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This beautiful sad song was performed by José James at The Music of Billie Holiday live at AB - Ancienne Belgique concert. This song is particularly poignant now on the weekend of the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin. 

You can find the full recording of the concert here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-s3KycDy3I


Jose James - Strange Fruit (for Trayvon Martin)

Delicious Vinyl brings you Sunset Blvd, the new album from Yancey Boys, the group piloted by John “Illa J” Yancey and Frank Nitt. The dynamic new collection is built around previously unheard tracks created by Illa J’s brother: the late, great J Dilla (James Yancey). With Frank Nitt’s standing as J Dilla Music Catalog Curator and the official approval of Yancey Media Group, all productions on Sunset Blvd originate from The Lost Scrolls — the stunning cache of beats Dilla left behind.

With its rapturous single “Quicksand” featuring Common, Sunset Blvd also teams Yancey Boys with De La Soul’s Posdnuos (“Beautiful”), The Pharcyde’s SlimKid3 (“Rock My World”), and T3 of Slum Village (“Jeep Volume”), making it clear that the Dilla legacy is being represented by those who knew and collaborated with Dilla in his lifetime. Additional guests on Sunset Blvd include DJs Rhettmatic, C-Minus, and JRocc (Beat Junkies) as well as rap roughneck Guilty Simpson and R&B strongman Eric Roberson. “We’ve created an album that would make Dilla proud,” says Frank Nitt, who grew up with Dilla in Detroit. “But this isn’t a nostalgia trip: Dilla’s beats were so future-forward that they’re right on time in 2013, and we’ve assembled the best artists possible to represent that.”

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Yancey Boys "Quicksand" (feat. Common And Dezi Paige)

Rare, raw, old skool collaboration between Deborah Bond, GodfatherSage (producer/rapper), Born Infinite (rapper), and Dimensional Control aka Tim Hicks of The Cornel West Theory. Completely uncut and created by Rebels of the Lost Tsun. All written &amp; recorded on the fly...in the late 90s.

New music coming from Deborah Bond & her band Third Logic!! Here's a teaser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ug4e_uI5E

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Music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-be3RTMWSLU


I Remember

a short saturday morning beat

credit to George Benson for the beautiful sample!

Euphoric

Written by Emily King
Produced by Jeremy Most
Mixed by Jeremy Most & Ben Kane
Cover Photo by J. Shotti
Special Thanks to:
The Yacht Studios, Brooklyn
Lion's Share Studios, Brooklyn
All Rights Reserved SESAC 2015

Website: emilykingmusic.com 
Official Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DbeYbcZAJE
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Hey love time to get up
I think you've been sleeping too long
My day started when you were still yawning

One room just ain't enough
When it's two folks trying to get along but it's hard to leave you alone

Oh love is always better
When we take time to get back to who we are when we are apart
Distance makes the heart grow
Even when I'm lonely I'm happy knowing that your love is never far
When we are apart distance makes the heart

It makes the leaves on the trees fall
It makes the hours in the day long
Makes me wanna clear my head
Find a little cafe and write the words to a song

And I know that I'm still free
Be anywhere that I wanna be
Maybe get dressed up
Wear something real pretty that you ain't never seen

Oh love is always better
When we take time to get back to who we are when we are apart
Distance makes the heart grow
Even when I'm lonely I'm happy knowing that your love is never far
When we are apart distance makes the heart

When you love it makes the heart
When you trust it makes the heart
When you call it makes the heart
When we're alone when we're apart
In the middle of a fight
Walk away to make it right
Where we go we're never far
In the light or in the dark
On a plane up in the stars
In a movie or at the bar
Home alone or out to tea
Look to your heart and think of me
I wanna love you don't wanna try
To change the pace of your life
We get together we make it good
We get together oh oh oh

Hey love time to get up
I think you've been sleeping too long
My day started when you were still yawning

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Distance

Dusty Milk Crates Vol​.​3

D'Angelo - Left & Right (mfp's JX-3P Remix) (Unofficial)

Second Avenue

our take on an RVA anthem.
Andrew Randazzo-Bass
DJ Harrison-Keys
Keith Askey-Guitar
Corey Fonville-Drums

BrownShooguh

1. JillErykahtro
2. Cross My Mind
3. Next Lifetime
4. Easy Conversation
5. In Love With You (b.blend)
6. Didn't Cha Know
7. Crown Royal
8. Time's A Wastin'
9. A Long Walk
10. On and On
11. Epiphany
12. Kiss On My Neck (Hesi)
13. Honey Molasses
14. Otherside Of The Game
15. Whatever (Live)
16. Cleva
17. It's Love (b.blend)
18. Try
19. Bump It
20. Love Of My Life (Ode To Hip Hop)
21. Love Rain (Coffee Shop Mix)
22. Think Twice
23. Whenever You're Around
24. Sometimes
25. I'm Not Afraid
26. Soldier
27. Slowly Surely
28. Back In The Day (Puff)
29. Golden (Remix)
30. Me (Live)
31. I Want You
32. The Way
33. Do You Remember
34. Green Eyes

