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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/
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https://www.facebook.com/MelloMusicGroup360
http://mellomusicgroup.bandcamp.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/mellomusicgroup

 



Oddisee - Invisible Walls

From Black Milk's latest full-length album, If There's A Hell Below. 

iTunes: http://smarturl.it/blackmilk_hellbelow

Physical and Digital on Bandcamp: https://blackmilk.bandcamp.com/album/if-theres-a-hell-below

If There's A Hell Below
01. Everyday Was ft. Mel
02. What It’s Worth
03. Leave The Bones Behind ft. Blu and Ab
04. Quarter Water ft. Pete Rock
05. Hell Below ft. Gene Obey
06. Detroit’s New Dance Show
07. Story and Her
08. All Mighty
09. Scum ft. Random Axe
10. Gold Piece ft. Bun B
11. Grey for Summer
12. Up & Out 

What It's Worth

This is the first leak from Choosey's upcoming release titled Left Field dropping on Dirty Science records Oct 14th, 2014.

After producing albums for Blu Fashawn aloe blacc dag savage and more exile is gearing up to drop yet another album with so cal rapper Choosey. But before the Choosey and exile album Choosey is dropping the free "left field album" peep the first release 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr-lpCkmxx4

Choosey - Fly Me To The Moon (Prod. by Exile)

from the mello music group album "Persona" coming out 3/10.
prod. Oddisee | vocals: Oddisee & Phonte hook: Tamisha Waden | art: Oliver Barrett

If the soul of hip-hop belongs to the culture, the skeleton belongs to the independent label. From Sugar Hill to Def Jam, Tommy Boy to Rawkus, Fondle Em to Def Jux, the genre’s best music has been birthed by imprints that brazenly defy the status quo, those who champion fearless artists and always prize quality over commerce.
 
For the last eight years, Mello Music Group has lived by that ethos. If you’re reading these words, you’re inevitably well aware of its ascendance and growing legacy. But more importantly, you know the artists—those singular voices channeling the spirits of the past and spitting premonitions of the future. Boom-bap at its best: evolving and expanding the art form, capturing stories of the struggle, upholding the tradition, and keeping the crooked honest.
 
Persona unveils the murderer’s row that is the Mello roster of 2015. Oddisee, Apollo Brown, yU, L'Orange, Red Pill, Open Mike Eagle, Rapper Big Pooh, Quelle Chris. The stars of the present teamed with timeless innovators like Phonte (Little Brother), Blockhead, Ras Kass, Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), Oh No, Masta Ace, and Bilal Salaam. The result is something that binds current greats with the pioneers who paved the asphalt. It’s both a historical moment and hard as hell.
 
If most compilations are nothing more than a loosely thrown together collection of songs, Persona boasts meticulous focus. These aren’t spare tracks, they’re potent messages and poisonous darts. “Requiem” finds Phonte and Oddisee indicting American racism and Xenophobia with fury and precision. On “Homicide,” yU and Nottz leave blood dripping all over the canvas. There’s “Celebrity Reduction Prayer,” where Open Mike Eagle lampoons fundamentalists and religious zealots over Oddisee’s warm Stevie Wonder keyboards.
 
But there’s ultimately no need to do the track-by-track breakdown. This is an anthology in the most traditional well-curated sense. Turn here if you want to find the best hip-hop artists of their generation in raw and unfiltered form. The bars are brimstone; the beats force your neck to swivel. Through all the discontent, rays of hope begin to emerge. If you remember the feeling you got when you first heard Soundbombing, stop searching. The slang has changed, the style remains indelible, the latest personas have emerged. The new sound is here.



Requiem (feat. Oddisee & Phonte)

I Guess

From the forthcoming Jamla Records release "Prey For The Poor" Available September 4th

Prey For The Poor

Add-2 - Rewind Ft. Rapsody prod. by Khrysis

From 'The Past​.​.​.' 

Lyrics

HOOK 
Back stateside on MLK riding 
Low in the whip look like no one’s driving (Repeat 3x) 
(Substantial) 
Whether 395 or 704 
Dream big baby stay steady on course 

VERSE 1 (See King) 
I grace these peasants with my presence King Martin Luther, 
The streets with his namesakes the perfect place to find a shooter 
A civil rights mover turning left up in a Cougar, 
Watching the revolution on TVs took by a looter 
On fire like H Street, tongue twerks on a break beat, 
History maker tell spectator to take seat 
Enjoy the experience of this social experiment, 
Send shots at Cyclops; close the eye on the pyramid 
I’m too dope it’s no legalizing this lyricist, 
Father MC and your baby mother’s the surrogate 
Hip Hop’s in my heritage, save it from the culture vultures and 
The poet poachers, still not a player though I’m dressing like the coaches 
Most of us fell victim, to well-placed pitfalls got my dawgs in the system 
The chocolate city now suffers from vitiligo, 
The dream died on that balcony pray it wakes up tomorrow 

HOOK 


VERSE 2 (Substantial) 
Mike King like the minister’s initial name 
Fighting imprisonment and those with wicked aims 
Who administer pain, but we navigate the baddest fate 
Like our ancestors did use our head to carry weight 
Many chose to move it so now they facing the music 
Misguided warriors can’t find their place amongst the movement 
So you know the guns stay shooting ‘cause the streets blind niggas 
don’t see their a budding Nobel Peace Prize Winner 
Tryna’ eat my dinner like what’s mine is yours… 
Really what’s mine is ours, need to combine our power 
Why shine for hours we can reflect eternally 
For y’all to take me seriously, they’d have to murder me 
No respect like the mascot in gold & burgundy 
But certainly spitters this ill belong in infirmaries 
Still dreaming temporary setbacks be deferring me 
But my Corretta know betta she ride for eternity 

HOOK 

VERSE 3 
(See King) 
Lost my sight at the podium, blinded by diabetes 
A diet with too much sodium still writing this opium 
Claim country in crisis gain control of petroleum 
Dreamt big as a kid, grew to be a custodian 
Mass media frenzy, beamers Benzes and Bentleys 
Before we party'd with panthers but now the venue is empty 
Still penny pinching while the devil’s Willie lynching, 
Guess my brother was too poor to pay attention…Overstand! 

(Substantial) 
Baby soldiers taken over never be an older man 
Ain't playing with a full deck, no one there to hold their hand 
So they hold the steel like they wielding the wrath of God 
Hoping for a deal for their skill as a rapping God 
….Hoping to give them chills with their catalog 
Or hoop dreaming ‘cause they got skills with a basketball 
But once they’re at the mall speaking to and for the people 
Will you follow like sheep do or take a stance against evil while we’re… 

HOOK

MLK (Dream Big)(ft. See King) [Produced by The Other Guys]

North Carolina's Kooley High gave us this exclusive track to post after we shot an Okayplayspace feature with the crew.  

Grab your free download of "Lent" now, produced by Napoleon Wright III, and head over to Okayplayer to watch the Okayplayspace interview with Kooley High!

http://www.okayplayer.com/news/okayplayspace-kooley-high.html


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Kooley High - "Lent" (produced by Napoleon Wright III)

Dancing In The Rain

Latest album "Ella" available now on iTunes. 
Purchase Here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ella/id666551472
Features latest single, "Charlie Brown" feat. Blu.

Love BIG.
Twitter @dopescienze. Follow.

ScienZe - "Charlie Brown" feat. Blu (prod. EOM)

www.IamSubstantial.com

Virginia based International Hip Hop Recording Artist from Maryland.

MLK (Dream Big)(ft. See King) [Produced by The Other Guys]

Substantial

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