In celebration of the 20th anniversary of 93 'Til Infinity, Souls of Mischief graciously opened their vaults to give Gummy Soul the exclusive acapellas of their classic album, to remix for the first time ever. 

As the framework of the project, Gummy Soul’s Wally Clark, dug through his extensive record collection, and gathered all of the songs that were sampled to make hip-hop in 1993. Jazz, Funk and Soul songs, used to create classics from Digable Planets, Snoop Dogg and Black Moon, were then re-contextualized to provide familiar, yet updated versions of some of hip-hop’s most beloved material. 

"I wanted to take all of the records that people used back then, and create new compositions using the same techniques they were using – such as filtered bass lines, classic drum breaks, echo-y horns – to make an album that sounds like it could have been released in 1993," says Clark. "It was an amazing exercise trying to capture the essence of a sacred time in hip-hop. It also allowed me to playfully use samples that are normally deemed off-limits, because they are too well known." 

Be on the look out for Soul's of Mischief's new album "There Is Only Now," produced by Adrian Younge, as well as the 93 'Til documentary, featuring Questlove, Mos Def, 9th Wonder, Pete Rock and more. 

Check out the video here: 
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Gummy Soul - 93 Still - 04 What A Way To Go Out

Mama Nature (Spring's Anthem)

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As mega-plexes buckle under on onslaught of over-branded superheroes this summer, there's one heroic team-up that beats them all: Slimkid3 & DJ Nu-Mark!

Ever since his time as a founding member of The Pharcyde, Slimkid3 has stood out for his relationship raps, both warm-hearted and cooly observant. As an innovative member Jurassic 5, DJ Nu-Mark has long propelled golden era sounds into the future.

With the forthcoming Delicious Vinyl release of their album-length eponymous collaboration, the legendary Pharcyde MC and Jurassic 5 DJ/producer have created a soulful Hip-Hop soundtrack for the coming months and beyond…


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Slimkid3 & DJ Nu-Mark "I Know, Didn't I" (feat. Darondo)

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So, 2014 is nearly done and once again, the releases came at such a rate  that we’ve barely had time to draw breath, let alone sit back and congratulate ourselves on another year of putting out Real Music For Real People…
That’s why we enjoy this little tradition of posting the annual ‘staff picks’ from our own catalogue… it forces us to sit back, relax and start playing through some of that incredible music that we’ve released into a harsh world in the last year. 
Don’t think it’s easy … Team BBE can be riven with hissy-fits and sulkiness for a couple of days as personal favourites are out-voted, over-ruled or ruled out over technicalities  (e.g. the member of staff who insisted on having every track from the weird and wonderful  Strange Breaks and Mister Thing III). But the collective process usually ends in a group hug and a nice warm glow once we playback the final selection. 
It’s impossible to let the occasion pass without mentioning some of the ones that got away, though. Despite the plethora of new artists we’ve put out over the past few years we’re probably still best-known for our compilations, instantly  recognizable both visually and aurally, and this year saw no let- up in either quantity or quality. As well as the aforementioned Strange Breaks and Mister Thing III, which won plaudits from the most seasoned vinyl junkies for its educative and entertaining qualities, we had Sean P’s personal trip down memory lane to an old-school that few of today’s hip-hop generation even knew existed, Rock It Don’t Stop It. We also had Kev Beadle’s dig around the private press archives for lost jazz classics, resulting in his Private Collection, and the fourth …yes, fourth!.. instalment of Keb Darge and Little Edith’s Legendary Wild Rockers, raw rockabilly from one of our longest-serving and most illustrious of collaborators. 
Having seen a lot of reissues done very badly, 2014 was the year we stepped up the game with our Masters We Love series. Lavishly packaged and remastered from the original sources, we’ve been able to put legendary albums previously known only to hard-core collectors back into wider circulation. Nana Love, Crystal Winds, Hal Bradbury,  Janet Lawson, The Craig Peyton Group were some of the artists in this series who benefited from this exposure but inexplicably didn’t make the cut for our year end round-up … Band X and Dan Mastroianni are two more who did. We also put out the legendary Lost Album from Iron Curtain synth-meisters Rodion G.A. 
So what of those new artists? For every one that scraped on this seasonal bonanza, there were a couple more that didn’t … so a big shout-out to Lady Daisey, Morgan featuring Jo Sims, Very Tall Stories,Loretta Heywood, Hempolics,  The Grits, Algebra Blessett, Yesking, Duct Tape, Time For T, and DJ Oil, who between them represent just about every kind of credible underground music-making going on right now. 
As for those represented on this excursion, there’s no lack of diversity there, either.  Old friends like Shawn Lee, DJ Vadim and Mr.Bird jostle for attention alongside Slakah the Beatchild, Anchorsong,, Tricky D, The Excelsiors, Larry Achiampong, True Ingredients, Megajawns, Vaitea and More Like Trees. From the dopest dubbed out downtempo headnodders to the most progressive of up-tempo left-field dance, taking in the flavours of Africa, the Caribbean and the East along the way. 2014 was one helluva ride … hope you enjoy this brief trip back through it alongside. 


