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Hello friends and welcome to episode #023 of Mercury Landing.

Thank you for your patience, while we took a quick pause last month. I got a little busy with the highs and the lows of life but we are back! And I’m really excited to introduce our next guest.

Today, I present to you, DJ Just Babies. Just Babies is a producer/DJ straight out of Toronto where he currently holds residencies at a couple of local hot spots, so if you live in the area, or you're just visiting, make sure you connect with him on his SoundCloud page at soundcloud.com/djjustbabies where you can also find all of his social media links and stay up to date with his live gigs and future projects.

Coming in at around the 15 minute mark, he gives us a super wavy mix featuring sounds by procuderboibrad, local jam and more. Enjoy!

Peace & Blessings everyone.

✨Tracklist✨

Mercury Landing Episode #023 Feat. Just Babies

join me on every 2nd and 4th thursday of the month from 6-7pm (est) for my show jusss listen radio on https://iso.fm/ where i play r&b, soul and future beats <3

next episode will be on july 22nd :)

track list:

Peng Black Girls Remix - ENNY & Jorja Smith
Better Than I Imagined - Robert Glasper & H.E.R.
Lovesick - Jerome Thomas & Jarreau Vandal
Electric Lady - DONTTELLNOBODY
WHAT WE MAKE IT - Omoidé (feat. MERC & SuJazz)
Waves - Joey Bada$$
Dust - Frank Ocean
Only If - Steve Lacy
Show Love - Everything is Recorded
Good Morning - Joyce Wrice
CAUTIOUS - Destin Conrad
Dream - Clairmont the Second
already bf - sans
hit different - 1981 tokyo
So Simple - Alicia Keys
Newness - Musiq Soulchild
I Think I Love You - Dwele
Best Friends - Missy Elliot (feat. Aaliyah)
Where Do We Go - Solange
SWEET / I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO DANCE - Tyler, The Creator
LOST YOU - Snoh Aalegra
Wasting Time - Brent Faiyaz (feat. Drake)
Pillow Talk - Kid Cudi
Skyline (Remi Oz Edit) - Brent Faiyaz
forty4twenty2 - thriii edit
this side, this side - mattdeguia
Trying Again - omoidé
Chanel (tofu edit) - Frank Ocean
So What - Ciara (feat. Field Mob)
THAT’S OK - Bluestaeb (feat. Phabo & S. Fidelity)

JUSSS LISTEN RADIO EP. 001

essencessss

dropping soon

Robert Glasper - All I Do [FLIP]

enrgy_

sample pack : payhip.com/b/LAbO2

made a fat joint w/ ma boi @ilovesome

support : https://localjam.bandcamp.com/track/u-a-critic-boy-stfu-w-lovesome

download

u a critic boy stfu w/ lovesome

STUNNA

from the upcoming album "The Night Took Us In Like Family"
Pre-Order (4/21): https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/night-took-us-in-like-family/id962648340

Premeired @ Pigeons & Planes: http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2015/03/premiere-lorange-jeremiah-jae-taken-by-the-night/

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 - Taken By The Night

IF YOU - BIG BANG

MINO - '몸(BODY)

Emotions Are (Prod by Rythmatical)

On @vcxk8945 - Spotless

날 밀어내는 사람들이 많았지
검은색을 나쁘게만 보는 버릇이 있었어
멍청하게만 밑으로 내려갔지

넌 내게 다른 인식을 건네줬지
갑자기 나의 손을 잡아끌어줬지

Oh my god 

다른머저리에게 머릿속에
자리 전부 다 내주던 내가 이젠 
전부 Pass through 해버려

전부 비워야했거든

넌 뭘 원해?
다 가능해

나의 벽을 전부 꺼멓게 칠할게

널 위해
난 가능해

그곳으로 너를 데려갈께

난 이제야 여기 서 있어

온통 어둠뿐인데 좋은걸

널 볼수있어 나는 느껴져

꿈속에서도 너만 선한걸



I like your 'black'
I like your 'black'
I like your 'black'

