Gensu Dean - Forever (feat. Large Professor)

This that shit. Xtra P!!! Go cop the Blue Wax from Fat Beats if thats your thing.

Lee Fields & The Expressions - Faithfull Man

Back in May last year I had the opportunity to see Lee Fields & The Expressions at South Paw, Brooklyn NYC. The show was mind blowing. I wont go into details but this man's stage presence and voice complemented by The Expressions creating this fresh, new soul sound yet still drawing from the old sound(think what El Michels Affair did with 36 chambers) was nuts live. Motherfucker has them dapper boogie moves and the eye fuck on them ladies down pat too.
Anyways his new album dropped last week. Get a hardcopy or digital HERE.

"Since the late sixties Lee Fields has amassed a prolific catalog and has played and toured with such legends as Kool and the Gang, Sammy Gordon and the Hip-Huggers, O.V Wright, and many more. With a career spanning 43 years, it’s mind-blowing that the music he’s making today with Brooklyn’s Truth & Soul Records is the best of his career. While drawing comparisons to The Moments, The Delfonics, The Stylistics, and—of course—James Brown, Faithful Man is able to create a space of it’s own due to the group’s desire to interpret and further the formulas of good soul music rather then imitate them. Chalk that up to Truth & Soul producers and co-owners Jeff Silverman and Leon Michels. These are the same individuals that co-wrote, produced, and played on Aloe Blacc’s global smash I Need A Dollar, and have provided the back drop for records by Adele, GhostfaceKillah, and Jay-Z to name a few. “The older Fields becomes, the closer he gets to perfecting the sound of soul” said DJ Oliver Wang about Fields in an NPR feature. Faithful Man is the next step towards perfection. A step that will find Lee Fields & The Expressions finally being bestowed the contemporary soul music crown."

I'll leave you with this clip of Lee covering Bobby Hebb’s ‘Sunny’. This all sounds so much better a that little BK sweat box but you know where I'm comin from.


Lee Fields - Sunny from JazzReggae Festival on Vimeo.

Dark Days Documentary (Underground Lifestyle)

I'm sure many have already seen or heard about this doco. I hadn't . It's now over 11 years old but I'm glad I found it. An amazing documentary.

"Novice filmmaker Marc Singer lived in the bowels of a midtown Manhattan railway station for two years to shoot this harrowing account of the day-to-day existence of the homeless. Shot in noirish black and white, Singer shows how society's discarded and disenfranchised fashion a community of sorts in the sunless labyrinth of the station's transit tunnels. Though told without narration, a dozen or so individual stories emerge. Dee (the sole woman depicted in the film) lost all her children in a house fire while she was high on crack; Ralph remains inconsolable after his five-year old's rape and mutilation during a stint in prison. In the final reel, Amtrak sends in armed police to clean out the tunnels, citing health concerns. However, the subterranean tenets happen upon a stroke of luck, as an NYC social worker discovers a cache of previously unclaimed public housing. Featuring a sparse soundtrack by DJ Shadow, Dark Days won the Grand Jury prize for cinematography, the Freedom of Expression award, and an audience award at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival."

 

Hauie TV - Vocally Locally

I can only see this going from strength to strength for the ever so personable Hau. I'd like to see maybe a section or an episode dedicated to the producers. The gear they use, their records etc..

HAUIE TV is an on-line show that celebrates and focusses on the hip hop culture in Australia and overseas through interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and rhymes. Hosted by me, Hau - an MC, a radio presenter, a husband, a father, and a lover of all things beats, rhymes and life. I'm deep!"

Here's the latest

30% OFF ALL T-SHIRTS

Fucking mad aint it!, all shirts on the store are 30% off until the end of the month. Even the ones that have been discounted that nobody wants or dont fit no one. Enter code: 12DAPPER on checkout to get the discount.

Stay 2012  fly dapper or stay looking like a bum you crumb.

CORMEGA AND LARGE PRO SPEAK ON "MEGA PHILOSOPHY"

For me I don't think it really can get much better than this aside from a new Show and AG record with show dropping some bars or some shit. Mega has always rated in my top list on the mic and Xtra P, well what can I say he's one of the all time greats. That production on Mega's last album was perfect, he killed that M.A.R.S joint recently. If your living under a fucking rock go check that
I'm liking they might be bringing in some young blood to come thru for this. I'm Hoping AG gets a guest spot after dropping his name. He better!

TORNTS - "Concrete Slang" Sampler

This Friday go do yourself a favor and go pick up a copy of the new album from Tornts 'Concrete Slang'. Judging from the sampler Tornts has called on some well respected producers to provide the backdrop yet still keeping a fluent and cohesive overall sound.
Check out Brisbane's Jake Biz and Gaz Hazard on posse cut.

Emeralds..Bitch

March brings a 2 releases I'm really looking forward to. The first being the collaborative LP 'The Kolexxion' from DJ Premier & Bumpy Knuckles. The second being Roc Marciano's Emeralds dropping mid March via Decon.

This little promo dropped the other day. Safe purchace right here.


Untitled from Decon on Vimeo.

JAKE BIZ "DEUCE DEUCE" Official clip