From Nairobi, The Flee Project presents “Extra Muros – Kenya.” This compilation of artists from Africa & Europe showcase an eclectic mixture of vocals, electronic, ambient, downtempo and groovy dance music. The project takes you on a musical journey over 7 tracks featuring artists from the FLEE collective: Karun, Flexfab, Jinku, Tite, KMRU, Slikback and Pier Alfeo. Sonic elements in the compilation include house, bass, industrial, tribal, downtempo and indigenous sounds that populate the soundscape. There’s something for everyone on …
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Tensho N. Takemori is a talented rapper, producer, and artist from Warwick, New York. He’s an original member of Stolen Music Imprint and long time associate the Money Hungry Bastards crew. Over the last 20 years, Tensho has worked with rappers like Auxiliary Arms (Masai Bey and L.I.F.E. Long), Mr. Cord, WhichCraft, DJ Zesto, and others. Its been a long process of honing his craft and developing his own style. On his exclusive TMG Mixtape, It Takes A Village And …
Thank you, Tokyo Weekender for profiling The Micro Giant. I got to be featured with some great company. Rhyming Gaijin is a beast on the mic and the drum machine. Filmmaker Darryl Wharton-Rigby is a master storyteller and writer. I’ve written about both of these talented artists. Tokyo Speaks podcaster Terrence Holden has been interviewing a lot of local figures that are informative and with unique life experiences. Read the TW article here. …
This morning was a quarantine dream. I talked to podcaster, writer, rapper, and Shanghai social commentator, Randy Flagg. I’ve previously written about him, here. I did not know we’d be talking live. It’s been years since I’ve talked to this brother face-to-face. I signed on through his streamyard link (which I’ve never used) then all of a sudden, live, I’m on the internet. “Oh shit.” Surprise, it was comfortable and good to reconnect with an old friend. He’s been grinding …
A couple weeks ago Flying Lotus aka Steven Ellison shared Sendspace and Mediafire links. It was in celebration of reaching 300k followers, “thanks for everything .. im feelin all emo about this…,” he tweeted. The links contained 24-tracks, all outtakes and a remix of Kanye West’s “Black Skinhead” featuring Thundercat on bass. Ellison labeled the outtakes Ideas+drafts+loops (2013) and that’s exactly what the downloaders got. They were scraps that fell into what one could easily imagined to be his bottomless pit …
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