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Available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/love-in-flying-colors/id714563380

The Foreign Exchange - Better (feat. Shana Tucker, Eric Roberson)

Anymore

13Eric  Roberson/Couldn't Hear Her (Featuring Curt Chambers)

It’s been a while since I last uploaded a mix. 
Thanks for all the plays on the previous mixes. Appreciate it. 
Hope you’ll enjoy this as much, if not even more.

Vibe Out.



Tracklist: 

Moods - Instructions 
(having fun w it i’ll get serious in a min)
Jeremiah Jae - Almost (prod. by Knxwledge)
Chris Are - Greenwon

L O V E

Flying Lotus - Fall In Love 
Professa - Precious Stones
Harris Cole - Her
Rejjie Snow - Loveleen 
Phillipe Edison - Flute Chops

4 U 

Sleepin Giant - Let’s Get Serious w/ Ruben Hein
Eric Roberson - N2U feat. Marsha Ambrosius 
m i n d f i e l d - Come Home To Me (Instrumental)
Sango & Waldo - YU
Ta-Ku - Hard To Imagine

S U N S H I NE 

Ta-Ku - Color Her Sunshine
D’Angelo - Everybody Loves The Sunshine (Live)
Marc Rapson - Sunshine
Samon Kawamura - Timeless Space
Samon Kawamura - All About You

R O U N D

Ayindé - Round (Prod. By J. Dilla)
Hawk House - Round We Go
Erykah Badu - On & On (Scientific Remix)
Amin Payne - Winter In Melbourne

C R O S S 

a l l i e - Cross My Mind
Iman / Eric Lau - Who Was I Trying To Fool Feat. Rahel

4 U 2

Common - The Light
duncan gerow - Musiq Soulchild + Stwo = Just Friends
Dwele - What’s Not To Love
Samon Kawamura - You Are The Only One 

Some Jazz Shit x Believe (yas.r mashup)
Mos Def - Umi Says

“Meet me by the lake at eight”

NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED. 
I DO NOT OWN OR CLAIM RIGHTS TO THESE TRACKS. 
JUST SHARING SOME GOOD VIBRATIONS AS ALWAYS.


L A K E

Jeff Bradshaw - All Time Love Ft. Robert Glasper Eric Roberson And Tweet ( SS1 Extended )

    ((((((((((((( CARLOS DJ MIX REMIX )))))))))))))) 

ERIC ROBERSON - WHAT IS LOVE MADE OF - ( XTEND. CARLOS DJ )bpm 94

Promo for the song titled "Hands Up" from Gail Jhonson's latest album "New Beginnings".

RELEASE DATE: October 23, 2015.

Hands Up

Dealing feat. Lalah Hathaway

Love Her

produced this joint for Eric Roberson for the Men Love Mary project. 

Eric Roberson - My Life

At The Same Time

It takes a leonine level of courage for a female singer to release her debut CD on the world using just her first name - when that name is Dionne – but this is no ordinary artist. Dionne is more than just a singer/songwriter with a tight 5-song soul EP (Digital Download) and 8-song soul CD, tellingly titled Living In The Music (on 111 East Records). She’s a woman of artistic goals and deep-seeded human compassion. She’s spent her first years out of college pursuing her dream job working with young girls as the Deputy Director of an arts and academics program called Interstages in Washington D.C., endeavoring to lift their self-esteem, leadership skills and sense of purpose. However, in the grand karmic scheme of things, it was one of Dionne’s students that gently taught HER a life-changing lesson.

Dallas-native Dionne attended both a middle school for the arts and the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (also known as Arts Magnet). Her first professional gig arrived while she was still in high school – singing backup for a local real estate agent turned country singer. Dionne later attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania where her majors were English and Education, but because everyone knew she had such a lovely voice, she was able to pick up gigs here and there. This later led to singing backup for gospel star LaShun Pace and fronting The Odyssey Big Band for two years singing jazz arrangements of Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole and Norah Jones numbers, including a coveted engagement at D.C.’s venerable Wolf Trap venue.

Following time spent in Baltimore as a classroom teacher and supporting others’ dreams, Dionne moved to Washington D.C. to focus on what she felt was her dream job in youth development. That’s where Dionne met Brianna. “I was driving several students home,” Dionne shares. “Brianna – one of those children with an ‘old soul’ – lived closest to me, so she was always the last in the car. When the kids didn’t want to talk, I would sometimes just sing. On this evening, we were about a block-and-a-half from Brianna’s house when she looked up and said, ‘Ms. Dionne, what are you doing?’ She didn’t say another word but she and I both knew what she meant. Here I had been always teaching them to go for their dreams but I was working with them everyday instead of following my dream of singing. She was telling me to go for it. I loved that job...but I had to let it go so I could pursue my true passion.”

