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Gensu Dean & Denmark Vessey - Black Love (Ft. 7evenThirty & Iman Omari) Tha Realness 2016-06-21 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/whole-food/id1114957428http://gensudean360.bandcamp.com/album/whole-foodhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/gensu-dean-denmark-vessey-whole-food-lphttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/cd/products/gensu-dean-denmark-vessey-whole-food-cdPremiered at NPR "Songs We Love" on 6/21/2016:http://www.npr.org/2016/06/21/482789284/songs-we-love-gensu-dean-denmark-vessey-black-love"Musical roughage to get through sh*t, to help you get through sh*t" - Denmark Vessey If the words Whole Food remind you of yoga pants and hemp bracelets in a parking lot overrun by yuppies, don’t worry--you’ve come to the right place. This full-length collaboration between Gensu Dean and Denmark Vessey comes packed with all the vitamins and nutrients you could possibly need without any of the frivolous packaging. The pair’s debut as a duo on Mello Music Group imagines mugshot spreads in Newsweek and blood dripping down starched white aprons, and there are no $6 cappuccinos in sight. Over the past year, Vessey had developed into one of the most buzzed-about rappers in the underground circuit. The Detroit native dropped one of 2015’s most critically acclaimed records with Martin Lucid Dream, a heady, pointed treatise on the state of America’s shared psychosis. On Whole Food, he expands his purview to encompass the whole human body, from the biscuits and gravy weighing down your stomach to bullet wounds in your abdomen. And he does it all with empathy, wit, and supreme technical skill. For his part, Dean continues to be one of hip-hop’s best kept secrets, a masterful sample chopper whose attention to detail makes him one of the See “Saturday,” which feels like a crew of preposterously talented percussionists squeezing one last jam session before heading out to the club. The Texas-bred producer makes the genre’s hallmark sounds feel fresh and reinvigorating. This isn’t revivalism as we’ve come to know it--artists grasping for an idealized version of the past that was suspended in amber. Instead Gensu and Denmark embody the ethos of hip-hop’s golden ages, with all the off-the-cuff experimentation and unhinged creativity that defined those years. There are cardboard-ready breakbeats married to Zapp-style vocoders and razor sharp bars on a song named for an emoji. For these two, authenticity is measured by the amount of truth you can pack onto wax. Whole Food is nutrition for your mind and spirit, but it’s never pedantic or preachy. Gensu and Denmark piece together one of the loosest, most visceral records in recent memory, one that’s filled with punishing bass lines, clever asides, and astute observation.Releases July 29, 2016 http://twitter.com/denmarkveshttp://twitter.com/7eventhirtyhttp://twitter.com/iamimanomarihttp://twitter.com/gensudeanhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Blu & Nottz - Atlantis Tha Realness 2016-06-20 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/titans-in-the-flesh/id1119645461http://www.fatbeats.com/products/blu-nottz-titans-in-the-flesh-ep-easter-yellow-colored-vinylPremiered @ Stereogum:http://www.stereogum.com/1883506/blu-nottz-atlantis-stereogum-premiere/mp3sIn 2013, underground rap heavyweights Blu and Nottz teamed up for Gods In The Spirit, one of the year’s most critically adored EPs. And upon its release, the duo made it clear they weren’t done there, but they also weren’t about to rush their follow-up. As much as fans clamored for its release, Blu and Nottz earned the ability to take their time with their sophomore effort. And that’s evident throughout Titans in the Flesh, which builds on its predecessor and proudly stands on its shoulders. Like Gods, Titans finds the Ca-Va connection keeping things concise and cohesive. They’ve delivered six tracks of original, brand-new material that slaps and bumps as much as it pours over with lyrical brilliance. Of course, that won’t surprise any longtime fans of either artist, both of whom have been steadily making their mark since first emerging on the scene (2003 for Blu, and 1998 for Nottz). Blu and Nottz are two of the most prolific and valued cultural contributors of their respective trades, and it’s while working together that the two make some of their most triumphant and powerful music. You hear that immediately on chest-pounding opener “The Truth,” the pure funk of “Heaven on Earth,” and the beyond-slick rhyming and crazy drums of “The Man.” Speaking of “The Man,” Nottz steps to the mic as he closes out the track following a clever verse from Blu’s day one beat conductor, Exile. Elsewhere, Blu is joined on the mic by hard-hitting trio Bishop Lamont, Torae, and Skyzoo on “Giant Steps,” which boasts cuts from the remarkable DJ Revolution, while singer Shateish appears on soulful opener “The Truth.” Blu then sits it out on “To The East,” as he lets Definite, TriState, Mickey Factz, and Johaz command the bruising track. And as a bonus, the EP boasts a colossal flip of “Atlantis,” courtesy of J57 on production, with Akie Bermiss belting out a fiery hook. Titans in the Flesh drops July 15 through iTunes and all major digital retailers. Easter-yellow vinyl copies will also be available in limited supply through Fat Beats, equipped with the instrumental and acapella passes of “The Man,” and the instrumental for “Heaven on Earth.” Tracklist:01. The Truth (feat. Shateish)02. Heaven on Earth03. Giant Steps (feat. Bishop Lamont, Torae, Skyzoo & DJ Revolution)04. To the East (feat. Definite Mass, TriState, Mickey Factz & Johaz)05. The Man (feat. Exile & Nottz)06. Atlantis07. Atlantis (feat. Akie Bermiss) [J57 Remix]http://twitter.com/HerFavColorhttp://twitter.com/NottzRawhttp://twitter.com/coalminerecords
A-F-R-O & Marco Polo - Long Time Coming (Cuts by Shylow) Tha Realness 2016-06-15 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/a-f-r-o-polo/id1132232849A-F-R-O & Marco Polo debut their first record, “Long Time Coming,” off their project, A-F-R-O Polo, which is available now! The song features scratches by Shylow, along with additional production by Eamon.http://twitter.com/AFROALLFLOWShttp://twitter.com/shylowbsahttp://twitter.com/marcopolobeatshttp://twitter.com/duckdownmusic
Mr. Lif - World Renown (Dan The Automator Mix) (Ft. Del The Funky Homosapien) Tha Realness 2016-06-14 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dont-look-down/id1082913881http://mrlifmmg.bandcamp.com/album/dont-look-downhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/frontpage/products/mr-lif-dont-look-down-lphttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/mr-lif-dont-look-down/MMGLIF016LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/mr-lif-don-t-look-down-468701http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Don-t-Look-Down.htmlPpremiered at The Source on 6/14/2016:http://thesource.com/2016/06/14/listen-mr-lif-releases-dan-the-automator-remix-of-world-renown-ft-del-the-funky-homosapienWelcome to “Don’t Look Down,” Mr. Lif’s first solo album in seven years, a chronicle of personal evolution, internal strength, and the ebbs and flows of life. It’s the most introspective and harrowingly personal work from the ex-Def Jux legend—a record borne from successes, failures, and hard-learned lessons. The Boston prophet’s first new work for Mello Music Group directly addresses the difficulties of keeping your head up amidst duress. You hear and feel the intensity of the fight, the sense of falling into despair, the helplessness of drowning, and the power of being able to save yourself. Over a 10-song cycle, Lif delivers poetic testament that avoids preachiness. These are agnostic sermons written to conceal and nurture him during a bleak period—cathartic confessionals that offered a conduit to bliss. The structure of “Don’t Look Down” mirrors this personal descent and rebirth, a hero’s journey worthy of Joseph Campbell. It starts with “Pounds of Pressure” and “The Abyss,” adrenaline-pulsing sagas where the narrator clutches his pistol, soaked in sweat. Over bone-bristling drums and smears of disembodied vocal samples, Lif’s protagonist is engulfed in violence, pushed to the precipice, forced into a fight-or-flight scenario. This emotional rupture leads into the depression of the third track, “Everyday We Pray”—where the hero ruminates on personal storms and the patterns of his demise—praying for discipline and the strength to be honest. By the song’s conclusion, optimism has started to seep back into his worldview. “Let Go” reflects that with its self-admonition to search deeper and think smarter, let the light shine, and unburden oneself from the pain of the past. “A Better Day” captures the zenith of this positivity, filtered through realism and clarity. It’s a call to arms to rebuke the cosmetic and prosthetic, to scale these walls and “beat this vile prison we call living.” With "Whizdom," "Mission Accomplished", & "World Renown," the central character creates his own world, barricading himself from the ills of society. He’s aided by a beat from Edan and verses from Akrobatik (Lif’s partner in The Perceptionists) and Del the Funky Homosapien. The final act hinges on “iLL,” where the vulnerabilities creep back to the surface, incubating a state of reflection, in which the protagonist ponders the ways of the world—wishing for something more, wondering if this is heaven or another self-created hell. The concepts all come to a powerful resolution on the finale, the title track that hauntingly echoes this mantra of resilience. Over taut minor piano chords, Lif tries to make sense of it all before the final fall, weary with a head full of ideas, a spirit unbowed, offering one last reminder that our most severe stumbles often lead to our greatest successes.Tracklist:01. Pounds of Pressure02. The Abyss03. Everyday We Pray04. Let Go (feat. Selina Carrera)05. A Better Day (feat. Erica Dee)06. Whizdom (feat. Blacastan) [prod. Edan]07. Mission Accomplished (feat. The Perceptionists)08. World Renown (feat. Del The Funky Homosapien)09. iLL10. Don't Look DownReleased April 15, 2016 http://twitter.com/therealmrlifhttp://twitter.com/delhierohttp://twitter.com/MrSonnyJameshttp://twitter.com/dantheautomatorhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Lando Chill - Early In The Morning Tha Realness 2016-06-06 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/for-mark-your-son/id1114958632http://mmg-lando-chill.bandcamp.com/album/for-mark-your-sonhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/vinyl/products/lando-chill-for-mark-your-son-lphttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/cd/products/lando-chill-for-mark-your-son-cdPremiered @ Mass Appeal on June 6, 2016:http://massappeal.com/lando-chill-is-that-new-new-you-need-to-know"If we’re lucky, we receive a handful of albums each year that transcend the basic reasons why we love music. They’re much more than just fun escapes or creative manipulations of sound: they speak to the chaotic wilderness of the soul, examine our self-doubts and laments, and offer measured hope for the human condition. They refuse to dismiss the demons that lead us astray and derive their strength from having to earn their optimism. Lando Chill’s debut for Mello Music Group, For Mark, Your Son is one of those life-affirming records. It’s a 12-song tribute to the father who passed away when the Chicago-born and raised rapper was just three years old—the rare shout into the existential abyss that actually receives answers echoing back. It’s a coming-of-age story rooted in life, death, and legacy. It reminds us how the dearly departed can leave behind an indelible light. It’s the work of a brilliant 24-year old Tucson transplant with a wicked jump shot, who steadfastly embodies the compassion, strength, and talent of his vanished hero. When you listen to Lando Chill, you hear traces of Gil Scott-Heron, Pharoahe Monch, and The Roots. At times, his rollicking cadences and innate gift for melody feel like a one-man equivalent of The Pharcyde’s Labcabincalifornia. While the album’s sepulchral finale feels like the most gorgeous song TV on the Radio never wrote. But mostly, For Mark, Your Son marks the ascendance of a singular talent, fusing scattered influences into a coherent vision, an artist scarred by his experiences but healing through his broken poems. This album is for those open books with open hearts, the vulnerable and those in pain, the fatherless children too proud to ask for help because they believe their dads wouldn’t raise a weak son, the mothers that lost their best friend, the fathers that never got the chance to see how bright the future looked, for the blunted that aspire for something that more than what’s in front of them. It’s for those willing to admit their mistakes and those smart enough to start correcting them. Lando has the gift of writing disconsolate spirituals, non-denominational prayers, a Unitarian Gospel that can’t help but leave you feeling whole. He says it himself: his soul has a purpose. He made his dad proud. He made himself proud. He reminded us that some things are timeless."releases August 12, 2016http://twitter.com/lando_chillhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Gensu Dean & Denmark Vessey - The Meek Tha Realness 2016-05-31 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/whole-food/id1114957428http://gensudean360.bandcamp.com/album/whole-foodhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/gensu-dean-denmark-vessey-whole-food-lphttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/cd/products/gensu-dean-denmark-vessey-whole-food-cdPremiered @ Noisey:http://noisey.vice.com/blog/premiere-gensu-dean-denmark-vessey-the-meek-whole-foodThese days everything you consume has to be checked - a vibrant outside can hide a genetically modified Frankenstein interior. Finding that 100% organically grown with no artificial rhymes can be difficult. This album is for those looking for something less calculated. Powerful production runs the range from soulful, funk filled, and hard knocking to cool, laid back easy nodders. The rhymes are spiritually aware, and at the same time far from politically correct - so from the occasional judo chop to the need for sexy, dirty slutty money - Denmark explores life from both the perspective of a man who grew up on minimum wage and butter sandwiches and who's read all your good books. Lyrics don’t sugar coat anything - instead opting to look reality square in the eye: “The fleek shall inherit the Earth and the meek shall be buried in dirt - ain’t nothing sweet.” Denmark delivers existential truths while still throwing in a “where the hoes at?” A street savvy album that explores Black love, brutality, capitalism’s grip on our daily thoughts, and the connection it all has to our ancestors. Lose your illusions and strip things down without losing any of the character. Gensu Dean has produced for David Banner, Large Professor, Roc Marciano, and more, while Denmark Vessey has had his praises sung by the likes of Earl Sweatshirt. Musical roughage to get through shit, to help you get through shit.Coming July 29thhttp://twitter.com/gensudeanhttp://twitter.com/denmarkveshttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
9th Wonder - A Kings Life Tha Realness 2016-05-31 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/zion/id1119026120Premiered @ Mass Appeal:http://massappeal.com/9th-wonder-zion-beat-tape“I hope to release every beat I’ve ever made over the next few years,” 9th informed Mass Appeal via email. “Some unfinished, some ideas, some of my favorites…etc. They can’t just sit around…so this Zion series will be used for that…I’m letting them all go.”http://twitter.com/9thwonderhttp://twitter.com/jamlarecords
Olivier St. Louis - Aint Cool (Oddisee Remix) Tha Realness 2016-05-26 | Stream/Download: http://jakartarecords-label.bandcamp.com/album/spring-in-jakartaLimited T-Shirt + Tape Bundle:http://www.inflammable.com/feature/inside/spring-in-jakartaPremiered at Hypetrak:http://hypetrak.com/2016/05/celebrate-spring-in-jakarta"It's spring time, so about time for another seasons compilation in the form of "Spring In Jakarta". We got to know Olivier as the guitar player in Oddisee’s live band. Last year he dropped his first EP with Jakarta, "Ain’t cool" was on this release. Some weeks ago Olivier and Oddisee were hanging out together in Berlin and produced this remix. Oddisee flipped it with some of his signature production and added 16 bars too, giving the original composition a completely new feel."Watch "Ain't Cool" Music Video:youtube.com/watch?v=VE594s_15CESupport:http://itunes.apple.com/album/black-music-ep/id1047282240http://jakartarecords-label.bandcamp.com/album/black-musichttp://twitter.com/ohstlouishttp://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/jakartarecords
