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from the mello music group album "Persona" coming out 3/10.
prod. Oddisee | vocals: Oddisee & Phonte hook: Tamisha Waden | art: Oliver Barrett

If the soul of hip-hop belongs to the culture, the skeleton belongs to the independent label. From Sugar Hill to Def Jam, Tommy Boy to Rawkus, Fondle Em to Def Jux, the genre’s best music has been birthed by imprints that brazenly defy the status quo, those who champion fearless artists and always prize quality over commerce.
 
For the last eight years, Mello Music Group has lived by that ethos. If you’re reading these words, you’re inevitably well aware of its ascendance and growing legacy. But more importantly, you know the artists—those singular voices channeling the spirits of the past and spitting premonitions of the future. Boom-bap at its best: evolving and expanding the art form, capturing stories of the struggle, upholding the tradition, and keeping the crooked honest.
 
Persona unveils the murderer’s row that is the Mello roster of 2015. Oddisee, Apollo Brown, yU, L'Orange, Red Pill, Open Mike Eagle, Rapper Big Pooh, Quelle Chris. The stars of the present teamed with timeless innovators like Phonte (Little Brother), Blockhead, Ras Kass, Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), Oh No, Masta Ace, and Bilal Salaam. The result is something that binds current greats with the pioneers who paved the asphalt. It’s both a historical moment and hard as hell.
 
If most compilations are nothing more than a loosely thrown together collection of songs, Persona boasts meticulous focus. These aren’t spare tracks, they’re potent messages and poisonous darts. “Requiem” finds Phonte and Oddisee indicting American racism and Xenophobia with fury and precision. On “Homicide,” yU and Nottz leave blood dripping all over the canvas. There’s “Celebrity Reduction Prayer,” where Open Mike Eagle lampoons fundamentalists and religious zealots over Oddisee’s warm Stevie Wonder keyboards.
 
But there’s ultimately no need to do the track-by-track breakdown. This is an anthology in the most traditional well-curated sense. Turn here if you want to find the best hip-hop artists of their generation in raw and unfiltered form. The bars are brimstone; the beats force your neck to swivel. Through all the discontent, rays of hope begin to emerge. If you remember the feeling you got when you first heard Soundbombing, stop searching. The slang has changed, the style remains indelible, the latest personas have emerged. The new sound is here.



Requiem (feat. Oddisee & Phonte)

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present: MF DIDGERIDOOM.

MF DIDGERIDOOM

This is a continuous piece that was performed and meant to be  listened to all at once. Regardless, here are the composition titles and approximate time markers.

Black Trees - (Blair) - 0:00
The Good Rain (Genualdi)- 3:50
Elo (Blair)- 9:00
Blue (Genualdi)- 16:00
Blinding Light (Genualdi)- 21:45
Frenzy (Blair)- 26:30
Dune (Genualdi) - 32:30
Trapped Intro, Piano Solo (Blair)- 35:50
Trapped (Blair)- 41:40
Red (Genualdi)- 47:12
Red/Black Trees Reprise - 49:20

All music composed and arranged by Matt Blair and Sam Genualdi for our Junior Recital at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music.

Matt Blair - Piano
Sam Genualdi - Guitar
Ilan Blanck - Guitar
Jack Lussenden - Drums
Jeremiah Lemke-Rochon - Drums
Adam Friedman - Percussion
Dan Reifsteck - Percussion
Jakob Heinemann - Bass
Kyle Stalsberg - Viola
Dominic Ellis - Trombone
Adam Busch - Trombone
Joe Connor - Soprano Saxophone
Will Fraser - Alto Saxophone
Carson Caldart - Tenor Saxophone
Sam Pratt - Bass Clarinet

The Good Rain - Matt Blair and Sam Genualdi

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One of the underground's hardest-working young producers, Oddisee has built a thorough body of work with a steady stream of albums, mixtapes, collaborations, and instrumental projects. On Rock Creek Park, he breaks us off with 10 joints that are universally chill, loaded with jazz-drenched loops offering wispy flutes, funked-out bass lines, breezy guitar licks, soft horns, and earthy pianos. “Closed After Dark," "Beach Dr.," and the vibraphone-and-ride-cymbal-laced "Mattered Much" are standouts, though the ‘80s-influenced "Uptown Cabaret" and yU collabo "Still Doing It" are also impressive. Though many of the tracks are similar on the low-BPM head-nod tip, they all sound great and make an ideal soundtrack for just keeping it mellow. 


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