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Delicious Vinyl brings you Sunset Blvd, the new album from Yancey Boys, the group piloted by John “Illa J” Yancey and Frank Nitt. The dynamic new collection is built around previously unheard tracks created by Illa J’s brother: the late, great J Dilla (James Yancey). With Frank Nitt’s standing as J Dilla Music Catalog Curator and the official approval of Yancey Media Group, all productions on Sunset Blvd originate from The Lost Scrolls — the stunning cache of beats Dilla left behind.

With its rapturous single “Quicksand” featuring Common, Sunset Blvd also teams Yancey Boys with De La Soul’s Posdnuos (“Beautiful”), The Pharcyde’s SlimKid3 (“Rock My World”), and T3 of Slum Village (“Jeep Volume”), making it clear that the Dilla legacy is being represented by those who knew and collaborated with Dilla in his lifetime. Additional guests on Sunset Blvd include DJs Rhettmatic, C-Minus, and JRocc (Beat Junkies) as well as rap roughneck Guilty Simpson and R&B strongman Eric Roberson. “We’ve created an album that would make Dilla proud,” says Frank Nitt, who grew up with Dilla in Detroit. “But this isn’t a nostalgia trip: Dilla’s beats were so future-forward that they’re right on time in 2013, and we’ve assembled the best artists possible to represent that.”

Buy it here

Yancey Boys "Quicksand" (feat. Common And Dezi Paige)

Malik B. (of The Roots fame) and producer Mr. Green team up for this new track, "Definition," off of their upcoming collabo LP, Unpredictable. 

Malik B. "Definition (prod. Mr. Green)"

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

from WHITE SANDS (Homeboy Sandman & Paul White) 
http://stonesthrow.com/news/2014/02/homeboy-sandman-white-sands

Homeboy Sandman - Wade in the Water

From Black Milk's Glitches In The Break EP

Vinyl: http://blackmilk.bandcamp.com/album/glitches-in-the-break
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/glitches-in-the-break/id815997932 
Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/user/black_milk/playlist/4tafHYWV8yqRcxmqLRrtxa

Artwork by Upendo Taylor

Cold Day

9. The Ladder - Common

The Okayplayer premiere of Robert Glasper's "Dillalude 3" featuring T3 of Slum Village.

Robert Glasper - Dillalude 3

Produced by Jonti, off Hodgy Beats untitled EP
http://stonesthrow.com/jonti  http://oddfuture.com

Hodgy x Jonti - Samurai

Black Radio Recovered: The Remix EP

Black Radio (feat. Yasiin Bey)

Download "Chum" now on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/chum

Chum

Julian Malone from Chicago. Mixtape Diff.Rnt coming soon. 
http://stonesthrow.com/jumalone

(Image stolen from Mason London. Thanks Mason.)

Julian Malone - Give A Eff

Premiering on Billboard.com this week (http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/1537534/common-j-period-the-next-chapter-still-love-her) and celebrating the release of NY Times best-selling author Adam Mansbach's novel, Rage Is Back, J.PERIOD joins forces with hip hop icon COMMON for the exclusive new single, "The Next Chapter (Still Love H.E.R.)" [Produced by J.PERIOD].  "The Next Chapter (Still Love H.E.R.)" celebrates the latest episode in COMMON’s lifelong lyrical love-affair with hip hop, over exclusive production by J.PERIOD, and marks the second installment of a literary first: exclusive promo music released in tandem with a new novel. 

Set against the backdrop of graffiti-era New York, Manbach’s Rage Is Back delivers a mind-bending journey through a subterranean world of epic heroes and villains, and is already being called “the great American graffiti novel.”  A must-read for any literate hip-hop fan, Rage is Back is available in the iTunes bookstore (http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/rage-is-back/id540077534?mt=11) and is currently one of Amazon’s “Books of the Month” (http://www.amazon.com/Rage-Is-Back-A-Novel/dp/0670026123). 

On Twitter: @JPERIODBK @COMMON @AdamMansbach #RageIsBack

"The Next Chapter (Still Love H.E.R.)" Feat. COMMON  [Produced by J.PERIOD]

The Stones Throw/2008ighties representative borrows A$AP Rocky’s “Bass” for the latest leak off his upcoming Diff.Rnt mixtape, which is coming in March.  Or April. Or May. Or another month after that.  http://stonesthrow.com/jumalone

Dice from Mason London.  Lucky roll.

Julian Malone - 909

The latest of Sandman's traditional "OUT NOW" tracks - this one is for his latest release, titled "Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent", an 8-track record paying homage to the birth of hip-hop. Produced by Alex 'Apex' Gale.

http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2013/04/sandman-herc-crescent

The ALBUM

Homeboy Sandman - Kool Herc Fertile Crescent OUT NOW

from Jonwayne's Cassette 2: "Cool Runnings" feat. Zeroh. 

Cassette 2 is all original music, 36 mins of raps & beats from Jonwayne, feat. Jeramiah Jae, Zeroh, Quelle.

Cassette 1: http://stonesthrow.com/news/2012/07/jonwayne-cassette
Cassette 2: http://stonesthrow.com/news/2013/03/jonwayne-cassette-2

Jonwayne - Cool Runnings feat. Zeroh

The title track from Minnesota emcee, Greg Grease's upcoming EP, Black King Cole, which drops May 21st, 2013. 


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