Frolic

IDEAL is Curtismith’s first compiled release of tracks under one theme, the mixtape is a collection of tracks from producers he has personally worked with and covers off of eats from music he’s been influenced by.

Included are tracks from CRWN, also part of his home collective LOGICLUB, a track from Beat Sampras, a producer based in Cape Town, South Africa. Also included are tracks he rapped on from 40, J. Dilla, Jazzual Suspects, Timbaland, Flamingosis, OHD, and Outkast.

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Mito Fabie, AKA Curtismith, once caught a billboard of (as you may already have guessed) Anne Curtis—and plucked the surname of one of the country’s most recognizable faces and made it his moniker. And it’s the same clever, somewhat ironic referencing that he applies to his first mixtape release, out Sep 4.

IDEAL, an optimistic and introspective debut, explores the tension, anxiety, and ambition of  the rapper who is often see-sawing between confidence and doubt. Many of the tracks sound like a succession of interrogations, addressed to himself—with questions like “am I good enough?” on “Currently”—it’s almost like watching Curtismith perform a monologue in front of a mirror. With a narrative refined by samples culled from movies like Goodfellas and The Great Dictator, and a host of collaborators like CRWN, Sampras, and Similarobjects—the verses flow, consistent in its storytelling, and curious all throughout. 

“I’ve got all these dreams”, he coos in “For The Love”, but IDEAL peaks at “philo(watts)”, which features a vibrant horn section. It’s the kind of mixtape that swells, from one’s bedroom to a corner in the crowd. “I got this, I promise”, he affirms on his first track. He could very well be right.

— Karen Bolilia

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>> DOWNLOAD: http://bit.ly/IDEALMIXTAPE <<

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Mixing and Mastering by JP Del Mundo / John Pope
Creative Direction from Nikki Ruiz, DJ Fabian, Sassa Jimenez
Photos by Nikki Ruiz
EPK and Design by DJ Fabian
Special Thanks to Homme et Femme, Rez Toledo, King Puentespina, Jorge Wieneke, LOGICLUB

IDEAL

chill

Check out our picks for the 100 best tracks of 2015, as chosen by 17 participating panelists composed of music writers, curators, tastemakers, production heads, and bloggers:

