Up-and-coming artist/producer MeLo-X has hooked up with DJBooth.net to bring fans his latest EP, More Merch.
Written, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by MeLo-X at The Bermuda Triangle Studio, the project features 16 brand new joints (including one bonus cut) from the Flatbush, Brooklyn native, including his reader-approved Booth debut, “She Is Forever.”
Joining MeLo-X on the guest tip are such Booth-approved artists as Theophilus London, Jesse Boykins III, Kendrick Lamar and Mickey Factz. Assisting MeLo-X behind the boards are Executive Producer Claude “Visionary” Dary, beatsmith Soundwavve and bassist Andre Cleghorn.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad @ Mighty
Friday, December 17th, 10pm
Cover – Click here for tickets
Mighty – 119 Utah Street, SF, CA
Performances: Ali Shaheed Muhammad (DJ Set), The Mighty Sa-Ra, J-Boogie, Haylow, Xarius, hosted by 40Love
Vtech Phones and Frequency present an intimate night of DJ sets headlined by the legendary Ali Shaheed Muhammad. At an early age, Ali took control of the mixer and turntables and began his life long musical journey where he went from local neighborhood deejay to world-renowned producer and musician, forming not one but two incredible bands (A Tribe Called Quest, Lucy Pearl). This will be another incredible SF show that is sure to not be missed.
Over this past weekend a new project which Evidence had planned on surprising his fans with, leaked a little early. EV had been working on a new Beatles-inspired EP, entitled I Don't Need Love. Says EV: "As many of you know my intention was to release a track for you on my birthday. Somewhere between the files being sent to get mixed and mastered and sent back to me the entire project was leaked. I don't know how the files were obtained but at this point there isn't anything I can do to control the spread of the project so please enjoy it in its' entirety. I Don't Need Love."
NEW!!! // Lefto & Simbad present Worldwide Family Vol.1: "Kicking off 2011 in fine style, Worldwide Family is a new series from Brownswood Recordings that will see label head Gilles Peterson hand over compiling duties to trusted friends of the label in our perpetual pursuit of the perfect beat. And who better to launch this new venture into orbit than two of our closest cohorts: Lefto and Simbad. Both gents are globetrotting DJs, respected selectors (with web-like worldwide connections) and the two are firm friends. What’s more, they have repped Brownswood from the beginning.
27 tracks deep, ‘Worldwide Family Vol.1’ sets the bar sky high for future instalments. Reaching out to their respective global networks, Lefto and Simbad have each compiled a stellar selection of jams that sum up their individual and inimitable styles.
The album drops on CD/digital formats on 3rd January 2011, but you can hear a taste of the titbits on offer via our Soundcloud teasers…
Holy Roller - Scientist Meets Son of Scientist
IG aka Son of Scientist gets behind the mic to talk to the original Scientist the Dub Chemist at the Red Bull Music Academy studio.
THE PHARCYDE
On Saturday, January 8, 2011 the levity and fun filled funk of the Pharcyde invades the intimate and stylish confines of the New Parish. Reunited members Slimkid Tre, Booty Brown and Imani take fans on a bizarre ride through labcabincalifornia, the two seminal recordings that helped shape the primary wave of alternative hip-hop that included trailblazers, A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul.
With a catalog chock full of standard hip-hop hits including their first single, “Ya Mama,” rock crossover favorite, “Passin’ Me By,” and “Runnin,” Pharcyde can be counted on for an electric stage show, infectious energy and to bring out a throng of both, fun loving true blue hip-hop heads and eclectic music lovers.
Support: TBA
Hosted by Flossafee
The New Parish
579 18th Street (at San Pablo)
Oakland, CA 94612
Devin the Dude is a Houston-area rapper. Though relatively well-known among the underground hip-hop community during the mid-to-late 90’s, Devin did not achieve mainstream success until his appearance on Dr. Dre’s 2001 album. Besides sex, relationships, ridin’ trucks, smokin’ reefer, drinkin’ beer, partying, and conscious or proverbial themes, much of Devin’s work is also light-hearted and comically self-deprecating. The New York Times has called him “A brilliant oddball with a spaced-out flow.
