VIDEO: Suff Daddy – Hi-Hat Club Vol. 2

This video showcases some snippets from the upcoming Suff Daddy record, Hi-Hat Club Vol. 2, due for release via Melting Pot Music on 4th September. The video contains the tracks; Chinatown Chill, Up In This Muthafucka, Now That You’re Mine and Daddy.

Suff Daddy really is Europe’s unsung hip-hop hero. He’s a prolific beat-maker out of Germany who has worked with the likes of Miles Bonny, Oddisse, Kissey Asplund and Flomega – but this is purely a solo project focusing on a fresh boom-bap-style sound for 2009. If you’re not familiar with Suff Daddy, well, then you’ve got some catching up to do! If you have a penchant for 7-inch vinyl, then there’s been an array of tasty treats released over the past few years, so check out the MPM site for more details on that. Definitely one of Europe’s finest beat-makers.

Tracklisting:

Side A
01. Up In This Muthafucka
02. Andros
03. Now That You’re Mine
04. Chinatown Chill
05. The Paper
06. Vices
07. Daddy
08. Join The Club
09. D.I. Luv
10. Anti Swagger

Side B
01. Like That
02. Creepin
03. S.Ex. (Suff Experiment)
04. Isley Interlude
05. Sip Liquor
06. High Life
07. One For Rawls
08. Suff In China
09. Chocolate Mountain
10. Lottahydro

mp3: Suff Daddy – Psycho (Gunshot) Remix

VIDEO: Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratory

This video was written and directed by a guy called Chris Cairns and the full info can be found here. It’s pretty damn amazing and features members from two UK hip-hop groups, namely; The Scratch Perverts and Foreign Beggars. You may recognise the faces (or heads!) of; Shlomo, Prime Cuts, Orifice Vulgatron, Metropolis, Tony Vegas, Dr. Syntax, Stig and Plus One. Not really got much more to tell you bout it, but then I’m happy to let the video do the talking on this one!

mp3: Foreign Beggars – Hit That Gash (DJ Primecuts’ Itchy Naaan Re-Rub)

GIG: Music Fan First Album Launch

Tuesday 25th August saw the London album launch for Music Fan First by the incredible soul singer Eric Roberson. It was hosted at Traffic Bar in Holborn, London in conjunction with the SoulBeautiful crew. Added DJ support was from one of my favourite producers, Eric Lau, and it was a fantastic night indeed!

Went down to the venue with Sam from Dekata Project around 9pm and the place was buzzing. It got pretty packed in there, but it was a good choice of venue and the atmosphere was really chilled. People were generally pretty laid back and very friendly – Sam even had one request to have a photo taken of his Doshiwa t-shirt! I managed to have a brief chat with the ultra-cool Eric Lau, a genuinely nice guy. I’m still eagerly anticipating some new material from Eric, but he did manage to make my evening with a fantastic (albeit brief) answer to my question, “what was your influence for New Territories (his debut LP)?”, Eric answered very frankly, “Slum Village with singers.” It made a hell of a lot of sense! I can deliberate my thoughts over 1200 words to try and convey some feeling, but it took Mr Lau a whole four words to sum it all up beautifully! Also saw the delightful Amelia from the excellent site PutMeOnIt – was good to finally cross paths in the ‘real’ world.

Eric Roberson finally made it on stage with an acoustic guitarist as accompaniment. What was immediately apparent was the warmth Eric had – a good personality, someone who could clearly enjoy himself and wasn’t afraid to laugh at his own expense either. I think this instantly endeared him to the crowd. So, after sharing a few jokes and interactions with the crowd, Eric spoke briefly about the album and then proceeded to perform some of the tracks. Now I may not have always followed the neo-soul genre as closely as others, but I’m being serious when I say that I haven’t heard a male voice of that calibre since Glenn Lewis circa 2002!