1	Ourselves The Elves	Longing For
2	Oh, Flamingo	Reflections
3	The Purplechickens	Casanova
4	Ang Bandang Shirley	Tama Na Ang Drama
5	Fools and Foes	Undesired
6	Assembly Generals	Kontrabida
7	Stomachine	Nice Choreography
8	BP Valenzuela 	Steady
9	Jensen and the Flips	Slow
10	Peryodiko	Tayo Lang Ang May Alam
11	Autotelic	Close Your Eyes
12	The Gory Orgies	One Hell of a Godsend
13	She's Only Sixteen	Just Another Face On The Wall
14	Flying Ipis	This Song Is Not About You
15	Pastilan Dong!	Aphrodite
16	Farewell Fair Weather	Beyond
17	We Are Imaginary	Sunny Where You Are
18	Up Dharma Down	All The Good Things
19	CRWN	Marco Polo
20	Pupil	Why
21	Sud	Sila
22	Tide/edit	Eleven
23	Run Dorothy	Ghosts
24	Glaiza De Castro 	Dusk Til Dawn
25	Sandwich	Kagulo
26	Asch x Clara Benin	Some Kind of Magic
27	Miles and Mot	Steering
28	Rusty Machines	Trying Too Hard
29	Musical O	WGDTB
30	Hannah+Gabi 	It Sucks To Be Away
31	Tandems'91	All This Time (First and Last)
32	Cheats	Again, Professor Manny
33	Thyro and Yumi	Triangulo
34	Paolo Arciga	In My Blood
35	Reese Lansangan	Grammar Nazi
36	Kate Torralba	Drunk On Your Love 
37	Birdforms	Locomotive
38	Tether	Guni-guni
39	Clara Benin	Riverchild
40	Yurei	Waif
41	The Geeks	I Want You To Stay
42	Curtismith	Practice (Feat. CRWN)
43	The SunManager	Peaks and Tides
44	Similarobjects	Makemewhole
45	Thea Pitogo	Shout of Hope
46	Beast Jesus	Scoliosis Backbrace
47	June Marieezy	Blasé (Feat. Justin de Guzman)
48	Read Between The Lions	Parallax
49	Slow Hello	Decidedly Weird
50	Loop	Lost
51	Milesexperience	Silakbo
52	Jeebus	Christian Boy Goes To Hell
53	Small Hands	Clasped Hands, Timid Hearts
54	Three.!	Efrafax
55	Love In Athens 	Primary Debridement
56	Maya’s Anklet	Kung Alam Ko Lang
57	The Bernadettes	Nasty Pictures
58	Dong Abay x Armi Millare	Prometheus Unbound
59	Tradecraft	Image Binary
60	Hidden Nikki	To Sleep
61	Good Knife	Rotten Tattoos
62	Hey, It's Your Birthday	Dead Cat
63	Spazzkid	3AM Apologies
64	Qelle 	Brunch
65	Chairman Mouse	Me and My Cliché 
66	Honeydrop	Set Apart
67	No Rome	Weekend Girl
68	Dayaw	Essence of Life
69	Memory Drawers	For Any Of This
70	A Problem Like Maria 	Sea and Saltwater
71	Maude	Takda
72	Wilderness	Mirror Image
73	James Reid	Huwag Ka Nang Humirit
74	Half-Lit	The Great Divide
75	KaapiN	Heights
76	Tall Ice Lung	God With Vanilla
77	Lyrically Deranged Poets 	Resonate (Feat. Similarobjects)
78	Identikit	Untitled
79	The After-School Special 	Meet Me At Battery Park
80	Drip	Rupture
81	Leo and the Tolstoys	 C’est La Vie, C’est La Vie
82	Ifrit Rivera 	Earthquake
83	Niki Colet	Swoon
84	The Ringmaster 	Can't Refuse A Crown
85	Caffeine and Taurine	Put The Glass Down
86	Anj Florendo	Kamusta
87	Mark Redito (Feat. Diego Mapa)	Uhaw sa Pag-ibig
88	BLKD x Umph	Gatilyo
89	Domino	Veil
90	Japsuki 	Hirap Bago Sarap
91	Ceejay Sagarino	C’est Pour Vous
92	Ryoku 	Window Seat (Feat. Clara Benin)
93	Lustbass (Feat. August Wahh)	Spiritluvv
94	Julie Anne San Jose	Not impressed
95	Skarm x RH Xanders	Old School to the New
96	Hana ACBD	Second Best
97	Wuds	Ayokong Daanan
98	Stigmatics	Sea of Tranquility
99	illprimitivo	Sally Dumay D.Y. (Domestic Yaya)
100	Syke (Feat. Deng Garcia)	Subaybay

Read the blurbs here:
http://vandalsonthewall.com/100-essential-filipino-tracks-of-2015-20-1/

Photo by Marga Mina

Vandals On The Wall's 100 Essential Filipino Tracks of 2015

Amore

@childish-gambino
this is donald's freestyle from sway in the morning in 2013. the original instrumental was produced by boi-1da, matthew burnett & jordan evans

Childish Gambino - Pound Cake Freestyle

Drake ~ We Made It Freestyle (feat. Soulja Boy)

OB OBRIEN ~ Steve Nash

Words and Lyrics: Hana Acbd

If you want me 
baby come and get me
take me love me please pursue me
we are on this bed but
our clothes are right there
promise you’ll be careful
i’ll do good i swear

I know this is the right time
and I know that you’re the right one
and we will get things done
in an hour to one 
we both know how long we’ve waited

For this night i’m scared to death and
the lights are off my voice is fading
can’t comprehend a word you’re saying
my hands are full my head is spinning

Can’t stop myself from shaking
this rendezvous has got me thinking
if this is love or is this a fling
well either way you got me singing

got a question that i need to ask you
is there anything more that i can do

Kink

Drake ~ Draft Day

Ya Monnn.
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happyholidaze.

