazing keyboard playing, sense of rhythm and unique lyrical stylings. Dilla has definitely listened as has Madlib, Pete Rock, Kanye, Karriem Riggins and now well ThunderCat.
ThunderCat for all his youth has actually played with George Duke.

Anyways this mix is in tribute to George Duke as it is in celebration of ThunderCat. I think we are in a similarly creative moment now in LA as existed in the mid seventies and it seems fitting to make the link. Good musicians will make you listen again and ThunderCats For Love I Come surely made me do that. Enjoy.

/B+"

RnB: Rickys & Musik Vol. Tre

Var volym två tagit vägen är något för en annan värld men här kommer i alla fall del tre i "Rickys & Musik" serien. Den är egentligen från några år tillbaka då jag gjorde ett försök till att få Malawi att lyssna på något annat än den djupaste roots världen skådat. På något sätt måste jag ha lyckats då han är mindre uteslutande i sitt musikval i dagens läge... kanske, tror jag i alla fall, äh fuckit, anyways... Del två kommer så fort jag hittat min rymdhjälm. Be healthy!

LINK: RnB presenterar Rickys & Musik Vol. Tre (Mix)

RnB presenterar Rickys & Musik Vol. Tre by RnB


"She: Hey! Look man, what I tried to say was... He: Dont say nothing, ok, just stand there until I leave, I wanna remember this, I never done it before. She: Done what? He: Had my heart broken."

Sound System: Quaker City

Sound System from Virus Media on Vimeo.

Biggie Smalls: When BIG met Pac

"When we get to LA they put us up at the Sheridan in Studio City. Puff rents uss 5.0', which was the hot car convertible at the time - I remember we had a green one and a black one - and you couldn't tell us we wasn't doing it. Two cats from New York, in LA for the first time... So we had to have Fat Burger, we had to have Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles and Big had to have chronic and he wanted to meet Tupac. I had a guy that I knew from LA that suppliedus with some chronic, and it so happened he had a line on Pac. So he made a phone call and when we pulled up to the hotel, sittin' in his convertible is Tupac. And as we're standing there, as Big and Tupac is talkin', Greg Nice of Nice N Smooth comes downstairs. So Big is talkin' and Tupac is like "Yo what else you gotta do today?" And Big looks at me, and I knew at that point, cancel anything else we had sheduled. It was gonna be a wrap. Pac's like, "Let's go to my house." So Tupac and Big, Greg Nice, myself and Groovey Lew [Big's stylist], we all go to Tupac's house. Pac had this bag, I mean, a clear, big freezer bag of the greenest vegetables I'd ever seen. Big was so happy!

We went back to Pac's house and they just rolled up: Big was rolling, Pac was rolling, Greg was rolling, Groovey Lew was rolling, it was just going back and forth. Next thing you know, they started a cypher. We sitting at the house, Big is flowing, Pac is flowing, Greg is flowing, and me and Lew is just sitting there like, Yo, the moment of hip-hop for us has reached its high.

After the freestyle session, Pac went into his room and pulled out this green army bag, and dumped it onto the floor. And it was, like, 25 guns. Handguns, machine guns... So now, here we are, in the this backyard running around with guns, just playing. Luckily they were all unloaded. While we were running around, Pac walks into the kitchen and starts cooking for us. He's in the kitchen cooking some steaks- We were drinking and smoking and all of a sudden Pac was like, "Yo, come get it." And we go into the kitchen and he had steaks, and French fries, and bred, and Kool-Aid and we just sittin' there eating and drinking and laughing. And you know, that's truly where Big and Pac's friendship started." - Dan Smalls (former intern at Uptown Records)




"So you wanna be hardcore, with your hat to the back, talkin bout the gats in your raps, but I can't feel that hardcore appeal, that you're screamin, baby I'm dreamin" - Notorious BIG (från "Machine Gun Funk")