Jesse Boykins III & The Park - Amorous // SOM, SF from About Her Films on Vimeo.
Jesse Boykins and The Park opened for Electric Wire Hustle last month in SF. He Killed it! Check my man out. Also I've seen The Park back up like a dozen different people and they always kill it.
In this special 10/10/10 episode, Phonte discusses the Bishop Eddie Long scandal, the failures of the Black church, and why every kid needs an occasional ass whippin’.
BONOBO is back with the full band for an all out LIVE SHOW! What's it gonna be you ask? "Lots of live shit", says BONOBO ."Strings, horns, drums and vocals. More energy and a bigger, heavier sound".Bonobo returns to SF to celebrate his newest album, "Black Sands!" Ninjatune claims it's "one of the best, most lovingly crafted and collectible limited edition releases Ninja Tune has ever put together.
"The new album draws on rhythms of two-step as the lush soundscapes for which he's best known. "Eyesdown" also features a remarkable vocal from Andreya Triana and enough fuzzed-out sub-bass for a binful of dubsteppers. Classic and contemporary, melancholy and exhilarating all at once, "Eyesdown" sounds like the kind of record Massive Attack could be making if they were starting out now.
Aloe Blacc's Good Things produced by Truth+Soul is out now, along with the limited-edition 3/LP set (2-disc album & instrumentals). Download MP3 – Aloe Blacc - “You Make Me Smile”
Aloe Blacc live in North America, 2010:
Nov 3, Wed: San Francisco CA at Rickshaw Stop TICKETS
Nov 4, Thr: Portland OR at Mississippi Studios TICKETS
An MP3 download for the new track "No Strings (Classixx Original)" is available from the tour sponsor at mazda2musictour.com at no cost, other than your email address.
9 Nov: Portland, OR at Aladdin Theatre TICKETS
11 Nov: San Francisco, CA at Bimbo's 365 Club TICKETS
12 Nov: Los Angeles, CA at The Music Box TICKETS
A New Zealand trio consisting of Mara TK, Taay Ninh, and Myele Manzanza who have grown from a following in their native city of Wellington, NZ to currently touring the world and earning heavy play from Benji B (1XTRA) and Gilles Peterson (BBC Radio) amongst other tastemakers as well as finding a home with influential label BBE (Barely Breaking Even). They bring their soulful and psychedelic take on electronic music to the United States with their North American debut in Los Angeles and finally here in San Francisco.
Jesse Boykins III:
Music heads who are keen on emerging soul acts should be familiar with Jesse Boykins III. Though only in his early 20's, he's put out 2 buzz-worthy albums alongside well recieved collobarations with both Foreign Exchange & Theophilus London. The latter was named one of thee best songs of 2009 via Gilles Peterson.
About SOM (The Venue):
Though only 11 months old, they've pulled to the front of the pack of San Francisco clubs by consistently bringing upcoming acts and established artists from from all genres and from different parts of globe. Such artists have included Kenny Dope, Pete Rock, Quadron, Gaslamp Killer, DJ Harvey, Benji B, and many more.
Aloe Blacc covers The Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale” from the album Good Things, available now.
Presented By - What Matters Most and Aloe Blacc
Directed By - Alan Algee
Edited By - Alan Algee
Photography by - Alan Algee, Oji Singletary, Kahlil Joseph, Mattew J. Lloyd, Ryan Kuhlman
Produced by - Omid Fatemi for What Matters Most
Styled by - Davia and Earl Hunter for Style Via Davia
Music by - Aloe Blacc
Executive Production - Havana Joe and Paul Chang
For those of you who still don’t know, HH is a three-headed production/vocal beast consisting of Stoney Rock (better known as Black Spade), Ced No (or I, CED when he’s solo) and Proh Mic.
