Adventures in hiphop #3 - Mixtape (March 2015)

Adventures in hiphop #3 (March 2015) by Jefe on Mixcloud

I found plenty very great underground hiphop, future beats recently on my SoundCloud stream. So I decided to make the next episode of my selection called Adventures in hiphop mixtapes. And now volume3 is here. Since I collected free tunes only, if you search for the producers you can download their songs for FREE. Listen in piece!

If you like the whole mixtape, you can download it here: http://goo.gl/Q0v7Id

Find the separated tracks here:

Jefe

Grime playlist

I collected some of my favourite grime tunes in a Spotify playlist. I don't want to introduce grime genre in a long article, here you can read more about it.

In the playlist there are some old school grimers who just made this genre (e.g. Wiley, Dizzee Rascal) and some lessly known artists. If you like grime check these musicians or tune on SB TV on YouTube. It is like a spawning pool for the latest UK grime artist. As I wrote Wiley just made this genre and he releases album almost every year. (His album called 100% publishing is a masterpiece.) At the beginning he called this music Eski-beat after his nickname. Anything that guy touches becomes gold. Terror Danjah is more than grime, his track I'm Feelin U is a 2-step beat while Minimal Dub is some future dub or I don't know what definition I can use for it. Lynx & Seed has a very fat beat with characteristic ragga vocals. Dizzee Rascal is as well-known as Wiley, the Bassline Junkie is like a mainstream grime, quite opposite of Terror Danjah. True Tiger is a group who uses classical hindi music as a sample, try it, it is worth the time. Meridian Dan's German Whip has a very simple vocal but it is still catchy. Foreign Beggars used to be one of my favourite grime artists - for a few tracks, they are just too much after 15 minutes. Dels is quite odd in this playlist. His music is lyrical and more sophisticated but I think it still fits the grime genre - after all here is Dizzee's "dance-grime" tune too. If you like Dels, you can read about him on the blog here.

So prepare for some heavy beats, grimy vocals and listen in peace:

Jefe

Eskmo - SOL (2015)

I know I already recommended Eskmo's new album on the Facebook page but I wanted to write my opinion down. This album deserves it. :D When we started the blog with Tom in 2011 we shared a flat and I listened to the music Tom chose in the player. Eskmo was something I couldn't put into any boxes of my taste. You may say it is a fortunate thing because this music is so unique it deserves its own label in your head. But if you can't connect a music to others, and you stop listen to it, no other music will evoke it again. Sometimes uniqueness just sucks.


So last weekend I searched for Eskmo because I haven't listen to him and haven't heard any news of him for ages. I found that he released his album SOL in the beginning of March. Eskmo's latest album is so unique I hope I won't forget it. Just like in his same titled album (Eskmo) this time I prefer those tracks again that have vocals (Blue and Gray, Mind of War, Feed Fire, The Sun is a Drum, Can't Taste).

The whole album is a travel - it is not a coincidence because SOL was inspired by Eskmo's travels in Egypt, Costa Rica and in the US (Yosemite). As it is written on his website:

"If that sounds ambitious, that's because it is. SOL is a widescreen experience, full of diluted beats that leave acres of space for the trickle of field recordings and weaving of string sections and piano tinkering. "

So if you like it, follow this good guy on any social sites (Facebook, SoundCloud), go to his gigs and support him by ordering his white vinyl.

Jefe

Romare - Projections (2015)

The first time a listened to Romare's music was a few weeks ago when I got Ninja Tune's newsletter. Nowadays I usually don't read newsletters - not even listen to the music they contain. But this time I was lucky otherwise now I would terrible miss Romare. This guy made a very great debut at Ninja Tune. His music is close to Max Graef, Bonobo, Seven Davies Jr., psychedelic music from the 70s and blues.
If you like creative music (buzzword :P) you must taste Romare's album: Projections!



Projections is very repetitive and it is simple in a very good way. When I say repetitive I don't mean house music only (Rainbow or Roots which refers the classical Detroit house scenes) but the looping of blues songs (e.g. Motherless Child, The Drifter). And when I say simple I mean Romare doesn't use too many instruments. His music is very clear and easy to understand. As I told it is simple meanwhile it is very rich, full of emotions.
I like very much that lack of samples and instruments. You can listen to the whole album and learn a lot from its tracks. You can understand the structure of melody and rhythm, you can feel how it develops or how it is heading to its end after the peak. I couldn't pick up my favourites from the album because every track has a reason why you can love it and why you'll select the Repeat option on your player. Romare, this album is 10/10, thank you!

If you like Romare, follow him on SoundCloud, Facebook or order his music (prefer vinyl!).

Jefe