Eclectic.Soundclash

Sound Downtown & More Recs

November 13, 2008, 9:51 pm
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: [14kt], [88-Keys], [Blue Sky Black Death], [Busdriver], [Free Moral Agents], [Greyboy], [Jedi Mind Tricks], [Jurassic 5], [Look Daggers], [T-Love]

Despite the fact that its in Santa Ana, I’m definitely gonna try to make the trip up this Sat. I mean look at that fuckin line-up ..Free Moral Agents, Look Daggers, Busdriver, Nobody, Blank Blue, Free the Robots.. only $10?!

Free Moral Agents also have a local show coming up on the 25th @ Beauty Bar. However, since i cant find any other info on their site, dont hold me to this.

Recommendations:

Jurassic 5 – J5: 11th Anniversary CD

Cd1

In The Flesh
Quality Control Part 2
Jayou
Lesson 6: The Lecture
Concrete Schoolyard
Setup
Action Satisfaction
Sausage Gut
Improvise
Blacktop Beat
Without A Doubt
Lesson 6 (Reprise)
Action Satisfaction (Dub)

Cd2

Ignition Sequence
Ducky Boy
Verbal Gunfight
Rubber Tires
Long Road To Glory
Ghetto Diplomat
Lesson Four: The Radio
Jayou Remix
The Rhythm
(Who’s Gonna Be The) Next Victim
The Joint Freestyle
The Joint Promo
Wake Up Show Promo
Power 106 Promo
Unified Rebelution

Blue Sky Black Death – Slow Burning Lights

Secrets
Once Away
Hot Night
Honestly
Stillness
Movements
Come Inside
Tokyo Underground
Pretend
The Darkest Time

T-Love – No Apologies

On My Mind
When You’re Older
Force Be With You
Worry Free
Butcher’s Hook
Nobody Knows My Name
From LA To Brooklyn Remix Ft Siah & Yeshua
Freestyle
Spill Milk Ft Dilated Peoples
Follow Me (OG Mix)
Vocab Ft The Procussions
Seven (OG Mix)
I Be Flexin
Return Of The B-Girl Ft Kool Keith
QMS
From The Ground Up Remix Ft Iriscience
Genius At Work Ft Fatlip
What’s Next
Heavyweight Round 2 Ft Ganjah K, Volume10, Koko, Freestyle Fellowship, Medus…
Blew Knews

Greyboy – 15 Years Of West Coast Cool

Unwind Your Mind (Feat. Karl Denson)
Ruffneck Jazz
Grey’s Groove (Feat. Karl Denson)
Panacea
Whirlwind
Mastered The Art (Nicola Conte Jet Sounds Remix)
Hold Your Weight (Feat. AG)
Hold It Down (Feat. Muddie) (Greyboy Remix)
Got To Be Love (Feat. Quantic & Sharon Jones)
Genevieve (Feat. Bart Davenport)
To Know You Is To Love You (Feat. Bart Davenport)
Love (Feat. Nino Moschella)
Color In Between The Lines (Feat. Jeremy Ellis)
Missin’ Something (Feat. Shawn Lee)

14kt – The Golden Hour

The Waiting Room (Main Theme)
Surgery
The Inside
NNE Mode
Ypsilanti
Hihatspectations
The D Light In You
Love Handle
Tick Tock Hustle
Ivory Pillars
ICU Smile
Can We? (Chill Again)
Trust Issues
When My Sunsets (The Golden Hour)
Less Than Enough
The Night
Reprise (Start Over)
Miss U. (4 Lost Loved Ones)
Without Dilla (Donut 2 Dilla Feb ‘06)
Illustrious (End Titles)

88-Keys – The Death Of Adam

Morning Wood
Nice Guys Finish Last
The Friends Zone (feat. Shitake Monkey)
Handcuff ‘Em
Stay Up! (Viagra) (feat. Kanye West)
There’s Pleasure In It
(Awww Man) Round 2?
Dirty Peaches (feat. J’Davey)
Close Call (feat. Phonte)
The Burning Bush (feat. Redman)
Ho’ Is Short For Honey (feat. Kid Cudi)
No. I Said I LIKED You
M.I.L.F. (feat. Bilal)
Another Victim

