Love this track. I can hear Naz and AZ flowing 🎶 🎼 🎵

The initial thought that came to mind in the process of making “Blackcurrent Jazz 2” was to create a landscape of ideas that capture the truest essence of Jazz but that also embodied the purest and most authentic hip-hop feel. The original Blackcurrent Jazz album (released in 2001) was a great piece of work but for me was more a mesh of beats and breaks and sometimes with tracks that didn’t even lend to Jazz at all. This time around I wanted every single song to scream JAZZ!!! But still using a combination of Jazz breaks that give off varying vibes.

I wanted this album to be more polished, more distinguished and more discernable than 10 years ago. Smoother, more intricate and ultimately more of a thought through process to it. So I set about the production process which I knew would be huge, because I wanted to use additional beats for 20 second interludes to be used in between each main track, which then ultimately doubled my production load. I also knew that the main selections all had to musically jump out at me and I wasn’t going to start writing until I had found all the right beats that made me feel as if I have the right ingredients for a classic album.

And then it started. Hours of sampling, cutting, chopping, filtering, and pitch shifting, mixing and then mixing again. Then came the writing, recording and editing, which for me is a very lengthy and meticulous process. And finally after over 6 months work came “Blackcurrent Jazz 2: The Gold Reflection” subtitled to pay dues and respect to the golden era of hip-hop (the 90’s).

Jazzphonics

Kev Brown - Albany

Taken from our new album 'The Product'

Available on digital and CD format here :)

jazzspastiks.bandcamp.com/album/the-product-3

Jazz Party

Been 8 months since I posted something on here. Slackin, but here's a beautifulass beat to make up for it. 

The Upgrade ft Oddisee & Posdnuos(Instrumental)| J-Live (2008)

From the album PETE ROCK "PETESTRUMENTALS 2" coming on Mello Music Group June 23rd. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/petestrumentals-2/id977868001

Premiered at The FADER: http://www.thefader.com/2015/03/30/pete-rock-opens-his-vault-to-unleash-one-two-a-few-more

Pete Rock says: “I’m gearing up for the release of “Petestrumentals 2” with Mello Music Group. The first single “One, Two, A Few More” is actually a beat I made in 1995 and just sat on for years for the right moment. Now, I get a chance to release this and more new & unreleased music never heard by my fans with Mello. This instrumental LP will inspire the masses in anything you are doing. Just apply P2 to it and get on the road to success.”

Pete Rock - "One, Two, A Few More"

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Hypno (Lo-fi Remix)

The instrumental version of Elzhi and Will Sessions' ELMATIC.

Buy it here
http://www.fatbeats.com/products/will-sessions-the-elmatic-instrumentals-cd

http://www.fatbeats.com/products/will-sessions-the-elmatic-instrumentals-lp-180gram-download-card

08 Lifes A Bitch

Pre-order: https://jakartarecords-label.bandcamp.com/album/fruitful

Reaping is taken from Fredfades & Ivan Ave - Fruitful LP to be released on Jakarta on the 4th of December.

Raps: Ivan Ave, beat: Fredfades, trumpet: Kristoffer Eikrem.

Follow the artists here: 
@fredfades
@ivanave
@kristoffereikrem 

Fredfades & Ivan Ave - Reaping (Taken off "Fruitful")

"One of the most important musicians of our time. When we think of John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye, J Dilla will be going down along that history line of greatness." - Common (from XXL)
 
"He inspired me so much. One of the best days of my life was when he handed me a record with drums on it. I was so honored." - Kanye West (from XXL)
 
Jay Dee’s “Welcome to Detroit” was the album that kicked off BBE’s Beat Generation series. This seminal album (it even has its own Wikipedia entry) cemented Dilla’s reputation as a virtuoso beat maker with a remarkable range of talents. For the first time, (from that album) “Think Twice” appears on a very limited 7” single. It is a cover of Donald Byrd's seminal classic featuring Dwele on vocals... it shows Dilla’s supreme versatility behind the boards (and on the mic — it’s not the featured Dwele that sings the hook).  
 
And from his posthumously relealeased album “The Shinining” :

Common, meanwhile, does the Common thing, which is to ride the beat dumbly (but appropriately) on standout robofunker “E=MC2,” Despite Kanye boosting his sales numbers, it was Jay Dee who consistently brought out the best emcee in Common, his former roommate, and he proves it again here on "E=MC2."

 
Web 
http://www.j-dilla.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_2_Detroit



Welcome To Detroit

Think Twice

Jay Dee Think Twice

Thanks for the support! 

It is now available on iTunes!
US: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bus-stop-jazz-single/id415558530
UK: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/bus-stop-jazz-single/id415558530

Lunice & The Jealous Guys - Bus Stop Jazz

Will Sessions have established themselves as one of Detroit’s must-see live bands, with a varied musical output that reflects their city’s roots.

After cutting their teeth as the house band at the infamous Motor City Funk Night parties, the band went on to release a series of singles on the FNR label, as well as LPs like the instant-classic Elmatic, Kindred, and Mixtakes video/album series.

In addition to their own work, the group is known for collaborations with the likes of Amp Fiddler, Mayer Hawthorne, Slum Village, Elzhi, Black Milk, Phat Kat, Guilty Simpson, Eminem and Slaughter House, KRS-One, Danny Brown, DJ Dez/Andrez, Jeremy Ellis, Wendell Harrison, Toots & the Maytals, and Griz.

08 Lifes A Bitch

Will Sessions

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