Inspiration   Jill Scott & Erykah Badu

June 4, 2011 Lenny Kravitz: ‘Roots Rock Reggae’ On Jimmy Fallon



“Roots Rock Reggae” - Lenny Kravitz with The Roots. (live)

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Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo (Eyela Beret Bootleg) [DUB]

Omar - Theres Nothing Like This (RR RMX)
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Omar - Theres Nothing Like This (RODDYROD RE_RUB)

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D'angelo - Joe Texan (Voodoo Outtakes & Rehearsals)


D'angelo - Joe Texan (Voodoo Outtakes & Rehearsals)

DOWNLOAD (via Okayplayer): 
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Tracklist:
1. Fantastic Intro
2. Brown Sugar
3. Devil's Pie
4. Crisco
5. Left & Right
6. Chicken Grease
7. Lady
8. Left & Right (Reprise)
9. Feel Like Making Love
10. Can't Hide Love
11. Things You Do (Fall in Love)
12. One Mo' Gin
13. Me and Those Dreaming Eyes of Mine
14. S.D.M.
15. Untitled (How Does It Feel)

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Compiled and mixed by Sam Champ (samchamp.bandcamp.com)


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D'Angelo Live

http://funkit.virose.net/?p=1883

Herbie Hancock, ?uestlove, Pino Palladino, & Lionel Loueke - GOD
June 12th, 2005
Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music Festival
-That Tent-  7:00 - 8:30 PM

Herbie Hancock - keys
?uestlove - drums
Pino Palladino - bass
Lionel Loueke - guitar, vocals

Herbie Hancock, ?uestlove, Pino Palladino, & Lionel Loueke - GOD 6/12/05 Bonnaroo Superjam

This song came about during the making of my first album "East Side Story" and was recorded somewhere between 2003 and 2004. It never made the album but I've had some requests to release it all the years later (Thank u!) so here it is. It was written by me and produced by the wonderful Chucky Thompson. The string arrangements are written by the great Larry Gold and recorded in Philadelphia. Hope u enjoy, please feel free to download!

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All I Can Become

New Track by Oh No off his album Ohnomite.

Oh No FT. Phife Dawg & Jose James - Dues N Donts'

Soundway Records present ’24 Hours in A Disco 1978 - 82’, 7 cuts of relentless disco grooves from the sublimely gifted Kiki Gyan. Hailed as Africa’s answer to Stevie Wonder, Ghanaian multi-instrumentalist Kiki Gyan was a musical wunderkind who by 1975 had risen from the lowly status of high school dropout to being ranked eighth in a poll of the greatest keyboardists in the world (occupying the rarefied air of the top ten with heavyweights like Steve Winwood, Billy Preston, and Stevie Wonder) as well as becoming an in-demand session player in the top recording studios of London - all before his twenty-first birthday. 

Out on his own, he produced a series of highly ambitious disco records aimed at positioning him as an international star, but weighed down by the excesses of the era, Gyan saw his meteoric rise matched by an equally swift fall back into obscurity. 

Loved dearly by his contemporaries and sorely missed since his death in 2005 the story of the life of Kofi Kwarko ‘Kiki’ Gyan is one often told with warning by his friends to the new generation of aspiring Ghanaian popstars.

Soundway Records now collects the best of Gyan’s work as a frontman and solo artist, featuring an array of electrifying disco grooves that still sound contemporary (and in some cases futuristic) decades after their initial release.

Released on CD and 2xLP both formats are accompanied with detailed liner notes written by Uchenna Ikonne. LP version comes with a free MP3 download of the release. 

Kiki Gyan - Disco Dancer

Jhene Aiko - "Wrap Me Up" ft  James Fauntleroy

Erykah Badu - "The Healer"

My submission for the Jose James Remix competition...Enjoy...All additional guitars, keys, beats, strings, synths & mastering by Mr Bird. Now on FREE Download limited.

+ A quick and shameless plug: if anyone is after a Mr Bird remix PM me here or email: mrbirdproductions@gmail.com

Jose James - Trouble (Mr Bird Remix)

Maxwell (Feat. Dirty Sanchez, Capital STEEZ & Rokamouth) (Prod. DJ Black Diamond)

D'ANGELO - LEAFMIX

Stay up on my latest remixes & DJ gigs: http://www.instagram.com/keroone

Erykah badu track I remixed back in back in 2007 and now Re-engineered for 2015. 
Full album on iTunes: hyperurl.co/vd0t03
on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/64k2nYtnBtyWWZGvfZAt2N
on Mp3 / CD / Vinyl: keroone.bandcamp.com

Erykah - On & On (Kero Uno Remix)

Had a great time remixing this awesome track! 