Oddisee - Alarmed Tha Realness 2016-05-13 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/the-odd-tape/id1091753195http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/the-odd-tapehttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-d-lux-lphttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-cdOddisee is an everyman with extraordinary talent. Both a rapper chronicling the perils and joys of ordinary existence, and a virtuosic producer attuned to the vibrations of how life actually sounds. But don’t mistake the Odd Tape for the noise of birds chirping, idle chatter, or car alarms; it’s that internal soul-jazz reverberating at the back of your brain. For the last decade, the Mello Music Group artist has alternated between instrumental albums, full-length rap records, and his role as one-third of Diamond District. The Odd Tape is technically the former—there are no vocals—but if you call this an instrumental album, you might as well say the same about Bitches Brew. After a decade making music, the Prince Georges, Md.-raised and Brooklyn-based has transcended influences, comparisons and genre. The Odd Tape showcases the range of a composer bending hip-hop, soul, and jazz into singular form, tapping into that same emotional Fort Knox that animates all wordless choruses. The Odd Tape revolves around the rhythms of the artist’s daily life. It starts in the morning with “Alarmed,” that sounds like if Shuggie Otis did a psychedelic eye-opening cover of Nas’ “Shootouts.” It rolls through “Right Side of the Bed,” with its glitter-gold sax lines, loose drums, and sunshine-slanting-through-the-blinds keyboards. Oddisee went from sampling to creating the eternal sounds of his original inspirations. You can hear older gods like Roy Ayers, Bob James, and Fela, but mostly you hear Oddisee continue to come into his own. As Pitchfork described his previous album, 2015’s The Good Fight: “the music feels distinctly international and unhindered, far removed from the straight-ahead boom-bap he used to make. He’s always created on his own terms, but [this] feels like a hearty "fuck you" to prevailing groupthink and the industry’s creative limitations.” Released May 13, 2016 Tracklist:01. Alarmed 02. Right Side of the Bed03. No Sugar No Cream04. Live From The Drawing Board05. The Breakthrough06. On The Table07. Brea08. Born Before Yesterday09. Silver Lining10. Out At Night11. Long Way Home12. Still SleepingOddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA5/28/16 Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/2/16 7th St Entry - Minneapolis, MN 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH6/5/16 Baltimore Soundstage - Baltimore, MD6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, United Kingdom 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, United Kingdom6/29/16 O2 Institute 3 Birmingham - Birmingham, United Kingdom6/30/16 The Garage - London, United Kingdom7/1/16 Patterns - Brighton, United Kingdom7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - Right Side of the Bed Tha Realness 2016-05-13 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/the-odd-tape/id1091753195http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/the-odd-tapehttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-d-lux-lphttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-cdOddisee is an everyman with extraordinary talent. Both a rapper chronicling the perils and joys of ordinary existence, and a virtuosic producer attuned to the vibrations of how life actually sounds. But don’t mistake the Odd Tape for the noise of birds chirping, idle chatter, or car alarms; it’s that internal soul-jazz reverberating at the back of your brain. For the last decade, the Mello Music Group artist has alternated between instrumental albums, full-length rap records, and his role as one-third of Diamond District. The Odd Tape is technically the former—there are no vocals—but if you call this an instrumental album, you might as well say the same about Bitches Brew.After a decade making music, the Prince Georges, Md.-raised and Brooklyn-based has transcended influences, comparisons and genre. The Odd Tape showcases the range of a composer bending hip-hop, soul, and jazz into singular form, tapping into that same emotional Fort Knox that animates all wordless choruses. The Odd Tape revolves around the rhythms of the artist’s daily life. It starts in the morning with “Alarmed,” that sounds like if Shuggie Otis did a psychedelic eye-opening cover of Nas’ “Shootouts.” It rolls through “Right Side of the Bed,” with its glitter-gold sax lines, loose drums, and sunshine-slanting-through-the-blinds keyboards. Oddisee went from sampling to creating the eternal sounds of his original inspirations. You can hear older gods like Roy Ayers, Bob James, and Fela, but mostly you hear Oddisee continue to come into his own. As Pitchfork described his previous album, 2015’s The Good Fight: “the music feels distinctly international and unhindered, far removed from the straight-ahead boom-bap he used to make. He’s always created on his own terms, but [this] feels like a hearty "fuck you" to prevailing groupthink and the industry’s creative limitations.” Released May 13, 2016 Tracklist:01. Alarmed 02. Right Side of the Bed03. No Sugar No Cream04. Live From The Drawing Board05. The Breakthrough06. On The Table07. Brea08. Born Before Yesterday09. Silver Lining10. Out At Night11. Long Way Home12. Still SleepingOddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA5/28/16 Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/2/16 7th St Entry - Minneapolis, MN 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH6/5/16 Baltimore Soundstage - Baltimore, MD6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, United Kingdom 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, United Kingdom6/29/16 O2 Institute 3 Birmingham - Birmingham, United Kingdom7/1/16 Patterns - Brighton, United Kingdom7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - Live From The Drawing Board Tha Realness 2016-05-13 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/the-odd-tape/id1091753195http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/the-odd-tapehttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-d-lux-lphttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-cdOddisee is an everyman with extraordinary talent. Both a rapper chronicling the perils and joys of ordinary existence, and a virtuosic producer attuned to the vibrations of how life actually sounds. But don’t mistake the Odd Tape for the noise of birds chirping, idle chatter, or car alarms; it’s that internal soul-jazz reverberating at the back of your brain. For the last decade, the Mello Music Group artist has alternated between instrumental albums, full-length rap records, and his role as one-third of Diamond District. The Odd Tape is technically the former—there are no vocals—but if you call this an instrumental album, you might as well say the same about Bitches Brew. After a decade making music, the Prince Georges, Md.-raised and Brooklyn-based has transcended influences, comparisons and genre. The Odd Tape showcases the range of a composer bending hip-hop, soul, and jazz into singular form, tapping into that same emotional Fort Knox that animates all wordless choruses. The Odd Tape revolves around the rhythms of the artist’s daily life. It starts in the morning with “Alarmed,” that sounds like if Shuggie Otis did a psychedelic eye-opening cover of Nas’ “Shootouts.” It rolls through “Right Side of the Bed,” with its glitter-gold sax lines, loose drums, and sunshine-slanting-through-the-blinds keyboards. Oddisee went from sampling to creating the eternal sounds of his original inspirations. You can hear older gods like Roy Ayers, Bob James, and Fela, but mostly you hear Oddisee continue to come into his own. As Pitchfork described his previous album, 2015’s The Good Fight: “the music feels distinctly international and unhindered, far removed from the straight-ahead boom-bap he used to make. He’s always created on his own terms, but [this] feels like a hearty "fuck you" to prevailing groupthink and the industry’s creative limitations.” Released May 13, 2016 Tracklist:01. Alarmed 02. Right Side of the Bed03. No Sugar No Cream04. Live From The Drawing Board05. The Breakthrough06. On The Table07. Brea08. Born Before Yesterday09. Silver Lining10. Out At Night11. Long Way Home12. Still SleepingOddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - The Breakthrough Tha Realness 2016-05-13 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/the-odd-tape/id1091753195http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/the-odd-tapehttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-d-lux-lphttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-cdhttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/oddisee-the-odd-tape-deluxe-edition/MMGODTOTDLXLPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/oddisee-the-odd-tape-deluxe-edition-477328http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/The-Odd-Tape-Colored-Vinyl.htmlOddisee is an everyman with extraordinary talent. Both a rapper chronicling the perils and joys of ordinary existence, and a virtuosic producer attuned to the vibrations of how life actually sounds. But don’t mistake the Odd Tape for the noise of birds chirping, idle chatter, or car alarms; it’s that internal soul-jazz reverberating at the back of your brain. For the last decade, the Mello Music Group artist has alternated between instrumental albums, full-length rap records, and his role as one-third of Diamond District. The Odd Tape is technically the former—there are no vocals—but if you call this an instrumental album, you might as well say the same about Bitches Brew. After a decade making music, the Prince Georges, Md.-raised and Brooklyn-based has transcended influences, comparisons and genre. The Odd Tape showcases the range of a composer bending hip-hop, soul, and jazz into singular form, tapping into that same emotional Fort Knox that animates all wordless choruses. The Odd Tape revolves around the rhythms of the artist’s daily life. It starts in the morning with “Alarmed,” that sounds like if Shuggie Otis did a psychedelic eye-opening cover of Nas’ “Shootouts.” It rolls through “Right Side of the Bed,” with its glitter-gold sax lines, loose drums, and sunshine-slanting-through-the-blinds keyboards. Oddisee went from sampling to creating the eternal sounds of his original inspirations. You can hear older gods like Roy Ayers, Bob James, and Fela, but mostly you hear Oddisee continue to come into his own. As Pitchfork described his previous album, 2015’s The Good Fight: “the music feels distinctly international and unhindered, far removed from the straight-ahead boom-bap he used to make. He’s always created on his own terms, but [this] feels like a hearty "fuck you" to prevailing groupthink and the industry’s creative limitations.” Released May 13, 2016 Tracklist:01. Alarmed 02. Right Side of the Bed03. No Sugar No Cream04. Live From The Drawing Board05. The Breakthrough06. On The Table07. Brea08. Born Before Yesterday09. Silver Lining10. Out At Night11. Long Way Home12. Still SleepingOddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - On The Table Tha Realness 2016-05-13 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/the-odd-tape/id1091753195http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/the-odd-tapehttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-d-lux-lphttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-cdhttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/oddisee-the-odd-tape-deluxe-edition/MMGODTOTDLXLPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/oddisee-the-odd-tape-deluxe-edition-477328http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/The-Odd-Tape-Colored-Vinyl.htmlOddisee is an everyman with extraordinary talent. Both a rapper chronicling the perils and joys of ordinary existence, and a virtuosic producer attuned to the vibrations of how life actually sounds. But don’t mistake the Odd Tape for the noise of birds chirping, idle chatter, or car alarms; it’s that internal soul-jazz reverberating at the back of your brain. For the last decade, the Mello Music Group artist has alternated between instrumental albums, full-length rap records, and his role as one-third of Diamond District. The Odd Tape is technically the former—there are no vocals—but if you call this an instrumental album, you might as well say the same about Bitches Brew. After a decade making music, the Prince Georges, Md.-raised and Brooklyn-based has transcended influences, comparisons and genre. The Odd Tape showcases the range of a composer bending hip-hop, soul, and jazz into singular form, tapping into that same emotional Fort Knox that animates all wordless choruses. The Odd Tape revolves around the rhythms of the artist’s daily life. It starts in the morning with “Alarmed,” that sounds like if Shuggie Otis did a psychedelic eye-opening cover of Nas’ “Shootouts.” It rolls through “Right Side of the Bed,” with its glitter-gold sax lines, loose drums, and sunshine-slanting-through-the-blinds keyboards. Oddisee went from sampling to creating the eternal sounds of his original inspirations. You can hear older gods like Roy Ayers, Bob James, and Fela, but mostly you hear Oddisee continue to come into his own. As Pitchfork described his previous album, 2015’s The Good Fight: “the music feels distinctly international and unhindered, far removed from the straight-ahead boom-bap he used to make. He’s always created on his own terms, but [this] feels like a hearty "fuck you" to prevailing groupthink and the industry’s creative limitations.” Released May 13, 2016 Tracklist:01. Alarmed 02. Right Side of the Bed03. No Sugar No Cream04. Live From The Drawing Board05. The Breakthrough06. On The Table07. Brea08. Born Before Yesterday09. Silver Lining10. Out At Night11. Long Way Home12. Still SleepingOddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - Silver Lining Tha Realness 2016-05-13 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/the-odd-tape/id1091753195http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/the-odd-tapehttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-d-lux-lphttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-cdhttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/oddisee-the-odd-tape-deluxe-edition/MMGODTOTDLXLPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/oddisee-the-odd-tape-deluxe-edition-477328http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/The-Odd-Tape-Colored-Vinyl.htmlOddisee is an everyman with extraordinary talent. Both a rapper chronicling the perils and joys of ordinary existence, and a virtuosic producer attuned to the vibrations of how life actually sounds. But don’t mistake the Odd Tape for the noise of birds chirping, idle chatter, or car alarms; it’s that internal soul-jazz reverberating at the back of your brain. For the last decade, the Mello Music Group artist has alternated between instrumental albums, full-length rap records, and his role as one-third of Diamond District. The Odd Tape is technically the former—there are no vocals—but if you call this an instrumental album, you might as well say the same about Bitches Brew. After a decade making music, the Prince Georges, Md.-raised and Brooklyn-based has transcended influences, comparisons and genre. The Odd Tape showcases the range of a composer bending hip-hop, soul, and jazz into singular form, tapping into that same emotional Fort Knox that animates all wordless choruses. The Odd Tape revolves around the rhythms of the artist’s daily life. It starts in the morning with “Alarmed,” that sounds like if Shuggie Otis did a psychedelic eye-opening cover of Nas’ “Shootouts.” It rolls through “Right Side of the Bed,” with its glitter-gold sax lines, loose drums, and sunshine-slanting-through-the-blinds keyboards. Oddisee went from sampling to creating the eternal sounds of his original inspirations. You can hear older gods like Roy Ayers, Bob James, and Fela, but mostly you hear Oddisee continue to come into his own. As Pitchfork described his previous album, 2015’s The Good Fight: “the music feels distinctly international and unhindered, far removed from the straight-ahead boom-bap he used to make. He’s always created on his own terms, but [this] feels like a hearty "fuck you" to prevailing groupthink and the industry’s creative limitations.” Released May 13, 2016 Tracklist:01. Alarmed 02. Right Side of the Bed03. No Sugar No Cream04. Live From The Drawing Board05. The Breakthrough06. On The Table07. Brea08. Born Before Yesterday09. Silver Lining10. Out At Night11. Long Way Home12. Still SleepingOddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - Out At Night Tha Realness 2016-05-13 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/the-odd-tape/id1091753195http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/the-odd-tapehttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-d-lux-lphttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-cdhttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/oddisee-the-odd-tape-deluxe-edition/MMGODTOTDLXLPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/oddisee-the-odd-tape-deluxe-edition-477328http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/The-Odd-Tape-Colored-Vinyl.htmlOddisee is an everyman with extraordinary talent. Both a rapper chronicling the perils and joys of ordinary existence, and a virtuosic producer attuned to the vibrations of how life actually sounds. But don’t mistake the Odd Tape for the noise of birds chirping, idle chatter, or car alarms; it’s that internal soul-jazz reverberating at the back of your brain. For the last decade, the Mello Music Group artist has alternated between instrumental albums, full-length rap records, and his role as one-third of Diamond District. The Odd Tape is technically the former—there are no vocals—but if you call this an instrumental album, you might as well say the same about Bitches Brew. After a decade making music, the Prince Georges, Md.