Jedi Mind Tricks – A History Of Violence

Intro
Deathbed Doctrine
Deadly Melody (Feat. Block McCloud And Demoz)
Monlith
Those With No Eyes (Interlude)
Trail Of Lies
Heavy Artillery
Seance Of Shamans (Feat. Outerspace And Doap Nixon)
Geometry In Static (Interlude)
Godflesh (Feat. Block McCloud And King Magnetic)
Terror (Feat. Demoz)
Butcher Knife Bloodbath
The Sixth Gate Shines No More (Interlude)
Death Messiah

Loosies:

Coultrain – The Wanderer Mix III

Thom Yorke – Harrowdown Logic Jump Rmx

Ice Cube – It Was A Good Day

Jay Electronica – Exhibit A (Transformations) prod by Just Blaze

PPP feat. Coultrain – Angel (Waajeed Remix)

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New Recommendations.

October 29, 2008, 5:22 am
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: [Black Milk], [BSBD], [Clutchy Hopkins], [Evidence], [Exile], [FLYamSAM], [Illa J], [Mark Farina], [Mos Def], [Murs], [Q-Tip], [Z-Trip]

DJ Z-Trip – Obama Mix

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share it.

vote.

This Week’s:

Clutchy Hopkins – Sleepers Never Dig, Diggers Never Sleep [Mix]

Los Angeles/Apple Valley producer Clutchy Hopkins returns with a new mixtape for 2006. He got on the 1’s and 2’s with his brother one day and created this mix after a fat blunt session. Limited to 100 copies.

Part 1 (15:49)
Part 2 (17:39)

Black Milk - Tronic [Buy]

Long Story Short feat. Dwele
Bounce
Give The Drummer Su
Without U feat. Colin Munroe
Hold It Down
Losing Out feat. Royce da 5′9
Hell Yeah feat. Fat Ray
Overdose
Reppin For U feat. AB
The Matrix feat. Pharoahe Monch, Sean Price & DJ Premier
Try
Tronic Summer
Bond 4 Life feat. Melanie Rutherford
Elec (OUTRO)

Mark Farina – Mushroom Jazz Vol. 6 [Buy]

The Jazzual Suspects – This Beat
Smooth Current – Fools Competition
Ta’Raach – Baaaby
Kero One – Groovin’
Jamal – Jamal 141
Colossus – Dopebeatz
Brawdcast – Calm Down (Instrumental)
J-Boogie’s Dubtronic Science – Alive (Instrumental)
Gagle – Scene #2 (Instrumental)
Uneaq – Just Checkin’ (J’s Stripped Down Instrumental)
Colossus feat. G-off & The Whooligan – The What?
Rubberoom – Bodysnatchin’ (On the Isle)
Flash – Wasn’t Really Worth My Time
Mark Farina – Life
The Jazzual Suspects – Ba Dada
Super Smoky Soul – Untitled 005
Choice37 – Way Back When
Colossus – Transit
J-Boogie’s Dubtronic Science – Day at the Beach
Dave Allison – Reflections

Q-Tip – The Renaissance [Buy]

Johnny Is Dead
Won’t Trade
Gettin’ Up
Official
You
We Fight / Love feat. Raphael Saadiq
Manwomanboogie feat. Amanda Diva
Move
Dance On Glass
Life Is Better feat. Norah Jones
Believe feat. D’Angelo
Shaka

Illa J – Yancey Boys [Buy]

Timeless
We Here
R U Listenin’? (feat. Guilty Simpson)
Alien Family (By Frank Nitty)
Strugglin’
Showtime
Swagger
Mr. Shakes (a.k.a. Affion Crockett) (Skit)
DFTF (feat. Affion Crockett)
All Good
Souds Like Love (feat. Debi Nova)
Everytime
Illasoul
Air Signs

Blue Sky Black Death - A Heap Of Broken Images (CD2) [Buy]

CD1

Skies Open
Days Are Years
Chloroform
Not Here
They Came Around
Dream Of Dying
From Suns Angle
Rap Creature Land
Heroin For God
Guilty Ones
The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter
Still Asleep

CD2

Engage My Words Ft Jus Allah Wise Intelligent And Sabac Red
Street Legends Ft A-Plus And Pep Love
Floor Chalk Best Reprise Ft Guru And Chief Kamanchi
Scriptures Ft Lil Sci
Long Division Ft Rob Sonic And Mike Ladd
I Catch Fire Ft Holocaust
Grimey Styles Ft Mikah 9
Brain Cells Ft Virtuoso
Everything Ft Awol One
It Wasnt White

