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It's Time

Onra - I Wanna Go Back (Feat. Wu Tang Clan)

Need You is the first single from the upcoming album, "The Orchid Days" by L'Orange

"A man fell in love. Then, the world was destroyed by an ever growing nothing in the sky."
-L'Orange

Produced by L'Orange
Vocals by Blu
Art by Matthew Andres
Graphic Design by Sarah Mattmiller

Executive Produced by Michael Tolle
Copyright Mello Music Group 2014

L'Orange - Need You Feat. Blu

From the upcoming Apollo Brown album "Thirty Eight."  Available Digitally, on CD w/ Bonus 5" Vinyl, and on 180 Gram Vinyl w/ Bonus 45 this MAY 6TH on Mello Music Group.

Apollo Brown - The Answer

'Modern Vintage' drops 6/17/14!

Pre-order links:
itunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/modern-vintage/id880797224


physical CD & LP (included DL card):

http://ughh.com/store/results.asp?searchby=All&keywords=modern+vintage&searchTarget=store&x=0&y=0



Modern Vintage is the new collaboration album from veteran emcee John Robinson (aka Lil Sci of world renown Hip-Hop group Scienz Of Life) and prolific drummer, composer, producer and band-leader Pat Van Dkye (aka PVD). John Robinson and PVD originally met at a show in 2008 and since then their chemistry has grown organically and has developed into the duo performing many formal shows together at venues like SOB’s, Blue Note NYC, LPR and others around the NY-NJ Tristate area. 

Modern Vintage spells out the approach in which this album was made from front to back: The music was composed with a combination of modern technology software mixed with vintage synths and outboard gear, all blended seamlessly with live instrumentation being the foundation. The lyrics and concepts were all spontaneously crafted in the studio, session by session, by letting the soundscapes speak to the lyricist similar to how vintage recordings of the 60’s & 70’s were created. 

“I took a much more structured songwriting approach to the lyrics on this album; my goal from the beginning of making this record was to take advantage of the fact that I am working with PVD- a composer/musician and not just a beat maker/producer, which definitely makes this record different from my other releases. This one is for all the true music lovers worldwide” says John Robinson. 

PVD states “making this record was a dream come true. From the very first session, we set out to craft quality songs that capture a cohesive vibe and feel good. In many cases, JR was writing to merely a sketch of what actually ended up on the record. It felt great to work with an artist who trusted me enough to lend his talents to the music not knowing where I would take it sonically. Live drums, keys, guitars, horns, and synths give this record a distinctly human feel that is present in all of my favorite records, old and new. A modern-day true Hip-Hop record, grounded firmly in the traditions of jazz, funk, and soul music.”

John Robinson & PVD’s Modern Vintage is now transmitting live to the world; catch the vibes on June 17th, 2014 via Brick Records. 

Tracklisting For John Robinson & PVD’s ‘Modern Vintage’:

CD Tracklisting:

1. Mic Check
 2. All of the World
 3. Respect King
 4. Choose Your Words Wisely (feat: Melinda Camille)
 5. Two Man Mob (feat: Sadat X and I.D. 4 Windz)
 6. What’s The Point? (feat: Melinda Camille & Sam Barsh)
 7. Off The Wall
 8. This Is Art
 9. Miles & Trane
 10. Live Golden
 11. Vinyl Is Forever (feat: El Da Sensei & Shabaam Sahdeeq)
 12. 10/11/12
 13. Know My Style
 14. We Rock
 15. Together We Are (feat Arin Maya)
 16. Kiss The Sky (feat: Melinda Camille)
 17. Full Circle

LP Tracklisting: (The LP includes a DL card of CD version of the audio)

Side A:
 1. Mic Check
 2. All of the World
 3. Respect King
 4. Choose Your Words Wisely (feat: Melinda Camille)
 5. Two Man Mob (feat: Sadat X and I.D. 4 Windz)
 6. What’s The Point? (feat: Melinda Camille & Sam Barsh)
 7. Off The Wall
 8. This Is Art

Side B
 9. Miles & Trane
 10. Live Golden
 11. Vinyl Is Forever (feat: El Da Sensei & Shabaam Sahdeeq)
 12. 10/11/12
 13. Know My Style
 14. Together We Are (feat Arin Maya)
 15. Kiss The Sky (feat: Melinda Camille)
 16. Full Circle

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3. Respect King

produced by Apollo Brown
vocals by Red Pill & Verbal Kent

After Ugly Heroes' 2013 classic self titled LP, Apollo Brown, Verbal Kent and Red Pill are back again with a new EP coming out August 19th.  The new EP features five new songs (including a Murs feature) and 4 bonus track b-sides.  Ugly Heroes will also being touring Europe for a few weeks this August, starting with the legendary Hip-Hop Kemp Festival before hitting London and a number of other spots (all the dates will soon be up on the MMG Event Calendar).  The new EP will first be available digitally with a vinyl edition to follow late in the year. Original artwork by illustrator Paul Grelet.

