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Lesson Learned - 2ab2 (EP)

Here's the mix I made for WeFunk Radio which aired January 10th, 2014.

We Funk X Lean Rock

It Rains Cats And Hawks (audience)

Der Vorabsong vom kommenden Lesson Learned Projekt namens "2ab2". 

Alles Easy

Ufstand

The Heat Is On

from the upcoming album Oddisee "The Good Fight" (5/5)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-good-fight/id969829649

In a landscape overrun with abstract indulgence and shallow trend-chasers, the Prince George’s County, Maryland artist Oddisee has created 'The Good Fight', a record that reminds you that it’s music before it’s hip-hop. Due May 5th on Mello Music Group, it’s for the fans and for himself. It finds the musical heavyweight balancing between craft, career, and successfully growing into the world around him. Stream the first single, "That's Love".

Album Description:
Oddisee makes music that rattles in your bone marrow. It’s imbued with love, honesty, and selflessness. It’s virtuosic in its musicality, direct in its language, and infinitely relatable.
 
In a landscape overrun with abstract indulgence and shallowtrend-chasers, the Prince George’s County, Maryland artist has created “The Good Fight,” a record that reminds you that it’s music before it’s hip-hop. Released on Mello Music Group, it’s for the fans and for himself. It finds the musical heavyweight balancing between craft, career, and successfully growing into the world around him.
 
For Oddisee, “The Good Fight” is about living fully as a musician without succumbing to the traps of hedonism, avarice, and materialism. It’s about not selling out and shilling for a paycheck, while still being aware that this is a business requiring compromise and collaboration.
 
It’s music that yields an intangible feeling: the sacral sound of an organ whine, brass horns, or a cymbal crash. It’s not necessarily the syllables, but rather what they evoke. A song like “That’s Love” is more than a declaration; it’s a meditation on our capacity to love and the bonds binding us together. Ambition and greed war with our sense of propriety. “Contradiction’s Maze” offers a list of paradoxes we all face (“I want to tell the truth when it hurts/but when it comes to me, I want the blow softened.”)
 
Oddisee’s production simmers in its own orchestral gumbo. You sense he’s really a jazzman in different form, inhabiting the spirit of Roy Ayers and other past greats.  The Fader’s compared him to a musical MC Escher, calling hailing his “grandiose and symphonic sound” and “relevant relatable messages.” Pitchfork praised his “eclectic soulful boom-bap.”
 
“The Good Fight” acknowledges the stacked odds, but refuses to submit.
 
It’s both universal and personal. The child of a Sudanese immigrant highlights the rigors of his own upbringing: his pregnant mother working the register until she was about to burst, his pops’ shuttered diner that couldn’t survive Reaganomics—the one that Oddisee drives past every time he returns home, just to remind him how quickly the world can turn bad.
 
It’s these minor details that add into something major. It’s testament to the indelible nature of art: when you can turn what you love into something that lasts.


Oddisee - That's Love

From the album PETE ROCK "PETESTRUMENTALS 2" coming on Mello Music Group June 23rd. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/petestrumentals-2/id977868001

Premiered at The FADER: http://www.thefader.com/2015/03/30/pete-rock-opens-his-vault-to-unleash-one-two-a-few-more

Pete Rock says: “I’m gearing up for the release of “Petestrumentals 2” with Mello Music Group. The first single “One, Two, A Few More” is actually a beat I made in 1995 and just sat on for years for the right moment. Now, I get a chance to release this and more new & unreleased music never heard by my fans with Mello. This instrumental LP will inspire the masses in anything you are doing. Just apply P2 to it and get on the road to success.”

Pete Rock - "One, Two, A Few More"

Official bboy mixtape for VANCOUVER STREET DANCE FESTIVAL 2015! At Robson Square, downtown Vancouver, BC. One of my favorite events in one of my favorite cities in the world!

"The Vancouver Street Dance Festival (VSDF) represents our vision of the ideal Vancouver summer - a great day at a free festival that caters to all stripes of dance and music lovers in the city." - VSDF

This mixtape is a years worth of work making original music, beats & remixes, with a few rare dug up gems. 

#BBOYSBBOYFOREVER

Tracklising:
00:00 djblesOne - Don't Go Intro The Woods
01:29 djblesOne - Monsters
03:02 djblesOne - The Chase
03:48 djblesOne - Killa Beez
05:06 djblesOne - Zombie High School
06:37 djblesOne - Aliens
07:24 djblesOne - Outer Space
09:09 djblesOne - New Detroit
10:32 djblesOne - Obstacle Illusion
12:25 Don't Talk To The Cops! feat Hollis - Animal Planet Rock Basement Remix (produced by djblesOne)
15:52 djblesOne in London
17:00 djblesOne x ESG - Insane (djblesOne bboy remix) 
19:28 The New Mastersounds -  Bondo Samba
21:58 djblesOne - Kumite (...the deal)
23:32 Mr. President - I Can't Go For That (djblesOne bboy bootleg edit)
26:00 djblesOne x Fear & Fancy - Solar Panels
28:06 Havikoro Presents: Free Radicals - Skateboarding Is Not A Crime
29:43 djblesOne - Breakdown
32:17 Don't Talk To The Cops! - Hella Rare Hella Based (produced by djblesOne)
35:24 djblesOne - Soul Power
36:22 djblesOne in Houston
38:00 djblesOne feat Ronnie Voice - Person Of The People
40:46 The Rebirth - Evil Vibrations
45:10 Faith Evans - Thank You's
46:48 djblesOne - New York
48:44 djblesOne - Wu Tang Forevers
50:30 djblesOne - Love
51:38 djblesOne - Outerspacetro

VSDF WEBSITE

djblesOne - MONSTERS - Official Vancouver Street Dance Festival Bboy Mixtape - VSDF 2015

Zuefall (Gleb Yevdokimov)
Soul Seekah (Joshua Snyman) 
Lexio (Alexander Ryzhenko)

Contact: lessonlrnd@gmail.com

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