Murs – Murs For President [Buy]

Intro
I’m Innocent
Lookin’ Fly Feat. Will.I.Am
The Science
Can It Be (Half A Million Dollars and 18 Months Later)
Everything
Road Is My Religion
Soo Comfortable
Time Is Now Feat. Snoop Dogg
Think You Know Me
Me and This Jawn
Love and Appreciate II Feat. Tyler Woods
A Part Of Me
Break Up (The Oj Song)
Breakthrough

Loosies:

Evidence – For Whom The Bell Tolls Feat. Blu, Phonte, & Will.I.Am (Prod. By Khrysis)

Mos Def – Life In Marvelous Times

Exile – In Love

FLYamSAM – Green Tea Power

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So i finally made the switch over to wordpress.

October 23, 2008, 9:34 pm
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: [Blu], [Classic Drug References], [Clutchy Hopkins], [Foreign Exchange], [House Shoes], [Mainframe], [New Jack Hustle], [Now On], [Ras G], [Samiyam], [Shawn Jackson], [Shawn Lee], [Wee Bee Foolish]

So after nearly a year, Ive grown very tired of tumblr. I also registered eclecticsoundclash.com for $2.19/yr (GoDaddy.com coupon code: 199TEST).

Guess i’ll continue where i left off then..

Serious props to Andres (Classic Drug References) for puttin this shit together.

If you miss this show..

youre just a straight up retard.

Recommendations:

Shawn Lee & Clutchy Hopkins – Clutch Of The Tiger

Full Moon
Two Steps Back
Things Change
Bill Blows It
So Easily, So Naturally
Leon Me
Dollar Short
When I Was Young
Across The Pond
Bad Influence
Till Next Time
Indian Burn

Johnson & Jonson (Blu & Mainframe) – Powders & Oils

J & J
Up All Night
Half A’ Knot
Mama Told Me
The Gusto Room (feat. Stand Up By Bobo Lamb as Jack Johnson)
Wow!
The Only Way
In The Building (feat. Vocalist Miguel as Jontel Johnson)
Bout It, Bout It (feat. Raps By Mainframe As Jon Johnson)
Spell Check (feat. Gang Sign Language By Big D Menace)
Long Time Gone
Still Up All Night (feat. Co$$ as Troy Johnson)
A Perfect Picture
Anything Is Possible (feat. Raps By Randy & Jon Johnson)
The Oath
Hidden Bonus Track

Now On – Dont Call It A Mixtape (Hosted By DJ House Shoes)

House Shoes
The Now On Show
Keep Goin’
I’m Sayin’ [Remix] feat. Aloe Blacc
Get Yours Freestyle
I Try feat. Mello
Glory Days feat. Buff1
Nevermind That – E Reece feat. Buff1 & Now On
My Heart And I Need Space To Grow
Sandineaston Freestyle feat. Aloe Blacc
For You
Up At It Again [Black Milk Remix]
To The Top feat. TiRon
This Time Around [Snippet]
True Colors – Buff1 feat Now On
Party Like A Politician feat. Buff1 & Tenacity
Jihad feat. Isis Wise
White Girls

Wee Bee Foolish – Brighton Beach Memoirs

Intro
Whatcha Need
Energy
Triplets
Don’t You Cry
Funk Keeps B
This Kid
Envelope Pusherz
Breeze
Pimpflomein
Chedda Chasers
Midtro
Turn It Out
Main Attraction
Remember
Properly Done
La Celle
It’s Only Right
Tiger Books (LP)

VA – Ghostly Swim

Michna – Triple Chrome Dipped
Dabrye – Temper
The Chap – Carlos Walter Wendy Stanley
Dark Party – Active
Tycho – Cascade [Live Version]
JDSY – All Shapes
Deastro – Light Powered
Matthew Dear – R+S
FLYamSAM – The Offbeat
Cepia – Ithaca
Aeroc – Idiom
The Reflecting Skin – Traffickers
School of Seven Bells – Chain
Ben Benjamin – Squirmy Sign Language
Kill Memory Crash – Hit + Run
Osborne – Wait A Minute
Milosh – Then It Happened
10:32 – Blue Little
Mux Mool – Night Court