Old Ye right here
Junoflo

Turn it up turn it up, ya systems
And say “ooh lawd” like ya grandma Christian
Everybody gather when I spit that wisdom
But I don’t call em beats, only my next victim
And then I go in, I bless ‘em on the track
I talk up in a rhythm, I call that shit a rap
Defeat foes in beast mode
I speak flows and I’m reppin California to the far East Coast

Infinite styles yall could never box me
I just cop to rock, no suckas get a proxy
I’ma call you Kinko cuz all you do is copy
Our generation hear a song and wonder where the drop be
Fuck a drop, fuck a cop, this is hip hop
If you ain’t with it, take a number and just kick rocks
So you can get lost at the next pit stop
Intelligence and elegance is partly why I get props
So turn it up, turn it up
One time, two time
They say that three a charm
Say wassup, say wassup
To your pops and your moms
Let ‘em know I spit napalm bombs
Tell a friend, tell a foe
In this summer heat Junoflo hella cold
That’s a nice mixture, thinking out the frame in this picture
Wolf blow your house down, now tell me who the victor, ME

Turn it up turn it up, ya systems
And say “ooh Lawd” like ya grandma Christian
Everybody gather when I spit that wisdom
But I don’t call em beats, only my next victim
And then I go in, I bless ‘em on the track
I talk up in a rhythm, I call that shit a rap
Defeat foes in beast mode
I speak flows and I’m reppin California to the far East Coast

These dumb rappers need schooling
Who you think you fooling fronting like the coolest
Acting double XL like a dime, kid
But you really medium like my prime rib
See the time slip, where the time go
Always stay ahead like I’m in another time zone
That homegrown got me spinning like a cyclone
25 to life when I'm letting all my rhymes flow
Like Nas I’m Nasty, I Kim Kardash past that ass
You’ll never catch me
Except on the camera
Hit me with parameters
Ain’t no man alive who could come up to my caliber
I’m the chosen one like Neo in the Matrix
Exposing fake shit while unveiling greatness
Who’da second guessed that Juno be so gracious
Lookin for the green so just show me where the papes is
Now c’mon c’mon show me where it’s at now
1 to the 2 to the 3 to the 4
Now c’mon c’mon show me where it’s at now
1 to the 2 to the 3 to the 4
Now c’mon c’mon show me where it’s at now
Born a warrior, so I never back down
C’mon c’mon show me where it’s at now

Junoflo - Infinite Styles

The Seems (RrsMX Extended) - Sam Gellaitry X Connor Pearson

I  DO NOT OWN ANY RIGHTS TO THIS BEAT

Let me
Take you to a place with the sand
Understand
I ain’t trippin I’m just tryna be your man
But I, I, I
I do a lot of heavy lifting
So you can see the scratches from the baggage that I’m bringing
I was feeling all alone
Getting stoned
In a zone where doing the same thing was getting old
So I, 
just
Listened to my soul
and I’m bringing you a flow where my story unfolds
so precisely
training to the top with my nikes
yeah I’m light skinned but please don’t take me lightly

I been fighting with my demons sometimes it gets frightening
But maybe this is life tryna keep my shit exciting
while Poseidon likes to laugh at me
On his throne with a trident tryna gash at me
Waves try to smash at me
Days getting fast
we tryna make it past
the obstacles of life, til we leave under our last breath 

I’m hindered by the past, yet
I been working, I been working on my assets 
Seeing life from different aspects
Fuck all of these classes I know what to do I’m working on my talents

So baby let me flow
Baby let me kiss you like a soldier on the phone
Coming home, right, now  
Girl I’m coming home, right, now

And baby that’s where my heart is
Can’t you see me struggle like an artist
Tryna make you proud can’t you see I work my hardest
When it hurts at least I’m being honest
Tryna plant the seeds of money so I can harvest

All these cash crops
Im 20, a matchbox is heavy from all the envy I gently get mad props
From all of these bad cops just tryna make a living
Live in the back drop so they tryna make a killing 


Sabaday

Download @ https://junoflo.toneden.io/spotlight/finishline-aruarian-dance

www.junoflo.bandcamp.com
www.twitter.com/junoflo
www.facebook.com/junoflo

In honor of Nujabes.

