Killing Time

Tangible Dream

Mello Music Group To Release New Label Compilation Project!

“Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows” Includes Contributions From Oddisee, Quelle Chris, Mr. Lif, Blueprint, Has-Lo, Georgia Anne Muldrow, yU & More.

“Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows” will be released on Janaury 28th, 2014!

 

Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows is the fourth Mello Music Group compilation – previous compilations include Mental Liberation, Helpless Dreamer, and Self Sacrifice. It’s also perhaps our best to date! 

The album showcases MMG’s ever-evolving roster of top-tier producers and rappers, many of whom (e.g. Oddisee, Quelle Chris, Has-Lo) fill both roles with equal dexterity. Additionally, it features several artists MMG plans to collaborate with in 2014, a testament to our commitment to working with those who possess singular sonic and lyrical abilities. 

Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows is at once compact and comprehensive. Clocking in at twenty tracks, there is not a minute wasted and not a miss in sight. It is diverse and yet somehow cohesive, tailor made to rock your car speakers and your brain stem. It is MMG’s reminder that hip-hop is alive and well, and a reintroduction to a label that’s tried never to forget what makes music compelling. 

With ten distinctive producers behind the boards, the soundscapes on Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows cover the map and the album is all the better for it. Oddisee of course helms the opener and tracks throughout with a musicality like few in Hip-Hop today. L’Orange brings subtle, jazzy suites to the table, and Quelle Chris provides dusty samples looped over hard-hitting drums as well as anyone else on the record. Jeremiah Jae also makes sure the bass-rattling, electronic bangers coming out of L.A.’s beat scene are well represented. Nothing here is solely run-of-the-mill boom-bap. Each beat is far richer and more inventive, able to play on its own and provide the perfect complement to the raps at hand. 

As far as the rhymes are concerned, the rappers we’ve selected for Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows leave nothing to chance. MMG heavyweights like yU and Has-lo cut with long practiced precision, and newcomers like Castle are in top form. The same can also be said of Hellfyre Club features Open Mike Eagle and Milo. Regardless of who’s on the mic, scores of bare-knuckle battle rap bars are tempered with rhymes both emotionally raw and mentally challenging. The MCs on our comp are intelligent and self-aware, capable of the comic, tragic, and in-between at the sound of a snare. They have an old-school reverence for rhyme with a modern state of mind and modern problems. Come-up or comedown, shine or shadow, friend or foe – they are fearless in confronting all fears.   

Above all, Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows is MMG’s opening salvo for the New Year, a sign of the great and innovative music we plan to release. We’re proud to call it the first 2014 jewel in the crown of our crest. 

Check out the first leak, “Invisible Walls” (featuring and produced by Oddisee) from the project.

Tracklisting and Credits for Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows:

1.) “Invisible Walls” f/ Oddisee (produced by Oddisee)
2.) “The Lost Nova” f/ Mr. Lif & John Robinson) [(produced by L’Orange)
3.) “Hard Writer” f/ Has-Lo (produced by Has-Lo)
4.) “Lost Children” f/ Georgia Anne Muldrow (produced by Duke Westlake)
5.) “Euclidian Geometry” Instrumental (produced by Quelle Chris)
6.) “Supreme Codeine” f/ Miz Korona, Quelle Chris, T. Calmese & Nick Speed (produced by Quelle Chris)
7.) “A History Of Modern Dance” f/ Open Mike Eagle (produced by Jeremiah Jae)
8.) “King O.A.T.” f/ yU, Tim Hicks & Charlie Ross) (produced by yU)
9.) “You Are Safe Now” f/ Milo (produced by L’Orange)
10.) “Family Room” f/ Castle (produced by Castle)
11.) “Nothing Has A Never” f/ Oddisee) (produced by Oddisee)
12.) “Juggernaut” f/ Has-Lo (produced by Has-Lo)
13.) “Crazy High” Instrumental (produced by Oddisee)
14.) “L.I.V.E.” f/ Akil The MC (produced by Duke Westlake)
15.) “Going Swell” f/ Quelle Chris) (produced by Quelle Chris)
16.) “Brick Walls & Blurry Faces” f/ Castle & Blueprint (produced by L’Orange) 
17.) “Problematic” f/ yU (produced by Slimkat 78)
18.) “Bracelets” f/ Has-Lo (produced by Has-Lo)
19.) “Something Good” f/ Georgia Anne Muldrow (produced by Dudley Perkins)
20.) “Polysonic Flows” f/ Quelle Chris (produced by Quelle Chris)

To obtain a press copy of Mello Music Group’s “Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows” for feature or review purposes, please contact: 
Matt Conaway@   	MAC Media
Business #:		410-903-7568
E-Mail:     		Matthewbrn@aol.com / Macmediapromo@gmail.com 
Twitter: 		http://twitter.com/macmediapromo
Website:		www.macmediapromo.com 
AOL IM:     		Matthewbrn

For More Information Please Visit:

http://www.mellomusicgroup.com/
https://twitter.com/MelloMusicGroup
https://www.facebook.com/MelloMusicGroup360
http://mellomusicgroup.bandcamp.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/mellomusicgroup

 



Oddisee - Invisible Walls

From Black Milk's latest full-length album, If There's A Hell Below. 