New Jack Hustle [Newman (of Giant Panda) & Shawn Jackson] – Sound Check

First Newport
Theme Music
More
Inglewood
Sooner Or Later
Lionel
New Shades
Suprise
Wow
Saturday Night
Sunday Morning
Ronald
Last Newport

Foreign Exchange – Leave It All Behind (CD2)

Daykeeper
Take Off The Blues (feat. Darien Brockington)
All Or Nothing / Comming Home To You (feat. Darien Brockington)
I Wanna Know
House Of Cards (feat. Muhsinah)
Sweeter Than You
Valediction
If She Breaks Your Heart (feat. Zo! & Yahzarah)
If This Is Love (feat. Yahzarah)
Something To Behold (feat. Munsinah & Darien Brockington)
Leave It All Behind

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Some upcoming album previews..recs coming.

September 20, 2008, 8:13 pm
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: [Clutchy Hopkins], [Foreign Exchange], [MF Doom], [Nicolay], [People Under The Stairs], [Phonte], [Shawn Lee], [Thes One]

Sorry its been a while since i posted weekly recommendations..moved into a new place and just havent found the time. Heres somethin to hold you over till Tues:

Click ^ for a pretty sweet 1 hour mix-track from Thes One of People Under the Stairs ..and dont forget to cop Fun DMC on the 30th.

Click ^ to download the album sampler. Foreign Exchange’s (Phonte & Nicolay) 2nd LP, Leave It All Behind drops on October 7th as a digital download (w/ instrumentals) hard copy on October 14th.

Tracklist:

Daykeeper
Take Off The Blues
All Or Nothing/Coming Home To You
I Wanna Know
House Of Cards
Sweeter Than You
Valediction
If She Breaks Your Heart
If This Is Love
Something To Behold
Leave It All Behind

Now i know there are probably a lotta Doom haters these days after all the Doom-poster shit hes been pullin..but you cant deny his talent..and its not like we pay for his cds anyways ;] I’ll have the album up as soon as it leaks so check back around October 21st.

New Clutchy Hopkins material drops October 21st in a collaboration with Shawn Lee called Clutch Of The Tiger. ” It’s dusty and mysterious junkyard jazz that’s powered by sly beats and other-worldly funk.” -Ubiquity Records

Click tracks below to hear audio snippets:

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Recs, PUTS, Podcasts.

September 2, 2008, 1:36 pm
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: [Asheru], [Clutchy Hopkins], [Gaslamp Killer], [Heliocentrics], [J-Live], [Karl Hector & The Malcouns], [Little Brother], [Misled Children], [People Under The Stairs], [Phonte], [Richy Pitch], [The Budos Band]

Criminally slept on, People Under The Stairs continue to produce quality music album after album. Above is a video of Thes One breaking down his creative process on the MPC, then a video of Thes and Double K clowning around in their home studio.

This week’s:

People Under The Stairs – The Om Years [Disc1, Disc2]

DISC 1 (Best of The Om Years):

Intro
San Francisco Knights
43 Labels I Like
Time To Rock Our Shit
The Cat
We’ll Be There
Youth Explosion
Code Check
Give Love A Chance
Jappy Jap
The Suite For A Beaver Pt. 1
O.S.T. (Original Soundtrack)
Empty Bottles Of Water
The L.A. Song
Hang Loose
Acid Raindrops
The Breakdown
Montego Slay
Yield
Play It Again / Outro

DISC 2 (B-Sides & Rarities):

Invisible Blunt
I-15
Tour Guide
Schooled In The Trade (Instrumental)
Big Daddy Brown
Hang Loose Pt. 2
Sunroof (Instrumental)
The Bomb Combo
Afternoon Connection
Out Da Club
We’ll Be There (10 Seconds Remix)

Karl Hector & The Malcouns – Sahara Swing

When The Sun Breaks Through
Nyx
Followed Path
Transition “J”
Sahara Swing
Psycles
Transition “I”
Koloko Pt. 1
Debere
Transition “Z”
Jabore Pt. 3
Mystical Brotherhood
Timely Interuption
Transition “W”
Mellow (Version)
Rush Hour
Transition “W”
Toure Samar
Passau Run

