Unfortunately underrated 🖖
I love it a hole lot 🌈

Future Beats by Joe Kay

Never Grow Up.

Chocolate Milk

Heiwa

Sweet

'THE HEIST' is now underway. 💰🏃

This is a collaborative record between Los Angeles based record label Good Society and Lyon, France based label Retro Jungle Records (@retrojungle). This once in a lifetime project brings together many of our generation's most notable beat scene creators such as The Kount, Rob Araujo, Kaelin Ellis, and Louis Futon, with a cross generational touch in featuring Matt Johnson the keyboardist of Jamiroquai.

This compilation album is a leading case in which artists who are all actively creating a massive impact on today’s Hip Hop/ Funk scene are being brought together to create a punchy, groovy, boom bap powerhouse. THE HEIST has seen its full release on all digital platforms as well as a special edition released on vinyl in extremely limited supply. (Only 300 vinyls pressed which are available for preorder now!)

Grab your vinyl here: https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/241821/retro-jungle-x-good-society-the-heist

The artwork features a classic 90’s hip hop theme with stylistic reference to A Tribe Called Quest’s most recognizable works. In parallel with these drops the album will be minted as a super rare 1 of 1 NFT collectable! (Coming soon)

Join our discord server: discord.gg/Af9BKz8 🗣

➥ Rob Araujo
@robarousal
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6mWAKV1AAFvzxQr7uztRE9?si=trskA33bQB6rOUxISKKHXQ
instagram.com/robarousal
twitter.com/robarousal

➥ Retro Jungle
@retrojungle
instagram.com/retrojunglerecords
twitter.com/retrojungle_co
retrojungle.bandcamp.com

➥ Good Society
@goodsociety
instagram.com/goodsocietyla
twitter.com/goodsocietyla
audius.co/goodsociety

Stream everywhere: https://fanlink.to/the-heist

Pre-Order on Vinyl 🌟

Rob Araujo - Jumbled

Bruit blanc et silence

Resting Heart Rate

A beautiful mix of classical melodies and lo-fi textures, creating a warm and expressive sound.

Golden Hour Lullaby

02 Tall Black Guy   I Will Never Know (TBG Remix) [First Word Records]

* Read more: https://boltingbits.com/potatohead-people-morning-sun-dj-spinna-galactic-funk-remix
* Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FarTgab-jmA
* Pre-order: http://bit.ly/2DFOTr0
* Pre-order US/Canada: https://potatoheadpeople.bandcamp.com/album/morning-sun-dj-spinna-remixes

GALACTIC FUNK. There is no better description for this sultry hip hop groove. The stirring harmonies, relaxing energy and soulful melodies created by the brilliant DJ Spinna, take you on a magically meditative trip around the Morning Sun. 

Who better to release this futuristic hip hop delight than the wax-loving forward- thinking Bastard Jazz Recordings. Always fresh and boasting phenomenal creativity, the independent Brooklyn-based label, strive to work only with expressive producers that they genuinely vibe with. It's clear to see how Bastard Jazz have been running for over 15 years, teaming up with fellow visionaries: Illa J (personal favourite), Kid Loco, Captain Planet, Brit Manor and Lord Echo make up the impressive roster, plus many more. This is why you will be hearing 'Morning Sun' for a long time - it's come from a genuine marriage of talented artists and an unmatched devoted label. 

As a lover of poetry and as an observer of all things lyrical, the vocals by the amazing Nanna G, are perfectly suited to the dreamy beat and twinkling keys. The mix holds on to the raw emotion of a Potatohead People garage jam. Spinna applies his magic touch and makes an already magnificent track....even better.  

Yes, the beat is addictively funky. Yes, I feel untouchable listening to it. Yes, I feel like hanging out of a cadalac straight chillin, boppin my head to this groove. It is undeniable that this track will have you feeling. In true Potatohead People fashion, the tune is uplifting, that is where the beauty lies. You'll be left with so much long after the tune is done.

Morning Sun (DJ Spinna Remixes)

PREMIERE: Potatohead People - Morning Sun (feat. Nanna.B) [DJ Spinna Galactic Funk Remix]

Terrace Martin - Almond Butter

IMANI

Imani (Faith)

Soul Supreme

Orbit

On their third full-length release, Potatohead People widen the frame of their progressive musical vision and deliver a far-reaching yet approachable set of moods and grooves.