Following on from last month's premiere of our Spine TV Podcast with producer extraordinaire Just Blaze, we are proud to present the second installment featuring the words and sounds of Aloe Blacc.
For this episode, with a lot of help from the Fact Magazine crew, we ventured deep into the bowels of the Vinyl Factory building in Soho to grab 20 minutes with the man himself just before his in-store performance at Phonica.
Wearing the snazziest suit we've seen in a long time, Aloe talked about Emanon and his beginnings as an emcee, meeting the Stones Throw family whilst filling Madlib's seat on the Lootpack tourbus, the Brazilian influence on his debut album Shine Through, and choosing the definitive sound for his latest release on Stones Throw, Good Things. As well as dropping a new album this week, Aloe is kickstarting his European tour with a show at Paradiso in Amsterdam on Wednesday.
Delivered monthly, the Spine TV podcast series features in-depth interviews with some of our favourite artists, producers, musicians and rappers. Coming soon: Ty and Mayer Hawthorne.
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Tim Maia (1942 – 1998) pioneered Brazilian soul music, pushing an authentic fusion of black American R&B and traditional Brazilian pop over a long and domestically celebrated career. He was everything star performers weren’t, and are even less likely to be now – he was fat, eccentric, wild, liked to drink and take drugs openly, and was prone to unpredictable lifestyle changes. His creativity fuelled by an eye-opening jaunt to the US as a teenager in the 1960s, his music was a novel integration of things as Brazilian as MPB and as American as Motown, full of grand arrangements within the radio-convenient format of sub-three minute pop songs. His string of early 1970s albums for Polydor were all huge chart hits, turning the Carioca singer, composer and musician into a local icon.
Delving into his early catalogue isn’t straightforward as a lot of his records are long out of print, and most are just titled Tim Maia. After enjoying four successful albums and the trappings of rock star success that awaited backstage, things took a left turn and he was quickly sucked in to a bizarre Brazilian sect called Racional Culture which proclaimed humans weren’t from earth and should return to their home planet. Obviously, eager to distance themselves from his madcap and unexpected proclamations, Polydor dropped him, leaving the star to put out his next record on the tiny Seroma label. Whilst during this period he may have lost his mind, he certainly lost none of his musical nous, and Racional (1975) is some of his best work, if you can block out the tripped out lyrics and the clear sense that he’s completely consumed by the sect’s alien ethic. But as quickly as he was devoured by the UFO-fearing schism, he shrugged it all off, and to show he was again of relatively sound mind produced sobering masterpieces like ‘Nobody Can Live Forever’ (1976).
Unhealthy and overweight, he died in 1998, aged just 55. Today, his nephew Ed Motta is another musical prodigy. His story is told in the biography Vale Tudo - O Som e a Fúria de Tim Maia, penned by his friend Nelson Motta. It’s only available in Portuguese, though, and an English translation is unlikely until Maia’s legacy as one of the seventies’ most important composers is more widely recognised.
