Buy "Rubber Souls" on iTunes: bit.ly/rubbersouls
Buy the CD, LP or Deluxe Package at imprint180.com/store

Produced by 6th Sense

Guitar: Iakov Kremenskiy
Bass: Evan Marien
Violin: Danielle Turano
Saxophone: eZra Brown
Trumpet: Jesse Blum

Additional Recording by Jason Goldstein at Rubber Tracks, Brooklyn, NY

**Don's Here Interlude**

Tanya Morgan - For Real

GRANDGOOD.COM: (http://grnd.gd/2CmEilU) This collection of music focuses on the independent voice in hip-hop, where the tension of selling records to mass markets tends to be less pronounced. This doesn't exclusively mean unsigned and you'll note some music from career musicians. But even with long term artists the songs we selected felt less encumbered. Because of my heavy hand you'll also have to deal with an east coast bias but yo that ain't necessarily a bad thing all the time, is it?

Thanks to <a href="http://www.djsheep.com/">DMC champion DJ Sheep</a> you can listen to the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/grandgood/grandgoodcom-standout-rap-2017-mixed-by-dj-sheep/">professionally mixed version</a> featuring 40 or so of the 55 tracks listed below, recorded live in one take on 2 turntables and a mixer at the Bulletproof Crates lab in Brisbane, Australia on New Years Day 2018. You can also stream a warm <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/grndgdcsstte/grandgood-standout-rap-of-2017-audiocast/">@cv_ tape version</a> and thereafter you might recall what it was like dubbing tapes for your close friends in '88. We also have playlists on soundcloud and youtube you can hit shuffle on (yea we know, but Spotify doesn't have most of the music).

Goes without saying but special thanks to the artists, we appreciate what you do. The Hip-Hop community suffered <a href="http://grandgood.com/category/qepd/rip/">great loss in 2017</a> and not enough can be said about the lost talent. At the same time, enthusiasm from young heads and old heads alike keeps it going. Lest we forget, many founding artists, like Coke La Rock pictured above, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/155302481@N07/albums/72157664169668918/with/24536074467/">continue to walk among us</a>.  So again, big up to all the artists but also the rest of the community of listeners, show promoters, podcasters, writers.... 

Special shout to Dj Sheep for lending his hand, literally. Peace to Ming for capturing stunning images of the legends throughout the year. And of course @CV_ for his dedication and influence. Participation is critical. Thank goodness for contemporary rap.

Live Sets & Mixtapes

GRANDGOOD.COM: Standout Rap, 2017 [Mixed by Dj Sheep]

French Manucure 3 - A Fine Selection By @vectson & Corrado

Vect Intro @fineaffaire
Etta Bond x Chris Loco - Seen and Never Heard
Lolo Zouaï - High Highs to Low Lows
Kali Uchis & Jorja Smith - Tyrant 
Temani - Power
Ace Tee - Bist Du Down
Allysha Joy - Selfish
Jaz Karis - Petty Lover
Kaiit - OG Luv Kush p.2
Cleo Sol - Why Don't You
Leikeli47 - Girl Blunt
Fatima  - Biggest Joke of All
Little Simz & Cleo Sol - Selfish 
Yaeji - One More
Hailey Renae - Float
Amber London - Servin Fiendz
Tinashe - Cold Sweat
Dani Leigh - Lil BeBe
India Love - Candy On The Block
Feyi- F@%& with a dime
Summer Walker - CPR
Tiara Thomas - Retro 1s
Flohio - 10 More Rounds
IAMDDB - KurrÂ£ncy

French Manucure 1 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado

https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 2 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado

https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-2-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

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French Manucure 3 Preview

French Manucure 3 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado

Liquid Beat Radio is live every Friday 8-9pm on XRAY.FM with DJ Roane & Matt Nelkin.

