Stones Throw News: Mild High Club – Skiptracing

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• Mild High Club – Skiptracing
• Mndsgn “Cosmic Perspective” Video
• Mndsgn to release BODY WASH, full-length album, on September 16

Mild High Club – Skiptracing Photo by Isaac Sterling August 16, 2016 In the store | MILD HIGH CLUB - SKIPTRACING Vinyl and CD now shipping. Worldwide release: August 26th.  Mild High Club founder Alexander Brettin grew up playing flute in the school band and majoring in jazz studies in Chicago. In 2012, a visit to Los Angeles allowed him to connect with the Stones Throw crew. Within a year, after passing the early demos of what would become Timeline onto Peanut Butter Wolf, Brettin made the move out west. “The difference between Timeline and Skiptracing is detail,” Brettin said. “I was stubborn with the process for Timeline; it took almost three years to let go of it.” On Timeline, Brettin resorted to vague lyrics so as to highlight the music itself. But for Skiptracing there’s both a heightened thematic aspect as well as more complex musical arrangements encasing it. In Brettin’s estimation, the album’s story arc is that of a “private investigator attempting to trace the steps of the sound and the spirit of American music.”

Stones Throw News: Mndsgn's Surface Outtakes on vinyl

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Mndsgn's Surface Outtakes on vinyl December 16, 2014 In the store | MNDSGN - SURFACE OUTTAKES Last summer Leaving Records relaesed a cassette of Mndsgn's outtakes, b-sides, and unreleased ideas just before his album Yawn Zen came out. We've now got the collection on vinyl, 1LP with download card. Design by Jesselisa Morretti.

The Stones Throw News: NY Times: Mndsgn 'Surface Outtakes'

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NY Times: Mndsgn 'Surface Outtakes' "Marching Bands, Kierkegaard and Other Musical Influences" by Nate Chinen for The New York Times, published July 13, 2014  Mndsgn | SURFACE OUTTAKES  The underground hip-hop producer Ringgo Ancheta, who lives in Los Angeles and goes by Mndsgn (as in “mind design”), favors murky, underwater sounds, trippy and irresolute. “Surface Outtakes” — his new release on Leaving Records/Stones Throw, available for digital download or as a limited-edition cassette — suggests a sticky syrup boiled down from ingredients harvested in the peak production years of soul-jazz. Sometimes, as on “Eggs” and “Overwhelming Gratitude,” he reaches for groovy bliss, relying on chiming Fender Rhodes piano; a track like “Dialect” goes in for a more ambient, brooding drone. “Seemingly All G,” one of three tracks included only on the cassette, involves a formless rustle of bass, synthesizer and what sounds like a gamelan. Mndsgn’s official debut album on Stones Throw, “Yawn Zen,” is due out on Aug. 26, but these scraps and B-sides offer plenty to mull over. - NY Times

Potholes In My Blog: Ab-Soul – These Days…

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1. Ab-Soul – These Days…
2. Watch: Outkast’s Andre 3000 As Jimi Hendrix In The Movie Trailer for “Jimi: All Is By My Side”
3. Danny Atoms – “Cry Wolf”
4. Dorian Concept Announces New Album, Shares Lead Single “Draft Culture”
5. Canibus – Fait Accompli
6. Listen to Mndsgn’s Delicious New Single, “Eggs”
7. Listen: Action Bronson, Black Thought & Royce Da 5’9″ Team Up For Statik Selektah’s “The Imperial”
8. Watch BINKBEATS’ Amazing Take On Shigeto’s “Ringleader”
9. Raphael Saadiq – “Gonna Miss U” (Bobby Womack Tribute)
10. Listen To Dillon Cooper’s New Single “T.D.K.”

Ab-Soul – These Days… Posted: 04 Jul 2014 06:05 AM PDT   Ab-Soul – These Days… TDE: 2014 While many see Kendrick Lamar as the heart of Top Dawg Entertainment, fans have grown to liken his labelmate Ab-Soul to the mind. An emcee known to boast about his brain power, his incredibly cerebral album Control System showed the world the captivating nature of his intelligence in 2012; the world is apparently better seen through the third eye than his other two (having had his eyesight impaired by a bout of Stevens-Johnson syndrome at ten years old). Calling These Days… a representation of "vibes of music and life right now and the past couple of years" in conversation with HipHopDX, it seems a fair bit has changed both in the mind and life of TDE's scholarly soul. All listen long, These Days… plays to a duality that will likely catch some fans of Soulo off guard. The incredibly brainy nature of his musical output has been scaled back in places in favor of tracks of a more accessible flavor. Though he has admitted in the past that he isn't one to "wear polo drawers and put two chains on" to conform with some of rap's most recognizable figures, he's certainly well aware of his use of commercially viable sounds on the record. "Swear to god it's the only time I use this flow," he says in the soul-inspired outro section of "Just Have Fun" before launching into a delivery reminiscent of the Migos triplets. "Hunnid Stax" sees him team up with ScHoolboy Q for a competition in who can amass the most synonyms for money into their verse, with Mac Miller lazily rhyming, "I'm trying to spend a hundred stacks every day of my life" on the hook. For Ab-Soul, the man who once rapped, “If you do it for the jewels or the new tennis shoes….Then you do it to pollute], it’s a notable change over the past few years. The DJ Mustard-inspired "Twact" takes a page straight from the southern rap playbook:

XLR8R News and Features

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1. Video Premiere: Mndsgn "Hiking / Fif Dim"
2. Levon Vincent Announces Open Call for Artist Apprenticeship in Berlin
3. Sigha Preps New EP; Preview It Now
4. Graze "Skip/Crush (Glass House VIP Mix)"
5. Jon Hopkins Readies Extended Edition of 'Immunity', Announces Remix EP, Shares New Video
6. Skream, Levon Vincent, Matthew Dear, and More to Play Igloofest 2014
7. Bondax Shares First Single from Upcoming Debut LP
8. David Rodigan Helms Upcoming 'Masterpiece' Mix Album
9. Nils Frahm "You (Teen Daze Remix)"
10. Video Premiere: ALAK "Ilial Clone"
11. Download a New Track from Tensnake
12. XLR8R's Best of 2013: Top Downloads (60 - 41)
13. Cooly G to Release New EP via Hyperdub
14. Hi-Five - Snoop Dogg Selects His Five Favorite Dam-Funk Tunes and Dam-Funk Selects His Five Favorite Snoop Tracks
15. Moon Boots "Got Somebody (Free Magic Dub)"
16. Fabric 73
17. Check Out Robert Hood's Remix of Ø [Phase]
18. Hmot "Tartu"
19. "M" b/w "Secrets"

Video Premiere: Mndsgn "Hiking / Fif Dim" Posted: 04 Dec 2013 12:44 PM PST Los Angeles beatsmith Mndsgn just dropped a limited cassette called Breatharian via Fresh Selects, and today the artist shares a video made in collaboration with the label and Portland design group The Pressure. read more

Basement Soul: ELECTRIC WIRE HUSTLE - Numbers And Steel +blackwater (live video ) @ Musique Non Stop

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1. ELECTRIC WIRE HUSTLE - Numbers And Steel +blackwater (live video )
2. Kae - 'Spark' (Mister Bibal Remix)
3. Sampha - Happens
4. Kendric Lamar - Bitch Dont Kill My Vibe(Spyke Bootleg)
5. Zara McFarlane // Angie La La feat. Leron Thomas (Yoruba Soul Mix)
6. Mndsgn - Phyllis (What U Won't Do Edit)

ELECTRIC WIRE HUSTLE - Numbers And Steel +blackwater (live video ) Posted: 13 Nov 2013 06:52 PM PST