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Lauryn Hill Comes Back Around

DJ Tree/admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:49:08 +0000

Its been a while for Lauryn Hill. Check out her newest song Repercussions.

I’m not surprised that new music from Ms. Lauryn Hill is starting to surface before her return to the stage later this summer on the 2010 Rock The Bells Tour.

Lauryn Hill - repercussions

I’m planing on hitting the D.C. show,, so I hope her voice is well rested after her long break .

Flying Lotus More Than Cartoons

DJ Tree/admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:23:19 +0000

Flying Lotus is truly doing some space aged music.

If you’ve been up late and decided to watch The Cartoon Network and found yourself nodding your head then you’ve heard the abstract beats of Flying Lotus. Adult Swim uses Fly Lo’s beats as the backdrop for there sometimes weird and minimalist promo’s.

Cosmogramma is Flying Lotus’s new album that its full of lush layered sounds ,blips and complex textured beats that fall somewhere in between Sun Ra and J Dilla. It seems to be smoother and more cohesive than his last album Los Angeles (also a must listen).

The album is packed tight with seventeen cuts and weighs in at about forty five minutes, but it doesn’t feel short or rushed probably due to the complexity of the music.

O.K.,,, I know this is not an album for everyone,, but if your into expanding musical horizons past the limits gravity, check it out.

You Best Protect Ya Neck: The Movie!

DJ Tree/admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:41:39 +0000

18 years after Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) The Rza has taken one more step in his journey to be an actual Shaolin Master and made his own Kung Fu move.

Wu-Tang vs. The Golden Phoenix definitely has that Saturday afternoon Kung-Fu Matinee feel with complete with a bad overdub and dark grainy video..

I haven’t been able to track down much info on when the release day is. I did notice that it’s associated Grindhouse Productions (Quentin Tarantino’s production company) so maybe it’ll be a double feature with Machete,,,, but by the look of it I’m betting on straight to ~~VHS~~ DVD.

New MadVillain Single

DJ Tree/admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:26:28 +0000

The Masked Villain and The Loop Digga are back at it with a new single courtesy of AdultSwim.Com.

Madvillain are back to recoding as a group, and is currently working on a new album to be released on Stonesthrow.

The track has a classic Doom flow with laced with a far out Madlib sample, its good but its defiantly feels like an appetizer to a gourmet meal (it was tasty,, but man I’m still hungry!) .

Download the new track Papermill

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A New Video From My Doppelganger

DJ Tree/admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:10:23 +0000

At the last Scribble Jam(R.I.P.) I met this drunk dude that thought I was an MC named Swamburger. The dude was mad drunk but he wasn’t wrong we do kind of look alike.

I was able to link up with Swamburger (back when people still used Myspace) and he was cool, and we had few laughs at the whole situation.

Nevertheless Swamburger is a dope MC and his crew the Solilaquists of Sound put it down on on some classic Hip Hop. Check out there new album No More Heroes.

http://www.solilla.com/

The Roots Dilla Jawns

DJ Tree/admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:21:34 +0000

The Roots Dilla Tribute. Nuff said!

Track List:

01. Donuts Outro
02. Hot Shit (I’m Back!)
03. World Full Of Sadness
04. Upper Egypt
05. Stereolab
06. The Stars
07. Antiquity (feat. The Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Dillchestra)
08. She Said
09. Hall & Oates
10. Eve
11. Look Into Her Eyes
12. Make Em NV
13. Oh! O!
14. Wicked Ways

The Roots Dilla Joints

Guru… Respect!

DJ Tree/admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 00:37:17 +0000

After Guru’s somewhat untimely death a couple of weeks ago, and the (what I consider shady) dealings that followed, I didn’t want to post just anything, so I searched the net listening to mixtapes and tributes, these are a couple of things that I enjoyed.

Out of all the stuff i listened too, I thought it would be best to repost some pieces from cats that actually knew Guru, because I feel there might be some cats trying to get some undue publicity off of dudes death.

So,, 1st up I heres a recording of Jazzmatazz live at Eurockéennes Festival (France) (2001) posted by DJ Premier. For me Jazzmatazz is a good representation of the sound and feel of the 90’s.

Guru: JAZZMATAZZ LIVE

As I said I listened to a lot of Guru mixtapes, but nobody had as much passion as DJ Evil Dee on his Podcast. He touches most of the hits and the songs that you probably want to hear, but lets face it there are so many Gang Starr and Guru records it would be too much to play everything.

DJ Evil Dee: PODCAST FOR GURU

Sade’s Making The Late Night Rounds

DJ Tree/admin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:09:00 +0000

Sade is out promoting her new album. She stopped by a couple of the late night talk shows to preform Soldier of Love and Babyfather.

So NBC figured out how to get me to temporarily,, drop my personal boycott of Jay Leno (I’m with COCO). Sade preformed Babyfather with her daughter Ila as a backup singer.

The Roots “How I Got Over”

DJ Tree/admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:35:41 +0000

This is the new video and title track for the Roots upcoming album.

It’s good to see that they haven’t abandoned making gritty records while providing the backing music for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

One thing though,,, is it just me or does it take a second to get used to Black Thought as a singer?

J.Rocc Droppin’ Science

DJ Tree/admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:53:52 +0000

For me this MixTape is probably a year old, but the music and breaks are timeless.

J.Rocc was granted access to Blue Notes Sample Library to make this MixTape that is not big on tricks, scratching or blends. J.rocc just presents these classic jazz cuts with some Hip Hop flavor.

J.Rocc is the founding member of The World Famous Beat Junkies and is currently signed to Stones Throw Records.

J. Rocc: DROPPIN' SCIENCE