On a whim, Dionne did an online search through YellowPages.com, found a recording facility and scheduled some studio time to put herself to the test. She brought in three songs, insisting on ‘producing’ them herself by dictating to the house engineer what she wanted her tracks to sound like. The end result was dicey musically but encouraging enough vocally and writing-wise for Dionne to take the leap of faith to literally “live in the music.”

“I appreciated what I had to say in those early songs,” Dionne says. “I was an English major so I have always written in one form or another. Listening to the playback of me singing my songs was the beginning of my personal validation. I never had a powerhouse voice, but I learned to respect the beauty of what I have and to take note of what other people hear within it – to hone and work what I’ve got.” Dionne’s gift is the ability to express thoughtful themes in simple yet poetic terms. She named her publishing company Lyrics First Music because “the words and thoughts you share are very important, especially the way they are received by young people. Whether I’m 53 or 93 – writing for me or someone else – lyrics as a priority is never going to change for me.” All of the songs on her debut EP Living In The Music were conceived in one six-month burst of creativity. She settled on all one-word titles for a reason: “I love the simplicity and the intrigue of them…you won’t know exactly what the song is about - until you listen.”

Briefly introducing her songs, Dionne shares, “‘Ooh’ (a digital dream) is about that feeling I get when I write something, sing it for people and can feel them connecting to it. I can’t believe it when it happens and there’s just no other way to describe it!” Two songs provide cautionary anti-love at first sight lessons. “’Lucky’ (some ol’ school boom-bap for your soul) is about perfect timing,” Dionne continues, “and preparation meeting opportunity. ‘Sure’ (a breezy springtime love-spreader) reflects the importance of not moving forward in a relationship until you feel really sure it’s love…or not. It’s about a contemplative state of mind.”

The moody groove of “Allergies” is a song Dionne co-wrote with an old B’more acquaintance, James Collins: leader of the acclaimed souljazz band Fertile Ground. It is also the song that earned her a record deal. “Out of nowhere, it got me on the JL U.K. Soul Chart and that’s how 111 East Records found me. It wasn’t even me who submitted it! Somebody I still don’t know to this day sent it in simply because they liked it. That song is about recognizing what is not working for you in your life and getting away from it. It was inspired by my marriage that ended and really strikes me as how something so difficult to live through ended up being the thing that moved me forward.” The body-rockin’/head noddin’ first single/video “Move” was actually the last song completed for the EP. “Everybody at X-Posure
Entertainment - my primary production company headed up by Reginald Rainey – and my Project Manager/Vocal Arranger Jocelyn “iNDIGO” Saunders felt it was the hit because it was so upbeat and uplifting. I also felt the song best represented me as an artist as I move forward in my destiny. When I finished writing it, the song was telling me, ‘Dionne, there’s no looking back now, it’s time to move…full speed ahead.’ That’s the vibe you feel in my first video (directed by Kevin Sampson).”

Truly Living In The Music and manifesting her dreams, Dionne is on the path of her personal favorite artists Anita Baker and Jill Scott – hoping to get on tours with them, to perform at The Birchmere Music Hall, and to sing with her dream men Eric Roberson, MusiqSoulchild and Mint Condition. Dionne was a semi-finalist in Andre Harrell’s “Superstar Soul Search” where her song “Ooh” placed 7th out of 150 entries for the Northeast Tri-State area. She has graced the stage of Ashford & Simpson’s Sugar Bar in New York, shared her writing process on a panel for The Songwriters Association of Washington, is in regular rotation on Pandora, performed at the annual “National Capital Barbecue Battle” (which she was invited back to perform this year), The Prophet Bar back home in Dallas, and at Harvey Star Washington’s “Night of 100 Stars” on a bill with Jennifer Holliday.

As for stepping out with her iconic first name Dionne (formerly Deedee Kirby), the lady affirms, “I made that decision just before my CDs were being pressed. Thinking about how much these songs mean to me, it didn’t feel right to hide behind my family nickname. That didn’t speak to the authenticity of me and what I am offering. Whether or not it confuses me with somebody else, I had to come out as Dionne - because that’s real to me.”

