87th installment of the Joyful Union Select series.

Tracks by Dylan Owen, LLWLL, Sleeve Of Skin, Blu & Exile, Fine China Superbone!, Original Flavor, Boyscott, Stereosity, Vic Spencer, and more

Joyful Union Select 087

ANFANG

Stream on Spotify/Apple here: https://dylanowen.ffm.to/dobeforeyoudie

"ROMANTIC LANGUAGE" CREDITS
Inspired by the language of love, and a girl from the desert who taught me how to dry my eyes.
Lyrics and vocals by Dylan Owen
Produced by naebird
Electric guitar by naebird
Background vocals by Astraia
Mixed by Jeremie Inhaber
Mastered by Héctor Vega at Bespoke Sonics
Bespoke Sonics Assistant Engineer Isaiah Chamberlain
Bespoke Sonics Studio Personnel Dasha Sands
Mixtape Cover Photo by Thomas Ford Flynn
Mixtape Cover Artwork by Dylan Owen

DO BEFORE YOU DIE MIXTAPE

STREAM

ROMANTIC LANGUAGE

Simon Says "DATPIFF DAYS : MIXTAPE IS COMING SOON"
Prod.Ninety 

Lyrics: 
TAKE IT TO THE CLIMAX
ALL THE WAY
ON THE EDGE & ITS ALL FROM
THIS LYRICAL PLAY
THROWBACK  STILL FOLLOWING
WHAT SIMON SAY
SIMON SAYS ROLL 2
SIMON TOLD EM COME THRU
N I JUST WALKED IN
GOT THESE GIRLS HIPS WINDING
IMPECCABLE TIMING
WHAT DID SIMON SAY ?


THESE DAYS WALKING ROUND
POCKETS BULKY
NOT FROM THE MONEY
BUT THE STASH I GOT UP IN EM
I'M THE ONE YOU DON'T WANNA MISS
SEASON 7
SLOW BURN DATS THE BEST
LET IT SIT WHEN I SMOKE CESS
I DON'T RUSH WE DON'T CONTEST
CANT TEST ME WHEN U WOKE
I WAS JETPACK JETLAGGED
ALREADY
I BEEN UP YEAH GETTING TO THE BELLY

TAKE IT TO THE CLIMAX
ALL THE WAY
ON THE EDGE & ITS ALL FROM
THIS LYRICAL PLAY
THROWBACK  STILL FOLLOWING
WHAT SIMON SAY
SIMON SAYS ROLL 2
SIMON TOLD EM COME THRU
N I JUST WALKED IN
GOT THESE GIRLS HIPS WINDING
IMPECCABLE TIMING
WHAT DID SIMON SAY ?

YO
PEEP GAME IF I CLAIMED IT ITS REAL
LEGENDARY SPILL LIKE DIS INK
ON MY ARM &
I'M KEEPING IT CALM
I KNOW BETTER
I DON'T SING FORE IT DROPS
I WON'T LET OFF TILL SHE POPS
I LUV 2 WATCH DAT BUNNY HOP
SWITCH FOCUS TO THE MIC
WHILE SHE ROLLING ME A JOINT
THIS THE KINDA LIFE I REALLY
DREAMED AS A KID
SO ITS CRAZY HOW WE LIVING
IT LETS COP ANOTHER ZED
DATS RIGHT STILL SMOKING EVERYDAY
GETTING PAID A COUPLE WAYS
KNOW YA MAD I CAN SEE IT YA FACE
THAT'S WHY IM QUIET
IF I SPEAK I MIGHT BREAK THE VASE
SWEET MALONE
SHE CALL HIM DADDY ON THE PHONE
NOW HE'S MISSING NEVER SEE HIM AT HOME
 ALWAYS BUSY YOU WON'T GET HIM ON THE PHONE
BUT FOR THE RIGHT THINGS
KNOW HE MIGHT

TAKE IT TO THE CLIMAX
ALL THE WAY
ON THE EDGE & ITS ALL FROM
THIS LYRICAL PLAY
THROWBACK  STILL FOLLOWING
WHAT SIMON SAY
SIMON SAYS ROLL 2
SIMON TOLD EM COME THRU
N I JUST WALKED IN
GOT THESE GIRLS HIPS WINDING
IMPECCABLE TIMING
WHAT DID SIMON SAY ?

Released under Heroes Never Die

SIMON SAYS

Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild

Birdseed

Stena

Biskopskulla Hogstena

*title track from coveted LA vocal phenom, bandleader, songwriter Sharada Shashidhar debut album Soft Echoes, out Sept27 2024 via Leaving Records All Genre preorder vinyl cassette digital at leavingrecords.com/soft-echoes
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Los Angeles-based vocalist, composer, and producer Sharada Shashidhar has a deep awareness of the cosmos. There’s a distinct tug-of-war in her music, an understanding that scanning the heavens to answer existential queries isn’t quite enough; there are internal depths to plumb as well. Shashidhar’s first album, 2020’s Rahu, found her voice billowing out of smoky, post-beat-scene soundscapes, meditating on the collective unconscious and the energy exchange between all living things. Her newest work, Soft Echoes, is a bold step forward, eschewing her previous work’s hip-hop tilt for expansive compositions that blend jazz and Indian classical influences into a swirling, spiritual whole.

