[MP3] Miguel – On These Wings

Unreleased cut from the excellent Kaleidoscope Dream album. Don’t sleep. BTW: dude tore it up at the Toronto date on his recent tour.

[h/t: mp3waxx.com]

[MP3] Frank Ocean – Wiseman (Unreleased)

Rejected or (submitted too late?) track for the Django Unchained movie soundtrack. How do you not put a track by probably the hottest new artist of 2012 on your soundtrack??! A&R/Marketing #FAIL, dude will undoubtedly have the consensus #1 album pick of the year amongst critics. I like the album too and stand by that comment even though I actually prefer Miguel‘s Kaleidoscope Dream album which Channel Orange is often compared to. Speaking of which….

[MP3] Robert Glasper – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (feat. Muhsinah)

More holiday cheer courtesy Mr. Black Radio and DC’s brightest new hope.

[via Muhsinah Instagram]

[MP3] Two Tracks from the The Real Grill EP by Http: DonWaNNA / Big Sh*t

In the burgeoning (but very trendy and dubiously named) new genre of Trap. And BTW, Http = worse SEO-optimized artist name EVER!!! I mean WTF?? Actually worse than !!! and The The.

[MP3] Radio3000 – Space Mountain (prod. by Jay Tablet & Keez)

There are tracks I post on The Kitchen because they are notable even if I hate them, some I post because they are good even if they are not to my personal tastes and some I post because I love them even though I know their audience is small because they deserve the platform and audience this little blog can provide which is why I started doing this in the first place. Then there are tracks that I dig and also think could, under the right circumstances, be bona fide hits or be early evidence of a new star-in-the-making. “Space Mountain” falls into that latter category. Super melodic and catchy and a vocal style that evokes some middle ground charted between Outkast and B.o.B., this could go, IMHO. But then again, no-one is paying me for those opinions any more so sue me if I turn out to be wrong…..

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