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White Sands is a 7-track record by Homeboy Sandman produced by Paul White.
http://stonesthrow.com/news/2014/02/homeboy-sandman-white-sands

Homeboy Sandman has a tradition. With each new record release, he drops a bonus track celebrating the new release.  It's time for "White Sands OUT NOW," produced by El RTNC.

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Mar 13: Bremen, Germany @ Lila Eule
Mar 18: Lyon @ Le Periscope
Mar 20: Eindhoven, Netherlands @ Studium Generale.  
Mar 22: Trondheim, Norway @ Leuten Fest

Homeboy Sandman - White Sands OUT NOW

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2Pac feat. Kurupt - Still Ballin' (Lucas Chambon Remix)

Melodica is the debut EP by hip hop duo Blackalicious, released in 1994 on the Solesides label.  The import edition released on both Marlboro Music and Mo' Wax contains instrumental versions of all of the tracks, except "Cheezit Terrorist" and "40oz for Breakfast".

Swan Lake

from the upcoming album "The Night Took Us In Like Family"
Pre-Order (4/21): https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/night-took-us-in-like-family/id962648340

Premeired @ Pigeons & Planes: http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2015/03/premiere-lorange-jeremiah-jae-taken-by-the-night/

About the Album:
Enter those bloody alleys blocked off with yellow tape and chalk outlines. Secret backrooms riddled with sly crooks and blunt smoke. Slink into the underworld, the seedy shadowland owned by Jeremiah Jae and L’Orange on their noir-hop opus, "The Night Took Us In Like Family."

Consider it the alchemy of Madvillain and "The Maltese Falcon": a five-part fable of tangled crimes, narrow escapes, and raining lead. The door busts open with “A Conspicuous Man.” L’Orange’s carefully severed cinematic clips hold the frame steady. The Windy City-raised Jae muscles the narrative forward—the hitman creeping.

Beats bend sinister with imagery aiming for the temples. Jae invokes dark clouds, crowns of thorns and LSD eyes. Bars written in dirt. Samples are disembodied and ethereal. It’s like a grand jury indictment doubling as a Greek chorus.  A song title like “Ice Obsidian” says it all. This is frozen lava, black and white celluloid, the spoils won by sinners. Watch your back rap.

Or maybe it’s the hip-hop version of the gangster flicks made before the Hays Code—raw and uncensored, deeply artful without pretension. Pitchfork once described Jae as: “a lot of people talk loud and say nothing; Jeremiah Jae finds strength in the inverse." On "The Night Took Us In Like Family," he inhabits both eulogizer and executioner. He triumphantly looms over the corpses and explains how this all came to be. L’Orange supplies concrete requiems of dusted soul: beats to crack safes, soundtracks to stealth assassinations. 

If gangsta rap remains one of the genre’s most well worn tropes, Jae and L’Orange take inspiration from the rarely tapped roots of the tradition. This isn’t riffing on Oliver Stone’s "Scarface" like popular cliché, but rather the original Al Capone exploitation flick from the early 30s. Jae conjures a villain who vaporizes. Run-the-Jewels-raw but still sophisticated. Cuban cigars stuffed with California chronic.

The picture unfolds wide frame. Guest stars include New York poison dart-thrower, Homeboy Sandman and Blackalicious’ Gift of Gab. The chapters flesh out the story: The Conspicuous Man skulks into “God Complex,” “The Damning,” “Revenge and Escape.” Jae and L’ Orange build their world as a catacomb and find a way to escape just as the walls feel like they’re closing in. It fades out as “A Macabre Instrumental” plays. The funeral is closed casket. The memories aren’t easily disposed. 



L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - Taken By The Night

No More (Raw Acoustic)

Vanquish, the beautiful trip from the UK, drops an alluring cover of Tove Lo's Talking Body and adds some extra spice with a harmonious threesome!

Talking Body. - Tove Lo - Vanquish Cover

Digital Twin Simulate

Magnificent City

All for U

Backwoodz Studioz is proud to announce the upcoming release of Henry Canyons' first full-length LP exclusively under the Backwoodz umbrella. The Cool Side is entirely produced by Henry’s longtime collaborator, Bones, with guest features from billy woods and Homeboy Sandman. It’s a project that finds Henry putting his effortless flows to the test over Bones’ rangy production, flipping new styles with every changeup and beat switch.

“Cool Side didn’t start as an album,” Henry explains, “Bones and I started making random joints that were almost all jazz/funk samples; I’d send him sample ideas and he would send me back a beat the next day”. It was a fun thing that they talked about making into an EP, but was briefly shelved when Henry accepted an artists’ residency in Biarritz, France in the fall of 2016. 

After the residency was completed, Henry returned to the project with new perspective. “I was still in France, and in a different place mentally, physically and emotionally. Also Bones’ production had taken a darker, more pensive turn.  What came out were reactions to being abroad and isolated during a time of upheaval at home”

Bones admits that he stepped outside his own comfort zone in order to full realize Henry’s vision. “Most of my own production has more of a pop orientation. Generally, I'm into layers and harmonies and catchy hooks. But with Henry I actively tried to stray away from that,” he remembers .  

This duality frames The Cool Side both artistically, and in it’s presentation. Side A and Side B reflects not just the sides of the vinyl, but the tensions between past and present, between the ideal and the real.  While you may recognize Henry from his stellar features on albums by Backwoodz fixtures billy woods (Today, I Wrote Nothing)  and Willie Green (Doc Savage), The Cool Side of the Pillow finds Henry Canyons in a milieux all his own.

Special Blend (feat. Homeboy Sandman & Zoe Rose Palladino)

#Protect Ya Neck - El Michels Affair#

People Under The Stairs "Drinking and Jivin'"
Available now on all platforms. From the forthcoming 12th album.

Drinking and Jivin'

Melodica is available for the first time digitally on 7/31 and will feature bonus track, "Changes." 

"Changes," is rare track from the Blackalcious vaults. Produced in part by one DJ Shadow, along with Blackalicious producer Chief Xcel offers dusty drum loops and subtle, textured samples. 

Changes

Blackalicious

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