Though she has an extensive resume as a collaborator in LA’s experimental jazz scene, notching work with the likes of Carlos Niño, Zeroh, and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Soft Echoes marks Shashidhar’s first outing as a bandleader. Gathering an ensemble that includes Anna Butters on bass, Julian Rodriguez on keys, Devin Daniels on saxophone, and Timothy Angulo on drums, Shashidhar sought to create a band that ostensibly functioned as an extension of herself. Her primary goals in writing these songs were to “let [her] body do what it wanted to do,” to trust her intuition, and “play without judgment.” Through that process, making Soft Echoes became a practice of presence and exploration, a chance to unlearn rigid structures and rediscover the joy of creating for oneself.

Recording took place over three brief, distinct sessions at Altamira Sound in Alhambra, California. Though the full band wasn’t ever present at the same time, Soft Echoes sounds like the work of a group in complete, mind-meld focus. Splashy drums nudge up against skronkingsaxophone on “Canyon Song,” while mushrooming synth tones stack up behind rippling Rhodes piano on “Luckiest.” Shashidhar’s elegant voice is the anchor for each of these tracks, sometimes gracefully stretching between instruments like a lithe dancer’s limbs, other times scattering through psychedelic delay.

She describes the album as having “two poles,” illustrated by the whimsical, buoyant opener “Soft Echoes” and the darker, more anxiety-ridden closer, “New Echoes.” The songs in between may come from different emotional spaces, but “it’s all really reflective,” she explains. The album can play like a loop, with Shashidhar entering a portal “into the endlessness” during “New Echoes,” only to be transported back to the beginning, full of gratitude and pondering “how strange it is to be alive.” On Soft Echoes, Shashidhar leads us on a journey through her mind, traversing its peaks and canyons in search of greater connection. “I want to take people places,” she says, pausing thoughtfully. “I can’t always guarantee that they’re good places, [but] hopefully you’ll feel something.”

Soft Echoes

Sharada Shashidhar - Soft Echoes

chuckthescript

first time

Nowhere Freestyle

#hiphop #rap #vibe #westcoast

Intro: (Cooch Da Mac)
Bitch! This is Cooch Da Mac I'm dropping balls in yo muthafucking drawls

(Cherry Da Gasman)
Nigga we get high, smoke off in the ride

Verse: 1 (Cherry Da Gasman)
Roll up it's a date night
Smoked out I'm a take flight
Got drink in the back seat
Figueroa she a super freak
Slip and slide she be sipping lean
Them legs I'm a get between
She be leaking like vanilla bean
Blue cheese I'm a make her cream
Ice skates when I'm in the paint
Shark tank when I'm in the bank
Long wood I'm a make it stank
Pull it out she gone Harlem shake...Dick!

Hook: x6 (Cherry Da Gasman)
Drop them balls off in yo drawls

Verse: 2 (Wally Walt)
All the girls I know, gots to have that flow
Spaulding in the house, you know what it's about
Smoking on that green, you know what I mean 
(Settle down)
Smoking on that green
All the ladies, in Mercedes 
We going to the beat, we can't be late
I gotta skate, I gotta win
(D-Beezy)

Hook: x6 (Cherry Da Gasman)
Drop them balls off in yo drawls

Verse: 3 (Killa A-95)
Sipping cognac, at the laundrymat
In the back, In the trap
Got the homies coming up
Pulling up in the back
Got the bitches sucking dick
Don't give a fuck, pull up around six
We gone, get it popping
We ain't tripping
We gone party, we gone go head, keep on sipping
Can I put my balls in yo drawls
I don't see no hoes wit it....(Young Bih)
I don't see no hoes, where they go?
I'm finna double back, gonna hit the store
Get this yak
Gonna break a bitch back
Keep calling my phone, I need stacks
(She calling me)

Hook: x6 (Cherry Da Gasman)
Drop them balls off in yo drawls

Drawls Ft. Wally Walt, Killa A-95, Cooch Da Mac (Prod by Yungwolf)

bag talk (ft. Jai XO, 333Bambo, Lul fo)

I Know You (noevdv)

STUPIDBOI feat. K5 & Tino

King of the Curses

dsundre - 528 Stay Sharp unbound from the unwanted

Alt rap artist from New York. Writing about life

Stream NOWHERE TOWN KIDS: https://dylanowen.ffm.to/nowheretownkids

New mixtape soon.

ROMANTIC LANGUAGE

Dylan Owen

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