Bonafide Magazine @ MSN: Red Bull Music Academy feature film up for free digital release

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Red Bull Music Academy feature film up for free digital release Posted: 18 Feb 2014 02:50 AM PST   In celebration of its 15th anniversary, Red Bull Music Academy invited award-winning director Ralf Schmerberg to create a full-length feature film. Shooting during the 2013 edition of the Red Bull Music Academy in New York, Schmerberg’s What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music, explores the challenges that a life in music can bring. Available for free digital download from 18th February from RBMA’s official website, the film features Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Brian Eno, Just Blaze, Giorgio Moroder, Erykah Badu, Nile Rodgers, Rakim, Skream, Q-Tip, Thundercat and many other artists who have either lectured or been studio tutors at the Academy. Check the trailer below

Bonafide Magazine @ MSN: Listen: Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes’ mixtape – The Abstract And The Dragon

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Listen: Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes’ mixtape – The Abstract And The Dragon Posted: 13 Dec 2013 02:34 AM PST Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes’ mixtape The Abstract & The Dragon has finally seen the light of day. According to Rhymes, the tape is ‘basically an embodiment of our whole relationship lifeline — from the very first record we've ever recorded together to the very last records we've been recording in this last week and a half of exclusive new joints’. Featuring tracks old and new as well as some remixes, The Abstract & The Dragon features star studded guest spots from the likes of Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Raekwon, Talib Kweli, Redman and Missy Elliott among others. Stream it below and download it here.

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Busta Rhymes & Q-Tip – The Abstract & The Dragon Mixtape Posted: 13 Dec 2013 05:13 PM PST Early holidays had millions of hip hop fans, who loves that BoomBap shit. And who else could deliver, that Q-Tip aka The Abstract and Busta Rhymes aka The Dragon. These two specific and so different voices go together along with there crazy lyrics skills perfectly. 28 tracks mixtape is beautiful journey throughtou they career, new songs, old song with new verses and lots of interludes catches you and get you into their world really quickly. We were waiting for mixtape like this one, the hip hop world was waiting for it. We specially love Big Daddy Kane featuring, crazyyyyy. Free download is guaranteed at www.theabstractandthedragon.com. Listen.

Loudblog @ Musique Non Stop

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Dudley Perkins – Dr. Stokley Posted: 27 Nov 2013 12:37 PM PST Dudley Perkins is Dr. Stokley. So old school and still so cool. Holistic healer for the dark heart. Stimulator of the mind. Inoculating you with sharp darts. Old dirty record addict. Heads have been waiting 4 years for a new Dudley Perkins solo record. The new album, Dr. Stokley, finds Dudley over production from Kankick, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and Madlib. This is Dudley’s eccentric best, fiery passion and heavy fOnk from the soul. Listen. (Visited 7 times, 1 visits today)

Busta Rhymes – Thank You ft. Q-Tip, Kanye West, Lil Wayne Posted: 27 Nov 2013 01:09 AM PST

THE JAZZ CHILL CORNER JAMEO BROWN TRANSCENDENCE MEAN WORLD REMIX FEATURING CARL CRAIG / Q-TIP

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1. JAMEO BROWN TRANSCENDENCE MEAN WORLD REMIX FEATURING CARL CRAIG / Q-TIP
2. NEW RELEASES - MUDDY WATERS, JOE MCPHEE, MATS ALEKLINT QUARTET
3. NEW RELEASES - HARRIS EISENSTADT / NICOLE MITCHELL, SHAULI EINAV, IAN O'BRIEN
4. NEW RELEASES - JAMES BROWN, ALISON CROCKETT, KENNY WESLEY

JAMEO BROWN TRANSCENDENCE MEAN WORLD REMIX FEATURING CARL CRAIG / Q-TIP Posted: 06 Nov 2013 11:39 AM PST Earlier this year, drummer, composer and conceptualist Jaimeo Brown transformed pain and deliverance into art on his debut album, Transcendence (April 9, Motéma Music). The project fused Gee's Bend Quilters southern spirituals with North Indian music and various electronic elements, generally uncommon for an acoustic modern jazz record.    Now, Brown takes his cross-genre project a step further with support from Grammy® winning Transcendence guitarist and producer Chris Sholar, techno producer Carl Craig and hip-hop producer Q-Tip (who refer to the track as "fantastic" and "dope," respectively), on a radical recasting of "Mean World." This track combines 200 years of black music from spirituals, blues, rock, jazz, house, and hip-hop sprinkled with North Indian influences in the first time these platinum selling black producers have ever been heard together on the same track. The remix also takes advantage of the artists featured in the original track: saxophonist JD Allen and vocals from the Gee's Bend Quilters as well as Falu.