[DJ Mix] DJ Cutler – Newer Sounds For Older Souls

Excellent soul-focused open-format mix incorporating some hip-hop, alternative and breakbeat sounds too. Worth a listen! Here’s DJ Cutler‘s official plug:

“The majority of the tunes here were released over the past couple of years (everything besides Cortex, Dyke and the Blazers, Lovage and Glass House–the Bob & Gene is an old recording that wasn’t released until this year)… While mainstream corporate music seems to be at an all-time creative low it’s great to see so much good music being put out on the independent/underground level. As usual, all vinyl all the time. Volume 2 soon to follow…”

Newer Sounds for Older Souls, Volume 1

01) Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings–Better Things to Do (daptone)
02) Aloe Blacc–I Need a Dollar (Stones Throw)
03) Bob & Gene–It’s Not What You Know (Ever Soul)
04) Carolina Chocolate Drops–Hit em up Style (Nonesuch)
05) Charles Bradley–Golden Rule (Dunham)
06) The Black Keys–Tighten Up (Nonesuch)
07) The Apples featuring Fred Wesley–In The Air (Freestyle)
08) Cortex–Mary et Jeff (Disques Esperance)
09) Orgone–Time is Right (Ubiquity)
10) J-Rocc–Play This Too (Stones Throw)
11) Aloe Blacc–Loving You is Killing Me (Stones Throw)
12) The Roots featuring Dice Raw–How I Got Over (Def Jam)
13) Ultimate Breaks and Beats–Give it up or Turn it Loose (Traffic)
14) Budos Band–Unbroken, Unshaven (Daptone)
15) Soulive–Drive My Car (Royal Family)
16) Scott Down and DJ Cutler–Ultimate Breaks and Treats (7 inch mix) (LoDo)
17) Dennis Coffey and Mayer Hawthorne–All Your Goodies are Gone (Strut)
18) The Heavy–How You Like me Now (Count/ +1)
19) Dyke and the Blazers–Let a Woman be a Woman [Ultimate Breaks and Beats edit] (Original Sound)
20) Cut Chemist–Povo de Santo (A Stable Sound)
21) Lovage–To Catch a Thief (75 ark)
22) Glass House–I Don’t See Me in Your Eyes Anymore (Invictus)
23) The Chillharmonic Orchestra –Cold Steel (LoDo)

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[New Artist] Introducing Elan Tamara

My dude, Duane Harriott (of Negroclash) put me up on this new singer out of London. I think she’s the truth. A blend of Bjork and Adele. Yeah, like that good! Check her out for yourself and tell me I’m wrong on that!

MP3 stream (no download): Tubes by Elan Tamara

MP3 stream (no download): Frog Song by Elan Tamara

Click HERE to listen to more tracks from Elan off her Organ EP.

Check out Elan Tamara online – Facebook | twitter

[Mixtape] Thundercat – Shenanigans Pt. 1 (Mixed by Flying Lotus)

Since I’ve been down in the US the past couple weeks, I’ve had multiple… er, cats on both coasts getting in my ear about this dude Thundercat telling me I need to get at his music.

If you’re not knowing, he’s the bassist for Erykah Badu’s band and also worked with Flying Lotus on his Cosmogramma project. Thundercat makes left-of-center music that can I guess, can be loosely termed as progressive urban music that touches on electronic influences but is also deeply soulful and jazzy in feel. But instead of listening to me try to describe it (‘dancing about architecture….’??), listen to Shenanigans Pt. 1, mixed by Flying Lotus, his first (?) mixtape project highlighting some of his past work and acting as a prelude to his debut album The Golden Age of Apocalypse which drops Aug. 30th.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

Then hit the jump for more music from Thundercat.

[spotted via Brainfeeder | player via The Well Versed]

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Listen to The Weeknd’s – Thursday Mixtape

The Weeknd – Thursday by The_Weeknd

Just spotted this on twitter. Haven’t had a chance to listen all the way through yet but excited to check it out.

I was lucky enough to get a ticket to see the kid at his official debut gig at The Mod Club a few weeks back and have to say it was incredible. He’s the truth live, one of the few artists whose music actually sounds better performed live on stage than on record which was not something I expecting from his very very stylized brand of electronic soul, and amazingly for a city like Toronto which is known for jaded cynics/haters (it’s not called the screwface capital for nothing!), almost to a fault, everyone I talked to at the show agreed with that assessment. I know this is verging on musical blasphemy but there were moments during the show that were giving me Prince Purple Rain moments. With the right songs this could be that big, seriously. Let’s see if this new mixtape show any hint of that promise.

Download: The Weeknd – Thursday mixtape [hulkshare zip file]

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[Event] The Weeknd Live in Toronto TONIGHT!!!

Apparently MAJOR cats from the US are flying in for this. You gonna be there??!

CLICK HERE for more details.