ITSRAP Round-Up Vol.6 12/2013

* GOODBOIS EXCLUSIVE * look up in the sky it's a bird it's a plane

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Meth & Red - How High [That Kiss The Sky JuSoul Refix]

single taken from Endemic Terminal Illness part 2. In stores now! 
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Endemic - King's Indian Attack [ft Masta Killa, Cappadonna, Bronze Nazareth & DJ Switch]

Mello Music Group To Release New Label Compilation Project!

“Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows” Includes Contributions From Oddisee, Quelle Chris, Mr. Lif, Blueprint, Has-Lo, Georgia Anne Muldrow, yU & More.

“Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows” will be released on Janaury 28th, 2014!

 

Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows is the fourth Mello Music Group compilation – previous compilations include Mental Liberation, Helpless Dreamer, and Self Sacrifice. It’s also perhaps our best to date! 

The album showcases MMG’s ever-evolving roster of top-tier producers and rappers, many of whom (e.g. Oddisee, Quelle Chris, Has-Lo) fill both roles with equal dexterity. Additionally, it features several artists MMG plans to collaborate with in 2014, a testament to our commitment to working with those who possess singular sonic and lyrical abilities. 

Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows is at once compact and comprehensive. Clocking in at twenty tracks, there is not a minute wasted and not a miss in sight. It is diverse and yet somehow cohesive, tailor made to rock your car speakers and your brain stem. It is MMG’s reminder that hip-hop is alive and well, and a reintroduction to a label that’s tried never to forget what makes music compelling. 

With ten distinctive producers behind the boards, the soundscapes on Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows cover the map and the album is all the better for it. Oddisee of course helms the opener and tracks throughout with a musicality like few in Hip-Hop today. L’Orange brings subtle, jazzy suites to the table, and Quelle Chris provides dusty samples looped over hard-hitting drums as well as anyone else on the record. Jeremiah Jae also makes sure the bass-rattling, electronic bangers coming out of L.A.’s beat scene are well represented. Nothing here is solely run-of-the-mill boom-bap. Each beat is far richer and more inventive, able to play on its own and provide the perfect complement to the raps at hand. 

As far as the rhymes are concerned, the rappers we’ve selected for Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows leave nothing to chance. MMG heavyweights like yU and Has-lo cut with long practiced precision, and newcomers like Castle are in top form. The same can also be said of Hellfyre Club features Open Mike Eagle and Milo. Regardless of who’s on the mic, scores of bare-knuckle battle rap bars are tempered with rhymes both emotionally raw and mentally challenging. The MCs on our comp are intelligent and self-aware, capable of the comic, tragic, and in-between at the sound of a snare. They have an old-school reverence for rhyme with a modern state of mind and modern problems. Come-up or comedown, shine or shadow, friend or foe – they are fearless in confronting all fears.   

Above all, Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows is MMG’s opening salvo for the New Year, a sign of the great and innovative music we plan to release. We’re proud to call it the first 2014 jewel in the crown of our crest. 

Check out the first leak, “Invisible Walls” (featuring and produced by Oddisee) from the project.

Tracklisting and Credits for Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows:

1.) “Invisible Walls” f/ Oddisee (produced by Oddisee)
2.) “The Lost Nova” f/ Mr. Lif & John Robinson) [(produced by L’Orange)
3.) “Hard Writer” f/ Has-Lo (produced by Has-Lo)
4.) “Lost Children” f/ Georgia Anne Muldrow (produced by Duke Westlake)
5.) “Euclidian Geometry” Instrumental (produced by Quelle Chris)
6.) “Supreme Codeine” f/ Miz Korona, Quelle Chris, T. Calmese & Nick Speed (produced by Quelle Chris)
7.) “A History Of Modern Dance” f/ Open Mike Eagle (produced by Jeremiah Jae)
8.) “King O.A.T.” f/ yU, Tim Hicks & Charlie Ross) (produced by yU)
9.) “You Are Safe Now” f/ Milo (produced by L’Orange)
10.) “Family Room” f/ Castle (produced by Castle)
11.) “Nothing Has A Never” f/ Oddisee) (produced by Oddisee)
12.) “Juggernaut” f/ Has-Lo (produced by Has-Lo)
13.) “Crazy High” Instrumental (produced by Oddisee)
14.) “L.I.V.E.” f/ Akil The MC (produced by Duke Westlake)
15.) “Going Swell” f/ Quelle Chris) (produced by Quelle Chris)
16.) “Brick Walls & Blurry Faces” f/ Castle & Blueprint (produced by L’Orange) 
17.) “Problematic” f/ yU (produced by Slimkat 78)
18.) “Bracelets” f/ Has-Lo (produced by Has-Lo)
19.) “Something Good” f/ Georgia Anne Muldrow (produced by Dudley Perkins)
20.) “Polysonic Flows” f/ Quelle Chris (produced by Quelle Chris)