-raised and Brooklyn-based has transcended influences, comparisons and genre. The Odd Tape showcases the range of a composer bending hip-hop, soul, and jazz into singular form, tapping into that same emotional Fort Knox that animates all wordless choruses. The Odd Tape revolves around the rhythms of the artist’s daily life. It starts in the morning with “Alarmed,” that sounds like if Shuggie Otis did a psychedelic eye-opening cover of Nas’ “Shootouts.” It rolls through “Right Side of the Bed,” with its glitter-gold sax lines, loose drums, and sunshine-slanting-through-the-blinds keyboards. Oddisee went from sampling to creating the eternal sounds of his original inspirations. You can hear older gods like Roy Ayers, Bob James, and Fela, but mostly you hear Oddisee continue to come into his own. As Pitchfork described his previous album, 2015’s The Good Fight: “the music feels distinctly international and unhindered, far removed from the straight-ahead boom-bap he used to make. He’s always created on his own terms, but [this] feels like a hearty "fuck you" to prevailing groupthink and the industry’s creative limitations.” Released May 13, 2016 Tracklist:01. Alarmed 02. Right Side of the Bed03. No Sugar No Cream04. Live From The Drawing Board05. The Breakthrough06. On The Table07. Brea08. Born Before Yesterday09. Silver Lining10. Out At Night11. Long Way Home12. Still SleepingOddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - Long Way Home Tha Realness 2016-05-13 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/the-odd-tape/id1091753195http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/the-odd-tapehttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-d-lux-lphttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-cdhttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/oddisee-the-odd-tape-deluxe-edition/MMGODTOTDLXLPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/oddisee-the-odd-tape-deluxe-edition-477328http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/The-Odd-Tape-Colored-Vinyl.htmlOddisee is an everyman with extraordinary talent. Both a rapper chronicling the perils and joys of ordinary existence, and a virtuosic producer attuned to the vibrations of how life actually sounds. But don’t mistake the Odd Tape for the noise of birds chirping, idle chatter, or car alarms; it’s that internal soul-jazz reverberating at the back of your brain. For the last decade, the Mello Music Group artist has alternated between instrumental albums, full-length rap records, and his role as one-third of Diamond District. The Odd Tape is technically the former—there are no vocals—but if you call this an instrumental album, you might as well say the same about Bitches Brew. After a decade making music, the Prince Georges, Md.-raised and Brooklyn-based has transcended influences, comparisons and genre. The Odd Tape showcases the range of a composer bending hip-hop, soul, and jazz into singular form, tapping into that same emotional Fort Knox that animates all wordless choruses. The Odd Tape revolves around the rhythms of the artist’s daily life. It starts in the morning with “Alarmed,” that sounds like if Shuggie Otis did a psychedelic eye-opening cover of Nas’ “Shootouts.” It rolls through “Right Side of the Bed,” with its glitter-gold sax lines, loose drums, and sunshine-slanting-through-the-blinds keyboards. Oddisee went from sampling to creating the eternal sounds of his original inspirations. You can hear older gods like Roy Ayers, Bob James, and Fela, but mostly you hear Oddisee continue to come into his own. As Pitchfork described his previous album, 2015’s The Good Fight: “the music feels distinctly international and unhindered, far removed from the straight-ahead boom-bap he used to make. He’s always created on his own terms, but [this] feels like a hearty "fuck you" to prevailing groupthink and the industry’s creative limitations.” Released May 13, 2016 Tracklist:01. Alarmed 02. Right Side of the Bed03. No Sugar No Cream04. Live From The Drawing Board05. The Breakthrough06. On The Table07. Brea08. Born Before Yesterday09. Silver Lining10. Out At Night11. Long Way Home12. Still SleepingOddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - Still Sleeping Tha Realness 2016-05-13 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/the-odd-tape/id1091753195http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/the-odd-tapehttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-d-lux-lphttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-cdhttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/oddisee-the-odd-tape-deluxe-edition/MMGODTOTDLXLPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/oddisee-the-odd-tape-deluxe-edition-477328http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/The-Odd-Tape-Colored-Vinyl.htmlOddisee is an everyman with extraordinary talent. Both a rapper chronicling the perils and joys of ordinary existence, and a virtuosic producer attuned to the vibrations of how life actually sounds. But don’t mistake the Odd Tape for the noise of birds chirping, idle chatter, or car alarms; it’s that internal soul-jazz reverberating at the back of your brain. For the last decade, the Mello Music Group artist has alternated between instrumental albums, full-length rap records, and his role as one-third of Diamond District. The Odd Tape is technically the former—there are no vocals—but if you call this an instrumental album, you might as well say the same about Bitches Brew. After a decade making music, the Prince Georges, Md.-raised and Brooklyn-based has transcended influences, comparisons and genre. The Odd Tape showcases the range of a composer bending hip-hop, soul, and jazz into singular form, tapping into that same emotional Fort Knox that animates all wordless choruses. The Odd Tape revolves around the rhythms of the artist’s daily life. It starts in the morning with “Alarmed,” that sounds like if Shuggie Otis did a psychedelic eye-opening cover of Nas’ “Shootouts.” It rolls through “Right Side of the Bed,” with its glitter-gold sax lines, loose drums, and sunshine-slanting-through-the-blinds keyboards. Oddisee went from sampling to creating the eternal sounds of his original inspirations. You can hear older gods like Roy Ayers, Bob James, and Fela, but mostly you hear Oddisee continue to come into his own. As Pitchfork described his previous album, 2015’s The Good Fight: “the music feels distinctly international and unhindered, far removed from the straight-ahead boom-bap he used to make. He’s always created on his own terms, but [this] feels like a hearty "fuck you" to prevailing groupthink and the industry’s creative limitations.” Released May 13, 2016 Tracklist:01. Alarmed 02. Right Side of the Bed03. No Sugar No Cream04. Live From The Drawing Board05. The Breakthrough06. On The Table07. Brea08. Born Before Yesterday09. Silver Lining10. Out At Night11. Long Way Home12. Still SleepingOddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - Brea Tha Realness 2016-04-30 | Watch Music Video:youtube.com/watch?v=kLtzdQIDoGUSupport:http://itunes.apple.com/album/the-odd-tape/id1091753195http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/the-odd-tapehttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-d-lux-lphttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-cdPremiered at NPR "Heavy Rotation":http://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2016/04/28/476018004/heavy-rotation-10-songs-public-radio-cant-stop-playingOddisee is an everyman with extraordinary talent. Both a rapper chronicling the perils and joys of ordinary existence, and a virtuosic producer attuned to the vibrations of how life actually sounds. But don’t mistake the Odd Tape for the noise of birds chirping, idle chatter, or car alarms; it’s that internal soul-jazz reverberating at the back of your brain. For the last decade, the Mello Music Group artist has alternated between instrumental albums, full-length rap records, and his role as one-third of Diamond District. The Odd Tape is technically the former—there are no vocals—but if you call this an instrumental album, you might as well say the same about Bitches Brew. After a decade making music, the Prince Georges, Md.-raised and Brooklyn-based has transcended influences, comparisons and genre. The Odd Tape showcases the range of a composer bending hip-hop, soul, and jazz into singular form, tapping into that same emotional Fort Knox that animates all wordless choruses. The Odd Tape revolves around the rhythms of the artist’s daily life. It starts in the morning with “Alarmed,” that sounds like if Shuggie Otis did a psychedelic eye-opening cover of Nas’ “Shootouts.” It rolls through “Right Side of the Bed,” with its glitter-gold sax lines, loose drums, and sunshine-slanting-through-the-blinds keyboards. Oddisee went from sampling to creating the eternal sounds of his original inspirations. You can hear older gods like Roy Ayers, Bob James, and Fela, but mostly you hear Oddisee continue to come into his own. As Pitchfork described his previous album, 2015’s The Good Fight: “the music feels distinctly international and unhindered, far removed from the straight-ahead boom-bap he used to make. He’s always created on his own terms, but [this] feels like a hearty "fuck you" to prevailing groupthink and the industry’s creative limitations.” released May 13, 2016 Tracklist:01. Alarmed 02. Right Side of the Bed03. No Sugar No Cream04. Live From The Drawing Board05. The Breakthrough06. On The Table07. Brea08. Born Before Yesterday09. Silver Lining10. Out At Night11. Long Way Home12. Still SleepingOddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:5/3/2016 Middle East Downstairs - Boston, MA 5/6/16 Mainstage - Morgantown, WV 5/7/16 Strange Matter - Richmond, VA 5/8/16 Kings Barcade - Raleigh, NC 5/11/16 Jack Rabbits - Jacksonville, FL 5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Verbal Kent & !llMind - Dont F$ck Around Tha Realness 2016-04-22 | Stream/Download:http://mellomusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/weight-of-your-worldVerbal Kent (of Ugly Heroes) and !llMind (platinum producer) have teamed up to give fans a free album the day after 4/20. The new LP is loaded with 13 new !llMind slaps and verses from Verbal Kent as raw as any he's penned before. This is raw battle rap mixed with off-the-wall levity, bizarre metaphors, and trip inducing storylines. Enjoy!Tracklist:01. No Witnesses02. Don't F$ck Around03. Network (feat. Rusty Chains)04. Tasteful Interlude 105. Roll With Me06. What It All Means (feat. Rashid Hadee & Adad)07. All Day08. Weight Of Your World09. Tasteful Interlude 210. Be Like Mike11. Unhappiest (feat. Rusty Chains, Lance Ambu, Alltrusims)12. King of Ink13. Tasteful Interlude 3Released April 21, 2016 http://twitter.com/BIG_VK1http://twitter.com/illmindproducerhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Verbal Kent & !llMind - What It All Means (Ft. Rashid Hadee & Adad) (Cuts by Big Once) Tha Realness 2016-04-22 | Stream/Download:http://mellomusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/weight-of-your-worldVerbal Kent (of Ugly Heroes) and !llMind (platinum producer) have teamed up to give fans a free album the day after 4/20. The new LP is loaded with 13 new !llMind slaps and verses from Verbal Kent as raw as any he's penned before. This is raw battle rap mixed with off-the-wall levity, bizarre metaphors, and trip inducing storylines. Enjoy!Tracklist:01. No Witnesses02. Don't F$ck Around03. Network (feat. Rusty Chains)04. Tasteful Interlude 105. Roll With Me06. What It All Means (feat. Rashid Hadee & Adad)07. All Day08. Weight Of Your World09. Tasteful Interlude 210. Be Like Mike11. Unhappiest (feat. Rusty Chains, Lance Ambu, Alltrusims)12. King of Ink13. Tasteful Interlude 3Released April 21, 2016 http://twitter.com/BIG_VK1http://twitter.com/rashidhadeehttp://twitter.com/mcadadhttp://twitter.com/big_oncehttp://twitter.com/illmindproducerhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Verbal Kent & !llMind - Weight Of Your World Tha Realness 2016-04-22 | Stream/Download:http://mellomusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/weight-of-your-worldVerbal Kent (of Ugly Heroes) and !llMind (platinum producer) have teamed up to give fans a free album the day after 4/20. The new LP is loaded with 13 new !llMind slaps and verses from Verbal Kent as raw as any he's penned before. This is raw battle rap mixed with off-the-wall levity, bizarre metaphors, and trip inducing storylines. Enjoy!Tracklist:01. No Witnesses02. Don't F$ck Around03. Network (feat. Rusty Chains)04. Tasteful Interlude 105. Roll With Me06. What It All Means (feat. Rashid Hadee & Adad)07. All Day08. Weight Of Your World09. Tasteful Interlude 210. Be Like Mike11. Unhappiest (feat. Rusty Chains, Lance Ambu, Alltrusims)12. King of Ink13. Tasteful Interlude 3Released April 21, 2016 http://twitter.com/BIG_VK1http://twitter.com/illmindproducerhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Verbal Kent & !llMind - Be Like Mike Tha Realness 2016-04-22 | Stream/Download:http://mellomusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/weight-of-your-worldVerbal Kent (of Ugly Heroes) and !llMind (platinum producer) have teamed up to give fans a free album the day after 4/20. The new LP is loaded with 13 new !llMind slaps and verses from Verbal Kent as raw as any he's penned before. This is raw battle rap mixed with off-the-wall levity, bizarre metaphors, and trip inducing storylines. Enjoy!Tracklist:01. No Witnesses02. Don't F$ck Around03. Network (feat. Rusty Chains)04. Tasteful Interlude 105. Roll With Me06. What It All Means (feat. Rashid Hadee & Adad)07. All Day08. Weight Of Your World09. Tasteful Interlude 210. Be Like Mike11. Unhappiest (feat. Rusty Chains, Lance Ambu, Alltrusims)12. King of Ink13. Tasteful Interlude 3Released April 21, 2016 http://twitter.com/BIG_VK1http://twitter.com/illmindproducerhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - Born Before Yesterday Tha Realness 2016-04-20 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/the-odd-tape/id1091753195http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/the-odd-tapehttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-d-lux-lphttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-cdPremiered at Noisey:http://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/blog/oddisee-premiere-born-before-yesterday-2016Oddisee is an everyman with extraordinary talent. Both a rapper chronicling the perils and joys of ordinary existence, and a virtuosic producer attuned to the vibrations of how life actually sounds. But don’t mistake the Odd Tape for the noise of birds chirping, idle chatter, or car alarms; it’s that internal soul-jazz reverberating at the back of your brain. For the last decade, the Mello Music Group artist has alternated between instrumental albums, full-length rap records, and his role as one-third of Diamond District. The Odd Tape is technically the former—there are no vocals—but if you call this an instrumental album, you might as well say the same about Bitches Brew. After a decade making music, the Prince Georges, Md.-raised and Brooklyn-based has transcended influences, comparisons and genre. The Odd Tape showcases the range of a composer bending hip-hop, soul, and jazz into singular form, tapping into that same emotional Fort Knox that animates all wordless choruses. The Odd Tape revolves around the rhythms of the artist’s daily life. It starts in the morning with “Alarmed,” that sounds like if Shuggie Otis did a psychedelic eye-opening cover of Nas’ “Shootouts.” It rolls through “Right Side of the Bed,” with its glitter-gold sax lines, loose drums, and sunshine-slanting-through-the-blinds keyboards. Oddisee went from sampling to creating the eternal sounds of his original inspirations. You can hear older gods like Roy Ayers, Bob James, and Fela, but mostly you hear Oddisee continue to come into his own. As Pitchfork described his previous album, 2015’s The Good Fight: “the music feels distinctly international and unhindered, far removed from the straight-ahead boom-bap he used to make. He’s always created on his own terms, but [this] feels like a hearty "fuck you" to prevailing groupthink and the industry’s creative limitations.” releases May 13, 2016 Tracklist:01. Alarmed 02. Right Side of the Bed03. No Sugar No Cream04. Live From The Drawing Board05. The Breakthrough06. On The Table07. Brea08. Born Before Yesterday09. Silver Lining10. Out At Night11. Long Way Home12. Still SleepingOddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:5/3/2016 Middle East Downstairs - Boston, MA 5/6/16 Mainstage - Morgantown, WV 5/7/16 Strange Matter - Richmond, VA 5/8/16 Kings Barcade - Raleigh, NC 5/11/16 Jack Rabbits - Jacksonville, FL 5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Mr. Lif - Pounds of Pressure [Prod. by Alex Apex Gale & Taylor Made Rivelli] Tha Realness 2016-04-15 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/dont-look-down/id1082913881http://mrlifmmg.bandcamp.com/album/dont-look-downhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/frontpage/products/mr-lif-dont-look-down-lphttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/mr-lif-dont-look-down/MMGLIF016LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/mr-lif-don-t-look-down-468701http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Don-t-Look-Down.htmlWelcome to “Don’t Look Down,” Mr. Lif’s first solo album in seven years, a chronicle of personal evolution, internal strength, and the ebbs and flows of life. It’s the most introspective and harrowingly personal work from the ex-Def Jux legend—a record borne from successes, failures, and hard-learned lessons. The Boston prophet’s first new work for Mello Music Group directly addresses the difficulties of keeping your head up amidst duress. You hear and feel the intensity of the fight, the sense of falling into despair, the helplessness of drowning, and the power of being able to save yourself. Over a 10-song cycle, Lif delivers poetic testament that avoids preachiness. These are agnostic sermons written to conceal and nurture him during a bleak period—cathartic confessionals that offered a conduit to bliss. The structure of “Don’t Look Down” mirrors this personal descent and rebirth, a hero’s journey worthy of Joseph Campbell. It starts with “Pounds of Pressure” and “The Abyss,” adrenaline-pulsing sagas where the narrator clutches his pistol, soaked in sweat. Over bone-bristling drums and smears of disembodied vocal samples, Lif’s protagonist is engulfed in violence, pushed to the precipice, forced into a fight-or-flight scenario. This emotional rupture leads into the depression of the third track, “Everyday We Pray”—where the hero ruminates on personal storms and the patterns of his demise—praying for discipline and the strength to be honest. By the song’s conclusion, optimism has started to seep back into his worldview. “Let Go” reflects that with its self-admonition to search