1.Lee Fields - My World
2.Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution:The Age of Love
3.Shawn Lee - Soul in the Hole
4.Build An Ark - Love pt. 1
5.Mos Def - the Ecstatic
6.Brother Ali - US
7.Mulatu Astatke/Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information vol 3
8.Tanya Morgan - Brooklynati
9.Shafiq - En a Free Ka
10.Nicola Conte - Rituals
11.Willie Isz - Georgiavania
12.Eric Roberson - Music Fan First
13.Electric Wire Hustle - s/t
14.Raah Project - Score
15.Fashawn - Boy Meets World
16.Stephen Marley - Mind Control Acoustic
17.Georgia Anne Muldrow - Umsindo
18.Sene & blu - A Day Late & a Dollar Short
19. Q-Tip - Kamaal the Abstract
20.Gilles Peterson - Havana Cultura
21.Tribe - Rebirth
22.Phil Ranelin - Reminiscence Live
23.El Michels Affair - Enter the 37th Chamber
24.Bk-One - Radio Do Canibal
25.Chin Chin - Flashing, the fancing
26.Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement
27.Dela - Changes of Atmosphere
28.Fat Freddys Drop - Dr Boondigga and the Big BW
29.Julien Dyne - Pins & Digits
30.Dam-Funk - toeachizown
31.Qauntic & His Combo Barbaro - Traditions in Transition
32.Cro-Magnon - Plays
33.Little Dragon - Machine Dreams
34. Mr. Lif - I Heard it Today
35.PPP - Abundance
36.Freeway - Streetz Is Mine
37.Memphis Sounds - Ike's Moods
38.Alice Russell - Pot of Gold:Remixes
39.Ocote Soul Sounds - Coconut Rock
40.Fink - Sort of Revolution
41.Blame One & Exile - Days Chasing Days
42.BlakRoc - s/t
43.Exile - Radio
44.Emanative - Space
45.Wale - Attention Deficit
46.Clutchy Hopkins meets Lord Kenjamin - Music is my Medicine
47.Joy Jones - Godchild
48.Dj Spinna - Sonicsmash
49.Souls of Mischief - Montezuma's Revenge
50.Zion I - Take Over
Top 20 Songs of 2009
1. Georgia Anne Muldrow -Roses
2. Meshell Ndegeocello - Love you down
3. Tanya Morgan - So Damn Down
4. Jay Electronica - Exhibit C
5. Nino Moschella - Looking at your face
6. Chin Chin - go there with you
7. Eric Roberson - the Newness
8. Diverse - Escape Earth
9. Mayer Hawthorne - Green eyed Love
10.Willie Isz - I didn't mean to
11.Nicola Conte - Karma Flower
12.Stephen Marley - Someone to Love
13.Slakah the Beatchild - Enjoy Ya self
14.PPP - Pigeon Hole
15. Alchemist - Smile
16. Fashawn - Life as a shorty
17. Grouch & Eligh ft Blu & Flying Lotus - Old Souls
18. Dela - How to Fish
19.Dj Vadim - Soldier
20.Mos Def - Auditorium
BILAL 2010 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR Sep 14 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s Sep 15 Boston, MA – Scullers Jazz Club Sep 18 New York, NY – B.B. King’s Blues Club Sep 19 Washington, DC – Birchmere Sep 20 New York, NY – Tillman’s (acoustic) Sep 21 Toronto – Revival Sep 23 Ottawa – Revival Sep 25 Montreal – La Sala Rossa Oct 14 Portland, OR – Someday Lounge Oct 16 Seattle, WA – Nectar Lounge Oct 20 Sacramento, CA – Harlos Oct 21 San Joseph Babineaux – Landmark Ballroom Oct 22 Oakland, CA – Yoshi’s Jazz Club Oct 23 Oakland, CA – Yoshi’s Jazz Club Oct 27 Fullerton, CA – Common Wealth Lounge Oct 28 Los Angeles, CA – Echo Plex
1.Stevie Wonder vs. Erik Rico - 2 High
2.Plant Life - We Can Get High
3.Ben Westbeech - So Good Today
4.N'Dambi - Day Dreamer
5.Anthony David - Smoke One
6.Faze-O - Riding High (The Army of Love Rmx)
7.Me'Shell Ndegeocello - Come Smoke My Herb
8.Raphael Saadiq - OPH
9.Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Sweet Sour You
10.D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
11.Sleepy's Theme - Still Smokin'
12.John Legend - Let's Get Lifted
13.Dj Cam - Elevation
14.Breakthrough ft. Bembe Segue - Green Like The Sun
15.Orgone - I Get Lifted
16.Rick James - Below The Funk (Pass The J)
TheMashUp.Net Brings us an interview with Blu at the show he performed this past month in Sac. Looking forward to the new album! TheMashUp has been bringing great shows to Sac, keep an eye out!