Special Thanks to : USWNT "Our Girls", MTV actually trying to act like they didn't ruin their brand in the past 10 years and trying to make a comeback in the music journalist world, Plaster, Deandre Jordan and his return to the Clippers, Not shaving for 2 weeks.
After the massive success of Disclosure and Rudimental, it's exciting to see so many fresh electronic music live outfits coming out of the UK. The next wave of superstars is certainly going to include the duo, Gorgon City, and after you take a listen to these essential free downloads, you will hear exactly why they are set to be massive!
BBC Essential Mix free download:
Tracklist:
Gorgon City - Intro Curses - Slow Lights Gorgon City - Unmissable ft Zak Abel (DJ Anna Remix) Artifact - Even (Huxley Remix) Gorgon City - Real ft Yasmin (Acapella) Jessie Ware - Tough Love (Cyril Hahn Remix) Scandal - Just Let Me Dance (Maxxi Soundsystem Remix) Hot Since 82 - Shadows ft. Alex Mills Gorgon City - Unknown (Acapella) Laszlo Dancehall - Plimton (George Fitzgerald Remix) Gerd - Still Believe Aaaron - Feeling This Gorgon City - 6am (ft Tish Hyman) Claude Vonstroke - Eye I Eye Illyus & Barrientos - Ballin' Route 94 - Cowboy Audiojack - Traction Kidnap Kid - Fall Robosonic - Life is Like Conqueror - Highest Order Woz - Cherry Hill Dubspeeka - Leaving Home Benton - Airtight Weiss - I Feel Better Jesse Rose - Chuck English Amine Edge & Dance - Halfway Crooks Gorgon City - U & I & Me & U Roger Sanchez - My Roots (Technasia remix) Jägerverb - Pomme Gorgon City - Cycles Dusky - 4T4 DJ Anna - Six Figures Andre Bratten - Trommer Og Bass Gorgon City - Fallen Radiohead - Talk Show Host (Jett rework) Gorgon City - FTPA Dillinja - Angels Fell Capone - Tudor Rose Jessie Ware - "Say You Love Me (Gorgon City Remix)" Free Download:
Gorgon City: Mixmag "In Session"
Special Thanks: Gorgon City for making real house music with soul, BBC 1, Mixmag, Jessie Ware, Devon Hester and Hans Bubby
We've got something special to share with you today for this edition of "New Music Tuesdays"! Simon Green, AKA Bonobo, has put together an exclusive new DJ mix for THUMP and it is packed with all kinds of musical surprises. Right off the bat, Bonobo hits you with some "thumping" house beats and the journey begins. This is the perfect way to soak up those last rays of summer and usher in the crisp autumn air.
Listen and download Bonobo's THUMP DJ Mix on SoundCloud:
Special Thanks: Bonobo and THUMP for the fresh mix, the 2014 NFL season starting and warm blueberry muffins
We've been championing the sounds of UK duo, Snakehips, for some time and FINALLY they're coming to America! To celebrate, the boys have just dropped a new Hypetrak mix for free download, appropriately titled, "Coming to America", and it's packed with all the genre-mashing sounds we've come to love about the group. Sit back and take it all in...these guys are set to be massive in 2015!
Listen and download Snakehips' "Coming to America" Mix for Hypetrak:
Tracklist:
HYPETRAK Mix: Snakehips - Coming To America (Tracklist)
Raury - Cigarette Song (Snakehips Remix) Karma Kid - Saffron Goldlink - Bedtime Story Wasted Nights - Hold Tight Maxwell - Ascension (aywy & Sh?m Edit) Pomo - Start Again Elaquent - Breakofdawn Lloyd - Get It Shawty (LAKIM's Back It Up Bootleg) Ginuwine - Pony (heRobust Remix) Schoolboy Q - Collard Greens (Jeftuz Remix) Nina Sky - Stoners Cosmo's Midnight - The Dofflin (Wave Racer Remix) Alizzz x Gucci Mane (Masuka Blend) Snakehips - After I Met U Slum Village - What It's All About Daz Dillinger - What's Your Pleasure (ft. Snoop Dogg) Tupac - I Get Around Goldlink - Sober Thoughts Falcons - Cell Aaliyah - Try Again Dinosaurus Rex - Hubert Eaves III Xzibit - What A Mess Snakehips - Days With You (Edit) Lion Babe - Treat Me Like Fire (Snakehips Remix)
Special Thanks: Snakehips and Hypetrak for this ill mix, HBO's Hard Knocks, Bombay curry kale chips and MF Doom.