deeper and think smarter, let the light shine, and unburden oneself from the pain of the past. “A Better Day” captures the zenith of this positivity, filtered through realism and clarity. It’s a call to arms to rebuke the cosmetic and prosthetic, to scale these walls and “beat this vile prison we call living.” With "Whizdom," "Mission Accomplished", & "World Renown," the central character creates his own world, barricading himself from the ills of society. He’s aided by a beat from Edan and verses from Akrobatik (Lif’s partner in The Perceptionists) and Del the Funky Homosapien. The final act hinges on “iLL,” where the vulnerabilities creep back to the surface, incubating a state of reflection, in which the protagonist ponders the ways of the world—wishing for something more, wondering if this is heaven or another self-created hell. The concepts all come to a powerful resolution on the finale, the title track that hauntingly echoes this mantra of resilience. Over taut minor piano chords, Lif tries to make sense of it all before the final fall, weary with a head full of ideas, a spirit unbowed, offering one last reminder that our most severe stumbles often lead to our greatest successes.Released April 15, 2016 http://twitter.com/therealmrlifhttp://twitter.com/alexgalehttp://twitter.com/TmadeSoundshttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Mr. Lif - The Abyss [Prod. by Alex Apex Gale] Tha Realness 2016-04-15 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/dont-look-down/id1082913881http://mrlifmmg.bandcamp.com/album/dont-look-downhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/frontpage/products/mr-lif-dont-look-down-lphttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/mr-lif-dont-look-down/MMGLIF016LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/mr-lif-don-t-look-down-468701http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Don-t-Look-Down.htmlWelcome to “Don’t Look Down,” Mr. Lif’s first solo album in seven years, a chronicle of personal evolution, internal strength, and the ebbs and flows of life. It’s the most introspective and harrowingly personal work from the ex-Def Jux legend—a record borne from successes, failures, and hard-learned lessons. The Boston prophet’s first new work for Mello Music Group directly addresses the difficulties of keeping your head up amidst duress. You hear and feel the intensity of the fight, the sense of falling into despair, the helplessness of drowning, and the power of being able to save yourself. Over a 10-song cycle, Lif delivers poetic testament that avoids preachiness. These are agnostic sermons written to conceal and nurture him during a bleak period—cathartic confessionals that offered a conduit to bliss. The structure of “Don’t Look Down” mirrors this personal descent and rebirth, a hero’s journey worthy of Joseph Campbell. It starts with “Pounds of Pressure” and “The Abyss,” adrenaline-pulsing sagas where the narrator clutches his pistol, soaked in sweat. Over bone-bristling drums and smears of disembodied vocal samples, Lif’s protagonist is engulfed in violence, pushed to the precipice, forced into a fight-or-flight scenario. This emotional rupture leads into the depression of the third track, “Everyday We Pray”—where the hero ruminates on personal storms and the patterns of his demise—praying for discipline and the strength to be honest. By the song’s conclusion, optimism has started to seep back into his worldview. “Let Go” reflects that with its self-admonition to search deeper and think smarter, let the light shine, and unburden oneself from the pain of the past. “A Better Day” captures the zenith of this positivity, filtered through realism and clarity. It’s a call to arms to rebuke the cosmetic and prosthetic, to scale these walls and “beat this vile prison we call living.” With "Whizdom," "Mission Accomplished", & "World Renown," the central character creates his own world, barricading himself from the ills of society. He’s aided by a beat from Edan and verses from Akrobatik (Lif’s partner in The Perceptionists) and Del the Funky Homosapien. The final act hinges on “iLL,” where the vulnerabilities creep back to the surface, incubating a state of reflection, in which the protagonist ponders the ways of the world—wishing for something more, wondering if this is heaven or another self-created hell. The concepts all come to a powerful resolution on the finale, the title track that hauntingly echoes this mantra of resilience. Over taut minor piano chords, Lif tries to make sense of it all before the final fall, weary with a head full of ideas, a spirit unbowed, offering one last reminder that our most severe stumbles often lead to our greatest successes.Released April 15, 2016 http://twitter.com/therealmrlifhttp://twitter.com/alexgalehttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Mr. Lif - Everyday We Pray [Prod. by Taylor Made Rivelli] Tha Realness 2016-04-15 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/dont-look-down/id1082913881http://mrlifmmg.bandcamp.com/album/dont-look-downhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/frontpage/products/mr-lif-dont-look-down-lphttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/mr-lif-dont-look-down/MMGLIF016LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/mr-lif-don-t-look-down-468701http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Don-t-Look-Down.htmlWelcome to “Don’t Look Down,” Mr. Lif’s first solo album in seven years, a chronicle of personal evolution, internal strength, and the ebbs and flows of life. It’s the most introspective and harrowingly personal work from the ex-Def Jux legend—a record borne from successes, failures, and hard-learned lessons. The Boston prophet’s first new work for Mello Music Group directly addresses the difficulties of keeping your head up amidst duress. You hear and feel the intensity of the fight, the sense of falling into despair, the helplessness of drowning, and the power of being able to save yourself. Over a 10-song cycle, Lif delivers poetic testament that avoids preachiness. These are agnostic sermons written to conceal and nurture him during a bleak period—cathartic confessionals that offered a conduit to bliss. The structure of “Don’t Look Down” mirrors this personal descent and rebirth, a hero’s journey worthy of Joseph Campbell. It starts with “Pounds of Pressure” and “The Abyss,” adrenaline-pulsing sagas where the narrator clutches his pistol, soaked in sweat. Over bone-bristling drums and smears of disembodied vocal samples, Lif’s protagonist is engulfed in violence, pushed to the precipice, forced into a fight-or-flight scenario. This emotional rupture leads into the depression of the third track, “Everyday We Pray”—where the hero ruminates on personal storms and the patterns of his demise—praying for discipline and the strength to be honest. By the song’s conclusion, optimism has started to seep back into his worldview. “Let Go” reflects that with its self-admonition to search deeper and think smarter, let the light shine, and unburden oneself from the pain of the past. “A Better Day” captures the zenith of this positivity, filtered through realism and clarity. It’s a call to arms to rebuke the cosmetic and prosthetic, to scale these walls and “beat this vile prison we call living.” With "Whizdom," "Mission Accomplished", & "World Renown," the central character creates his own world, barricading himself from the ills of society. He’s aided by a beat from Edan and verses from Akrobatik (Lif’s partner in The Perceptionists) and Del the Funky Homosapien. The final act hinges on “iLL,” where the vulnerabilities creep back to the surface, incubating a state of reflection, in which the protagonist ponders the ways of the world—wishing for something more, wondering if this is heaven or another self-created hell. The concepts all come to a powerful resolution on the finale, the title track that hauntingly echoes this mantra of resilience. Over taut minor piano chords, Lif tries to make sense of it all before the final fall, weary with a head full of ideas, a spirit unbowed, offering one last reminder that our most severe stumbles often lead to our greatest successes.Released April 15, 2016 http://twitter.com/therealmrlifhttp://twitter.com/TmadeSoundshttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Mr. Lif - A Better Day (Ft. Erica Dee) [Prod. by SlopFunkDust] Tha Realness 2016-04-15 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/dont-look-down/id1082913881http://mrlifmmg.bandcamp.com/album/dont-look-downhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/frontpage/products/mr-lif-dont-look-down-lphttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/mr-lif-dont-look-down/MMGLIF016LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/mr-lif-don-t-look-down-468701http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Don-t-Look-Down.htmlWelcome to “Don’t Look Down,” Mr. Lif’s first solo album in seven years, a chronicle of personal evolution, internal strength, and the ebbs and flows of life. It’s the most introspective and harrowingly personal work from the ex-Def Jux legend—a record borne from successes, failures, and hard-learned lessons. The Boston prophet’s first new work for Mello Music Group directly addresses the difficulties of keeping your head up amidst duress. You hear and feel the intensity of the fight, the sense of falling into despair, the helplessness of drowning, and the power of being able to save yourself. Over a 10-song cycle, Lif delivers poetic testament that avoids preachiness. These are agnostic sermons written to conceal and nurture him during a bleak period—cathartic confessionals that offered a conduit to bliss. The structure of “Don’t Look Down” mirrors this personal descent and rebirth, a hero’s journey worthy of Joseph Campbell. It starts with “Pounds of Pressure” and “The Abyss,” adrenaline-pulsing sagas where the narrator clutches his pistol, soaked in sweat. Over bone-bristling drums and smears of disembodied vocal samples, Lif’s protagonist is engulfed in violence, pushed to the precipice, forced into a fight-or-flight scenario. This emotional rupture leads into the depression of the third track, “Everyday We Pray”—where the hero ruminates on personal storms and the patterns of his demise—praying for discipline and the strength to be honest. By the song’s conclusion, optimism has started to seep back into his worldview. “Let Go” reflects that with its self-admonition to search deeper and think smarter, let the light shine, and unburden oneself from the pain of the past. “A Better Day” captures the zenith of this positivity, filtered through realism and clarity. It’s a call to arms to rebuke the cosmetic and prosthetic, to scale these walls and “beat this vile prison we call living.” With "Whizdom," "Mission Accomplished", & "World Renown," the central character creates his own world, barricading himself from the ills of society. He’s aided by a beat from Edan and verses from Akrobatik (Lif’s partner in The Perceptionists) and Del the Funky Homosapien. The final act hinges on “iLL,” where the vulnerabilities creep back to the surface, incubating a state of reflection, in which the protagonist ponders the ways of the world—wishing for something more, wondering if this is heaven or another self-created hell. The concepts all come to a powerful resolution on the finale, the title track that hauntingly echoes this mantra of resilience. Over taut minor piano chords, Lif tries to make sense of it all before the final fall, weary with a head full of ideas, a spirit unbowed, offering one last reminder that our most severe stumbles often lead to our greatest successes.Released April 15, 2016 http://twitter.com/therealmrlifhttp://twitter.com/missericadeehttp://twitter.com/slopfunkdusthttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Mr. Lif - Mission Accomplished (Ft. Perceptionists) [Prod. by Fakts One] Tha Realness 2016-04-15 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/dont-look-down/id1082913881http://mrlifmmg.bandcamp.com/album/dont-look-downhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/frontpage/products/mr-lif-dont-look-down-lphttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/mr-lif-dont-look-down/MMGLIF016LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/mr-lif-don-t-look-down-468701http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Don-t-Look-Down.htmlWelcome to “Don’t Look Down,” Mr. Lif’s first solo album in seven years, a chronicle of personal evolution, internal strength, and the ebbs and flows of life. It’s the most introspective and harrowingly personal work from the ex-Def Jux legend—a record borne from successes, failures, and hard-learned lessons. The Boston prophet’s first new work for Mello Music Group directly addresses the difficulties of keeping your head up amidst duress. You hear and feel the intensity of the fight, the sense of falling into despair, the helplessness of drowning, and the power of being able to save yourself. Over a 10-song cycle, Lif delivers poetic testament that avoids preachiness. These are agnostic sermons written to conceal and nurture him during a bleak period—cathartic confessionals that offered a conduit to bliss. The structure of “Don’t Look Down” mirrors this personal descent and rebirth, a hero’s journey worthy of Joseph Campbell. It starts with “Pounds of Pressure” and “The Abyss,” adrenaline-pulsing sagas where the narrator clutches his pistol, soaked in sweat. Over bone-bristling drums and smears of disembodied vocal samples, Lif’s protagonist is engulfed in violence, pushed to the precipice, forced into a fight-or-flight scenario. This emotional rupture leads into the depression of the third track, “Everyday We Pray”—where the hero ruminates on personal storms and the patterns of his demise—praying for discipline and the strength to be honest. By the song’s conclusion, optimism has started to seep back into his worldview. “Let Go” reflects that with its self-admonition to search deeper and think smarter, let the light shine, and unburden oneself from the pain of the past. “A Better Day” captures the zenith of this positivity, filtered through realism and clarity. It’s a call to arms to rebuke the cosmetic and prosthetic, to scale these walls and “beat this vile prison we call living.” With "Whizdom," "Mission Accomplished", & "World Renown," the central character creates his own world, barricading himself from the ills of society. He’s aided by a beat from Edan and verses from Akrobatik (Lif’s partner in The Perceptionists) and Del the Funky Homosapien. The final act hinges on “iLL,” where the vulnerabilities creep back to the surface, incubating a state of reflection, in which the protagonist ponders the ways of the world—wishing for something more, wondering if this is heaven or another self-created hell. The concepts all come to a powerful resolution on the finale, the title track that hauntingly echoes this mantra of resilience. Over taut minor piano chords, Lif tries to make sense of it all before the final fall, weary with a head full of ideas, a spirit unbowed, offering one last reminder that our most severe stumbles often lead to our greatest successes.Released April 15, 2016 http://twitter.com/therealmrlifhttp://twitter.com/akrobatikmchttp://twitter.com/faktsonehttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Mr. Lif - iLL [Prod. by Synthetic Nation Music] Tha Realness 2016-04-15 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/dont-look-down/id1082913881http://mrlifmmg.bandcamp.com/album/dont-look-downhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/frontpage/products/mr-lif-dont-look-down-lphttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/mr-lif-dont-look-down/MMGLIF016LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/mr-lif-don-t-look-down-468701http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Don-t-Look-Down.htmlWelcome to “Don’t Look Down,” Mr. Lif’s first solo album in seven years, a chronicle of personal evolution, internal strength, and the ebbs and flows of life. It’s the most introspective and harrowingly personal work from the ex-Def Jux legend—a record borne from successes, failures, and hard-learned lessons. The Boston prophet’s first new work for Mello Music Group directly addresses the difficulties of keeping your head up amidst duress. You hear and feel the intensity of the fight, the sense of falling into despair, the helplessness of drowning, and the power of being able to save yourself. Over a 10-song cycle, Lif delivers poetic testament that avoids preachiness. These are agnostic sermons written to conceal and nurture him during a bleak period—cathartic confessionals that offered a conduit to bliss. The structure of “Don’t Look Down” mirrors this personal descent and rebirth, a hero’s journey worthy of Joseph Campbell. It starts with “Pounds of Pressure” and “The Abyss,” adrenaline-pulsing sagas where the narrator clutches his pistol, soaked in sweat. Over bone-bristling drums and smears of disembodied vocal samples, Lif’s protagonist is engulfed in violence, pushed to the precipice, forced into a fight-or-flight scenario. This emotional rupture leads into the depression of the third track, “Everyday We Pray”—where the hero ruminates on personal storms and the patterns of his demise—praying for discipline and the strength to be honest. By the song’s conclusion, optimism has started to seep back into his worldview. “Let Go” reflects that with its self-admonition to search deeper and think smarter, let the light shine, and unburden oneself from the pain of the past. “A Better Day” captures the zenith of this positivity, filtered through realism and clarity. It’s a call to arms to rebuke the cosmetic and prosthetic, to scale these walls and “beat this vile prison we call living.” With "Whizdom," "Mission Accomplished", & "World Renown," the central character creates his own world, barricading himself from the ills of society. He’s aided by a beat from Edan and verses from Akrobatik (Lif’s partner in The Perceptionists) and Del the Funky Homosapien. The final act hinges on “iLL,” where the vulnerabilities creep back to the surface, incubating a state of reflection, in which the protagonist ponders the ways of the world—wishing for something more, wondering if this is heaven or another self-created hell. The concepts all come to a powerful resolution on the finale, the title track that hauntingly echoes this mantra of resilience. Over taut minor piano chords, Lif tries to make sense of it all before the final fall, weary with a head full of ideas, a spirit unbowed, offering one last reminder that our most severe stumbles often lead to our greatest successes.Released April 15, 2016 http://twitter.com/therealmrlifhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Mr. Lif - Dont Look Down [Prod. by Synthetic Nation Music] Tha Realness 2016-04-15 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/album/dont-look-down/id1082913881http://mrlifmmg.bandcamp.com/album/dont-look-downhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/frontpage/products/mr-lif-dont-look-down-lphttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/mr-lif-dont-look-down/MMGLIF016LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/mr-lif-don-t-look-down-468701http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Don-t-Look-Down.htmlWelcome to “Don’t Look Down,” Mr. Lif’s first solo album in seven years, a chronicle of personal evolution, internal strength, and the ebbs and flows of life. It’s the most introspective and harrowingly personal work from the ex-Def Jux legend—a record borne from successes, failures, and hard-learned lessons. The Boston prophet’s first new work for Mello Music Group directly addresses the difficulties of keeping your head up amidst duress. You hear and feel the intensity of the fight, the sense of falling into despair, the helplessness of drowning, and the power of being able to save yourself. Over a 10-song cycle, Lif delivers poetic testament that avoids preachiness. These are agnostic sermons written to conceal and nurture him during a bleak period—cathartic confessionals that offered a conduit to bliss. The structure of “Don’t Look Down” mirrors this personal descent and rebirth, a hero’s journey worthy of Joseph Campbell. It starts with “Pounds of Pressure” and “The Abyss,” adrenaline-pulsing sagas where the narrator clutches his pistol, soaked in sweat. Over bone-bristling drums and smears of disembodied vocal samples, Lif’s protagonist is engulfed in violence, pushed to the precipice, forced into a fight-or-flight scenario. This emotional rupture leads into the depression of the third track, “Everyday We Pray”—where the hero ruminates on personal storms and the patterns of his demise—praying for discipline and the strength to be honest. By the song’s conclusion, optimism has started to seep back into his worldview. “Let Go” reflects that with its self-admonition to search deeper and think smarter, let the light shine, and unburden oneself from the pain of the past. “A Better Day” captures the zenith of this positivity, filtered through realism and clarity. It’s a call to arms to rebuke the cosmetic and prosthetic, to scale these walls and “beat this vile prison we call living.” With "Whizdom," "Mission Accomplished", & "World Renown," the central character creates his own world, barricading himself from the ills of society. He’s aided by a beat from Edan and verses from Akrobatik (Lif’s partner in The Perceptionists) and Del the Funky Homosapien. The final act hinges on “iLL,” where the vulnerabilities creep back to the surface, incubating a state of reflection, in which the protagonist ponders the ways of the world—wishing for something more, wondering if this is heaven or another self-created hell. The concepts all come to a powerful resolution on the finale, the title track that hauntingly echoes this mantra of resilience. Over taut minor piano chords, Lif tries to make sense of it all before the final fall, weary with a head full of ideas, a spirit unbowed, offering one last reminder that our most severe stumbles often lead to our greatest successes.Released April 15, 2016 http://twitter.com/therealmrlifhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Mr. Lif - Let Go (Ft. Selina Carrera) [Prod. by Caliph-NOW] Tha Realness 2016-04-04 | Watch Music Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDRgX9J3qr0Support:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dont-look-down/id1082913881http://mrlifmmg.bandcamp.com/album/dont-look-downhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/frontpage/products/mr-lif-dont-look-down-lphttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/mr-lif-dont-look-down/MMGLIF016LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/mr-lif-don-t-look-down-468701http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Don-t-Look-Down.htmlPremiered at SPIN 4/4/2016:http://www.spin.com/2016/04/mr-lif-let-go-premiere-streamWelcome to “Don’t Look Down,” Mr. Lif’s first solo album in seven years, a chronicle of personal evolution, internal strength, and the ebbs and flows of life. It’s the most introspective and harrowingly personal work from the ex-Def Jux legend—a record borne from successes, failures, and hard-learned lessons. The Boston prophet’s first new work for Mello Music Group directly addresses the difficulties of keeping your head up amidst duress. You hear and feel the intensity of the fight, the sense of falling into despair, the helplessness of drowning, and the power of being able to save yourself. Over a 10-song cycle, Lif delivers poetic testament that avoids preachiness. These are agnostic sermons written to conceal and nurture him during a bleak period—cathartic confessionals that offered a conduit to bliss. The structure of “Don’t Look Down” mirrors this personal descent and rebirth, a hero’s journey worthy of Joseph Campbell. It starts with “Pounds of Pressure” and “The Abyss,” adrenaline-pulsing sagas where the narrator clutches his pistol, soaked in sweat. Over bone-bristling drums and smears of disembodied vocal samples, Lif’s protagonist is engulfed in violence, pushed to the precipice, forced into a fight-or-flight scenario. This emotional rupture leads into the depression of the third track, “Everyday We Pray”—where the hero ruminates on personal storms and the patterns of his demise—praying for discipline and the strength to be honest. By the song’s conclusion, optimism has started to seep back into his worldview. “Let Go” reflects that with its self-admonition to search deeper and think smarter, let the light shine, and unburden oneself from the pain of the past. “A Better Day” captures the zenith of this positivity, filtered through realism and clarity. It’s a call to arms to rebuke the cosmetic and prosthetic, to scale these walls and “beat this vile prison we call living.” With "Whizdom," "Mission Accomplished", & "World Renown," the central character creates his own world, barricading himself from the ills of society. He’s aided by a beat from Edan and verses from Akrobatik (Lif’s partner in The Perceptionists) and Del the Funky Homosapien. The final act hinges on “iLL,” where the vulnerabilities creep back to the surface, incubating a state of reflection, in which the protagonist ponders the ways of the world—wishing for something more, wondering if this is heaven or another self-created hell. The concepts all come to a powerful resolution on the finale, the title track that hauntingly echoes this mantra of resilience. Over taut minor piano chords, Lif tries to make sense of it all before the final fall, weary with a head full of ideas, a spirit unbowed, offering one last reminder that our most severe stumbles often lead to our greatest successes.Releases April 15, 2016 http://twitter.com/therealmrlifhttp://twitter.com/selinacarrerahttp://twitter.com/caliphnowhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - No Sugar No Cream Tha Realness 2016-03-30 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-odd-tape/id1091753195http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/the-odd-tapehttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-d-lux-lphttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-the-odd-tape-cdOddisee is an everyman with extraordinary talent. Both a rapper chronicling the perils and joys of ordinary existence, and a virtuosic producer attuned to the vibrations of how life actually sounds. But don’t mistake the Odd Tape for the noise of birds chirping, idle chatter, or car alarms; it’s that internal soul-jazz reverberating at the back of your brain. For the last decade, the Mello Music Group artist has alternated between instrumental albums, full-length rap records, and his role as one-third of Diamond District. The Odd Tape is technically the former—there are no vocals—but if you call this an instrumental album, you might as well say the same about Bitches Brew. After a decade making music, the Prince Georges, Md.-raised and Brooklyn-based has transcended influences, comparisons and genre. The Odd Tape showcases the range of a composer bending hip-hop, soul, and jazz into singular form, tapping into that same emotional Fort Knox that animates all wordless choruses. The Odd Tape revolves around the rhythms of the artist’s daily life. It starts in the morning with “Alarmed,” that sounds like if Shuggie Otis did a psychedelic eye-opening cover of Nas’ “Shootouts.” It rolls through “Right Side of the Bed,” with its glitter-gold sax lines, loose drums, and sunshine-slanting-through-the-blinds keyboards. Oddisee went from sampling to creating the eternal sounds of his original inspirations. You can hear older gods like Roy Ayers, Bob James, and Fela, but mostly you hear Oddisee continue to come into his own. As Pitchfork described his previous album, 2015’s The Good Fight: “the music feels distinctly international and unhindered, far removed from the straight-ahead boom-bap he used to make. He’s always created on his own terms, but [this] feels like a hearty "fuck you" to prevailing groupthink and the industry’s creative limitations.” releases May 13, 2016 Tracklist:01. Alarmed 02. Right Side of the Bed03. No Sugar No Cream04. Live From The Drawing Board05. The Breakthrough06. On The Table07. Brea08. Born Before Yesterday09. Silver Lining10. Out At Night11. Long Way Home12. Still SleepingOddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:3/26/16 Treefort Festival - Boise, ID 5/3/2016 Middle East Downstairs - Boston, MA 5/6/16 Mainstage - Morgantown, WV 5/7/16 Strange Matter - Richmond, VA 5/8/16 Kings Barcade - Raleigh, NC 5/11/16 Jack Rabbits - Jacksonville, FL 5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Open Mike Eagle & Paul White - The Curse of Hypervigilance (In Politics, Romance & Cohabitation) Tha Realness 2016-03-25 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hella-personal-film-festival/id1074380694http://openmikeeagle360.bandcamp.com/album/hella-personal-film-festivalhttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/open-mike-eagle-paul-white-hella-personal-film-festival/MMG00079LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/open-mike-eagle-and-paul-white-hella-personal-film-festival-465285http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Hella-Personal-Film-Festival.htmlOpen Mike Eagle might not have all the answers, but few artists in hip-hop, music, or American life are asking smarter questions. In a landscape governed by ceaseless babble, flashing lights, and hollow lies, Eagle harmonizes into the void so we don’t have to. On this descent into the digital trenches, Eagle teams up with British producer, Paul White for Hella Personal Film Festival. Released on Mello Music Group, the full collaboration finds White behind the SP-1200s, conjuring a psychedelic strain of soul-funk, booming drums, and 21st century crate-digging in tropical attics of the imagination. On the microphone, the Chicago-bred, LA-based, Eagle artfully breaks down the banalities and perils of the modern condition. Recorded in London, Eagle’s new album continues where his 2014 masterpiece, Dark Comedy left off. It’s anxiety-riddled but whimsical, addicted to and scornful of social media, stuffed with old wrestling in-jokes and film snippets. Self-aware admissions blend into attacks on societal double standards. Known for alchemical solo work and collaborations with Danny Brown, Homeboy Sandman, and Mos Def, this is White’s first proper union with Eagle. The two artists bonded over the notion of diversity. The process started out with rough demos, which White ended up finishing in post-production—playing guitar, drums, bass, keyboards, percussion and pieces of wood found in a forest. Its genius ultimately comes from the pair mining a deep vein of emotional content—a discussion of the things we feel that you don’t say. A movie that hits so accurately it’s almost uncomfortable. These are tense anthems for the vulnerable, consecrations to black people with rich internal lives, agnostic prayers for those grappling with pain. They’re emotional landmines leavened by the wry bleakness usually only found in great stand-up comedians. Eagle exists in the lineage of They Might Be Giants and Richard Pryor, Freestyle Fellowship and his longtime friend and collaborator, Hannibal Burress. Within the first act, the plot becomes clear. See “Admitting the Endorphin,” where Eagle raps, “I chase my poison tail and get so high that voices fail.” These are the movies he’d make it he knew how to make movies. Surreal vignettes about waking up with burrito hangovers in hotels you don’t recognize, wondering if you remembered to charge your phone. Aesop Rock and Hemlock Ernst (Sam Herring of Future Islands) pop up as fellow travelers. No one is better than Eagle at capturing the nauseous disorientation of day-to-day life. The deluge of sports highlights, unread texts and Twitter notifications. The compulsive need to check your phone at red lights and pauses in conversation. But his incisiveness extends far beyond observational humor. “Smiling (Quirky Race Doc)” examines the slights and casual bigotry of daily interaction. “A Short About a Guy That Dies Every Night” is a morbid rumination on death. These are the returns after long dark nights of the soul. When the noises are loud, the lights are off, and the armor is pierced. Short films that loop over and over again, as soon as you close your eyes.Released March 25, 2016 Open Mike Eagle US & Euro Tour Dates:04-05 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba Records In-Store Performance04-07 San Francisco, CA - Thee Parkside *^04-13 New York, NY - Baby's All Right #&04-14 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie @04-20 Los Angeles, CA - Getting Doug with High04-22 Denver, CO - Lost Lake04-23 Norman, OK - Norman Music Festival w/ Cloud Nothings04-24 Los Angeles, CA - New Negroes Show (UCB Theatre)05-11 Seattle, WA - Barboza05-12 Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown05-13 Portland, OR - Bunk Bar05-14 Hood River, OR - Underground Music Station05-22 Leeds, England - Hi-Fi Club05-23 London, England - Birthdays05-24 Cardiff, Wales - The Moon Club05-25 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Poppodium Q-Factory05-26 Wiesbaden, Germany - Schlachthof05-27 Zurich, Switzerland - Rote Fabrik05-28 Linz, Austria - Stadtwerkstatt05-31 Durham, England - The Empty Shop08-05-06 Happy Valley, OR - Pickathon* with Count Bass D^ with Dibia$e# with Lushlife& with Uncommon Nasa@ with Has-Lohttp://twitter.com/Mike_Eaglehttp://twitter.com/paulwhitemusichttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Open Mike Eagle & Paul White - Insecurity Tha Realness 2016-03-25 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hella-personal-film-festival/id1074380694http://openmikeeagle360.bandcamp.com/album/hella-personal-film-festivalhttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/open-mike-eagle-paul-white-hella-personal-film-festival/MMG00079LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/open-mike-eagle-and-paul-white-hella-personal-film-festival-465285http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Hella-Personal-Film-Festival.htmlOpen Mike Eagle might not have all the answers, but few artists in hip-hop, music, or American life are asking smarter questions. In a landscape governed by ceaseless babble, flashing lights, and hollow lies, Eagle harmonizes into the void so we don’t have to. On this descent into the digital trenches, Eagle teams up with British producer, Paul White for Hella Personal Film Festival. Released on Mello Music Group, the full collaboration finds White behind the SP-1200s, conjuring a psychedelic strain of soul-funk, booming drums, and 21st century crate-digging in tropical attics of the imagination. On the microphone, the Chicago-bred, LA-based, Eagle artfully breaks down the banalities and perils of the modern condition. Recorded in London, Eagle’s new album continues where his 2014 masterpiece, Dark Comedy left off. It’s anxiety-riddled but whimsical, addicted to and scornful of social media, stuffed with old wrestling in-jokes and film snippets. Self-aware admissions blend into attacks on societal double standards. Known for alchemical solo work and collaborations with Danny Brown, Homeboy Sandman, and Mos Def, this is White’s first proper union with Eagle. The two artists bonded over the notion of diversity. The process started out with rough demos, which White ended up finishing in post-production—playing guitar, drums, bass, keyboards, percussion and pieces of wood found in a forest. Its genius ultimately comes from the pair mining a deep vein of emotional content—a discussion of the things we feel that you don’t say. A movie that hits so accurately it’s almost uncomfortable. These are tense anthems for the vulnerable, consecrations to black people with rich internal lives, agnostic prayers for those grappling with pain. They’re emotional landmines leavened by the wry bleakness usually only found