We're just dreamers/
nothing short of believers/
got this under control, no need to leave it to beaver/
don't be so eager, we still got so long to go/
hell nah we ain't hittin the steamers/
I'm the icing on cake, you can be the coffee I'll be the creamer/
never roll fake, ain't nobody realer/
my mission to succeed commissioned like car dealer/
my face on all of your Trix, cereal killer/
the music turn my brain on, sex appealer/
rhyme and flow, words graze over her curves, no need to feel her/
game of love, shuffle the cards, I'll be the dealer/
gift from above, every kick of the bass, now I can feel her/
hollow ears, let that riff be the filler/
dissect the rhythm, onion layered gotta peel her/
haven't met anyone yet that could be chiller/
kick back relax let the funk be the healer/
mental inspiration, God has delivered/
dental sanitation, verbal spit cleana than the Lena River/
don't need no ice to be cool, I'll make you shiver/
tower over my enemies as they shake and quiver/
musical flow cleanse my body, don't need a liver/
leather in black, hair greased back, nobody slicker/
ahead of the game, catch up need to be quicker/
i'll see you at the finishline where i'll be maxin out like ahh/

Take a step back and envision the world/
as it solely rotates 'round gold diamond and pearls/
these fluorescent adolescents screamin' "Free Earl!"/
'till they fall, kill 'em all like "F the free world"/
true beauty of a land with metaphorical music/
minds are levitated and with precision we use it/
floating through a sea of thoughtful similes/
out the speakers to the hearts the music's the remedy/
conquest the left chest maintain your liberty/
lips graze quotations, arming the weaponry/
only thing in rotation is the knowledge, see/
a compound so volatile, delicate chemistry/
tempted by society to eat the fruit of the tree/
my soul never dance with the devil that I guarantee/

LISTEN.
Now take a step forward and back into perspective/
mind body and soul infuse as a collective/
respecting the spectrum not rather selective/
doper than your dope so ya'll got to check this/
a panacea of tunes get you out the slump/
hanging on a thread so my flow is what you'll bump/
this Beat Laments The World, feelin light as a Feather/
out Counting Stars with you there's nothing better/
let's just spend A Day By Atmosphere Supreme/
get into my ozone layer know what I mean/
First In Last Out, you know that I'm a fiend/
rollin' through like the 112, peaches and cream/
wear the crown when you're around me my Lady Brown/
diggin' through dirt for quality that's underground/
learning to Think Different with ideas Substantial/
from Highs 2 Lows it's for the love, not financial/
cat with the savage flow call him Juno/
sicker than your Average Joe, I let it glow/
the Latitude I maintain reps my gratitude/
Light On The Land, shining positive attitude/
and you know we stay Blessing It/
beatrock we wreckin' it/
but ever since you've gone, the space you've been fittin' in/
seemed a little empty, I fill it up quick/
Nujabes rest in beats, i'm musically Luv Sic./

Junoflo
06.25.11

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Finishline (Aruarian Dance Remix)

1st single from Assembly Generals's self-titled album under Locked Down Entertainment

Kontrabida by Assembly Generals

We’ve linked with East Coast collective/label, @BEATHAUSSHOW, to release the DXXP WAVE mixtape – a blend of remixes, flips and originals that emphasize the versatility of the emerging talent that we’ve been checking and that Beat Haus fosters. DXXP WAVE features exclusive cuts from the likes of GoldLink, Post Malone, Raury, Father, Key! and OG Maco, as well as their own stable of producers and friends like Iman Omari (Vibe Music Collective), Suzi Analogue, Noah B, VESA and Lakim (Soulection).

