ILL Padre drops 8 more smoked out soundscapes laced with his trademark blend of dusty latin source material set to grimy boom bap. Get that Smoke in ya' head.

El Guitaro

Experimental beats infused w/ samples from the golden age of latin music.

Yo Tambien

Sabias

Que Bueno

Media Noche

La Famsoa

Jaradrill

El Borracho Triste

Cameleon

Department of Transportation - Italian Lighting

Thief of Tranquility

Akello Uchenna's Green Tea Mint severely blunted full-length features eighteen short cuts assembled into a patchwork collage of jazz samples, spoken word segments, soul vocalizing, phone recordings, film excerpts, MCs, and smoked hip-hop beats. The recited passage in the “Intro” leaves little doubt about the sensibility involved: “Ever since the first hungry caveman unsuspectingly discovered a large patch of earthy-tasting little mushrooms … mankind has imbibed, inhaled, ingested, injected, and anally inserted substances known to cause seriously altered states of consciousness…” (check out how woozily the melodies waver in the lurching “Life Goes on Forever” while lilting voices echo through the haze in “Are We Still Here”). 

As the title “Through My Collection” suggests, Uchenna liberally draws upon an entire library's worth of samples (Joseph Cotton in Citizen Kane, among countless others) but his constructions are hardly random (check out the carefully-assembled weave of voices in “Communicate” where an angry female profanely spits out something about anti-Christ, Lucifer, and Lucifer's Child while a singer murmurs “Amazing Grace”). The album's bolstered considerably by a number of hook-heavy, MC-based cuts (“I'm a Be Me,” “Communicate,” “The Ho is Mine”) plus there's boom-bap funk (“Dancing with the Mystery”), and soulful hip-hop (“Hugs for Everybody”). An instrumental vignette of jazzy hip-hop (“Interluded”) provides welcome relief from the dense swirl of voices, beats, and samples. It's a seriously great collection but often hilarious too (one Springer-like segment in “Through My Collection” includes this jewel by an irate woman: “I have a recipe for you; okay, it's called ‘kiss-my-ass sandwich,' and you know what the ingredients are? It's your crusty lips on my black ass.”) For those seeking points of reference, Green Tea Mint perpetuates the venerable tripped-out tradition of Prefuse 73's One Word Extinguisher. - Via Textura

Akello Uchenna - Mary Jane Calls

In everything, there is but one fundamental design: to relieve the chaos of operation. The more something is used, the more useless it appears to be. The more something is studied, examined, heard, analyzed, the less enthusiastic a reception it garners from every corner. Yet this challenge implies forethought: if something is perpetually remade and remanipulated, what’s the point of trying to create anything at all? If all that is “created” is based on the old, how can it remain new enough to capture the attention of a single soul, let alone the legions necessary to make something provocative? Into this postmodern, shrunken worldview, and viewing the array of instrumental beat artists from askance, comes Glen Porter. It oscillates between a learned minimalism and an earnest romantic attack. Shards of sensual restraint decorate a slow, cryptic soundscape. Hysterical, careening beats float on dormant sound-images. The pinnacle aches to be achieved, everywhere breathing. In an instant, the age-old question of age itself is answered: chaos gives birth to the uplifted. The legions await.

Glen Porter - Awrldofmkblv

Glen Porter - And Death of

Glen Porter - 6813

Glen Porter - Something Glue

A vinyl only release with 2 bonus cuts not on the LP.

Glen Porter - Blue moon

Glen Porter - Secret escape

Glen Porter - Forgive Me Part 1

Glen Porter - She Cries

Glen Porter - Transient

Glen Porter - The Life

Glen Porter - I Sat Alone

Music from: Auxiliary Phoenix, Ill Padre, Padrigato, HDRM, Glen Porter, Tsunchoo, Akello Uchenna,

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