in great stand-up comedians. Eagle exists in the lineage of They Might Be Giants and Richard Pryor, Freestyle Fellowship and his longtime friend and collaborator, Hannibal Burress. Within the first act, the plot becomes clear. See “Admitting the Endorphin,” where Eagle raps, “I chase my poison tail and get so high that voices fail.” These are the movies he’d make it he knew how to make movies. Surreal vignettes about waking up with burrito hangovers in hotels you don’t recognize, wondering if you remembered to charge your phone. Aesop Rock and Hemlock Ernst (Sam Herring of Future Islands) pop up as fellow travelers. No one is better than Eagle at capturing the nauseous disorientation of day-to-day life. The deluge of sports highlights, unread texts and Twitter notifications. The compulsive need to check your phone at red lights and pauses in conversation. But his incisiveness extends far beyond observational humor. “Smiling (Quirky Race Doc)” examines the slights and casual bigotry of daily interaction. “A Short About a Guy That Dies Every Night” is a morbid rumination on death. These are the returns after long dark nights of the soul. When the noises are loud, the lights are off, and the armor is pierced. Short films that loop over and over again, as soon as you close your eyes.Released March 25, 2016 Open Mike Eagle US & Euro Tour Dates:04-05 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba Records In-Store Performance04-07 San Francisco, CA - Thee Parkside *^04-13 New York, NY - Baby's All Right #&04-14 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie @04-20 Los Angeles, CA - Getting Doug with High04-22 Denver, CO - Lost Lake04-23 Norman, OK - Norman Music Festival w/ Cloud Nothings04-24 Los Angeles, CA - New Negroes Show (UCB Theatre)05-11 Seattle, WA - Barboza05-12 Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown05-13 Portland, OR - Bunk Bar05-14 Hood River, OR - Underground Music Station05-22 Leeds, England - Hi-Fi Club05-23 London, England - Birthdays05-24 Cardiff, Wales - The Moon Club05-25 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Poppodium Q-Factory05-26 Wiesbaden, Germany - Schlachthof05-27 Zurich, Switzerland - Rote Fabrik05-28 Linz, Austria - Stadtwerkstatt05-31 Durham, England - The Empty Shop08-05-06 Happy Valley, OR - Pickathon* with Count Bass D^ with Dibia$e# with Lushlife& with Uncommon Nasa@ with Has-Lohttp://twitter.com/Mike_Eaglehttp://twitter.com/paulwhitemusichttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Open Mike Eagle & Paul White - Smiling (Quirky Race Doc) Tha Realness 2016-03-25 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hella-personal-film-festival/id1074380694http://openmikeeagle360.bandcamp.com/album/hella-personal-film-festivalhttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/open-mike-eagle-paul-white-hella-personal-film-festival/MMG00079LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/open-mike-eagle-and-paul-white-hella-personal-film-festival-465285http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Hella-Personal-Film-Festival.htmlOpen Mike Eagle might not have all the answers, but few artists in hip-hop, music, or American life are asking smarter questions. In a landscape governed by ceaseless babble, flashing lights, and hollow lies, Eagle harmonizes into the void so we don’t have to. On this descent into the digital trenches, Eagle teams up with British producer, Paul White for Hella Personal Film Festival. Released on Mello Music Group, the full collaboration finds White behind the SP-1200s, conjuring a psychedelic strain of soul-funk, booming drums, and 21st century crate-digging in tropical attics of the imagination. On the microphone, the Chicago-bred, LA-based, Eagle artfully breaks down the banalities and perils of the modern condition. Recorded in London, Eagle’s new album continues where his 2014 masterpiece, Dark Comedy left off. It’s anxiety-riddled but whimsical, addicted to and scornful of social media, stuffed with old wrestling in-jokes and film snippets. Self-aware admissions blend into attacks on societal double standards. Known for alchemical solo work and collaborations with Danny Brown, Homeboy Sandman, and Mos Def, this is White’s first proper union with Eagle. The two artists bonded over the notion of diversity. The process started out with rough demos, which White ended up finishing in post-production—playing guitar, drums, bass, keyboards, percussion and pieces of wood found in a forest. Its genius ultimately comes from the pair mining a deep vein of emotional content—a discussion of the things we feel that you don’t say. A movie that hits so accurately it’s almost uncomfortable. These are tense anthems for the vulnerable, consecrations to black people with rich internal lives, agnostic prayers for those grappling with pain. They’re emotional landmines leavened by the wry bleakness usually only found in great stand-up comedians. Eagle exists in the lineage of They Might Be Giants and Richard Pryor, Freestyle Fellowship and his longtime friend and collaborator, Hannibal Burress. Within the first act, the plot becomes clear. See “Admitting the Endorphin,” where Eagle raps, “I chase my poison tail and get so high that voices fail.” These are the movies he’d make it he knew how to make movies. Surreal vignettes about waking up with burrito hangovers in hotels you don’t recognize, wondering if you remembered to charge your phone. Aesop Rock and Hemlock Ernst (Sam Herring of Future Islands) pop up as fellow travelers. No one is better than Eagle at capturing the nauseous disorientation of day-to-day life. The deluge of sports highlights, unread texts and Twitter notifications. The compulsive need to check your phone at red lights and pauses in conversation. But his incisiveness extends far beyond observational humor. “Smiling (Quirky Race Doc)” examines the slights and casual bigotry of daily interaction. “A Short About a Guy That Dies Every Night” is a morbid rumination on death. These are the returns after long dark nights of the soul. When the noises are loud, the lights are off, and the armor is pierced. Short films that loop over and over again, as soon as you close your eyes.Released March 25, 2016 Open Mike Eagle US & Euro Tour Dates:04-05 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba Records In-Store Performance04-07 San Francisco, CA - Thee Parkside *^04-13 New York, NY - Baby's All Right #&04-14 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie @04-20 Los Angeles, CA - Getting Doug with High04-22 Denver, CO - Lost Lake04-23 Norman, OK - Norman Music Festival w/ Cloud Nothings04-24 Los Angeles, CA - New Negroes Show (UCB Theatre)05-11 Seattle, WA - Barboza05-12 Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown05-13 Portland, OR - Bunk Bar05-14 Hood River, OR - Underground Music Station05-22 Leeds, England - Hi-Fi Club05-23 London, England - Birthdays05-24 Cardiff, Wales - The Moon Club05-25 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Poppodium Q-Factory05-26 Wiesbaden, Germany - Schlachthof05-27 Zurich, Switzerland - Rote Fabrik05-28 Linz, Austria - Stadtwerkstatt05-31 Durham, England - The Empty Shop08-05-06 Happy Valley, OR - Pickathon* with Count Bass D^ with Dibia$e# with Lushlife& with Uncommon Nasa@ with Has-Lohttp://twitter.com/Mike_Eaglehttp://twitter.com/paulwhitemusichttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Open Mike Eagle & Paul White - Leave People Alone Tha Realness 2016-03-25 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hella-personal-film-festival/id1074380694http://openmikeeagle360.bandcamp.com/album/hella-personal-film-festivalhttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/open-mike-eagle-paul-white-hella-personal-film-festival/MMG00079LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/open-mike-eagle-and-paul-white-hella-personal-film-festival-465285http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Hella-Personal-Film-Festival.htmlOpen Mike Eagle might not have all the answers, but few artists in hip-hop, music, or American life are asking smarter questions. In a landscape governed by ceaseless babble, flashing lights, and hollow lies, Eagle harmonizes into the void so we don’t have to. On this descent into the digital trenches, Eagle teams up with British producer, Paul White for Hella Personal Film Festival. Released on Mello Music Group, the full collaboration finds White behind the SP-1200s, conjuring a psychedelic strain of soul-funk, booming drums, and 21st century crate-digging in tropical attics of the imagination. On the microphone, the Chicago-bred, LA-based, Eagle artfully breaks down the banalities and perils of the modern condition. Recorded in London, Eagle’s new album continues where his 2014 masterpiece, Dark Comedy left off. It’s anxiety-riddled but whimsical, addicted to and scornful of social media, stuffed with old wrestling in-jokes and film snippets. Self-aware admissions blend into attacks on societal double standards. Known for alchemical solo work and collaborations with Danny Brown, Homeboy Sandman, and Mos Def, this is White’s first proper union with Eagle. The two artists bonded over the notion of diversity. The process started out with rough demos, which White ended up finishing in post-production—playing guitar, drums, bass, keyboards, percussion and pieces of wood found in a forest. Its genius ultimately comes from the pair mining a deep vein of emotional content—a discussion of the things we feel that you don’t say. A movie that hits so accurately it’s almost uncomfortable. These are tense anthems for the vulnerable, consecrations to black people with rich internal lives, agnostic prayers for those grappling with pain. They’re emotional landmines leavened by the wry bleakness usually only found in great stand-up comedians. Eagle exists in the lineage of They Might Be Giants and Richard Pryor, Freestyle Fellowship and his longtime friend and collaborator, Hannibal Burress. Within the first act, the plot becomes clear. See “Admitting the Endorphin,” where Eagle raps, “I chase my poison tail and get so high that voices fail.” These are the movies he’d make it he knew how to make movies. Surreal vignettes about waking up with burrito hangovers in hotels you don’t recognize, wondering if you remembered to charge your phone. Aesop Rock and Hemlock Ernst (Sam Herring of Future Islands) pop up as fellow travelers. No one is better than Eagle at capturing the nauseous disorientation of day-to-day life. The deluge of sports highlights, unread texts and Twitter notifications. The compulsive need to check your phone at red lights and pauses in conversation. But his incisiveness extends far beyond observational humor. “Smiling (Quirky Race Doc)” examines the slights and casual bigotry of daily interaction. “A Short About a Guy That Dies Every Night” is a morbid rumination on death. These are the returns after long dark nights of the soul. When the noises are loud, the lights are off, and the armor is pierced. Short films that loop over and over again, as soon as you close your eyes.Released March 25, 2016 Open Mike Eagle US & Euro Tour Dates:04-05 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba Records In-Store Performance04-07 San Francisco, CA - Thee Parkside *^04-13 New York, NY - Baby's All Right #&04-14 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie @04-20 Los Angeles, CA - Getting Doug with High04-22 Denver, CO - Lost Lake04-23 Norman, OK - Norman Music Festival w/ Cloud Nothings04-24 Los Angeles, CA - New Negroes Show (UCB Theatre)05-11 Seattle, WA - Barboza05-12 Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown05-13 Portland, OR - Bunk Bar05-14 Hood River, OR - Underground Music Station05-22 Leeds, England - Hi-Fi Club05-23 London, England - Birthdays05-24 Cardiff, Wales - The Moon Club05-25 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Poppodium Q-Factory05-26 Wiesbaden, Germany - Schlachthof05-27 Zurich, Switzerland - Rote Fabrik05-28 Linz, Austria - Stadtwerkstatt05-31 Durham, England - The Empty Shop08-05-06 Happy Valley, OR - Pickathon* with Count Bass D^ with Dibia$e# with Lushlife& with Uncommon Nasa@ with Has-Lohttp://twitter.com/Mike_Eaglehttp://twitter.com/paulwhitemusichttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Open Mike Eagle & Paul White - A Short About A Guy That Dies Every Night Tha Realness 2016-03-25 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hella-personal-film-festival/id1074380694http://openmikeeagle360.bandcamp.com/album/hella-personal-film-festivalhttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/open-mike-eagle-paul-white-hella-personal-film-festival/MMG00079LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/open-mike-eagle-and-paul-white-hella-personal-film-festival-465285http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Hella-Personal-Film-Festival.htmlOpen Mike Eagle might not have all the answers, but few artists in hip-hop, music, or American life are asking smarter questions. In a landscape governed by ceaseless babble, flashing lights, and hollow lies, Eagle harmonizes into the void so we don’t have to. On this descent into the digital trenches, Eagle teams up with British producer, Paul White for Hella Personal Film Festival. Released on Mello Music Group, the full collaboration finds White behind the SP-1200s, conjuring a psychedelic strain of soul-funk, booming drums, and 21st century crate-digging in tropical attics of the imagination. On the microphone, the Chicago-bred, LA-based, Eagle artfully breaks down the banalities and perils of the modern condition. Recorded in London, Eagle’s new album continues where his 2014 masterpiece, Dark Comedy left off. It’s anxiety-riddled but whimsical, addicted to and scornful of social media, stuffed with old wrestling in-jokes and film snippets. Self-aware admissions blend into attacks on societal double standards. Known for alchemical solo work and collaborations with Danny Brown, Homeboy Sandman, and Mos Def, this is White’s first proper union with Eagle. The two artists bonded over the notion of diversity. The process started out with rough demos, which White ended up finishing in post-production—playing guitar, drums, bass, keyboards, percussion and pieces of wood found in a forest. Its genius ultimately comes from the pair mining a deep vein of emotional content—a discussion of the things we feel that you don’t say. A movie that hits so accurately it’s almost uncomfortable. These are tense anthems for the vulnerable, consecrations to black people with rich internal lives, agnostic prayers for those grappling with pain. They’re emotional landmines leavened by the wry bleakness usually only found in great stand-up comedians. Eagle exists in the lineage of They Might Be Giants and Richard Pryor, Freestyle Fellowship and his longtime friend and collaborator, Hannibal Burress. Within the first act, the plot becomes clear. See “Admitting the Endorphin,” where Eagle raps, “I chase my poison tail and get so high that voices fail.” These are the movies he’d make it he knew how to make movies. Surreal vignettes about waking up with burrito hangovers in hotels you don’t recognize, wondering if you remembered to charge your phone. Aesop Rock and Hemlock Ernst (Sam Herring of Future Islands) pop up as fellow travelers. No one is better than Eagle at capturing the nauseous disorientation of day-to-day life. The deluge of sports highlights, unread texts and Twitter notifications. The compulsive need to check your phone at red lights and pauses in conversation. But his incisiveness extends far beyond observational humor. “Smiling (Quirky Race Doc)” examines the slights and casual bigotry of daily interaction. “A Short About a Guy That Dies Every Night” is a morbid rumination on death. These are the returns after long dark nights of the soul. When the noises are loud, the lights are off, and the armor is pierced. Short films that loop over and over again, as soon as you close your eyes.Released March 25, 2016 Open Mike Eagle US & Euro Tour Dates:04-05 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba Records In-Store Performance04-07 San Francisco, CA - Thee Parkside *^04-13 New York, NY - Baby's All Right #&04-14 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie @04-20 Los Angeles, CA - Getting Doug with High04-22 Denver, CO - Lost Lake04-23 Norman, OK - Norman Music Festival w/ Cloud Nothings04-24 Los Angeles, CA - New Negroes Show (UCB Theatre)05-11 Seattle, WA - Barboza05-12 Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown05-13 Portland, OR - Bunk Bar05-14 Hood River, OR - Underground Music Station05-22 Leeds, England - Hi-Fi Club05-23 London, England - Birthdays05-24 Cardiff, Wales - The Moon Club05-25 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Poppodium Q-Factory05-26 Wiesbaden, Germany - Schlachthof05-27 Zurich, Switzerland - Rote Fabrik05-28 Linz, Austria - Stadtwerkstatt05-31 Durham, England - The Empty Shop08-05-06 Happy Valley, OR - Pickathon* with Count Bass D^ with Dibia$e# with Lushlife& with Uncommon Nasa@ with Has-Lohttp://twitter.com/Mike_Eaglehttp://twitter.com/paulwhitemusichttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Open Mike Eagle & Paul White - Protectors of the Heat (Ft. Hemlock Ernst) Tha Realness 2016-03-25 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hella-personal-film-festival/id1074380694http://openmikeeagle360.bandcamp.com/album/hella-personal-film-festivalhttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/open-mike-eagle-paul-white-hella-personal-film-festival/MMG00079LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/open-mike-eagle-and-paul-white-hella-personal-film-festival-465285http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Hella-Personal-Film-Festival.htmlOpen Mike Eagle might not have all the answers, but few artists in hip-hop, music, or American life are asking smarter questions. In a landscape governed by ceaseless babble, flashing lights, and hollow lies, Eagle harmonizes into the void so we don’t have