http://beathausshow.com
http://10deep.com

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Flamingosis x Dallas Cotton - Let's Pretend (@MrFlamingosis @dallas_cotton)

"The 'Holo' EP to me is a sonic representation of where my head is at the moment. I wanted to let the audience kind of journey through the things that I feel and imagine; at times very mellow and relaxed, and other times very chaotic and emotional. Which is why I named it 'Holo' (for Hologram). This EP in a way is a projection of part of my consciousness to my audience." -- https://soundcloud.com/dirtychocolate

Dirty Chocolate on:
https://soundcloud.com/dirtychocolate
https://www.facebook.com/DirtyChocolateBeats
https://twitter.com/ChocolatefacexD

NEST on:
http://nesthq.com/releases
https://soundcloud.com/nesthq
https://www.facebook.com/nesthq
https://twitter.com/nesthq

Free Download

Dirty Chocolate - Multiverse ft. Abbi Press [NEST056]

Dirty Chocolate - Hologram [NEST056]

5/11 #IDEALMixtape

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Training (Runnin)

4/11 #IDEALMixtape

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Escobar

3/11 #IDEALMixtape

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Practice

Greetings

i woke to find your ghost
folded amongst my drawers
on notes tucked in my books
are we still keeping score?

upon the brown brick walls
under the mango tree
we wrote our names in chalk
forgetting rain would bleed

you'd burrow into bed
you’d bury me in sheets
you’d dig my secrets up
and then uproot my grief

i drowned my love in waves
of honey chardonnay
i set my throat aflame
to never say your name

now I know I'm gliding down a tight rope
this train of thought is never gonna lead me home
when your breath blew over like a credo
it still echoes in my head when i'm alone

who would i be if i didn't know you
where would you be if i didn't leave you there
how did i pretend i didn't need you
how could you pretend you didn't see it

all the mile long walks
over blocks and blocks
what you're dreaming of
is what keeps me up

and when i close my eyes
i feel the void inside
i feel the great divide
wishing you were beside me

the great divide

For The Love

BUY GEOGRAPHY LESSONS NOW ON:

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ph/album/geography-lessons-ep/id1050472810
Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/0OSZwZGyLCT5Pysf4vkg33
Bandcamp: http://ourselvestheelves.bandcamp.com/album/geography-lessons

For physical copies of the EP/DVD, email us at:
ourselvestheelves@gmail.com

Longing For

Nice Choreography
(ニース の振り付け)
(멋진 안무)
(bagus Koreografi)
(尼斯编舞)
(Niza Coreografía)

Hold me closer, feel my steady feet
Twirl and kiss your cheeks and then repeat
Turning to a nice choreography
'Til the music stops, let's wait and see

Circling the floor, dimming the lights
What is this for? - Dreaming tonight
With other folks dancing in beat
Why will you want to go back to your seat?

Holding back, deciding what to do with me tonight
Going with the flowing and deciding what to do with me

Tonight I think I want to stay asleep
I'll avoid all of the wide and busy streets
Turning to a nice catastrophe
Please do not disturb just let me be

So

Did you memorize your lines?
Did you memorize your moves?
Did you memorize your whole routine?

Do you memorize your lies?
Do you think that I'm a fool?
Do you really think I couldn't see?

Music and lyrics by E. C. Aguila
Produced and arranged by Stomachine and James Baluyut
Drums recorded by RJ Mabilin at Redverb Studio
Bass, Guitars and Vocals recorded by Emmanuel Aguila at Eelectric Studio
Mixed by James Baluyut in Brooklyn, NY

Cover photo by Lougie dela Cruz

Nice Choreography

Migos ~ Versace Feat. Drake

Dopamine

Curtismith
Artist
LOGICLUB
CARELESS MUSIC 


For bookings and inquiries:
curtismithmusic@gmail.com