Ugly Heroes - Naysayers & Playmakers

Available now via iTunes - http://geni.us/BBEStaffSel14
or direct from us www.bbemusic.com

So, 2014 is nearly done and once again, the releases came at such a rate  that we’ve barely had time to draw breath, let alone sit back and congratulate ourselves on another year of putting out Real Music For Real People…
That’s why we enjoy this little tradition of posting the annual ‘staff picks’ from our own catalogue… it forces us to sit back, relax and start playing through some of that incredible music that we’ve released into a harsh world in the last year. 
Don’t think it’s easy … Team BBE can be riven with hissy-fits and sulkiness for a couple of days as personal favourites are out-voted, over-ruled or ruled out over technicalities  (e.g. the member of staff who insisted on having every track from the weird and wonderful  Strange Breaks and Mister Thing III). But the collective process usually ends in a group hug and a nice warm glow once we playback the final selection. 
It’s impossible to let the occasion pass without mentioning some of the ones that got away, though. Despite the plethora of new artists we’ve put out over the past few years we’re probably still best-known for our compilations, instantly  recognizable both visually and aurally, and this year saw no let- up in either quantity or quality. As well as the aforementioned Strange Breaks and Mister Thing III, which won plaudits from the most seasoned vinyl junkies for its educative and entertaining qualities, we had Sean P’s personal trip down memory lane to an old-school that few of today’s hip-hop generation even knew existed, Rock It Don’t Stop It. We also had Kev Beadle’s dig around the private press archives for lost jazz classics, resulting in his Private Collection, and the fourth …yes, fourth!.. instalment of Keb Darge and Little Edith’s Legendary Wild Rockers, raw rockabilly from one of our longest-serving and most illustrious of collaborators. 
Having seen a lot of reissues done very badly, 2014 was the year we stepped up the game with our Masters We Love series. Lavishly packaged and remastered from the original sources, we’ve been able to put legendary albums previously known only to hard-core collectors back into wider circulation. Nana Love, Crystal Winds, Hal Bradbury,  Janet Lawson, The Craig Peyton Group were some of the artists in this series who benefited from this exposure but inexplicably didn’t make the cut for our year end round-up … Band X and Dan Mastroianni are two more who did. We also put out the legendary Lost Album from Iron Curtain synth-meisters Rodion G.A. 
So what of those new artists? For every one that scraped on this seasonal bonanza, there were a couple more that didn’t … so a big shout-out to Lady Daisey, Morgan featuring Jo Sims, Very Tall Stories,Loretta Heywood, Hempolics,  The Grits, Algebra Blessett, Yesking, Duct Tape, Time For T, and DJ Oil, who between them represent just about every kind of credible underground music-making going on right now. 
As for those represented on this excursion, there’s no lack of diversity there, either.  Old friends like Shawn Lee, DJ Vadim and Mr.Bird jostle for attention alongside Slakah the Beatchild, Anchorsong,, Tricky D, The Excelsiors, Larry Achiampong, True Ingredients, Megajawns, Vaitea and More Like Trees. From the dopest dubbed out downtempo headnodders to the most progressive of up-tempo left-field dance, taking in the flavours of Africa, the Caribbean and the East along the way. 2014 was one helluva ride … hope you enjoy this brief trip back through it alongside. 


Golden Age Against The Machine

We Got The Jazz

Shawn Lee - We Got The Jazz Feat. Ohmega Watts

produced by L'Orange
vocals by Jeremiah Jae
guest vocals by Gift of Gab

The Night Took Us In Like Family
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/night-took-us-in-like-family/id962648340

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 - All I Need (feat. Gift Of Gab)

This track is from the album titled – “Souls Unswayed”
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Signal Path ~ Change Like The Weather (Make It Mo' Better)

from the album Mr. Lif "Don't Look Down" coming April 15th
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/dont-look-down/id1082913881?app=itunes

Artwork by Dan Lish

Produced By Caliph-NOW - T. McConnell for May the Day Break Music (ASCAP) / written by J. Haynes for Virtua Stab Publishing (SESAC) & Selina Carrera (BMI) / Mixed & Mastered By: Mike Cip @ Split2nd Entertainment 

Mello Music Group, 2016


Mr. Lif - Let Go (feat. Selina Carrera)

Our next single forthcoming on Just Us / Relentless
A - 'Baby I Got That'
A2- 'It's You'
Out Sept 16th

Baby I Got That

Air (Abstract Orchestra Remix)

Air (Abstract Orchestra Remix) [feat. MF DOOM]

Latyrx "Gorgeous Spirits (Aye, Let's Go!)" produced by The Bangerz.

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From the new EP 'Disconnection' available now

Get it at iTunes today: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/disconnection-ep/id574645827

Latyrx "Gorgeous Spirits (Aye, Let's Go!)" - Disconnection EP

available on 12" and digital .Original taken from the album Antique Soul

02 Beggarman (Crazy P Remix)

Grizmatik is a collaboration. Grizmatik = Gramatik + GRiZ

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Grizmatik - Digital Liberation Is Mad Freedom

Apollo Brown -Tao Te Ching-

What Latyrx brings to the table is a technical difficulty level rare these days in hip-hop and matched only by a few groups in the genre's entire history: Run-DMC, Jurassic 5, Blackstar, Freestyle Fellowship. Their challenging, intricate back-and forth arrangements evoke a lyrical version of bebop, with layer upon layer of rhythmic syncopation and vocal patterning constantly pushing the envelope.

"We have a good chemistry and it's kind of unique," Lateef says. "We step up each others' game content, and both of us push each other in the originality department."

"What we've talked about is very simply, picking up where we left off," LB explains. The return of Latyrx stands as Very Good News for true hip-hop fans, lyrical aficionados, boom-bap beatniks, urban bohemians, wee tots in Reeboks, and Muzappers of all shapes, sizes, colors, and ages.


Latyrx "Gorgeous Spirits (Aye, Let's Go!)" - Disconnection EP

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