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Tag Archives: hip-hop
Mos Def “I’m Leaving”
Menelik “Tranquille”
French hip-hop est fantastique.
Speech Debelle “Live for the Message”
Love this girl.
Bran Van 3000 “Drinking In LA”
I love this song for its energy, flow, groove and… whatever. Just love it.
Buckshot Lefonque “Music Evolution” (DJ Premier Remix)
Long Arm “The Branches”
Recently i posted Long Arm’s (in fact Georgy Kotunov) video but I like his works so much that I have to share a little more of his music . Gregory is from Orneburg, which is situated very close to Russian- Kazakhstan border. Now he lives in Moscow and having provincial background he makes great music, which seems to be made somewhere in London or NYC studio. It is a sign of our times, when a man from a place so distant from a centers of musical life of a genres he is involved makes music so deeply immersed in sounds so remote from his origin culture. His albums (“The Branches”, “Organic”) sound extremely western while still having some eastern fantasia, which gives his tunes so great sound. Fantastic samples, loops and much, much more.
Gilles Petterson from BBC Radio 1 chose “The Waterfall Inside Me” by Long Arm the best track of the year 2011. For me it’s not the best last year tune, but it’s deamn good like a rest of his works.
Check this track called “The Branches” (feat. Teknikal Development).
More on Long Arms’s profiles ona Last.fm and Soundcolud.
Nas “Surviving The Times”
Guru “Feel The Music”
From beloved Jazzmatazz series vol. 2.
Busta Rhymes “Decision” (feat. Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blidge, John Legend & Common)
Quite unusual for Busta Ryhmes, very lyrical tune. Love it for mood, melody in the background and beautiful chours made with a great help from Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blidge, John Legend and Common.