beats

Thanx to yesterday’s tweet tip by Lucas Gonze here’s an amazing free download Ghostly International compo for Adult Swim featuring the who’s who of contemporary electronic music.

Big up for the English dj/producer Bullion for this great Beach/Dilla project. The ‘66 Beach Boys album reinterpreted with Dilla’s arsenal of beats is a soundly cohesive clash of giants, reminiscent of Dangermouse’s Beatles mash-ups.

One of the deservedly hottest things in music right now is hands down Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder imprint. If you’ve been sleeping under a rock, Flying Lotus and colleagues have been feeding us nuschool instrumental beats which owe much to electronic music as much as everything hip-hop generally gets inspired off.

A few hiphop/house/downtempo mixes found around the net & twitterscape that’d rock a sunny day like we have today. Mixes from Gaslamp Killer, Exile, Flying Lotus, Headhunter, Linkwood & House of Traps, Onra and our own Kabus Kerim and Cenk Akyol inside!

Yesterday @tokafi mentioned two of our favourite netlabels Zymogen and 12Rec has founded a new label called Error Broadcast and they’ve released their first label compilation called Bag of Nothingness that spans across 17 songs of abstract, instrumental hip-hop.

Thanks to coming to grips with the slow music movement and ending my music glut significantly, I’ve been giving much time to older releases which I’ve not given enough time, or found out too late. This one by St. Louis rapper Black Spade is literally 1 year old. Released last March “To Serve with Love” is a good effort on the Mighty Om Records.

SXSW hype is getting bigger and bigger each year, and the music industry is going crazy these days, tweets, emails, schedules, free music. Most go straight to the bin, because we are continents away, but free music is always welcome, if it’s coming from an identified good source like Exponential.

We’ve got five mixes/podcasts today, newschool beats from LA’s Low End Theory Club, a late night jazz & ambient mix from Low Light Mixes, urban dance music from ARGO, drone/ambient mix by Sweden’s Ljud and Illum Sphere’s Hoya:Hoya 2.