Playlist
Aru-2 - Bonker
Mulu Music - BusCrates Joint
Devin Morrison - With You f/ Joyce Wrice
Stro Elliot - Marvin’s Mood
Don Leisure - Mango Season
Fredfades - All I Do
~~~
DJ Deena Bee https://soundcloud.com/thesoundbox - guest mix

Liquid Beat Radio 04/05/19 - w/ Deena Bee

Mr Twin Sister – Blush (Intro / VECT Edit)
Ness Heads - Glowing
Jenevieve - Baby Powder
Biig Piig - Lydia
Tamera - Don't phone
Nicole Bus - With you
Complexricky - Waterfalls
Wolftyla - All tinted
Synthia & Lady Wray - Tonight you might
Mr Twin Sister - Meet The Frownies
Rihanna - Spliff
Kiana Ledé & Ari Lennox - Chocolate
Ebz the artist - Surrounded
Deetranada - I Don't LIike Doing The Race In Gucci
Princess Nokia - Sugar Honey Iced Tea (S.H.I.T)
Coi Leray - Huddy
Lil Halima - Glue
Kirby - Don't leave your girls
Mahalia & Ella Mai - What you did
Lianne la Havas - Bittersweet
Mahalia - Plastic plants
Greentea Peng - Mr sun (miss da sun)
Ama lou - Northside
Snoh Aalegra - Whoa Remix
Pip Millett - Love the things you do
YMA & Gab Ferreira - Summer Lover
Sampa the great - Leading us home
Ebz the artist - On my way
Biig Piig - Perdida
Kali Uchis & Kaytranada - Water to wine
Jessie Reyez - Intruders
Cleo Sol - Butterfly

French Manucure 1 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado

https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 2 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado

https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-2-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 3 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado

https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-3-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 4 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado

https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-4-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 5 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado

https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-5

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French Manucure 6 

French Manucure 6 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado

A DJ mix of "classic and obscure" disco and boogie by Induce. 

Check the feature here: http://www.waxpoetics.com/?p=31514

More from Induce here:
www.TheWonderfulSound.com
www.twitter.com/induce1
www.facebook.com/TheWonderfulSound


Classic Black Volume 3

After Breonna Taylor again saw no justice this past week, I felt compelled to break from Pullin from the Stacks and put together something about abolition - abolition of the police, of prisons, of the systems of repression operating throughout this country. Took a few days but here is a mix in the vein of my "Zinnstrumentals" tapes, featuring some interview excerpts of brilliant people talking abolition over a blend of hip-hop instrumentals from the crates. I urge everyone to take a listen, especially if you're not sure about abolition yourself. And I also urge everyone listen to the full interviews and recordings, which I've linked to below. Thanks so much to all the amazing people pushing for abolition and social change right now. 

Interviews used (in no order):
Andrea Ritchie and Derecka Purnell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eii5WqeOHlA
Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Democracy Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HWqYANmWLY&t=226s
Angela Davis on Democracy Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ebWFnGWOaA&t=54s
Marc Lamont Hill and others at Riverside Church: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCJt2pLP_s
Peter Murkuria on Prison Radio: https://www.prisonradio.org/media/audio/peter-mukuria/meaning-abolition-220-peter-mukuria
Mumia Abu-Jamal on Prison Radio: https://www.prisonradio.org/audio-listings
Walidah Imarisha on the Activist Files podcast: https://soundcloud.com/activist-files-center-for-constitutional-rights/episode-11-walidah-imarisha-and-gabriel-teodros-talk-science-fiction-as-social-justice-strategy

ABOLISHtrumentals

Abolish the Police!

Aisle Of View

VECT (@vectson) Intro
JADE EMPEROR - Greener
RIMON - Realize
REAGAN CAPACI - Closed
GENEVIEVE ARTADI - Living like i know i m gonna die
DAVIONNE - The box Davionne remix
OORDAYA - Yayo
LALA &CE - Amen
LAFLEYNE - Nana
JHENE AIKO - Summer 2020
IYAMAH - Won't work
KALISWAY - Hot Pockets
JOYCE WRICE & KAY FRANKLIN - Rocket science
PRINCESS NOKIA - Soul Food Y Adobo
CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON - Summertime
DIZZY FAE - I'm Good
CALLMESOLO - Rich gold
LALA &CE - Gargamel
BIIG PIIG - Don't turn around
NAYANA IZ - Dear mama
JEAN DEAUX - Valid!
JENEVIEVE - Medallion
IAMDDB - End of the world
BAGGE & DWYER - Can't keep fighting you
ORION SUN - Golden Hour
TAYLOR NARAIN - Split mind
OREJIME - 4U
SNOWSA - Paradise
DIZZY FAE - Altar
LORINE CHIA - Ain't nothin
JAYDONCLOVER - here
AMAARAE - Nasa feat Rvdical the kid
QUAY DASH - Decline Him
DONALEE - Quarantine Zone (Isolationship Riddim)


French Manucure 1 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado
https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 2 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado
https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-2-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 3 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado
https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-3-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 4 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado
https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-4-a-fine-selection-by-vect-corrado

French Manucure 5 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado
https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-5
Bundle Limited Edition / CD - T Shirt available : frmanucure.bandcamp.com/releases


French Manucure 6 - A Fine Selection By VECT & Corrado
https://soundcloud.com/built-to-last/french-manucure-6

@vectson

www.concupourdurer.com

French Manucure 7 - A Fine Selection By Vect & Corrado

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