New full length album from Fringe Character.
All original music made with the freshest vibes.


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The Jam Jar: Week 19 of 2016

2016

15 tracks released in 2016 that feel like Winter x Fall

Winter x Fall 2016

Third Eye Contact

into 10

Thug.yo

Outkast - Wheels of Steel (DJ Grumble Remix)

single from the L'Orange album "The Orchid Days"

L'Orange - "Mind Vs. Matter (feat. Homeboy Sandman)"

Vic Mensa - Wimme Nah (Waldo & Sango Remix)

FloFilz & CoryaYo - chasing

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

Another joint from the archives, produced by one of my favorite producers ODDISEE! This is a joint that I spit with my brother Big Daddy Kane. This was not some email Collab, this joint was me & Kane in the lab building a pattern and doing it the way we used to do it back in the days. Salute Emcees. 

The Fires Gettin High Feat. Bumpy Knuckles & Big Daddy Kane Prod. By Oddisee

I don't usually put up "finished" music here, just weird stuff I don't put anywhere else... but I have a new record and this is the first single. It's not #bbhm, it's #bfm, and it's Tween Appropriate tm. https://socalledmtl.bandcamp.com/track/boyfriend-material

Boyfriend Material

THUG LIFE (SOLD)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBp8YK2ahc8&feature=share

Executive produced by Allan Kingdom, Plain Pat & Jonathan Kaslow 

The Ride (Video in Description)

Harnett County Legend Pt 3 [Lentra]

Remix of Sailing to Japan on An Air Mattress by Samurai Del off his upcoming album Hodgepodge

LYRICS

hope to find more 
open mind my doors 
shut and narrow
heart burn from the arrow
passion burned to the marrow 
edgar allen poe with a scarecrow
hope to find more 
open mind my doors 
shut and narrow
heart burn from the arrow
skemin like the pharaoh’s tomb
love and business i dont think i can compare those two
forgot the parachute again
all we are is dust in the
dopamine rush hope and dreams flushed in the
royal porcelain fragile forced to swim 
eyes out for any lurking dorsal fins approaching in the blue
out of that hue i  ran into you trouble
few muddled memories trees got an ornament or two
what a fuel to inferno just a jewel in the journal
feel the fresh breeze 
yes please

room full of strangers
i never found the fitting crowd
it wasn't like i stood out either 
consumed with an anger 
deep thoughts pinned me down 
it wasn't like i stood up either
robot when im serving emotionless im swerving out of comfort 
searching for some sunr first i have to stack these pale moon faces 
green replace blue as the trouble hue still looking for the first double u

handing out plates with a fake smile sir please can i trouble you
moment of your time no amount too low its my soul that im selling you 
trying not to brag but every flow that im running through gets murdered 
good with god but i skip service rather gifted verses if you listen 
its all good like nurses and nutrition 
this pen will never  go on vacation 
like this was not that urgent of a mission
almost drop the mic about a thousand times
Spill detergent bussin serving supervision 
obedient would it be rude to mention i dont give a fuck because im clocked out 

this muse of mine really got me locked down 
bookworm doesnt judge that im a drop out 
late night dont care where i ended up
drop everything and heading to her spot now 
what she got is heavenly a stone cold knock out 
got me punch drunk jungle juice 
like every one of you women she got me puzzled to
the point i need reevaluate why im in love with her
mold together gold medal when she come in first place and she stay
dead in the middle of little italy couple blocks from uic 
 bunch of pretty faces out there only you I see 
hit me like a 2 by 4 
Stay true by your word and you might be the one but our lifes too young 
To call it 
Need a parachute to fall with 




https://twitter.com/samuraidel

Vocals mixed and mastered by Drew Mantia 

Sailing to Japan (prod. By Samurai Del)

05 Jack Sayer's Ghost (feat. Red Leonard)

04 This Charm Will Fade

03 Catch A Tiger (feat. GregB)

02 Alpine Eyes

01 Choices

Happy Sunday :) 

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Music Video

Nobody (Prod. By Aced Spade)

"Drive (feat. Chain Gang of 1974)" by Jai Wolf is the tenth release from Foreign Family Collective, an outlet for musicians and visual artists alike curated by the duo behind @odesza.

