Nah Right (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Shafiq along with production partner Thundercat drop by the Suite903 HQ to talk about the Shafiq’s En A Free Ka album their works with Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Erykah Badu, and more. Part 2 of the interview, with Exile, after the jump. Shafiq and MPC wizard Exile drop by the Suite903 HQ to talk about the music production [...]
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
There are rumblings of a revolution occurring in the R&B and soul genres. On one side, you have the more abstract artists, like Sa-Ra and Erykah Badu, who are re-creating and rebuilding these weakened genres. The latest effort from that camp was from Sa-Ra member Shafiq Husayn: Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka, a psychedelic-tinged and sprawling work of genius. On the opposite end of the spectrum, you have...
The Liberators of Hip Hop (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Gogoluver I know this has been mentioned for a while now but New York hip hop has been dead for some time now. Fabolous' music has gone way down the drain to the point of return. Cory Gunz was on the classic XXL Freshmen cover but is just as important to the industry right now as his fellow classmate Ace Hood. Let us not even get on Charles Hamilton... Okay, but possibly Skyzoo could be the Savior...
Sleevage (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
There’s a difference between batshit crazy and eccentric. It’s often a fine line but Badu manages to stay firmly on the right side of it. By every measure, 2008’s New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) should have been a total disaster. There’s the unwieldy title, the status as a ‘concept album’, the big messy themes [...]
SoulCulture.co.uk (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Havana Cultura present a new project bringing the best of a new generation of Cuban musicians together to create an album of modern Cuban urban music. The launch party will be hosted by Gilles Peterson who will be spinning his favourite Cuban tracks from past to present. The 9-piece Havana Cultura Band will headline this Cuban [...]
Nah Right (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Here’s a teaser for the “Lil Girl” video from SA-RA member Shafiq Husayn’s solo album Shafiq En’ A-Free-Ka, which is available now. The video was directed by GregTheDude and features cameos from Erykah Badu, Jay Electronica, Talib Kweli, Wood Harris, Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner and others. Previously: Blu & Pharoahe Monch Talk Shafiq En’ A-Free-Ka...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
If you’ve been following the Parlour to Parlour series here at Popdose, you may remember the featured artist from a few weeks back, the Spring Heeled Jacks Original Swinging Jass Band, as that rare indie band that doesn’t play live. Not only are they the one strictly “studio” act in the series so far, they’re [...]
Idolator (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Dirty Projectors' Bitte Orca was released only five months back, and already Solange Knowles has offered up a slow groove cover of the New York band's "Stillness Is The Move." Pitchfork posted an MP3 of the new version yesterday, but got their wrists slapped by Universal and had to yank it off the site. Check out Solange's rendition of "Stillness Is The Move," which samples Soul...
PinBoard (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
I’m a bit late on this one, think it dropped yesterday or the day before. Check out Solange’s new track, a cover of the Dirty Projectors track. Solange – “Stillness In The Move” Damn, working Erykah Badu’s “Bag Lady” in there as well? What the heck? I would never condone such madness, but Solange did it justice. [...]
Discopop Directory (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Hey, has anyone heard of this cool new band from Brooklyn called Dirty Projectors? They make weird fluttery art-rock then genetically splice it with dreamy R&B melodies, to create a mutant musical hybrid that will MAKE YOUR BRAIN MELT LIKE AN ICE CREAM ON A CAR BONNET IN KAZAKHSTAN (but why would you leave your ice cream there? Why?! ) But wait... What's that you say? They've released five albums...
SoulCulture.co.uk (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Solange Knowles ' version of "Stillness Is The Move" by Dirty Projectors
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Pitchfork : If Solange Knowles isn’t sampling Boards of Canada or getting Jay-Z and Beyoncé into Grizzly Bear, she’s jamming out to Dirty Projectors. She’s been bumping DP so much, in fact, that she decided to go ahead and cover the Brooklyn band’s Bitte Orca standout “Stillness Is the Move”, which always sounded like a monster R&B track in disguise anyway....
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
This was one hell of a party, and one we'll keep listening to for years and years to come. Find out why...
HardCandyMusic.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
What a nice little surprise this morning from SOLANGE . In her cover of STILLNESS IS THE MOVE by the DIRTY PROJECTORS she includes a little ERYKAH BADU flavor - sampling BAG LADY (which happens to be one of my favorite tracks ever.) I'm so obsessed with this right now, it's such a nice slow groove to chill with as we move into the weekend! Erykah and Solange really need to collaborate on something...
Hate Something Beautiful (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Ok to follow up on my post a while back about a cover of a remix and a remix of a cover, here is a post even further exploring the world of sampling, remixing and covering, if it's to be believed 100%. This is a cover by Solange Knowles covering "Stillness Is The Move" [...]
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