From his studio sessions with Seattle’s number one name brand producer Jake One, rapper-on-the-come-up Dave B hits with a soulful slow-roll, “The Way,” featuring vocals by Shelby Poole.
Category: Audio
AUDIO: Without My Enemy What Would I Do – Made in Heights
Mysterious yet accessible, impeccably cool but with a mischievous wink, Made in Heights’ new LP, Without My Enemy What Would I Do, hints at hip-hop and EDM delicately encased by smart, graduate-level pop song craft. At turns romantic and bombastic, danceable and ruminant, producer Sabzi and vocalist Kelsey Bulkin made a stunner in WMEWWID.
AUDIO: Color Wheel – OCnotes
2015 Stranger Genius Award nominee OCnotes recently dropped a new album: the aptly titled Color Wheel spreads its groove-infused light across all spectrums from hip-hop, funk, electro to new wave. CW bounces and shines from all angles of view. A carefully curated group of guests appear throughout — THEESatisfaction and Palaceer from Shabazz Palaces immediately spring to ear — but the star is all OC and his indelible attention to musical detail.
AUDIO: “Funk With Us” – Brothers From Another (prod. by Nima Skeemz & Elan Wright)
Sometimes life feels like a perpetual summer for the boys of BFA. “Funk With Us” is a dose of that ethos, the first drop from the crew’s forthcoming Windows Down, due this — you guessed it — summer.
AUDIO: Home Less – Aaron Cohen
A number of years ago Aaron Cohen moved from Seattle to Queens with a beard and a hip-hop dream. Hear more of his story in the 206UP x 28HUNDRED interview with the rapper from last summer.
Home Less is Cohen’s latest album, an EP that carries his particular low-key stunting grime into deeper territory and highlights the reasons why the MC is hitting even on an international level. And check out the video for “Booyakah” featuring Los Angeles psychedelics expert Alexander Spit.
ALBUM REVIEW: Wish You Were Here – The Physics
Town favorite the Physics dropped a new EP today. Wish You Were Here is an exercise in refined, grown-man B.I. with the type of fully-formed music production values we’ve come to expect from the trio. I wrote a review of the album for City Arts magazine which you can read here.
Check out three of the EP’s six tracks below, purchase the whole damn thing at this location, and get yourself to the album release party tonight at Neumos.
AUDIO: “Bus Stop” – Silas Blak (prod. by Kjell Nelson)
Area MC Silas Blak (formerly of Black Stax and the Silent Lambs Project) with a new drop in his Blak Friday series: “Bus Stop” finds the rapper everyday politicin’ with his girl and his iPhone while waiting for the “car of the people.” Watch for the Blak Friday mixtape coming June 26.
AUDIO: “(Dancing in My Own) Personal Sunlight” – SassyBlack
SassyBlack — aka. Catherine Harris-White of ethereal hip-hop/soul duo THEESatisfaction — has a solo project coming out this summer called Personal Sunlight. “(Dancing in My Own) Personal Sunlight” is the latest sneak peak.
AUDIO: “Sleeping Alone” – The Physics (feat. Dave B)
The Physics are gearing up for the release of their new EP, Wish You Were Here, set to drop May 29. Catch them performing at Food & Sh*t’s special pop-up dinner at Pot in Los Angeles this Sunday, 5/24. Cop tickets to the WYWH album release party at Neumos on 5/29. And peep the latest drop from the album, “Sleeping Alone” (featuring Dave B), which rides and slides along like Jodeci circa 1993.
AUDIO: The Witchtape – Nacho Picasso & 88 Ultra
From the depths of electro-goth rap despair comes The Witchtape, the latest collaboration between Nacho Picasso and Blue Sky Black Death co-maestro 88 Ultra. The supporting cast on this particular descent includes Avatar Darko, Child Actor and Steezie Nasa, among others.
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