To obtain a press copy of Mello Music Group’s “Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows” for feature or review purposes, please contact: 
Matt Conaway@   	MAC Media
Business #:		410-903-7568
E-Mail:     		Matthewbrn@aol.com / Macmediapromo@gmail.com 
Twitter: 		http://twitter.com/macmediapromo
Website:		www.macmediapromo.com 
AOL IM:     		Matthewbrn

For More Information Please Visit:

http://www.mellomusicgroup.com/
https://twitter.com/MelloMusicGroup
https://www.facebook.com/MelloMusicGroup360
http://mellomusicgroup.bandcamp.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/mellomusicgroup

 



Oddisee - Invisible Walls

Da Beatminerz feat. Tash of Tha Alkaholiks & Rah Digga
"Sumthin' (Beatminerz Remix)"
Produced by Mr. Walt
Taken off the vinyl 7" single "Sumthin' (Beatminerz Remix) / Another World (Beatminerz Remix #2)" and the digital/cassette EP "Sumthin" on Ill Adrenaline Records.

7" vinyl available on limited (100 copies) coke bottle clear vinyl and official black vinyl.
Coke bottle clear vinyl and cassette version exclusively being sold on the Ill Adrenaline website:
www.illadrenalinerecords.com

iTunes link:
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Purchase the offical black vinyl 7" here:
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Ill Adrenaline Records and Da Beatminerz team up again to put out two dope unreleased remixes coming straight out the vaults from Mr. Walt and Evil Dee.
While the original version of "...Sumthin" (feat. Tash & Rah Digga) got a more funky vibe, the remix of this east coast/west coast collaboration banger is on the rough and rugged tip. Produced by Mr. Walt and featuring Tash of Tha Alkaholiks and Brick City's Rah Digga, this remix was recorded back in the same year as the original version (1998) and shelved until now.
The b-side remix of Black Star's (Mos Def & Talib Kweli) "Another World" is another amazing and unreleased remix of this classic tune. Just like the first remix, this drum driven and funky remix didn't make it onto any release either. Da Beatminerz got hired to do several remixes of this track (originally produced by UK production crew The Creators) in '98.
Classic Beatminerz production on both tracks!

Websites:
www.illadrenalinerecords.com
www.dabeatminerz.com

Facebook:
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www.facebook.com/beatminerz

Twitter:
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www.twitter.com/Beatminerz
www.twitter.com/BEATMINERZRADIO
www.twitter.com/DJEVILDEE

Da Beatminerz feat. Tash (of Tha Alkaholiks) & Rah Digga "Sumthin' (Beatminerz Remix)"

---Words By Invincible
 
"Drunken Sleuth" was written as a way to creatively call out the many forces conspiring to profit from land grabs, gentrification, displacement, voter disenfranchisement, and political corruption in Detroit. Each verse is loosely based on real stories that took place over the past five years in the city.

Since I wrote this piece many of these situations have grown exponentially worse. Bob Bobb, who was then Emergency Financial Manager of Detroit Public Schools that shut down dozens of schools and threatened to displace the block in verse one, went on to Stockton, California where he filed for that city's bankruptcy in 2012, stripping away at lifelong city workers' pensions. One year later, Detroit was forced to file for Bankruptcy, threatening thousands of pensions and city assets including parks, schools and even the art collection.

