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TUESDAY, MARCH 9TH, 2010
NOLA with Jay Electronica
" Your entire community is gone… You can’t go home, it doesn’t exist anymore” -Jay Electronica FULL SCREEN The Sounds of VTech / jay_elec_3rdward_v5b as per B+ and Coleman In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina, Coleman and B+ were invited to New Orleans to screen... more
MONDAY, MARCH 8TH, 2010
Money is King
The super talented T&S crew feature on this BunchTV production, the show is recorded from Cologne in Germany last month and we are working our best to make this show happen in Ireland this year, Lee Fields has a voice like no other, buy their album 'My World' which came out last... more
SUNDAY, MARCH 7TH, 2010
The Radiant Child - Preview
'The Radiant Child was just released by Tamra Davis, the documentary features never-before seen footage of the prolific Brooklyn born artist painting, talking about his art, and existing in the two years prior to his death in... more
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3RD, 2010
The Rza - Wu Tang vs The Golden Phoenix
As promised here's the second and final installment of RZA's latest art project entitled the W.A.I.L project...Each of the 3 pieces are limited to 360 copies worldwide and are available to buy from Sway and King Tech's website. Some have referred to Rza these days as 'the hip hop... more
MONDAY, MARCH 1ST, 2010
Digable Planets to play ChoiceCuts
Great news just in, we just confirmed the booking of legendary Hip Hop-Jazz outfit Digable Planets. A favourite of ours ever since the double bass slapped on the infamous Rebirth of Slick (Cool like Dat) single. Digable Planets came on the scene circa 1992/93 when hip hop was flourishing with... more
MONDAY, MARCH 1ST, 2010
Jeff Phelps - Magnetic Eyes Interview
Jeff Phelps is an artist we've been interested in for a while now so it came with great pleasure to hear that Tomlab were to re-issue one of his albums entitled Magnetic Eyes on wax this coming June 2010. It's also been digitized and available to download here (if you deal in mp3's only). It's... more
MONDAY, MARCH 1ST, 2010
Free Download: SweepStakes
This is a big tune, Mighty Mos joins forces with Hypnotic Brass for the track 'Sweepstakes'. Mos Def described this as "one of the greatest things as an MC that I’ve ever done” last week in an interview, so this means he is very happy with the finished track and of course our favourite... more
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH, 2010
Bedroom Jam - Red Bull
As you know we work closely with Red Bull in Ireland on their RBMA music events, here is some news from their bulletin board that may be of interest to you or any budding musicians and bands you know, click on the link below and spread the word As per Red Bull: *Red Bull Bedroom Jam... more
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH, 2010
J-Dilla Documentary Pt 3
Here's the final installment in the Stussy documentary series showcasing Dilla's time in... more
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH, 2010
The Rza - When Art Immitates Life - Pt 2
It was announced this week that the Rza will be releasing a second installment into Sway and King Tech's latest project When Art Immitates LIfe. It will be revealed on their site on the 1st of March so if you missed out on the first installment which is featured below, be quick this time, they... more
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH, 2010
LA Free Download: 10×10x2
New just in: the vinyl just arrived into All City today for part deux of this clever series, so get your wages and pick it up from Olan & Co. in Temple Bar. This is shaping up to be the freshest release of the year. The 10x10 inch series with the cream of producers from the LA... more
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH, 2010
Flying Lotus
The new Flying Lotus Lp - Cosmogramma will be dropping soon on Warp in early May (3rd or 4th to be exact) and it looks like being another dope release. At present Fact Magazine have a download available entitled 'Computer Face' and as you can imagine it's pure heat. Give it a listen here. Or... more
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH, 2010
Dollar
We had Aloe Blacc perform for us with Exile, Guilty Simpson & House Shoes a couple of years back at our Hip Hop Love event in The Village and since then he has been keeping a low profile, but has been in the studio working with Leon Micheals and the Truth & Soul team on an album for... more
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH, 2010
Code
Bless the people over at Brownswood and of course Jose James & Flying Lotus for slipping this track out on the net to help promote their new offering. From the recently released Black Magic LP, Jose James is in fine form on this slow burner. Similar in vibe to some of Badu's slow jams, hope... more
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH, 2010
Black President
Nice article on Fela Kuti and the resurgence of his music and legacy in Amercian Culture at the moment. The musical 'Fela' which is backed by Will Smith, Jay Z and several more heavy hitters has been a resounding success on Broadway and is scheduled to tour the rest of The USA and perhaps... more
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 2010
American Master
This is great, it's not everyday that you get to see Marvin Gaye harmonizing his vocals on TV (this is from a PBS documentary - American Masters). It's an auld shame the people don't stop talking over his voice when they are explaining and showing the stems from his different vocal tracks in... more
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 2010
Rising Sun
We have been following these guys since their first recordings and they delivered a superb live show for us last year in The Sugar Club, their new Lp came out last week - Rising Sun - and we just hawked this new single and video accompaniment on youtube The new album is out on Strut... more
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 2010
Wu Massacre
Collaborative album between Wu-Tang Clan members Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, and Method Man, has seen its release date pushed back a ton of times since last year, but now has a firm release date, a tentative tracklist, and some killer cover art, as you can see above. If the production quality... more
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 2010
Afrobeat Special!
We just did an interview with Miles from Soundway for the site, it should be up in the next month, but we just copped this bit of info from the excellent Shook Mag click the link to read more on this. Nigeria Afrobeat Special: The New Explosive Sound In 1970’s Nigeria focuses on the... more
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 2010
Pre:Seed Visuals and Mix
excerpt from Tu-k Mix, with excellent visual and editing from the man Fergal Brennan, big ups Mc Nasty Remix from The Pre-Seed Link to stream Mix and download at the following link - Preseed For those who don't know, The Pre:Seed is a lovingly crafted, painstaking trawl through... more
Instant Updates
Insights, links and other bits and pieces we're feeling
- Magic and Bird... A courtship of rivals more... This looks dope!!
- Peanut Butter Wolf - Soul with a hole, free on itunes!! more...
- Another Dam Funk Mix, certainly not a bad thang! more...
- Hot: "There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another." -Frank Zappa
- DJ Mek let's Beyonke, sorry Beyonce know what time it is. In Kerry. more...
- Steaming for 1 week only Second Hand Sureshots featuring J-rocc & Daedalus .... more...
- Loving the weather in Dublin City today..this could be the mother of all summers..
- Beyond Jazz Podcast more... fantastic stuff!
- Banksy's film opening this Friday at the Lighthouse cinema in Smithfield for those in Dublin....
- Floor Violence Documentary brought to you by IG Culture...Disco, Jazz & Boogie dancesteps more... Dope!!
- Soul Jazz records release Message From The Tribe - An Anthology of Tribe Records more... Fresh!!
- Dam Funk Mix for Red Bull Music Academy more... Fresh!!
- Listen 2 Gonjasufi's Lp, prod from fly lo & Gaslamp Killer etc more...
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