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/blackmilk_hellbelow

Physical and Digital on Bandcamp: https://blackmilk.bandcamp.com/album/if-theres-a-hell-below

If There's A Hell Below
01. Everyday Was ft. Mel
02. What It’s Worth
03. Leave The Bones Behind ft. Blu and Ab
04. Quarter Water ft. Pete Rock
05. Hell Below ft. Gene Obey
06. Detroit’s New Dance Show
07. Story and Her
08. All Mighty
09. Scum ft. Random Axe
10. Gold Piece ft. Bun B
11. Grey for Summer
12. Up & Out 

What It's Worth

Download "Cat's Life 3" - http://catslifemusic.com

Video: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153202798127214&pnref=story

Lyrics:
2015... Still living in a dream
Right
oh yeah oh yeah

and from this war we refrain
'cause freedoms too hard to attain
oh yeah

They told me smoke something
or maybe quote something
I'm just trying to fix the game 
like I broke something
or I got the refs on my side 
this ain't a play at home plate 
I ain't letting it slide
Right you know them stakes is high...

Yo I planned to be the man up on this planet 
it's granted 
I don't think you'll ever understand it 
when you thinking 
life sucks like a Hoover goddamnit
I manuver through like streets A uber
I rep the backpack
And I hang with me cooper
Don't you know
Started as a poet
writing like a fine wine I Edgar Allan Poe it
Uh So explosive uh
Like that 2001 doc dre shit
Sicker than your common cold
Rapper catch cases
I'm 2 face like Harvey Dent 
I kill beats bars hardly bent
Im just killing some time
It's Funny we envisioned a grind 
so why you looking at a prism 
like a prison in mind?
Damn, them stakes is high

Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
you know them stakes is high
You know them stakes is high
Oh yeah oh yeah

Yea Every day is a dilla day
It ain't been the same since you went away
But It don't feel like that right now
This for the backpack right now baby
This is for the backpack right now

Rest in peace J Dilla and Nujabes
let's keep it moving in the right direction... 2015

Uh I see our dreams come true 
I might just see our dreams come true baby
We might just see our dreams come true
we might just see our dreams come true
Ya heard?

But it don't feel like that right now
do it for the backpack right now

Stakes is High - Dilla Day

Shadow The Great- One Two - Prod By Brous One

New single by James Lanning.

Beat by Freddie Joachim.
Additional vocals by Francesca Salvati.

Connect with me:
http://JamesLanning.com
http://Instagram.com/jamesslanning
http://Facebook.com/jamesslanning
http://Twitter.com/jamesslanning


<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/0688c7'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Download

Domino Sugar (Prod. by Freddie Joachim)

this song is a real conversation starter. after working with tye hill in the studio for a few sessions of freestyling and punch recording, i began to get back to the old tree. the one who had something to say that was relevant to us all. in that session i came up with this hook that was both socially conscious and an obvious understatement. with all thats going on with our urban communities involving the police, i thought it be only right to say how i feel. and more than that i began to have debates days before with my white friends about their take on the isue of constant killings of young black men by police officers in america and the world. truth is i do have white friends and counterparts that i both adore and value and im positive that the feeling is mutual. what i found in conversation with these white friends is yea they definetly think somethings wrong or not right and somehow unfair, they just dont know how to help or be effective.. some even ask what can i do, what can i say?? who can i talk too.. at that moment were both often presented with an uneasy silence because i dont have the answer either. but what i can and often do tell them is say something!! denounce it on your social media's and have these discussions with other like minded civil people who will do the same. so in conclusion of these experiences i was compelled to put it in song thus titled "policemon"... in this song i ask the question as we all should meaning people of color.. how do my white friends feel about the fact that im a target here in america. who do my white friends feel about the fact that after i leave a bar or restaurant with you guys how its a real fear and possibilty that i can be pulled over and shot on the side of any street in america for all the wrong reasons and the recoil and consequence in whatever measure is unwarranted un just and 99% of the time unrectified or dealt with by the police and justice department as well as congress... i also go into detail about how i know people and have been at a time or two on the other side of the law, but in a world of limited avenues and opportunities for some there is still no reason to kill shoot or maim an individual because of their surroundings and condition. if a cop chases you and you run , that doesnt give them the right to play god in the ghetto! executioner and judge of the projects is a crime . so with that here is my song... i hope you all start healthy dialogue and speak out because the community is at risk and we cant do it by marching and looting. are white friends have to speak out!!

@mctreeg
soultrap

policemon
prod by tye hill @therealtyehill

artwork by anthony harris @mp3dia

Tree - Police Mon

PHeace Be The Journey

You Ain't Poppin' (Prod. J. Vibes)

Produced by ilajide

Kooley High x Clear Soul Forces LIVE at Public Assembly in Brooklyn, NY (2/6/13)
http://www.publicassemblynyc.com/?wtpage=event&id=5135

www.KooleyHigh.com
www.ForcesBeWithYou.com

Clear Soul Forces x Kooley High - Freq Freq

Gotham City

Catalyst Bars

SPOTIFY: 
http://bit.ly/catalystbars

Collabs/Shows/Features:
bookingbars@gmail.com

Stakes is High - Dilla Day

Catalyst Bars

Recent comments

Katlego BlaQ

Fine Nite

Hound

washiwasha

Related tracks