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jason on 12/28/2009 at 04:09PM
Hip-Hop 2009 (mix)
Some of my favorite hip-hop from the FMA this year...
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Los Angeles California's Aesthetics Crew traveled to Beijing China for this collaboration with Mandarin MC Naughty Ray. Up next we got a track off of J Dilla's post-humous release courtesty of Nature Sounds, hosted by Pete Rock featuring Black Thought of the Roots. Dilla's legacy lives on in producers like 6th Sense, who had an amazingly productive year that included a bunch of free net releases on his Notherground Music imprint. First we got a track from The Kid Daytona off Come Fly With Me, then the 6th-Sense produced "2-0-0-9" featuring The Kid Daytona, 6th Sense, & Harlem's Cash. If you dig these 6th Sense beats, he uploaded an album's worth of intrumentals for you to tinker with, It's a 6th Sense Beat Yo. Advantage Music Group and Domination Recordings released a free mixtape, Chapter 2 Street Soul, featuring some of today's finest MCs and producers. This track finds Sweden's Ill Knowledge collaborating with Philadelphia-born, Copanhagen-based Malay Sparks. Domination Recordings also released Breez Evahflowin's Breez Dees Trees, and this radio-safe promo features guests Shaneeka Harrell and Swave Sevah. The Comfort Fit track was part of Error Broadcast's debut compilation Bag of Nothingness. It was also featured by BlocSonic on Volume 23 of their netBloc series, compiling highlights from the netaudio world. |
Buraka Som Sistema brought the Portuguese/Angolan sound of kuduro to KEXP on the heels of the US release of Black Diamond. (image = Buraka Som Sistema live at Sonar in Barcelona via Flickr).
Italy's Zona MC "is the lone Artist to conceive and realize a Rap Style using Italian Language" (via curator Homezero)
Anti-Pop Consortium made their triumphant return this year with Fluorescent Black (Big Dada), and this track "Apparently" was recorded live as part of WFMU's All Tomorrow's Parties NY broadcast. Big Dada and APC were kind enough to share stems from an album cut for a Free Music Archive remix contest, the fruits of which can be heard here (winner announced Jan 2010).
Next we've got three killer instrumental tracks. Abby Lee Tee hails from Austria, and was recommended by our friends at Phlow Magazine. Pre and Custodian of Records both come from the great state of New Jersey.
Taking it back to California, you may recognize Opio from his work with Souls of Mischief and Heiroglyphics. Going solo, he released a free Creative Commons EP, Everybody Loves the Sun, in April 2009.
Capping things off, DJ Ilya Monosov and the Hedonic Islands. You might recognize Monosov from his collaborations with Preston Swirnoff, The Shining Path, or his fantastic 21st Century Punks 12'' on Holy Mountain. The Hedonic Islands feature former Stones Throw recording artists Dudley Perkins aka Declaime, and Georgia Anne Muldrow, who each had a pretty prolific 2009.
Looking forward to more in 2010!