I like your
I like your

Because you're 'Black'

true

Vinyl: http://www.fatbeats.com/products/emanon-aloe-blacc-exile-dystopia-lp-flexidisc
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5JgvWgMtJljC8U5QD4mVo3
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dystopia/id1179614005?ls=1
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dystopia/id1179614005?ls=1&app=itunes
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N68DLSV/

Exile and Aloe Blacc have been making music together for many years. The 2 began experimenting with Hip Hop when Aloe was only 16 and Exile 17 with no more than a 4 track tape recorder, turntable and a microphone. Building a fan base pre internet selling tapes on the streets all over the CA southland, eventually reaching the world. The 2 have released many underground tapes and vinyl through out the years and ears of many. The 2 have made many classics with each other but more note worthy when the two began to work on there own. Most people do not know Aloe blacc began as a rapper since his Stones Throw release "Good Things" and number one smash "The Man"
Mean while Exile laying the foundation of new west coast classics with Dirty science crew mates, Blu and exile, below the heavens, Fashawn's boy meets world, and countless production credits from Snoop Dogg, Whiz Khalifa to Big Sean. The two have remained friends and continued to collaborate together, but is not til now the combination bares the fruit of a new album. A look into the darker side of Aloes mind of poetry and lyrical mastery, with Exile behind the production to bring you a modern classic  Dystopia. 

1. Make It Over
2. Aloe Be Thy Name 
3. C.O.C.A. (Come one Come All)  ft Chashus King AKA CO$$
4. This Little light
5. Forgive Us
6. Yesterday Ft. blu
7.  Monetary Murder
8. Death Is Fair
9. What Does it Take
10, The E.N.D.

Lyrics By Aloe Blacc
Blu for Azulito's birthday cake ASCAP 
Cashus King for Coss King Sesac 
Produced By Exile for Dirty Science BMI
Keys on "This Little Light" by Farmer Grief
And on "Make It Over" by Michal Bergen 
Mixed by Frederico "C Sik" Lopez at The Drug Lab, Los Angeles, CA
Mastered by Wes Osborne at Violet Lantern Mastering
Photography: Juan Luis Garcia

DYSTOPIA 13

Make It Over _   Emanon (Aloe Blacc & Exile)

WESTSIDEDOOM - 2 Stings (Je$u$ RMX)
@westsidegunn

Westside Gunn & MF Doom - 2 Stings (Je$u$ RMX)

Backwoodz Studioz is proud to announce the upcoming release of Henry Canyons' first full-length LP exclusively under the Backwoodz umbrella. The Cool Side is entirely produced by Henry’s longtime collaborator, Bones, with guest features from billy woods and Homeboy Sandman. It’s a project that finds Henry putting his effortless flows to the test over Bones’ rangy production, flipping new styles with every changeup and beat switch.

“Cool Side didn’t start as an album,” Henry explains, “Bones and I started making random joints that were almost all jazz/funk samples; I’d send him sample ideas and he would send me back a beat the next day”. It was a fun thing that they talked about making into an EP, but was briefly shelved when Henry accepted an artists’ residency in Biarritz, France in the fall of 2016. 

After the residency was completed, Henry returned to the project with new perspective. “I was still in France, and in a different place mentally, physically and emotionally. Also Bones’ production had taken a darker, more pensive turn.  What came out were reactions to being abroad and isolated during a time of upheaval at home”

Bones admits that he stepped outside his own comfort zone in order to full realize Henry’s vision. “Most of my own production has more of a pop orientation. Generally, I'm into layers and harmonies and catchy hooks. But with Henry I actively tried to stray away from that,” he remembers .  

This duality frames The Cool Side both artistically, and in it’s presentation. Side A and Side B reflects not just the sides of the vinyl, but the tensions between past and present, between the ideal and the real.  While you may recognize Henry from his stellar features on albums by Backwoodz fixtures billy woods (Today, I Wrote Nothing)  and Willie Green (Doc Savage), The Cool Side of the Pillow finds Henry Canyons in a milieux all his own.

Special Blend (feat. Homeboy Sandman & Zoe Rose Palladino)

E E L A Y /// T3_

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