Special Thanks To : Vice Magazine, Epicly Later'd, Tom Cruise starring in another corny apocalypse movie (Oblivion), True Detective on HBO, Richard Sherman's "You Mad Bro?" coming to fruition and changing to the new version on Michael Crabtree "You Mediocre Bro!", Spotify, rolling your own cigarettes.
Not sure why we didn't come across this year-end mix sooner, but if you like proper drum & bass, you'll definitely want to grab this absolutely sick free download of DJ Marky's "Best of Drum & Bass" 2013 mix on SoundCloud! Boom Selecta!!
Special Thanks: DJ Marky for putting this together and all the true drum & bass heads worldwide!
I've been empty since YO! MTV Raps went off the air, so I figured I'd bring it back in my own way.
In the New Years 2014 edition of YO! UPPERHANDS Raps,
I bring you some of the classics and some mostly unknown videos.
So sit back, relax and enjoy the show.
I originally saw this remix video on an episode of Beavis and Butthead back in the day.
What always stuck with me about this video was one of the best matchups between two similarly styled bands, Onyx and Biohazard. Always loud and always in your face!
Evolution of a Beat - Part 2 : Asheru meets Hubert Laws
In this edition of "Evolution of a Beat", I travel down the path that starts with
the Jazz Liberatorz. Known for their elegant blend of Jazz and Hip Hop, French Hip Hop producers
invited well known emcees from the States to hang out and record some tracks.
No one could have known that the album that ensued would become one of the greatest and
most unknown cult classic Hip Hop mix albums of all time.
Featured on the album is one of mine and Smash le Funk's favorite emcees, Asheru.
Originally known for his work with emcee Blue Black (Of The Unspoken Heard),
Asheru has been able to stay very relevant in the Hip Hop game after dropping this track circa 2001,
and eventually becoming the voice, producer and emcee on many of the songs
featured on the Adult Swim cartoon, "Boondocks".
Asheru and Blue Black - Soon Come
Asheru - Soul
Jazz Liberatorz Featuring Asheru - I Am Hip Hop
Clin D'Oiel - 2008
Which samples the songs
Hubert Laws - Trying to Get The Feeling Again
1976
Sample appears 1:29, 2:36, 5:37
Hubert Laws - Trying to Get The Feeling Again, was also sampled in the same year and in the same genre, and a part of the same Hip Hop faction as the producers DELA recorded the album "Changes of Atmosphere", and specifically the song, "I say Peace" Featuring J Live.
Sample at 1:41
Now that we have made our first beat connection, let's go back to Jazz Liberatorz - I Am Hip Hop...
This is where you go back up and listen to it for a moment.
Thanks.
The sample for "I Am Hip Hop" is also featured in a track by one of my
favorite new Drum and Bass artists, Andrezz. He's known for working with the V Recordings label
and recently produced a track entitled, "Like The Real Thing".
"Like The Real Thing" also uses the organ sample from Hubert Laws track:
The beautiful hook on the Andrezz track comes from someone who has been
sampled numerous times in Hip Hop and Drum and Bass history
(Remember this one?)
I digress....
Let's get back to the program.
Marvin Gaye featuring Tammi Terrell
"Aint Nothin Like the Real Thing"
Well this concludes Part 2 of the "Evolution of a Beat" series,
where UPPERHANDS dives deep into who, what, where, when and how
producers have used classic music samples in
obscure and very noticeable genres.
Special Thanks to : Gay guys who constantly and loudly say "What a Lesbo!!" a lot while listening to bad music, being back on the West Coast, ultra filtered water, making New Years cards for your friends and family 0- and they havent been mailed out yet by January 3rd, Bacardi Gold 100, Being served beer with just waaaay too much head (mis-pour masters behind the bar), Every single NFL fan all of a sudden giving a shit about the weather of a Playoff game - we've all become such sissies I tell ya.
