[VIDEO PREMIERE] The Names Are Known – Another 1ne Of Those Nights / CLOSE2U / GET UP

We teased the trailer for this last week, now here goes the first look at the full three songs-in-one video for The Names Are Known’s “Another 1ne Of Those Nights”, “CLOSE2U” and “GET UP” from their excellent J. Dilla/Detroit hip-hop-inspired mixtape album, J(N)AMES (note: we sneak premiered this on the Tumblr last night. You should follow us over there, lots of good stuff that we don’t put up on the blog). Production credits for the videos as follow:

Another 1ne Of Those Nights
Produced by Junia-T
Featuring Phoenix Pagliacci
Shot By Malinda Francis / Docuvixen
Directed by Pangea Delphi & dj NaNa
Edited by dj NaNa

CLOSE2U
Produced by Royce Birth
Single Artwork by Pangea Delphi
Conceptualized & Edited by dj NaNa

GET UP
Produced by Blaz
Shot by eMDee & Malinda Francis
Edited by dj NaNa

CLICK HERE to download the J(N)AMES mixtape.

[MP3 WORLD BLOG PREMIERE] Noah Vinson – NATION Feat. Frank Ramz

We first got introduced to this young Bronx bomber a couple months ago via his excellent The Life mixtape and have been fans of his ever since. Now Noah Vinson has kindly granted us the opportunity to WORLD PREMIERE his brand new single, “Nation” featuring Frank Ramz from his Young & Proud project due later this year right here on The Kitchen! It’s a slightly different sound than on The Life. Check it out and let us know what you think of it.

CREDITS:
Prod By Kajmir Royale
Artwork By Keesegood of Dirty Legends

FOLLOW NOAH VINSON ONLINE: twitter | facebook | bandcamp

Previously on The Kitchen:

– Noah Vinson feat. Juvito Aule – I Love You (video)

[Music Video PREMIERE] HAWDWERK – MasterMind

We’ve been supporting this West Covina, CA-based artist over the past couple months and dig his sound. Now he has been kind enough to grant the Kitchen the privilege of world premiering his brand new video for “MasterMind”, a track produced by Kaleem Wasif from his forthcoming The Graveyard Shift project. And while we all await the release of The Graveyard Shift, take some time to check out his Call-In Sick EP.

Download an MP3 of Hawdwerk’s “MasterMind” HERE

FOLLOW HAWDWERK ONLINE – facebook | twitter | website | tumblr

[Premiere] The Connoisseurs of Culture present T.Shirt & Darvin Silva – Tan-Face Children (EP)

OK, this is something new that The Kitchen has been working on for the past couple of months. Check the science…

“The Connoisseurs of Culture is a media collective comprised of the critcially-acclaimed and popular music & lifestyle websites, The Couch Sessions, Different Kitchen and Please Don’t Stare.

The goal of the COC is to brand & present the work of musicians, producers, DJ’s, video & film directors, visual artists and other creative types whose art we believe in and want to support on a deeper level than just basic posts on our respective sites.

A ‘Connoisseurs of Culture Presents’ project will be rolled out as a fully ‘Branded’ project with a comprehensive, integrated launch campaign leveraging all key social media platforms and the combined might of the collective social networks and readership of the COC network.”

First up to bat is New York-based, up-and-coming rapper, T.shirt. Some of you may already be familiar with him from his “Dear Sade,” “I Won’t Go (Freestyle)” and “The Paul Cantor (Freestyle)” tracks but if you’ve been sleeping on him, you shouldn’t be after he drops his Tan-Face Children EP. Check these snips from the official Press Release on the project:

“Over the last two months Retro Electro DJ/Producer Darvin Silva, and New York City rapper T.Shirt have been working on their full and realized debut EP together, Tan-Face Children. The name derives from the opening line of the famous Walt Whitman poem “Pioneers! O Pioneers!” where the poet beckons the burning youth “Come my tan-face children”. He’s speaking of the Western world, the youth of a generation working in the sun for long hours thus becoming, “tan-faced”. It’s a poetic and just way to describe the hard-working famous kids from Queens.

The chemistry in the music is electrifying. Darvin’s penchant for finding the “dirty, rap shit” in say, a mid-tempo french house song is as strong as can be. It is said that where T.Shirt thrives is where he’s allowed to be different, finding new flows, and concepts. That’s exactly the type of platform working with a talent like Darvin Silva brings. Where else can you find a gifted and gritty New York rapper spitting verses on one of the hardest beats you ever heard, by France’s own Mr. Oizo.“

Click HERE to read the full Press Release on the Tan-Face Children EP at the brand new The Connoisseurs of Culture tumblr site.

Tonight at midnight will see the leak of the first track from the project, “Monday Massacre” so check back to be the first to cop it! Digital-only copies of the FULL Tan-Face Children will be available free of charge March 9, through www.illrapper.com and www.darvinsilva.com presented by The Connoisseurs of Culture.

Click the jump for more on T.Shirt and look out after that more cool projects presented by the me, Stone and Benhameen under the COC banner.

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