Phonte (Little Brother) – The Phon-Tigga

Intergalactic Soul
Backstage Girl
The Animal (Featuring Murs)
Feelin Alright (Featuring Big Pooh)
Beats N Rhymes (Featuring Kev Brown & Oddisee)
Let it Be Known (Featuring Sean Price)
Pure (Featuring L.E.G.A.C.Y.)
Make it Hot (Featuring Sean Boog & Joe Scudda)
The Perch (Featuring Oddisee & Tor)
No Fear (Featuring Cool C Brown & Asheru)
Whos That (Featuring Sean Boog & L.E.G.A.C.Y.)
Birdz (Featuring Buckshot & Keisha Shontelle)
(Bonus) It’s My Life (Featuring Polyrhythm Addicts)
(Bonus) Ladder of Success (Featuring K-Hill, Wordsworth & Masta Ace)

Richy Pitch – Live at Home

Live at Home – (remix, feat. El Da Sensei)
The Bed (intro)
Day to Day – (feat. Apani B Fly)
Lyricist, The – (feat. J-Live)
Monotone MC’s
Phone Bizness – (feat. Mr. Complex)
Record Lovers
Time Is Right, The – (feat. Asheru Of The Unspoken Heard)
Time Is Right, The – (Mother Chunker remix, feat. Asheru)

VA – 7Heads R Better Than 1 Vol. 1: No Edge-Ups In South Africa

BMIG – Asheru
Braggin Writes (Domecracker Remix) – J-Live
The Gusto – Audessey The Sound Sci Of Mass Influence (feat. Apple Jac)
Backstage – Wordsworth
Full Blown – El Da Sensai
Mood Swing – Asheru (feat. Talib Kweli)
Reflections On A Heart Attack – RLD & Richy Pitch
Mr. Dynamite – Djinji Brown
This Is Hip Hop – Oddissee & Kenn Starr
Queen City Remix – BJ & Piakhan (feat. Akil)
Say Cheese – J-Live
Night Shift – Audessey The Sound Sci Of Mass Influence
Bosoms – J-Live, Wordsworth, Eric Krasno & Neal Evans Of Soulive, and Adam Deitch Of Lettuce
Trackrunners – Asheru (feat. J-Live & Grap Luva)

Clutchy Hopkins & Misled Children – People’s Market

3:25
4:52
1:52
2:59
2:53
1:17
3:35
5:00
1:14
3:41
3:00
1:38
3:24
3:38

The Budos Band – The Budos Band

Up From The South
T.I.B.W.F.
Budos Theme
Ghost Walk
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Sing A Simple Song
Eastbound
Aynotchesh Yererfu
King Charles
The Volcano Song
Across The Atlantic

Podcast:

Heliocentrics have a new single on Now-Again Records coming in the Fall. Gaslamp Killer is from SD, works in LA and has a record coming out on Money Studies at the end of the year.

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Some RATATAT videos.

August 31, 2008, 1:32 am
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: [Ratatat]

Ratatat – Mirando

Ratatat – Flynn

Ratatat – Shempi

Ratatat – Germany to Germany

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Johnson & Jonson at Boombox in L.A.

August 26, 2008, 3:15 am
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: [Blu], [Co$$], [Exile], [Gaslamp Killer], [Johnson & Jonson]

If youre in the L.A. area September 6th check out Blu & Mainframe perform as Johnson & Jonson to celebrate the release of their self-titled album, which drops the 23rd on Tres Records. Guest appearances from Gaslamp Killer, Exile, Gonja Sufi and Co$$. Don’t miss this shit!

Doors Open at 9:30
21 & OVER
Ladies get in free before 11.
Dudes $5 before 10:30, $10 after.

Here’s a Johnson & Jonson’s video – “Bout it Bout it”

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August 22, 2008, 2:42 pm
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: [Andre 3000], [John Legend], [MSTRKRFT], [Outkast]

MSTRKRFT remixes Green Light by John Legend and Andre 3000 (Outkast). Green Light will be on Legend’s upcoming album Evolve, to be released in October.

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Recs, New Bloc Party and Miles D.

August 19, 2008, 8:35 pm
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: [Atsushi Numata], [Bloc Party], [Common Market], [Isaac Hayes], [Lettuce], [Lykke Li], [Miles Davis], [Moka Only], [RA Scion], [The Budos Band], [Yeshua Da Poed]

This Thursday (August 21) Bloc Party will digitally release Intimacy, their unexpectedly imminent third full-length LP. The physical release, featuring different tracks from the digital, will drop October 28 through Atlantic.