to. On this descent into the digital trenches, Eagle teams up with British producer, Paul White for Hella Personal Film Festival. Released on Mello Music Group, the full collaboration finds White behind the SP-1200s, conjuring a psychedelic strain of soul-funk, booming drums, and 21st century crate-digging in tropical attics of the imagination. On the microphone, the Chicago-bred, LA-based, Eagle artfully breaks down the banalities and perils of the modern condition. Recorded in London, Eagle’s new album continues where his 2014 masterpiece, Dark Comedy left off. It’s anxiety-riddled but whimsical, addicted to and scornful of social media, stuffed with old wrestling in-jokes and film snippets. Self-aware admissions blend into attacks on societal double standards. Known for alchemical solo work and collaborations with Danny Brown, Homeboy Sandman, and Mos Def, this is White’s first proper union with Eagle. The two artists bonded over the notion of diversity. The process started out with rough demos, which White ended up finishing in post-production—playing guitar, drums, bass, keyboards, percussion and pieces of wood found in a forest. Its genius ultimately comes from the pair mining a deep vein of emotional content—a discussion of the things we feel that you don’t say. A movie that hits so accurately it’s almost uncomfortable. These are tense anthems for the vulnerable, consecrations to black people with rich internal lives, agnostic prayers for those grappling with pain. They’re emotional landmines leavened by the wry bleakness usually only found in great stand-up comedians. Eagle exists in the lineage of They Might Be Giants and Richard Pryor, Freestyle Fellowship and his longtime friend and collaborator, Hannibal Burress. Within the first act, the plot becomes clear. See “Admitting the Endorphin,” where Eagle raps, “I chase my poison tail and get so high that voices fail.” These are the movies he’d make it he knew how to make movies. Surreal vignettes about waking up with burrito hangovers in hotels you don’t recognize, wondering if you remembered to charge your phone. Aesop Rock and Hemlock Ernst (Sam Herring of Future Islands) pop up as fellow travelers. No one is better than Eagle at capturing the nauseous disorientation of day-to-day life. The deluge of sports highlights, unread texts and Twitter notifications. The compulsive need to check your phone at red lights and pauses in conversation. But his incisiveness extends far beyond observational humor. “Smiling (Quirky Race Doc)” examines the slights and casual bigotry of daily interaction. “A Short About a Guy That Dies Every Night” is a morbid rumination on death. These are the returns after long dark nights of the soul. When the noises are loud, the lights are off, and the armor is pierced. Short films that loop over and over again, as soon as you close your eyes.Released March 25, 2016 Open Mike Eagle US & Euro Tour Dates:04-05 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba Records In-Store Performance04-07 San Francisco, CA - Thee Parkside *^04-13 New York, NY - Baby's All Right #&04-14 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie @04-20 Los Angeles, CA - Getting Doug with High04-22 Denver, CO - Lost Lake04-23 Norman, OK - Norman Music Festival w/ Cloud Nothings04-24 Los Angeles, CA - New Negroes Show (UCB Theatre)05-11 Seattle, WA - Barboza05-12 Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown05-13 Portland, OR - Bunk Bar05-14 Hood River, OR - Underground Music Station05-22 Leeds, England - Hi-Fi Club05-23 London, England - Birthdays05-24 Cardiff, Wales - The Moon Club05-25 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Poppodium Q-Factory05-26 Wiesbaden, Germany - Schlachthof05-27 Zurich, Switzerland - Rote Fabrik05-28 Linz, Austria - Stadtwerkstatt05-31 Durham, England - The Empty Shop08-05-06 Happy Valley, OR - Pickathon* with Count Bass D^ with Dibia$e# with Lushlife& with Uncommon Nasa@ with Has-Lohttp://twitter.com/Mike_Eaglehttp://twitter.com/paulwhitemusichttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Open Mike Eagle & Paul White - Dive Bar Support Group Tha Realness 2016-03-25 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hella-personal-film-festival/id1074380694http://openmikeeagle360.bandcamp.com/album/hella-personal-film-festivalhttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/open-mike-eagle-paul-white-hella-personal-film-festival/MMG00079LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/open-mike-eagle-and-paul-white-hella-personal-film-festival-465285http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Hella-Personal-Film-Festival.htmlOpen Mike Eagle might not have all the answers, but few artists in hip-hop, music, or American life are asking smarter questions. In a landscape governed by ceaseless babble, flashing lights, and hollow lies, Eagle harmonizes into the void so we don’t have to. On this descent into the digital trenches, Eagle teams up with British producer, Paul White for Hella Personal Film Festival. Released on Mello Music Group, the full collaboration finds White behind the SP-1200s, conjuring a psychedelic strain of soul-funk, booming drums, and 21st century crate-digging in tropical attics of the imagination. On the microphone, the Chicago-bred, LA-based, Eagle artfully breaks down the banalities and perils of the modern condition. Recorded in London, Eagle’s new album continues where his 2014 masterpiece, Dark Comedy left off. It’s anxiety-riddled but whimsical, addicted to and scornful of social media, stuffed with old wrestling in-jokes and film snippets. Self-aware admissions blend into attacks on societal double standards. Known for alchemical solo work and collaborations with Danny Brown, Homeboy Sandman, and Mos Def, this is White’s first proper union with Eagle. The two artists bonded over the notion of diversity. The process started out with rough demos, which White ended up finishing in post-production—playing guitar, drums, bass, keyboards, percussion and pieces of wood found in a forest. Its genius ultimately comes from the pair mining a deep vein of emotional content—a discussion of the things we feel that you don’t say. A movie that hits so accurately it’s almost uncomfortable. These are tense anthems for the vulnerable, consecrations to black people with rich internal lives, agnostic prayers for those grappling with pain. They’re emotional landmines leavened by the wry bleakness usually only found in great stand-up comedians. Eagle exists in the lineage of They Might Be Giants and Richard Pryor, Freestyle Fellowship and his longtime friend and collaborator, Hannibal Burress. Within the first act, the plot becomes clear. See “Admitting the Endorphin,” where Eagle raps, “I chase my poison tail and get so high that voices fail.” These are the movies he’d make it he knew how to make movies. Surreal vignettes about waking up with burrito hangovers in hotels you don’t recognize, wondering if you remembered to charge your phone. Aesop Rock and Hemlock Ernst (Sam Herring of Future Islands) pop up as fellow travelers. No one is better than Eagle at capturing the nauseous disorientation of day-to-day life. The deluge of sports highlights, unread texts and Twitter notifications. The compulsive need to check your phone at red lights and pauses in conversation. But his incisiveness extends far beyond observational humor. “Smiling (Quirky Race Doc)” examines the slights and casual bigotry of daily interaction. “A Short About a Guy That Dies Every Night” is a morbid rumination on death. These are the returns after long dark nights of the soul. When the noises are loud, the lights are off, and the armor is pierced. Short films that loop over and over again, as soon as you close your eyes.Released March 25, 2016Open Mike Eagle US & Euro Tour Dates:04-05 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba Records In-Store Performance04-07 San Francisco, CA - Thee Parkside *^04-13 New York, NY - Baby's All Right #&04-14 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie @04-20 Los Angeles, CA - Getting Doug with High04-22 Denver, CO - Lost Lake04-23 Norman, OK - Norman Music Festival w/ Cloud Nothings04-24 Los Angeles, CA - New Negroes Show (UCB Theatre)05-11 Seattle, WA - Barboza05-12 Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown05-13 Portland, OR - Bunk Bar05-14 Hood River, OR - Underground Music Station05-22 Leeds, England - Hi-Fi Club05-23 London, England - Birthdays05-24 Cardiff, Wales - The Moon Club05-25 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Poppodium Q-Factory05-26 Wiesbaden, Germany - Schlachthof05-27 Zurich, Switzerland - Rote Fabrik05-28 Linz, Austria - Stadtwerkstatt05-31 Durham, England - The Empty Shop08-05-06 Happy Valley, OR - Pickathon* with Count Bass D^ with Dibia$e# with Lushlife& with Uncommon Nasa@ with Has-Lohttp://twitter.com/Mike_Eaglehttp://twitter.com/paulwhitemusichttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Open Mike Eagle & Paul White - Drunk Dreaming Tha Realness 2016-03-25 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hella-personal-film-festival/id1074380694http://openmikeeagle360.bandcamp.com/album/hella-personal-film-festivalhttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/open-mike-eagle-paul-white-hella-personal-film-festival/MMG00079LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/open-mike-eagle-and-paul-white-hella-personal-film-festival-465285http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Hella-Personal-Film-Festival.htmlOpen Mike Eagle might not have all the answers, but few artists in hip-hop, music, or American life are asking smarter questions. In a landscape governed by ceaseless babble, flashing lights, and hollow lies, Eagle harmonizes into the void so we don’t have to. On this descent into the digital trenches, Eagle teams up with British producer, Paul White for Hella Personal Film Festival. Released on Mello Music Group, the full collaboration finds White behind the SP-1200s, conjuring a psychedelic strain of soul-funk, booming drums, and 21st century crate-digging in tropical attics of the imagination. On the microphone, the Chicago-bred, LA-based, Eagle artfully breaks down the banalities and perils of the modern condition. Recorded in London, Eagle’s new album continues where his 2014 masterpiece, Dark Comedy left off. It’s anxiety-riddled but whimsical, addicted to and scornful of social media, stuffed with old wrestling in-jokes and film snippets. Self-aware admissions blend into attacks on societal double standards. Known for alchemical solo work and collaborations with Danny Brown, Homeboy Sandman, and Mos Def, this is White’s first proper union with Eagle. The two artists bonded over the notion of diversity. The process started out with rough demos, which White ended up finishing in post-production—playing guitar, drums, bass, keyboards, percussion and pieces of wood found in a forest. Its genius ultimately comes from the pair mining a deep vein of emotional content—a discussion of the things we feel that you don’t say. A movie that hits so accurately it’s almost uncomfortable. These are tense anthems for the vulnerable, consecrations to black people with rich internal lives, agnostic prayers for those grappling with pain. They’re emotional landmines leavened by the wry bleakness usually only found in great stand-up comedians. Eagle exists in the lineage of They Might Be Giants and Richard Pryor, Freestyle Fellowship and his longtime friend and collaborator, Hannibal Burress. Within the first act, the plot becomes clear. See “Admitting the Endorphin,” where Eagle raps, “I chase my poison tail and get so high that voices fail.” These are the movies he’d make it he knew how to make movies. Surreal vignettes about waking up with burrito hangovers in hotels you don’t recognize, wondering if you remembered to charge your phone. Aesop Rock and Hemlock Ernst (Sam Herring of Future Islands) pop up as fellow travelers. No one is better than Eagle at capturing the nauseous disorientation of day-to-day life. The deluge of sports highlights, unread texts and Twitter notifications. The compulsive need to check your phone at red lights and pauses in conversation. But his incisiveness extends far beyond observational humor. “Smiling (Quirky Race Doc)” examines the slights and casual bigotry of daily interaction. “A Short About a Guy That Dies Every Night” is a morbid rumination on death. These are the returns after long dark nights of the soul. When the noises are loud, the lights are off, and the armor is pierced. Short films that loop over and over again, as soon as you close your eyes.Released March 25, 2016 Open Mike Eagle US & Euro Tour Dates:04-05 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba Records In-Store Performance04-07 San Francisco, CA - Thee Parkside *^04-13 New York, NY - Baby's All Right #&04-14 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie @04-20 Los Angeles, CA - Getting Doug with High04-22 Denver, CO - Lost Lake04-23 Norman, OK - Norman Music Festival w/ Cloud Nothings04-24 Los Angeles, CA - New Negroes Show (UCB Theatre)05-11 Seattle, WA - Barboza05-12 Bellingham, WA - The Shakedown05-13 Portland, OR - Bunk Bar05-14 Hood River, OR - Underground Music Station05-22 Leeds, England - Hi-Fi Club05-23 London, England - Birthdays05-24 Cardiff, Wales - The Moon Club05-25 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Poppodium Q-Factory05-26 Wiesbaden, Germany - Schlachthof05-27 Zurich, Switzerland - Rote Fabrik05-28 Linz, Austria - Stadtwerkstatt05-31 Durham, England - The Empty Shop08-05-06 Happy Valley, OR - Pickathon* with Count Bass D^ with Dibia$e# with Lushlife& with Uncommon Nasa@ with Has-Lohttp://twitter.com/Mike_Eaglehttp://twitter.com/paulwhitemusichttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - Asked About You (AlWasta EP) Tha Realness 2016-03-23 | Support:http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/alwastahttp://itunes.apple.com/us/album/alwasta/id1096223860http://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-alwasta-cdhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/vinyl/products/oddisee-alwasta-lpSudanese-American hiphop artist Oddisee's new EP, “AlWasta,” takes its title from the Arabic colloquial term used to mean (to use colloquial English) “the plug.” The term “wasta” comes from the Arabic word “wasat,” meaning “middle” or “middleman,” and describes a member of the community who acts as a connector using their wealth of social currency. Understanding the value of social currency & how to use it (for better or worse) is what Amir Elkhalifa aka Oddisee focused on as the primary inspiration for his writings. Oddisee is also ready to unveil his 2016 plan which includes a new instrumental album in May, a tour with his band Good Compny from May through July, and the heavily anticipated follow up to "The Good Fight", an all new solo album in the fall. Tracklist:01 “Asked About You”02 “No Reservations”03 “Strength & Weakness”04 “Wouldn’t Be Surprised”05 “Lifting Shadows”06 “Catching Vibes”07 “Slow Groove”Oddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:3/26/16 Treefort Festival - Boise, ID 5/3/2016 Middle East Downstairs - Boston, MA 5/6/16 Mainstage - Morgantown, WV 5/7/16 Strange Matter - Richmond, VA 5/8/16 Kings Barcade - Raleigh, NC 5/11/16 Jack Rabbits - Jacksonville, FL 5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE #الواسطة Premiered at Stereogum on 3/23/2016http://www.stereogum.com/1867083/stream-oddisee-al-wasta-ep-stereogum-premiereReleased March 23, 2016 All songs written & produced by Oddisee. http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - No Reservations (AlWasta EP) Tha Realness 2016-03-23 | Support:http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/alwastahttp://itunes.apple.com/us/album/alwasta/id1096223860http://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-alwasta-cdhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/vinyl/products/oddisee-alwasta-lpSudanese-American hiphop artist Oddisee's new EP, “AlWasta,” takes its title from the Arabic colloquial term used to mean (to use colloquial English) “the plug.” The term “wasta” comes from the Arabic word “wasat,” meaning “middle” or “middleman,” and describes a member of the community who acts as a connector using their wealth of social currency. Understanding the value of social currency & how to use it (for better or worse) is what Amir Elkhalifa aka Oddisee focused on as the primary inspiration for his writings. Oddisee is also ready to unveil his 2016 plan which includes a new instrumental album in May, a tour with his band Good Compny from May through July, and the heavily anticipated follow up to "The Good Fight", an all new solo album in the fall. Tracklist:01 “Asked About You”02 “No Reservations”03 “Strength & Weakness”04 “Wouldn’t Be Surprised”05 “Lifting Shadows”06 “Catching Vibes”07 “Slow Groove”Oddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:3/26/16 Treefort Festival - Boise, ID 5/3/2016 Middle East Downstairs - Boston, MA 5/6/16 Mainstage - Morgantown, WV 5/7/16 Strange Matter - Richmond, VA 5/8/16 Kings Barcade - Raleigh, NC 5/11/16 Jack Rabbits - Jacksonville, FL 5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE #الواسطة Premiered at Stereogum on 3/23/2016http://www.stereogum.com/1867083/stream-oddisee-al-wasta-ep-stereogum-premiereReleased March 23, 2016 All songs written & produced by Oddisee. http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - Strength & Weakness (AlWasta EP) Tha Realness 2016-03-23 | Support:http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/alwastahttp://itunes.apple.com/us/album/alwasta/id1096223860http://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-alwasta-cdhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/vinyl/products/oddisee-alwasta-lpSudanese-American hiphop artist Oddisee's new EP, “AlWasta,” takes its title from the Arabic colloquial term used to mean (to use colloquial English) “the plug.” The term “wasta” comes from the Arabic word “wasat,” meaning “middle” or “middleman,” and describes a member of the community who acts as a connector using their wealth of social currency. Understanding the value of social currency & how to use it (for better or worse) is what Amir Elkhalifa aka Oddisee focused on as the primary inspiration for his writings. Oddisee is also ready to unveil his 2016 plan which includes a new instrumental album in May, a tour with his band Good Compny from May through July, and the heavily anticipated follow up to "The Good Fight", an all new solo album in the fall. Tracklist:01 “Asked About You”02 “No Reservations”03 “Strength & Weakness”04 “Wouldn’t Be Surprised”05 “Lifting Shadows”06 “Catching Vibes”07 “Slow Groove”Oddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:3/26/16 Treefort Festival - Boise, ID 5/3/2016 Middle East Downstairs - Boston, MA 5/6/16 Mainstage - Morgantown, WV 5/7/16 Strange Matter - Richmond, VA 5/8/16 Kings Barcade - Raleigh, NC 5/11/16 Jack Rabbits - Jacksonville, FL 5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE #الواسطة Premiered at Stereogum on 3/23/2016http://www.stereogum.com/1867083/stream-oddisee-al-wasta-ep-stereogum-premiereReleased March 23, 2016 All songs written & produced by Oddisee. http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - Wouldnt Be Surprised (AlWasta EP) Tha Realness 2016-03-23 | Support:http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/alwastahttp://itunes.apple.com/us/album/alwasta/id1096223860http://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-alwasta-cdhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/vinyl/products/oddisee-alwasta-lpSudanese-American hiphop artist Oddisee's new EP, “AlWasta,” takes its title from the Arabic colloquial term used to mean (to use colloquial English) “the plug.” The term “wasta” comes from the Arabic word “wasat,” meaning “middle” or “middleman,” and describes a member of the community who acts as a connector using their wealth of social currency. Understanding the value of social currency & how to use it (for better or worse) is what Amir Elkhalifa aka Oddisee focused on as the primary inspiration for his writings. Oddisee is also ready to unveil his 2016 plan which includes a new instrumental album in May, a tour with his band Good Compny from May through July, and the heavily anticipated follow up to "The Good Fight", an all new solo album in the fall. Tracklist:01 “Asked About You”02 “No Reservations”03 “Strength & Weakness”04 “Wouldn’t Be Surprised”05 “Lifting Shadows”06 “Catching Vibes”07 “Slow Groove”Oddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:3/26/16 Treefort Festival - Boise, ID 5/3/2016 Middle East Downstairs - Boston, MA 5/6/16 Mainstage - Morgantown, WV 5/7/16 Strange Matter - Richmond, VA 5/8/16 Kings Barcade - Raleigh, NC 5/11/16 Jack Rabbits - Jacksonville, FL 5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE #الواسطة Premiered at Stereogum on 3/23/2016http://www.stereogum.com/1867083/stream-oddisee-al-wasta-ep-stereogum-premiereReleased March 23, 2016 All songs written & produced by Oddisee. http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - Lifting Shadows (AlWasta EP) Tha Realness 2016-03-23 | Support:http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/alwastahttp://itunes.apple.com/us/album/alwasta/id1096223860http://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-alwasta-cdhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/vinyl/products/oddisee-alwasta-lpSudanese-American hiphop artist Oddisee's new EP, “AlWasta,” takes its title from the Arabic colloquial term used to mean (to use colloquial English) “the plug.” The term “wasta” comes from the Arabic word “wasat,” meaning “middle” or “middleman,” and describes a member of the community who acts as a connector using their wealth of social currency. Understanding the value of social currency & how to use it (for better or worse) is what Amir Elkhalifa aka Oddisee focused on as the primary inspiration for his writings. Oddisee is also ready to unveil his 2016 plan which includes a new instrumental album in May, a tour with his band Good Compny from May through July, and the heavily anticipated follow up to "The Good Fight", an all new solo album in the fall. Tracklist:01 “Asked About You”02 “No Reservations”03 “Strength & Weakness”04 “Wouldn’t Be Surprised”05 “Lifting Shadows”06 “Catching Vibes”07 “Slow Groove”Oddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates:3/26/16 Treefort Festival - Boise, ID 5/3/2016 Middle East Downstairs - Boston, MA 5/6/16 Mainstage - Morgantown, WV 5/7/16 Strange Matter - Richmond, VA 5/8/16 Kings Barcade - Raleigh, NC 5/11/16 Jack Rabbits - Jacksonville, FL 5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE #الواسطة Premiered at Stereogum on 3/23/2016http://www.stereogum.com/1867083/stream-oddisee-al-wasta-ep-stereogum-premiereReleased March 23, 2016 All songs written & produced by Oddisee. http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - Catching Vibes (AlWasta EP) Tha Realness 2016-03-23 | Support:http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/alwastahttp://itunes.apple.com/us/album/alwasta/id1096223860http://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-alwasta-cdhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/vinyl/products/oddisee-alwasta-lpSudanese-American hiphop artist Oddisee's new EP, “AlWasta,” takes its title from the Arabic colloquial term used to mean (to use colloquial English) “the plug.” The term “wasta” comes from the Arabic word “wasat,” meaning “middle” or “middleman,” and describes a member of the community who acts as a connector using their wealth of social currency. Understanding the value of social currency & how to use it (for better or worse) is what Amir Elkhalifa aka Oddisee focused on as the primary inspiration for his writings. Oddisee is also ready to unveil his 2016 plan which includes a new instrumental album in May, a tour with his band Good Compny from May through July, and the heavily anticipated follow up to "The Good Fight", an all new solo album in the fall. Tracklist:01 “Asked About You”02 “No Reservations”03 “Strength & Weakness”04 “Wouldn’t Be Surprised”05 “Lifting Shadows”06 “Catching Vibes”07 “Slow Groove”Oddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates 3/26/16 Treefort Festival - Boise, ID 5/3/2016 Middle East Downstairs - Boston, MA 5/6/16 Mainstage - Morgantown, WV 5/7/16 Strange Matter - Richmond, VA 5/8/16 Kings Barcade - Raleigh, NC 5/11/16 Jack Rabbits - Jacksonville, FL 5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE #الواسطة Premiered at Stereogum on 3/23/2016Released March 23, 2016 All songs written & produced by Oddisee. http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Oddisee - Slow Groove (AlWasta EP) Tha Realness 2016-03-23 | Support:http://oddiseemmg.bandcamp.com/album/alwastahttp://itunes.apple.com/us/album/alwasta/id1096223860http://www.mellomusicgroup.com/products/oddisee-alwasta-cdhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/vinyl/products/oddisee-alwasta-lpSudanese-American hiphop artist Oddisee's new EP, “AlWasta,” takes its title from the Arabic colloquial term used to mean (to use colloquial English) “the plug.” The term “wasta” comes from the Arabic word “wasat,” meaning “middle” or “middleman,” and describes a member of the community who acts as a connector using their wealth of social currency. Understanding the value of social currency & how to use it (for better or worse) is what Amir Elkhalifa aka Oddisee focused on as the primary inspiration for his writings. Oddisee is also ready to unveil his 2016 plan which includes a new instrumental album in May, a tour with his band Good Compny from May through July, and the heavily anticipated follow up to "The Good Fight", an all new solo album in the fall. Tracklist:01 “Asked About You”02 “No Reservations”03 “Strength & Weakness”04 “Wouldn’t Be Surprised”05 “Lifting Shadows”06 “Catching Vibes”07 “Slow Groove”Oddisee & Good Compny Tour Dates 3/26/16 Treefort Festival - Boise, ID 5/3/2016 Middle East Downstairs - Boston, MA 5/6/16 Mainstage - Morgantown, WV 5/7/16 Strange Matter - Richmond, VA 5/8/16 Kings Barcade - Raleigh, NC 5/11/16 Jack Rabbits - Jacksonville, FL 5/13/16 Orpheum - Tampa, FL 5/14/16 Backbooth - Orlando, FL 5/15/16 Side Bar - Tallahassee, FL 5/16/16 Parish @ HOB - New Orleans, LA 5/20/16 Foundry at SLS - Las Vegas, NV 5/21/16 El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 5/22/16 Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA 5/24/16 Soda Bar - San Diego, CA 5/26/16 The Independent - San Francisco, CA 5/30/16 Sasquatch Festival - Seattle, WA 6/4/16 Bunbury Festival - Cincinnatti, OH 6/12/16 Northside Festival - Brooklyn, NY 6/25/16 Glastonbury Festival - Pilton, UK 6/27/16 O2 Academy - Oxford, UK 7/7/16 Les Ardentes Festival - Leige, Belgium 7/8/16 North Sea Jazz Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands 7/9/16 Open Source Festival - Dusseldorf, Germany 7/10/16 Cactus Festival - Bruges, Belgium 7/16/16 Melt! Festival - Gräfenhainichen, Germany 7/19/16 Valkhof Festival - Nijmegen, Netherlands 7/23/16 Hip Hop Open Festival - Vienna, Austria 7/27/16 Blue Balls Festival - Lucerne, Switzerland 7/29/16 Appletree Gardens Festival - Diepholz, DE 7/30/16 Stuttgart Festival - Stuttgart, DE #الواسطة Premiered at Stereogum on 3/23/2016Released March 23, 2016 All songs written & produced by Oddisee. http://twitter.com/ODDISEEhttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Planet Asia & DJ Concept - International (Ft. Marvelous Mag) Tha Realness 2016-03-17 | Watch Music Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB8txtowE3sSupport:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/seventy-nine/id1081065849http://www.fatbeats.com/products/planet-asia-dj-concept-seventy-nine-lp-gold-vinyl-download-cardhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/planet-asia-and-dj-concept-seventy-nine-468705http://www.vinyl-digital.com/Hip-Hop-Rap/Seventy-Nine.htmlThe Source Premiere:http://thesource.com/2016/03/17/planet-asia-and-dj-concept-offer-up-international-from-new-albumLike “Gold Vases” before it, Planet Asia and DJ Concept’s “International” is a testament to their determination as artists working to get what’s theirs. It’s also the soulful and catchy final leak off their collaborative LP, 'Seventy Nine,' which drops next Friday (3/25).The track gets an extra dose of soul from Brownsville, N.Y.’s Marvelous Mag, who captures the message of “International” on his sing-along hook: “And most of my ni**as is tryna get it ‘til the casket drops/ So my grind can’t stop.” For Planet Asia, being sedentary isn’t simply off the table, it’s clearly something he couldn’t even conceive.The West Coast emcee lives to create and provide for his loved ones, a combination that’s worried those closest to him in the past. “My nana pray I never see the paddy wagon/ Lot of us sent our kids to college off the sandwich baggin’,” he raps on the second verse, which also touches on his current success (“It’s all digital but I still sell a lot of physicals”). These reflective, personal moments are made that much more poignant over Concept’s beat, a sample-driven feast for the Boom bap heads out there.“International” is now available for download off the iTunes’ album pre-order of 'Seventy Nine,' which drops March 25th. The LP will be available for download through all major digital retailers, and can be purchased on CD as well as limited-edition gold vinyl, via Coalmine Records.'Seventy Nine' Tracklist:01. Seventy Nine (Intro) [feat. DJ Revolution]02. Valuable Metals (feat. DJ Pain 1)03. The Expo (feat. TriState)04. International (feat. Marvelous Mag)05. This is Fresno (Interlude)06. The Festival (feat. Sean Price & DJ Devastate)07. Gold Vases08. Fresh (feat. Blu & Agallah)09. Gold Chain Winners (feat. John Robinson & SmooVth)10. Sacred Sermonshttp://twitter.com/planetasiahttp://twitter.com/concept1200http://twitter.com/marvelousmagnyhttp://twitter.com/coalminerecords
Mr. Lif - World Renown (Ft. Del The Funky Homosapien) (Cuts by Mr. Sonny James) [Prod. by Pas Doo] Tha Realness 2016-03-14 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dont-look-down/id1082913881http://mrlifmmg.bandcamp.com/album/dont-look-downhttp://www.mellomusicgroup.com/collections/frontpage/products/mr-lif-dont-look-down-lphttp://www.undergroundhiphop.com/mr-lif-dont-look-down/MMGLIF016LPhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/mr-lif-don-t-look-down-468701http://www.vinyl-digital.com/en/Hip-Hop-Rap/Don-t-Look-Down.htmlCoS Premiere:http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/03/mr-lif-and-del-the-funky-homosapien-team-up-for-world-renown-listenWelcome to “Don’t Look Down,” Mr. Lif’s first solo album in seven years, a chronicle of personal evolution, internal strength, and the ebbs and flows of life. It’s the most introspective and harrowingly personal work from the ex-Def Jux legend—a record borne from successes, failures, and hard-learned lessons. The Boston prophet’s first new work for Mello Music Group directly addresses the difficulties of keeping your head up amidst duress. You hear and feel the intensity of the fight, the sense of falling into despair, the helplessness of drowning, and the power of being able to save yourself. Over a 10-song cycle, Lif delivers poetic testament that avoids preachiness. These are agnostic sermons written to conceal and nurture him during a bleak period—cathartic confessionals that offered a conduit to bliss. The structure of “Don’t Look Down” mirrors this personal descent and rebirth, a hero’s journey worthy of Joseph Campbell. It starts with “Pounds of Pressure” and “The Abyss,” adrenaline-pulsing sagas where the narrator clutches his pistol, soaked in sweat. Over bone-bristling drums and smears of disembodied vocal samples, Lif’s protagonist is engulfed in violence, pushed to the precipice, forced into a fight-or-flight scenario. This emotional rupture leads into the depression of the third track, “Everyday We Pray”—where the hero ruminates on personal storms and the patterns of his demise—praying for discipline and the strength to be honest. By the song’s conclusion, optimism has started to seep back into his worldview. “Let Go” reflects that with its self-admonition to search deeper and think smarter, let the light shine, and unburden oneself from the pain of the past. “A Better Day” captures the zenith of this positivity, filtered through realism and clarity. It’s a call to arms to rebuke the cosmetic and prosthetic, to scale these walls and “beat this vile prison we call living.” With "Whizdom," "Mission Accomplished", & "World Renown," the central character creates his own world, barricading himself from the ills of society. He’s aided by a beat from Edan and verses from Akrobatik (Lif’s partner in The Perceptionists) and Del the Funky Homosapien. The final act hinges on “iLL,” where the vulnerabilities creep back to the surface, incubating a state of reflection, in which the protagonist ponders the ways of the world—wishing for something more, wondering if this is heaven or another self-created hell. The concepts all come to a powerful resolution on the finale, the title track that hauntingly echoes this mantra of resilience. Over taut minor piano chords, Lif tries to make sense of it all before the final fall, weary with a head full of ideas, a spirit unbowed, offering one last reminder that our most severe stumbles often lead to our greatest successes.Releases April 15, 2016 http://twitter.com/therealmrlifhttp://twitter.com/delhierohttp://twitter.com/MrSonnyJameshttp://twitter.com/pasdoohttp://twitter.com/mellomusicgroup
Planet Asia & DJ Concept - The Festival (Ft. Sean Price) (Cuts by DJ Devastate) Tha Realness 2016-03-10 | Support:http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/seventy-nine/id1081065849http://www.fatbeats.com/products/planet-asia-dj-concept-seventy-nine-lp-gold-vinyl-download-cardhttp://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/planet-asia-and-dj-concept-seventy-nine-468705http://www.vinyl-digital.com/Hip-Hop-Rap/Seventy-Nine.html*Donate to Sean Price's CrowdRise:http://www.crowdrise.com/seanpNOISEY Premiere:http://noisey.vice.com/blog/planet-asia-dj-concept-sean-price-dj-devastate-the-festival-premiereArmed with bully raps, huge production, and a long list of quotables, Planet Asia and DJ Concept deliver their latest leak, “The Festival,” featuring DJ Devastate and the late Sean Price.The 'Seventy Nine' slapper bursts out of the gate with a verse from P that’ll remind you just how gifted he was as an emcee. His bravado was weighted by an amazing sense of humor, which he displays with bars like, “Ni**as said they ready to rob but they’re car in park/ Bullsh*ttin’/ Never excellin’, sellin’ wolf tickets.” It’s only right that Planet Asia follows suit, dishing out verbal darts like, “Ni**as mad ‘cause the b*tches on us/ We in and out the Ubers with the pistols on us.”Making the cipher complete is DJ Devastate, who uses his turntables to blend samples of Defari and the Alkaholiks with original lines from Planet Asia. It all makes for a massive track primed for festivals and tour shows alike, as P watches over with his trademark smirk.“The Festival” is now available for download off the iTunes’ album pre-order of 'Seventy Nine.' The album drops March 25th and will be available for download through all major digital retailers, and can be purchased on CD as well as limited-edition gold vinyl, via Coalmine Records.'Seventy Nine' Tracklist:01. Seventy Nine (Intro) [feat. DJ Revolution]02. Valuable Metals (feat. DJ Pain 1)03. The Expo (feat. TriState)04. International (feat. Marvelous Mag)05. This is Fresno (Interlude)06. The Festival (feat. Sean Price & DJ Devastate)07. Gold Vases08. Fresh (feat. Blu & Agallah)09. Gold Chain Winners (feat. John Robinson & SmooVth)10. Sacred Sermonshttp://twitter.com/planetasiahttp://twitter.com/seanpricehttp://twitter.com/djdevastatehttp://twitter.com/concept1200http://twitter.com/coalminerecords
