Wookie’s eponymous album has been out for nearly ten years now which is unbelievable and MJ Cole has just given away a previously unreleased vocal mix of ‘Battle’ which is one of the highlights from a definite UK Garage classic. Get the mp3 here or the WAV at Soundcloud.
Following the web only ‘Jump Up In The Air’ last week Erykah Badu twittered the first leak from her upcoming album a couple of days ago. The track that’s been co-produced by James Poyser and features Questlove on drums is very much on the chilled tip and ‘New Amerykah Pt.2: Return of the Ankh’ is due out March 30th.
You probably heard that the forthcoming Flying Lotus album is called ‘Cosmogramma’ and in anticipation of the release Warp are giving away three non-album tracks here. They include the Gucci Mane remix that appeared on the ‘Free Gucci’ mixtape and a couple from the ‘2010′ compilation including a Flying Lotus produced track from the upcoming Gonja Sufi album.
Simon Green aka Bonobo returns with one of the key cuts from his forthcoming ‘Black Sands’ album and the lush sounding ‘Eyesdown’ featuring Andreya Triana is out March 8th on Ninja Tune. Remixes are from Floating Points, Appleblim & Komonazu and Warrior One and you can get a free low- bitrate sample of that by signing up at bonobomusic.com.
Tensnake’s ‘Coma Cat’ EP was released a couple of weeks ago on Permanent Vacation and if you haven’t got it already it’s an essential purchase if you’re into House music. This remix by the German producer is from a Bang Gang released EP of the same name by Polargeist and adds a bit of a more funky disco twist to the deepness of the original.
Stones Throw just put up a nice mixtape from back when J Dilla and Madlib had just finished their ‘Champion Sound’ album as Jaylib. J Rocc who later became the third member behind the turtables put together the mix of their original and source material and you can get it here.
Babe Rainbow’s ‘Shaved’ EP is out next week on Warp Records and there’s a series of Salazar produced mini-films/videos for all the tracks featured on there. Warp has just posted the first four that also includes this longer video by Al Baik for the track ‘Screwby’.
Detroit producer Osborne released a self titled debut on Ghostly imprint Spectral Sound a couple of years back and there’s a remix EP entitled ‘The Ghostly Remixes’ out on February 23rd. Read more about it here and the first re-rub on there is by London producer Bullion who’s excellent single ”Say Goodbye To What’ is out now on One Handed. via pitchfork.
A free digital EP by Brooklyn beat maker Mux Mool entilted ‘Viking Funeral’ dropped today at Ghostly that contains five cuts pulled from previously released EPs, mixtapes and beat vaults. It’s essentially a sweetener for next month’s upcoming full length ‘Skulltaste’ and is worth the download for ‘Goblin Town’ alone.
