Head of the Curve Week of 6.23.15

Produced by one of electronic music’s most exciting voices, NYC’s Machinedrum, "Like a Drum" is the second cut from Roots Manuva's new single Facety 2:11.

In his inimitable words, the single is "a wee spring warmer in voodoo coptic dialect shape shifting: the remit the same as ever in awakening one’s inner, modern-day Sun Ra, ODB and Kate Bush on an overdrive of 'doing because we can't help ourselves…’"

Buy the single here:
iTunes - found.ee/facety-it
Ninjashop - found.ee/facety

Like A Drum - Roots Manuva

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)

"Nigga From Maine," the first single from Dr. Millionaire's My First Million, is about the trials of growing up. From youthful indiscretions, to musty apartments, to friends' funerals, "Maine" traces the young rapper's journey from his home state to Richmond, Virginia, where he now resides. My First Million is due Summer 2015 on Imaginary Friends. 

Dr. Millionaire - Nigga From Maine (Prod. by Conrizzle)

Taken from 'Company', the debut Slime album out August 14th 2015. More info: 

Pre-order:

iTunes: http://www.smarturl.it/SlimeCompany
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http://www.slime-music.com 


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Tha Low feat. Slayter & Danny Brown (Prod. by Stelios Phili)



low battery but i must go
they have to see that the muscle
that aint seen could grow trees
that u don’t smoke 
juh trust me 
we need we and not much more

lookin in the mirror
u could stir it up
appearance aint appearance
when u staring up
when u hear enough
of the scary stuff 
al jazeera must 
have a lust 
for the shit u want 
this is us

high octane
sick of my niggas
being niggas 
being sheep stop mane
stay asleep eyes open
they asleep not mane
“they” i mean the higher powers
powered up by our brains

sex and drugs and malice is
the secrets. to palaces is balance kid
don’t keep ya talents hid
cause others did
you gotta let ya light show
to make a better lightbulb


don’t you
know that
you can be a 
leader, lead the leaders

i was
once told
eyes closes
we could 
see and be the leaders
see and be the leaders
see and be the leaders


low battery but wassup tho
with no battery still be up to shake shit up
it’s in our blood to be us yo
us aint us unless we bust through the brick walls

scars aint scars on a star
tomoro aint today if u change who u r
dont imitate a lame cause he gotta lotta followers, whores or the car 
u want
bargain for none

dollar burn 
dreams dont
i done learned
dreams won’t hurt ya
why u turn
green bro
true beliefs make u soldiers

colonels n generals
turn up its been a while
u gotta learn to listen out
10 years out remember now. but how?

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Leaders  (Prod. Four Tet)

The Feel Produced by Dj Official

Pre-order the new album 'It Is What It Is', released 3 April on Brainfeeder: https://thundercat.lnk.to/it-is-what-it-isSo

Ninjashop: http://found.ee/giantsroam
iTunes: http://found.ee/giantsroam-it

'Them Changes'
Written and Produced by S. Bruner / S. Ellison
Bass, Vocal - S. Bruner
Keyboards, Programming - S. Ellison
Saxophone - Kamasi Washington
Piano - Dennis Hamm

Virtuoso bassist and singer-songwriter Stephen Bruner aka Thundercat returns to the Brainfeeder fold with his first solo material in two years, having already made outstanding contributions to not one, but two, of the greatest albums of 2015 - To Pimp a Butterfly and The Epic - by fellow Los Angelians Kendrick Lamar and Kamasi Washington. 

Mini-album 'The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam' will be released digitally on Monday 22nd June via Brainfeeder.

http://brainfeeder.net/thundercat

iTunes

Thundercat - 'Them Changes'

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