The plot thickens: the state appointed Emergency Manager (Kevyn Orr) was directly hired on from Jones Day, one of the country's largest bankruptcy firms and days after coming into his position--- hired on his own firm. This firm formerly advised and represented Bank of America and other banks that currently stand to benefit the most from Detroit's bankruptcy. Kevyn Orr also went on to hire the Manhattan Institute, the think tank that invented Stop and Frisk, to import that method and train Detroit Police in these racial profiling tactics. Speaking of racial profiling, over 50% of Michigan's Black population is now under State appointed Emergency Managers, meaning that elected officials power has been stripped by the State, and these EMs can make top down decisions without any accountability; bad money all around!

The good news (and there is good news) is that there is a growing movement on the ground doing the tireless work of exposing this madness. You can support this movement by reading the Detroit declaration and signing on in solidarity here: DetroitStateofEmergency.org
 
Marco Polo’s PA2: The Director’s Cut is now available!
itunes.apple.com/us/album/pa2-the…=4&at=10laZr
 
Also, be sure to check out the special edition PA2: The Director’s Cut color vinyl with a free bonus 12” (available through the selected retailers below):
 
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For More Information Please Visit:
 
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www.slice-of-spice.com
 

Marco Polo "Drunken Sleuth" f. Invincible

Flying Lotus - Puppet Talk (Ruff Draft Rmx)

Get clean & dirty on itunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/time-switch-feat.-mobb-deep/id772155127


Off Benefit album "Executioner Of Time" Out Now!
Featuring: Mobb Deep, Freeway, Joe Budden, Fred The Godson, 
Red Cafe, Famoso, Sheek Lounch, Profit, Hell Rell & More... 
You can Pre-Order Benefit album now with the link below. 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/executioner-of-time/id793420775

BENEFIT feat. MOBB DEEP & RAP-P "TIME SWITCH"

Here's the first single off the Murder By Mourning Project produced by Khrysis.

Bitches Brew (Prod. Khrysis)

OutKast prod. by DeUno

Mike WiLL Made It will release his new mixtape, #MikeWiLLBeenTriLL, in collaboration with Been Trill and exclusively via LiveMixtapes, on Monday, December 23rd.

Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeWiLLMadeIt
Like on Facebook: https://facebook.com/MikeWiLLMadeIt
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Mike WiLL Made-It - SH¡T (RMX) Ft. Diddy, ScHoolboy Q & Future

To end off an incredible year, Happy Holidays!
-The Internet

The Internet ft. NickyDavey - Timeless

From the forthcoming Compilation "Jamla Is The Squad" Hosted by Statik Selektah January 28th 

Rapsody-Betty Shabazz-Produced by 9th Wonder

Mama Said - Diggy Simmons

Figub Brazlevič - Peace'n'Love To All Ft. Madame Fleur

So klingt »Fear le Funk«: Das junge Wiener Veranstaltungs- & Promotionskollektiv feiert sein zweijähriges Jubiläum. Zu diesem Anlass wurde eine exklusive Compilation zusammengestellt. Die Intention, das musikalische Spektrum und die bisherige Umsetzung des Projekts, facettenreich präsentiert auf 24 Beiträgen. Ein frisches Potpourri, serviert von nationalen und internationalen Hip Hop Künstlern (u.a. Chief, Figub Brazlevič, JR & PH7, Twit One oder auch feux, Brous One, Mono:Massive, Shawn The Savage Kid uvm.), bestechend durch stets unique Zugangs- und Ausdruckssformen in Machart und Stil. Von klassisch anmutenden Sounds, markant inspiriert durch die goldene Ära, über die Liebe zum verstaubten Sample, bis hin zu futuristischen Klangbildern. Einfach: Beats, Raps & Fear le Funk.

Limited to 300 copies.

On Wax

Peace'n'Love To All Ft. Madame Fleur

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ITSRAP Round-Up Vol.6 12/2013

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