“Living in the music is literally what I’m doing now,” Dionne concludes. “It’s where I love to be. I actually love rehearsing even more than performing. If life could be a constant rehearsal with lots of great musicians all around me, that’s where I would live.”


Dionne - Living In The Music (CD Sample)

For 17 years she’s made it look easy: marriage, motherhood, music career, and managing the enviable feat of becoming one of the most consistently sought-after producers and songwriters in independent soul. It doesn’t hurt that she’s also a knockout. For 17 years, Angela Johnson has been the real-life Superwoman of Independent Music. One of the first Indie Queens of Soul to reign, Johnson has released six albums of guilty pleasures that have caused thousands of souls to sing and feet to move around the globe. Building on the momentum established from her first two critically-acclaimed projects with Cooly’s hot-box, Johnson has become an international sensation in the UK and Japan and credibly positioned herself as a bankable brand with companies seeking fresh and innovative artists-partners. After years of sharing only the smiling siren behind the keys, with her latest Purpose Music release, It’s Personal, Johnson is now ready to reveal the truth behind the image and finally share the intimate secret to her fan’s #1 question: How does she do it?
Johnson will be the first to tell you that at least half of the reason she’s able to do it is her solid Utica, New York upbringing. A musical child prodigy, Johnson was playing piano by age four and violin by nine. The eldest of four, Johnson was supported throughout her formative years by a loving family in her most evident passion. Johnson’s Baptist church family added another layer of encouragement, giving her those crucial first opportunities to rock an audience as a choir director, organist and eventual star performer. At her spiritual and musical training ground, Johnson refined the ear arresting rhythms of her heart and the voice that echoed the notes endlessly playing in her head. Multi-hyphenated personal icons like Patrice Rushen and Angela Winbush set a path for Johnson in sound and illuminated the possible for a blue-collar girl who knew a multi-faceted musical destiny awaited her.
Born for music, Johnson enrolled in the State University of New York at Purchase (SUNY) to further study violin. At SUNY, she met her future Cooly’s hot-box bandmates and songwriting partner, Christian Urich. Together the eclectic soul and acid jazz band landed a deal with Polygram Records that ended almost before it begun. A trifecta of dance hits (“We Don’t Have To Be Alone,” “What A Surprise,”  and “Make Me Happy”) earned the band an international reputation for earnest, soulful grooves. In 2002, the group inked a new deal with Virgin Records, and released their critically acclaimed debut album, Take It. While honing her production and songwriting chops on the Cooly’s Hot Box debut album, Johnson decided it was time to express the woman she is alone and simultaneously recorded her solo debut, They Don’t Know (Purpose). Immediately distinguishing her sound from Cooly’s, Johnson’s solo debut, and its radio hit “Ordinary Things” loudly announced exactly what the industry should know: that Angela Johnson was here to stay. The industry listened. Songs from They Don’t Know and its intimate follow-up, Got To Let It Go (Purpose), were licensed by HBO’s The Wire, UPN’s Kevin Hill, FX’s The Shield, and the WB’s Roswell. As a featured spokesperson Angela was also appearing in Japanese car commercials for Nissan. In 2004 Angela briefly reunited with Cooly’s hot-box to record  their sophomore album, Don’t Be Afraid-Get On (Purpose).  In early 2005 the band was featured in a  national TV advertising campaign for SBCglobal.net (AT&T/Cingular). That same year Johnson departed the band who’d later become Tortured Soul. As a front woman for Cooly’s hot-box, Johnson had toured the world, now it was time to conquer it as an artistic force in her own right.
More than a pretty face, Johnson began penning hits for artists like Conya Doss (“Emotions”), Seek (“Journey Into Day”), Laurnea (“No Shame”), Monét (“Wanna Kiss You”), Reel People (“Can’t Stop”), and Japanese R&B superstar Double, for whom Johnson landed a 2001 top ten, gold selling hit, “Angel.” Her achievements as a producer and songwriter earned her the respect of artists’ artists like Maysa, Frank McComb, Eric Roberson, Rahsaan Patterson, Gordon Chambers, Marlon Saunders, and Claude McKnight, among others. All of whom graciously performed on Johnson’s last project, the single producer compilation, A Woman’s Touch, yielding the radio hit “Let Me Know (featuring Eric Roberson)” and three Soul Tracks Readers’ Choice Award nominations, including “Album of the Year.”
On stages from Kyoto to Briton, Johnson’s success, powerful performances, and Madison Avenue appeal helped to cultivate the alluring image of the dynamic Superwoman who was handling life with sass and aplomb, but there was always much more to Johnson’s woman next door persona than met the eye. In addition to her strong family upbringing, the secret weapon that has allowed Johnson to keep so many balls afloat over the last 17 years is her marriage to her manager and Purpose Music co-founder Russell Johnson. The dynamic duo has demonstrated the anti-thesis of every stereotype about Black love, Black family, and the legendary horror stories surrounding female artists with managing husbands. Angela’s comic sensibilities and creative chaos are complemented by Russell’s straight man stability and orderly business savvy. The Johnson’s yin and yang work because there are no leaders, only partners in business and in love. Together raising a daughter, who’s getting her own global education, the Johnson’s take co-parenting as seriously on tour as they do in their Newark, New Jersey home. With her newest project It’s Personal, it was important to Johnson to share her family and marriage experiences on songs like “Days,” “For You” and “Only One,” once and for all smashing the lone woman persona to share all of Angela Johnson with her fans.
After delivering nearly two decades of honest music, Angela Johnson has nothing left to prove. A newly liberated Johnson returns ready to party. Culling the funky sounds of that twilight period between the end of disco and the height of the funk era, Johnson’s production on It’s Personal rediscovers the rhythmic grooves, propulsive basslines, and memorable chords that once poured from live instruments instead of technology. Club bangers like the lead single “Better” and “Hurts Like Hell” fuses warm harmonies and infectious hooks with personal lyrics that tell Angie’s uncompromising truths. Throughout, Johnson gifts her listeners with that rare music her fans can both step to and be moved by, the kind once commonplace “On The Radio.”
With lyrical revelations like “Be Myself” and “Get Myself Together,” not since Got To Let It Go’s “Got To Let It Go,” Johnson’s personal testimony about surviving her mother’s homegoing, has Johnson bared so much of her soul in song. Even on the Eric Roberson’s penned “The Indie In Me,” the only lyric not written by Johnson, Roberson’s take on the joys and trials of life on the road as an artist resonate with Johnson’s story. As does the lifeblood of her marital love on the single, “All In Me,” with up and coming crooner, Darien, serving as a stand-in for Russell on a sultry duet that’s already steaming up the airwaves.
With It’s Personal, Angela tears down the final wall between her perfected image for the stage and the real-life woman who works hard and sometimes stumbles in her effort to keep it sexy for her husband, be a shining example for her daughter, maintain the esteem of her industry, and deliver the kind of music and performances that contributes something real in the lives of her fans. No more illusion, just Angie.