Golden Age Against The Machine

We Got The Jazz

Shawn Lee - We Got The Jazz Feat. Ohmega Watts

Crown City Rockers - No Sense

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Peinture Fraîche, the new Pumpkin & Vin'S da Cuero album out now.
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Album tracklist:
 01 Discipline 
02 Louder feat. Boog Brown & Rita J.
 03 Mauvaise Langue 
04 Fifty Fifty feat. 20syl 
05 Le Tic Tac 
06 L'Encre 
07 Bye Bye Madeleine feat. Mr. J. Medeiros
 08 Spleen Extremis 
09 Got This 
10 Mouvement feat. Dynasty & Signif
 11 Série Noire
 12 Rose Combat 
13 La Mer À Boire (a Cat Called FRITZ Remix) feat. Jay Prince *

* Digital version bonus track
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Track credits: 
Rap by Pumpkin (@pumpkinisorange) & Jay Prince (@jayprincemusic)
Instrumental by aCatCalledFRITZ (@acatcalledfritz)
Scratches by DJ Lyrik
 Mixed by aCatCalledFRITZ
Mastered by Blanka @ Kasablanka
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Peinture Fraîche

La Mer À Boire Remix

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Pumpkin & Vin'S da Cuero - La Mer À Boire (aCatCalledFRITZ Remix) feat. Jay Prince

Faced with an overwhelming tide of political and social events, Thes One and Dj Day have channeled their frustration and disillusionment into a spontaneous art piece combining raw beats from the MPC, lyrical scratch work and a puzzle of forgotten vinyl. As number stations ring alarms and old alliances descend into chaos, the EP is an s.o.s. transmission from the two Náufrago lost within their own country...

Thes One live on the MPC3000/Ren + DjDay live on the turntables

Vinyl presale info to follow.

**Free Download**

Thes One & DJ Day - Náufrago EP

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Kendra Morris "Concrete Waves (DJ Premier 320 Remix)"

This was orginally released only on the vinyl version of my first official instrumental album, Starcrossed, in 2012. It's now available as a Starcrossed bonus track on my bandcamp page:https://batsauce.bandcamp.com/album/starcrossed

Enjoy!

Space, Not Time Ft. Qwazaar & Chop

Bones & Beeker EP Inside a Different Mind released March 30 on Wax Poetics Records

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In November 2015, the Minneapolis duo Bones & Beeker—consisting of singer-songwriter Anthony Newes and producer/multi-instrumentalist BK-One—quietly released a self-titled gem of a debut. Hip-hop producer BK-One (aka Brendan Kelly) had previously spent years on the road as the touring DJ for Rhymesayers MC Brother Ali. So after releasing his own album, BK-One reached out to Ali and other friends to help craft a hip-hop EP out of source material from the Bones & Beeker record.

First onboard was DJ extraordinaire Cut Chemist (Jurassic 5), who is about to drop his own album, Die Cut, and is currently supporting it on a North American tour. On the “World Behind” remix, Cut Chemist channels turntable elders Double Dee & Steinski and offers a funky retake with massive, moving drums.

Minneapolis neighbor and Rhymesayers affiliated rapper P.O.S. steps up to drop a verse on the funky favorite “Each Time I Die.” P.O.S., a Doomtree Collective member, has just dropped his own album, Chill, Dummy, out now on Doomtree.

Minneapolis Afro-futurist collective ZULUZULUU—one of BK-One’s favorite bands—could be considered kindred spirits with Bones & Beeker, as both groups ditch convention and move to the beat of their own drums. ZULUZULUU takes on “Wind-Up Dolls” and starts from scratch, recording their own blissed-out take.

Acclaimed Rhymesayers rapper Brother Ali sprinkles the sauce on the fan-favorite track “Heartbroken in Love”—the original song was recently licensed for the Netflix series Easy.

Coming off his critically acclaimed album, 2017’s Brick Body Kids Still Daydream (Mello Music), Open Mike Eagle blesses the BK-One re-edit of “A Song for Al’s Dead Mother.” A Chicago native and friend of the Doomtree Collective, Open Mike Eagle now resides in Los Angeles as a member of Project Blowed.

Superblack has got the beats. Famed De La Soul producer Prince Paul, rapper/drummer J-Zone, and ego trip cofounder (and man-of-many-talents) Sacha Jenkins joined forces to mess around with music. They remix the B&B single “Lupine,” focusing on the raw drums that ground and move forward the art and culture that is hip-hop.

Inside a Different Mind

Heartbroken in Love featuring Brother Ali

Taken from the forthcoming Suff Daddy & Ta-Ku collab EP "Bricks and Mortar" mpmsite.com/?area=records&view=detail&id=887

Release date: April 5, 2013
Artwork by Srdjan M 

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Shipping starts March 26

Have beats will travel: Suff Daddy and Ta-ku have teamed up for a split EP recorded in Sydney and Perth, Australia. When Suff moved from Berlin to Sydney last summer he quickly hooked up with Perth based producer Ta-ku, best known for his „50 Days For Dilla“ project. „Bricks & Mortar“ unites two beatpals with pretty different soundscapes but one common mission: looking for the perfect beat! 

Suff Daddy - Suffdigi

BEATS 
 produced for.... & features from...
Mr. Lif, George Clinton, Qwazaar, Lady Daisey, Bahamadia, Vinnie Paz, Surreal, MassInfluence, Chop, Boog Brown, Akrobatik, Willie Evans Jr, Paten Locke, Dillon, The Smile Rays, Hellsent, The AB's....
etc.

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Space, Not Time Ft. Qwazaar & Chop

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