Mellow Fantasy continues to showcase the trademark instrumental prowess of the duo and their ease with the loose but hard-hitting drum style brought to the fore by Jay Dee’s influential productions, but goes well beyond basic boom bap bread and butter, with singer-centered R&B and uptempo bumps sharing the stage. 

Beginning in 2008 as a Vancouver-based hip-hop production team, Potatohead People (Nick Wisdom and AstroLogical) have collaborated with a fantasy league of MCs, including Frank Nitt of Frank’n’Dank (the 2013 breakout jam “Back To My Shit”), Illa J (producing an entire album for J. Dilla’s younger brother) and the late Phife Dawg (the beloved A Tribe Called Quest co-founder’s last recorded verse was over one of their beats).  

Setting them apart from other Dilla-influenced beatmakers is the way they push the scope of the style, working the corners with their own unique touch. At its most basic, “the goal has always been making really dope loops,” they explain. By using slices of their own rough instrumental ideas, finding “a chord progression or texture that you can hear again and again and never question it,” they’ve taken this fundamental concept and elevated it to new levels of melodic, harmonically complex music.

A jazz-like responsiveness to the input of collaborators is a key component of how the team works. “We like to get the artist involved when the beat is an early idea, and build the beat around the vocals, getting inspired by what they do.” 

On Mellow Fantasy, they had some impressive inspiration. Pos from De La Soul immediately connected with “Baby Got Work,” a sophisticated slap that went through several iterations before settling into its ultimate form. Appropriately, the song’s diligent construction echoes the ethic of the grind in the clear-eyed, precisely dovetailed lyrics fans have come to expect from the Daisy Age don. “Baby Got Work” is the album’s lead single, hitting on 9/25/20.

Befitting Potatohead People’s origins as a hip-hop group, cameos from Illa J and Slum Village’s T3 on the summertime teaser “What It Feels Like” and Vancouver veteran Moka Only (the sassy, vanity take-down “Ungodly”) add to the unimpeachable rap bonafides. 

The hometown connections continue with Lotusland local Kapok slinging verses on a couple tracks and rising stars Kendra Dias and Clear Mortifee, who stake serious claims as names to watch with standout vocal turns on the low-slung neo-soul “Break Even” and the upcoming second single “Hidden Levels,” a high-flying house/future boogie hybrid. Following up their successful 2019 collabo “Single Life,” Bunnie makes her return to action with the group on “Kettle Boiling.” Ranging further, Reggie B, who broke on the scene with his lead on Onra’s “High Hopes,” shines on the optimistic bounce of “Bring The World A Little Closer.”

Threaded throughout are interlude instrumentals that comfortably manage the neat trick of being musically intriguing while retaining an accessible, gut-level thump. Look no further than the statement-making, Yussef Kamaal-like funk fusion album opener “1st Light” and their nod to overlooked Vancity synth pioneer Dale Jacobs (“Ode To Mr. Jacobs”) for clues to where Nick and Astro’s hearts are at.

Mellow Fantasy, released 10/30/20 on Bastard Jazz and available on vinyl and all digital platforms, is Potatohead People’s most evolved collection yet, rooted in earthy low end but elevated, expansive and reaching new musical heights.

Mellow Fantasy

Potatohead People - In The Garden

8 Miles To Moenart has literally brought Tall Black Guy full circle. Detroit was where he
started making music, and it’s to his hometown he returns to draw inspiration for his
debut album. Taking in low-slung hip hop, downtempo house and jazz-tinged street soul,
it’s a record of rare focus. Largely instrumental, he’s also added some choice collabs
with Ozay Moore (formerly known as Othello) and Diggs Duke, bringing their own
unique styles to the melting pot. This record encapsulates the musical heritage
of Detroit, through the looking glass of Tall Black Guy's own signature sound.

From Home ,To Work, and Back by Tall Black Guy on First Word Records #8Miles To Moenart

Rewind

(I) Think I'm in Love

“...I  flip cracka history like Madlib flip an old jazz standard.” (Peace to our ancestors, those who are back where their brother went.)

Legal archivist/mambo, legal narrative waver, apprentice QTBIPOC critic, academic police historian.

 #BAM/stretch/social music/funk head. #afropunk. #soulection. #sasha_marie_radio. #kronika. #darker_than_wax_radio. 

Just your average transgrrl, your late life  transition, your average hot professor, learning the attune my life to the ezili, and lift up the righteous fire of my cuzins worldwide...💋

Brooklyn boutique record label. Purveyors of fine beats worldwide.

Potatohead People - In The Garden

Bastard Jazz

Recent comments

garten11

joseph8778

Related tracks