For tour and updates follow Angela Johnson on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Reverb Nation or on her website: http://www.angelajohnson.com/fr_home.cfm/. For bookings and inquiries: contact Russell Johnson @ The Purpose Music Group @ 973.688.8129 or purposemusicgroup@gmail.com.

http://www.angelajohnson.com/fr_angelajohnson.cfm
http://www.myspace.com/angelajohnson1

01 Only One

02 Hurts Like Hell

(E. Roberson, B. Scott)(E. Roberson, B. Scott, C. Dave)
Blue Erro Soul/EMI April Music Publishing (ASCAP); B Jazz Music (ASCAP); Drum Hedz 713 Music (SESAC)

Produced by B Jazz for TheJazzMovement.com, and Eric Roberson for Raider Of The Lost A.R.T.
All vocals by Eric Roberson
Drums and Percussion by Chris "Daddy" Dave
Guitar by Ben "Benanas" O'Neil
Bass by Thaddaeus Tribbett
All ofhter instruments by B Jazz
Mixed by Kevin jackson at Night Flight, Fort Washington, MD.
Drums miexed by Keith Lewis at Flyin Dread Studios, Venice, CA.

© 2011 Blue Erro Soul  All Rights Reserved
Purpose Music Group, LLC & eOne Music

Eric Roberson - Shake Her Hand

Not Just Another Love song shows more of the R&B side of the artist! Feats. from Eddie B, Mario, Young Murph Tha Kid, AJ Orbit and many more! ENJOY!!
Written/Performed by: Dwight Welch Jr. 
Mixed/Mastered/Produced: @TheBigHerm

DWIGHT - Not Just Another Love Song - 12 please don't leave me feat. Eric Roberson

Again feat. Choklate

"This Could Be The Night" (Tall Black Guy Remix) is the second leak from "+FE Music: The Reworks" remix compilation that features remixes from Nicolay, Zo!, 4hero, ?uestlove & James Poyser and more. The Reworks will hit stores February 26 and Zo!'s upcoming album ManMade will be out this Spring, both on +FE Music.

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