Was also good to see there was a healthy level of dedicated fans present, flying their colours through the medium of impromptu backing vocals! It was a good night that concluded with a freestyle song where by Eric asked for a few random words from the crowd that he could incorporate into the freestyle. I think we ended up with; toothpaste, Africa and psychiatrist. Got to give Mr Roberson his props – he came up with a wicked ditty bout taking an African girl back to the States and her going crazy – it was really good. Then there was cake. No really. It had the (above) album artwork printed on it! So people ate cake, bought CDs and Eric signed them.

It was a good night and a fantastic showcase of one amazing voice and individual. A truly decent person representing independent artists and giving the listeners what they so wanted. I’ve heard the album and it’s brilliant – a genre defying neo-soul record, if that makes sense – a most enjoyable listen indeed! Well produced and made of much substance. Pick up Music Fan First now via iTunes (including bonus track) and on traditional CD too.

Tracklisting:

01. The Newness
02. The Hunger feat. W. Ellingston Felton
03. A Tale Of Two feat. Ben O’Neill And Michelle Thompson
04. Borrow You
05. Dealing feat. Lalah Hathaway
06. Still
07. How Could She Do It
08. Further feat. T3 Of Slum Village
09. The Power That Kisses Hold
10. Howard Girls feat. Brandon Hines, Geno Young And Aaron Abernathy
11. Weekend Getaway
12. She
13. Wanna Believe It Again feat. Wayna
14. Bad For Me
15. Breakitdown
16. Pave A New Road
17. Celebrate feat. Sy Smith (Bonus)

mp3: Eric Roberson – Borrow You

VIDEO: Flying Lotus – Infinitum

Check out this short viral clip to celebrate the release of L.A. EP 3 x 3 by Flying Lotus, out now both digitally and on vinyl via WARP Records.

These days Flying Lotus needs no introduction, but the hip-hop-cum-electronica ‘beats’ producer has dropped another seven wicked tracks (eight via iTunes!) on this release, including re-works by Dimlite, Take and Breakage. Most definitely worth getting your grubby little mitts on! Also worth getting 1 x 3 and 2 x 3, if you don’t have them already, and obviously the actual Los Angeles album too – it’s a masterpiece.

Tracklisting:

01. Infinitum (Dimlite’s Re-finitum)
02. Comet – MatthewDavid
03. Endless White
04. Parisian Goldfish (Take Remix)
05. Spin Cycles
06. Testament (Breakage’s Bill’s Suit Mix)
07. Auntie’s Harp (Rebekah Raff Remix)
08. Riot (Take Rmx) (Digital Bonus Track)

mp3: Flying Lotus – Parisian Goldfish (Take Remix)

PODCAST: Jus Like Music Volume 35

It’s here, Volume 35 of the Jus Like Music podcast! Had a recent incident which involved a burglary and the loss of a laptop and external hard drive – hence the delay in creating a new podcast. Anyway, nearly back to normality at JLM HQ, so here’s the new release featuring some stellar tracks from the likes of; Souleance, Hudson Mohawke, Little Dragon, Mayer Hawthorne and Zomby. It’s a real mixture, as always, going from latin flavours to hip-hop beats and beyond.

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Volume 35 tracklisting:

01. Quantic & his Combo Barbaro – Undelivered Letter
02. Souleance – One Step
03. Hudson Mohawke – Rising 5
04. Gangsta Red – I Should Tell Ya Momma on You (Alex Nut’s Dees Nuts RMX)
05. Little Dragon – My Step
06. St Liquor-ish – Hater
07. 14KT – Hello.
08. Mayer Hawthorne – The Ills
09. Dipak Chand – Love
10. Robert Glasper – 4eva (Jeej Edit)
11. Anti-Pop Consortium – Volcano (Four Tet Remix)
12. Juice Aleem – First Lesson (Rude Kid Remix)
13. 2562 – Love In Outer Space
14. Ital Tek – Massive Error
15. Flying Lotus – Parisian Goldfish (Take Remix)
16. Zomby – Digital Fauna
17. Mount Kimbie – At Least

Please consume!

mp3: Souleance – One Step