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Shirt

I Turned Myself Into Myself

    Shirt, the high school dropout, received his MFA from The School of Art & Design in Basel Switzerland, and completed a fine art residency this summer in an Italian castle - His work hangs in museum shows and he guest lectured at the University of Pennsylvania - In I Turned Myself Into Myself, Shirt has his mind set on rap music as sculpture

    Fully committing to weighted production from the Grammy- Award winner, Jack Splash, the pair operate with both meticulous precision and fluid improvisation. Having produced for everyone from Kendrick Lamar to J Cole, Alicia Keys to John Legend, Splash brings his grimiest palette.

    STAFF COMMENTS

    Matt says: It's Mellow so it's instantly on my radar. Not produced by Apollo Brown this one; instead it's Jack Splash (Kendrick Lamar, J Cole, Lupe Fiasco) teaming up with newcomer Shirt for another sublime example of street rap and boom bap. The label cementing its rep as market leaders of that old school flavour.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Dave Chappelle Is Wrong
    2. Marni Invisibility Cloak
    3. Tell The Machine Goodnight
    4. Death To Wall Art
    5. 718 To The World
    6. No Magic No Music
    7. Watching A Person Think
    8. Cancel Culture

    Marlowe

    Marlowe 3

      The electrifying Hip-Hop tag team L'Orange and Solemn Brigham are back as Marlowe.

      TRACK LISTING

      Marlowe Three
      Past Life
      President The Rock
      My People
      The Jeweler
      Rom Auditions (feat. Romesh Ranganathan)
      Royal (feat. Blu & Joell Ortiz)
      Hold The Crown
      Light Trip
      Eddy Appetite's Bulletproof Steering Wheel
      Lamelo
      Clarity
      Godfist (feat. Deniro Farrar)
      Astounding Science Fiction
      Heist
      The Fall
      Plenty Dreams
      The Places We Leave

      Marlowe

      Marlowe 2

        North Carolina-based hip-hop producer L'Orange and rapper Solemn Brigham are Marlowe. Quick-fire vocals and dusty breakbeats. With dazzling cinematic mise en scene, L'Orange crafts a world that sounds like an old-time medicine show dropped into 90s Brooklyn.

        TRACK LISTING

        1.  Marlowe Returns (intro) 
        2.  Spring Kick 
        3.  Small Business 
        4.  Later With It 
        5.  Otherworld 
        6.  Snake Oil Scientist 
        7.  Future Power Sources 
        8.  Sawdust Underground 
        9.  Paydirt 
        10.  Eddy Appetite Gets Repoed 
        11.  Dead A Lot 
        12.  Same Team 
        13.  OG Funk Rock (feat. A-F-R-O) 
        14.  The Machinations Of E.W. Godfst 
        15.  Can't Have Me Nothing 
        16.  Lamilton Taeshawn 
        17.  Preach Honest 
        18.  A Madman Of Conviction (outro)

        Mello Music Group

        Persona

          If the soul of hip-hop belongs to the culture, the skeleton belongs to the independent label. From Sugar Hill to Def Jam, Tommy Boy to Rawkus, Fondle Em to Def Jux, the genre’s best music has been birthed by imprints that brazenly defy the status quo, those who champion fearless artists and always prize quality over commerce. For the last eight years, Mello Music Group has lived by that ethos. If you’re reading these words, you’re inevitably well aware of its ascendance and growing legacy. But more importantly, you know the artists—those singular voices channelling the spirits of the past and spitting premonitions of the future. Boom-bap at its best: evolving and expanding the art form, capturing stories of the struggle, upholding the tradition, and keeping the crooked honest.

          Persona unveils the murderer’s row that is the Mello roster of 2015. Oddisee, Apollo Brown, yU, L'Orange, Red Pill, Open Mike Eagle, Rapper Big Pooh, Quelle Chris. The stars of the present teamed with timeless innovators like Phonte (Little Brother), Blockhead, Ras Kass, Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), Oh No, Masta Ace, and Bilal Salaam. The result is something that binds current greats with the pioneers who paved the asphalt. It’s both a historical moment and hard as hell. If most compilations are nothing more than a loosely thrown together collection of songs, Persona boasts meticulous focus. “Requiem” finds Phonte and Oddisee indicting American racism and Xenophobia with fury and precision. On “Homicide,” yU and Nottz leave blood dripping all over the canvas. There’s “Celebrity Reduction Prayer,” where Open Mike Eagle lampoons our Hollywood obsession, our overzealous idol worship over Oddisee’s warm Wonder keyboards.

          But there’s ultimately no need to do the track-by-track breakdown. This is an anthology in the most traditional well-curated sense. Turn here if you want to find the best hip-hop artists of their generation in raw and unfiltered form. The bars are brimstone; the beats force your neck to swivel. Through all the discontent, rays of hope begin to emerge. If you remember the feeling you got when you first heard Soundbombing, stop searching. The slang has changed, the style remains indelible, the latest personas have emerged. The new sound is here.

          TRACK LISTING

          1. Word To The Wise
          2. Requiem
          3. Homicide
          4. Dark Comedy Late Show
          5. PNT
          6. Circles Around Circles
          7. No Future
          8. American Religion
          9. You First
          10. Hustle Off
          11. Sometimes I Feel
          12. Darlin'
          13. Troubles
          14. All I See Is You

          The Lasso, Jordan Hamilton & The Saxsquatch

          Tri Magi

            Jordan Hamilton, a cellist equally equipped to perform Bach, reimagine Chick Corea, or bow a Drake top line.

            Jordan Hamilton is a "one of one" instrumentalist who somehow allows the cello to land in new revelatory situations regardless of the composition, genre, mood, or approach.

            The Saxsquatch, a saxophonist bent on twisting his instrument into the singular voice of a beast. Saxsquatch plays with a knowledge of the history/pedigree of his instrument, jazz to rock to noise, but does so with a proprietary blend of the styles that leaves saxophone sounding new.

            The Lasso, a producer who has pulled in everything while refusing genre across his run of LPs on Mello Music Group. The Lasso continues his role as providing diverse and creative landscapes that allow the lead voices of his compositions to become players in their own sonic fate.


            STAFF COMMENTS

            Matt says: Massive new direction for the monumental Mello Music Group as they explore future-jazz and blunted beats via multi-instrumentalist & modern Arthur Russell reincarnation The Lasso. Joined by Jordan Hamilton & The Saxsquatch and lying somewhere between FlyLo, J Dilla & the new sound of London jazz - this is incredible!

            TRACK LISTING

            1. City Of Grasss
            2. Born Tempo
            3. Requez
            4. New Equalydian
            5. Played Thrice
            6. Crimson Drip
            7. To Dust
            8. Three Magi Get Paid
            9. Solar Plateaux
            10. Sapphire
            11. They & I
            12. Aural Floral
            13. Voyager Too


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