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Black Milk: Elec (Mixtape)

Posted in Downloads, Music News with tags Black Milk, Hip-Hop on Thursday, October 9, 2008 by Tim Althaus

Detroit up and coming super producer and emcee Black Milk released a free mixtape called Elec today. This mixtape is a composition of all of his work from his first LP Popular Demand up until this point in time. His follow up to the critically acclaimed (and one of my personal favorite albums) Popular Demand will be the album Tronic which will be released on October 28th on Fat Beats records. He released the first single off the album “Give The Drummer Some” as well as the completely scorching track “The Matrix“. Black Milk first came on the scene in the group B.R. Gunna. He also started doing production for Slum Village after Jay Dee left the group. In my opinion this is the guy to watch for. Black Milk’s name will be a household name after Tronic comes out. The way I see it, after this album, there’s a really good chance you will be saying Black Milk’s name with Dilla, Premier, Pete Rock & the rest of the legends that you associate with great beat making (not to mention he is an incredible emcee). PLEASE do yourself a favor if you love good Hip-Hop and buy this album on the 28th, it’s going to be something special.

In the mean time download Elec

Eugene Hütz and Max Cavalera plan a meeting of the minds

Posted in Music News with tags cavalera conspiracy, eugene hütz, gogol bordello, max cavalera, nailbomb, sepultura, soulfly on Thursday, October 9, 2008 by Ryan Buege

Two of modern rock and metal’s most creative and ambititious frontmen, Eugene Hütz from Gogol Bordello and Max Cavalera from Soulfly/Cavalera Conspiracy/ex-Sepultura, have announced to Brazillian press that they are planning a future collaboration! In a O Globo magazine interview with Hütz, he stated “doing something as friends is easy, organizing something is much more difficult — and in any case, everyone is my friend!” when he was asked about his plans for future collaborations. He then went on to say that the Cavalera collaboration had already been discussed and is pretty much certain at this point.

Personally, this is an announcement coming from left-field, but I welcome it with my arms open as wide as they’ll stretch! It has been an extremely busy year for Cavalera – with his new Cavalera Conspiracy project with his brother Iggor having released their debut Inflikted in March and Soulfly releasing their most recent full-length Conquer only 3 months ago. With a project with Eugene Hütz to look forward to now as well, there is no reason to long for Cavalera to return to Sepultura like there might have been 5 or 10 years ago. Both Hütz and Cavalera could arguably be considered the most charasmatic and unique band leaders in their corner of music. And while Soulfly has been busy infusing their blend of groove metal and thrash with elements of world music, dub, and reggae, Gogol Bordello executed a brand of Punk rock that wears their Gypsy/East European heritage on their sleeve. When you consider that Soulfly even recorded with Gypsys in Serbia on two of their last 3 albums, it becomes clear that these guys are on the same page. This is going to be one to look forward to!

Keep reading more to check out the video for “American Wedding” from Gogol Bordello and “Sanctuary” from the Cavalera Conspiracy… Continue reading →

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Foreign Exchange Put Out Sophomore LP: Leave It All Behind

Posted in Music News with tags Foreign Exchange, Hip-Hop, Little Brother, Nicolay, Phonte on Thursday, October 9, 2008 by Tim Althaus

European beat sensation Nicolay and Little Brother emcee Phonte (together as Foreign Exchange) just realeased the digital copy of Leave It All Behind on Tuesday (The hard copy comes out on the 10th in Europe and the 14th in the States). Phonte has been on the scene since Little Brother go together back in 1998. Nicolay and Phonte starting making music back in 2004 with the Foreign Exchange album Connected that debuted on record label BBE. The first album they put out was truly an innovation to the genre of Hip-Hop, but also to genres such as soul and R&B. If Leave It All Behind is anything like Connected was we may have another classic on our hands folks. I highly encourage you to go out and get the digital copy or purchase the album when it comes out on October 14th. You can be sure that once I get a good listen of this album I will have a full review up.