Premiered on FADER: http://www.thefader.com/2016/05/05/jai-wolf-drive-premiere

iTunes: http://foreignf.am/drive-itunes
Spotify: http://foreignf.am/drive-spotify

Jai Wolf:
SoundCloud: @jaiwolfmusic
http://facebook.com/jaiwolfmusic
http://twitter.com/jaiwolfx
http://instagram.com/jaiwolfx

Chain Gang of 1974:
SoundCloud: @thechaingangof1974
http://facebook.com/thechaingangof1974
http://twitter.com/chaingangof1974
http://instagram.com/thechaingangof1974

Lyrics:
Please take me back
Just take me back
To that time of innocence
Lay down with me 
But keep it clean
So the secret never ends

Everything I want to do on this night just feel so right

Please let me lay my head in your garden
Just let me fall asleep in your garden

I've been hanging on to you
I've been naked with your youth

Everything I want to do on this night just feels so right

Please let me lay my head in your garden
Just let me fall asleep in your garden 

Buy on iTunes

Jai Wolf - Drive (feat. Chain Gang of 1974)

"Love Is Fire" is track 3 from Northern National's debut EP "The New Age", which is set to release Friday, September 23rd, 2016. 

Produced by:
Dan Stringer  & Jordan Critz
Mix by: Daniel Stringer 
Mastered by: Peter Denenberg 

Love Is Fire

a song about a girl

rose courtesy of @chaboievann 

@psoul8

she [prod. by p.soul]

All I Wanted ft. Pusha T

feat. @jayprincemusic

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4dj2CRLWvdFgEzsVtc2qr6
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/good-love/id1145756569 
Apple Music: https://itun.es/us/zUTseb 



iTunes

Good Love (feat. Jay Prince)

GANZ - Light Years (ft. Maribelle)

The Hard Headed
'GAO' EP 05/13

Pre-order 'GAO' EP:
http://bit.ly/preorder-gao

GANZ:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/GANZGVNZ
Instagram: www.instagram.com/iamganz
Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/GANZVEVO
SoundCloud: www.soundcloud.com/iamganz
Twitter: www.twitter.com/GANZGVNZ

Maribelle:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/maribellemusic
Instagram: www.instagram.com/maribellemusic
Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/maribellemusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/maribellemusic

The Hard Headed:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/thehardheadedofficial
Instagram: www.instagram.com/thehardheaded
Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/thehardheaded
Twitter: www.twitter.com/thehardheaded

'GAO'
Following the release of the singles 'GAOBEAR' feat. Dusty and 'Lone’ together with What So Not & JOY, GANZ has added 4 more tracks to what now forms the long awaited ‘GAO' EP. This bundle of new songs is being released globally on his own imprint 'The Hard Headed’ on May 13th and features a unique blend of bass, hip-hop & an electronic atmosphere.

GANZ - Light Years (ft. Maribelle)

BUY NOW

Light Years (ft. Maribelle)

https://open.spotify.com/track/6YewjV6hL3iJzSshkiZu9r?si=xxRj3r_OTmq67a624t6dxg

Love can be a difficult compromise. We begin to lose our independence, as routine becomes stagnant. Sometimes, we convince ourselves that it's okay to be selfish. To take that job. To make that move. To sacrifice the relationship for a change. But if something's not broken, should it be fixed? Is that so bad? I hope not. But I still can't say for certain.

"Co-dependent, that money, pussy, power struggle... that's life. Wonder why you're tryna make me out to be the bad guy..."
- @LongLiveCarl

"Damn near banned from everywhere you wanna be. Sand near me 'cuz I like to visit beaches"
- @Jessiath

Written and performed by @LongLiveCarl and @Jessiath
Produced and Recorded by Jaro
Mixed by Jaro and @MixedByDarwin
Photo by @NeonPajamas
Premiered via @MassAppeal http://massappeal.com/premiere-jaro-bad-guy-qari-jommis/

bad guy w/ qari and jommis

Zoning prod. XZ

Me > You (feat. GRiMM Doza) [prod. Mucho Mango & GRiMM Doza]

Download Now! 

https://Empire.lnk.to/NoMoreDrugs

No More Drugs

Download Now!

Margarita (Produced by Thomas Jordan)

loveyourz

The first taste of the musical delights that comprise the bonus replay disc that will accompany the vinyl reissue of our Static Methods EP later this year. Our friends 30/70 laid down a live reinterpretation of our joint 'Divide,' Skomes on the boards, Cazeaux O.S.L.O on the vocal chords. Dig it. 
Love

Static Methods Reissue

Divide (30/70 Replay)

Temperature Rising - South African Remix Feat Oxmo Puccino

New album, PHASES, out 10/6
>>>  Pre-order yours here:  http://fringecharacter.bandcamp.com  <<<
First single, "Star Washer (feat. GregB)" out now: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F9PLQo2Jfg

Fringe Character is a producer, writer, and arranger of nuelectrosoulhop music.  In the flesh, Fringe Character plays these original productions combining the moving parts of soul, hip-hop, dub and electronica with the magnetic and original presentation of a 10-piece band.
Fringe Character is out, exciting and uniting.  Let good things influence you.