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Janelle Monáe - Tightrope (Oliver Nelson Remix)

iTunes pre-order: http://itunes.kud.li/fsr099d

"When I grow up, I wanna be like Omar" - Stevie Wonder

There are precious few, if any contemporary UK artists whose creative credentials and influence extend as far and so consistently wide as Freestyle Records' most recent signing Omar. Since first breaking through to worldwide renown all the way back in 1991 with his first releases on Gilles Peterson's seminal Talking Loud label, and going on to work with all manner of musical legends including a certain Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, Angie Stone, Syreeta Wright, Common, and Carleen Anderson.

Fast forward to 2013, and Omar's reputation for being a thoroughly original artist following his own individual path remains undiminished. After recently picking up an M.B.E. for his outstanding contribution to the UK music scene, even the British Establishment has now acknowledged what many already appreciated and understood for many years.

There cannot have been many times a bass clarinet b-line was destined to become one of the most memorable and catchiest moments in contemporary soul, but on the new single, The Man, that's precisely what happens. Add to that a stunning vocal performance, the slinkiest of beautiful key changes, and an uplifting vibe that simply emanates class and style, and you will understand why those who were privileged to hear The Man early on, all without exception, flipped, slipped and fell totally in love with its soul, its groove and irrepressible spirit.

This release sees three reworkings of the title track; US mainstay of conscious hip hop and electronica, Shafiq Husayn, literally leapt at the chance to remix The Man and gives it a minor mood feel, with spacey synthesiser lines added to emphasise this most memorable of melodies, Maddslinky (aka Zed Bias), came with a remix from a pumping, contemporary club direction including a driving beat coupled with spacy breakdowns and his trademark production skills, and Scratch Professer puts his unique stamp on his retwist of The Man like no one else could!

Completing the circle that began all the way back in the early 1990s, Omar has completely re-recorded his classic love song There's Nothing Like This, which this time features bass player to the Gods Pino Palladino. The touching sentiment remains undiminished, but with the addition of soaring strings, soulful, jazzy horns, an all round live and acoustic feel, plus an extended and new arrangement, Omar has done the impossible; improved upon the un-improvable, that is likely to become the definitive version of an already much adored classic.

04 Omar - There's Nothing Like This ft. Pino Palladino

Q.U.E.E.N. Available on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/jmqueen

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Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N. Feat. Erykah Badu

Seeing as this has long-since reached its download limit (and I've received a few requests for it), I've put it up for d/l here, should anybody want it: http://www.mediafire.com/?epfwxmbri6o4ies

A short vocal-clip cover of a D'Angelo classic - from his first album, 'Brown Sugar'.

Recorded earlier this year; I had just got my microphone up and running, and wanted to test it with some luscious harmonies. Thought I'd share. :)

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Me And Those Dreamin' Eyes Of Mine Acapella (D'Angelo)

http://mndsgn.bandcamp.com/album/frugal-earth

slowdowntho (from frugalearth | www.mndsgn.biz)

Been a while since i've given a free track away. Enjoy! :D

Pennygiles - The chance to say (Free Download)

Pre-order the new album 'It Is What It Is', released 3 April on Brainfeeder: https://thundercat.lnk.to/it-is-what-it-isSo

Thundercat - Oh Sheit It's X

Track list:

01. James Blake - Life Round Here
02. 2morrow's Vitory - Lift Off
03. Catching Flies - Ghosts
04. Floating Points - Farukx
05. Mala - Noches Suenos
06. Schlomo - Wen Uuu (Teebs Remix)
07. Gang Colours - I don't Want You Calling
08. Lapulux - One Thing
09. Bonobo - Don't Wait
10. Dam Funk - One Less Day
11. Floating Points - Mind
12. MeLo-X & Cheri Coke - The Interlude (Tuesday Born remix)
13. Anushka - Tired & Tried
14. James Blake - Digital Lion

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Soul Deep Recordings is proud to present this beautifully crafted bootleg by Silence Groove.  The song is being released on the SDR site as Silence Groove has reached 1,600 "Likes" on Facebook.  Please go to https://www.facebook.com/SilenceGrooveOfficial and Like his page.  Thanks for supporting Soul Deep!

Everything But the Girl - Blame (Silence Groove Bootleg) NOW AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD!!.mp3

Jhene Aiko - "Comfort Inn Ending" (freestyle)

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D'angelo - Joe Texan (Voodoo Outtakes & Rehearsals)

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