Sunday Mix: The Wake Up Call
Posted by Justin Boland on Jan 16, 2011 | 0 Comments
New feature for 2011: I generally spend my Sundays discovering new music and sending out a couple hundred emails. So I’m going to start doing a mix every week, spotlighting rare gems and my favorite classics. Good music needs to be shared, right? As always, submit your best single (you’re on Bandcamp, right?) and I will check it out. Meanwhile, put this on and turn it up…
Artists Featured
- The Loyalists - Heartest Emcee - one of my favorite rappers, Framework, hugely slept on. Get Familiar.
- MF Doom ft.Talib Kweli - Old School - very obscure duo you’ve probably never heard of, off an album nobody has
- Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass - This album blew me away. Aesop tightened up his flow and wrote some of the best hip hop tracks in tears. Monumentally good.
- Boog Brown - The Essence (Oddisee Remix) - as usual, Oddisee out-does the original. Boog Brown is a super-dope emcee from ATL, her work with Apollo Brown is first rate hip hop.
- Louis Mackey & Dr. Quandary - Telling the Doctor - why is this track so addictive? Nobody really knows. Their most recent project is The Dioscuri and it’s fierce.
- Insight - Freedom of Speech - Insight is completely insanely talented and independently successful from Boston to Japan. Nobody should be sleeping on him. Check the technique.
- Rich Mo - Get Nice - holy shit this song is great. Lyrically one of my all-time favorite party songs, way too many cats sleep on the insanely catchy mechanics of Rich Mo.
- Typical Cats - Butterfly Knives - Typical Cats are definitely on my all-time top 10 for rap groups. Amazing catalog. If you’ve never heard of them, holy shit are you in for a treat.