The album of miss Kellee Maize is an absolute and pleasant discovery! An eclectic example of various genres blend, all supported by electronic music.

Put it on a enthusiastic mood, and you get the Aligned Archetype. Simply excellent.

Start with the “smooving dancefloor” Future Remix: fast rhythm, hypnotic sound, hip-hop rhymes. You can’t stay stopped.

Then relax yourself with Signs, a great indian percussive track. We so loved it that we used for our second Downtempo Selection. If you like it, listen to Pulse, too. A well done indian hip-hop.

If you like dancehall music, you will love Godette. A smooving dubstep / dancehall track with a great bassline.

Do you still have energy available? Well play loud Friday Night Flu Remix: a great back in fabulous ’70s!

We also loved Third Eye, a sort of album hymn.

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From the MySpace official account:

“The Foundation (formality Krackhouse Records) is comprised off 2 lyricists and one producer.  A relatively new crew we are about to make our mark not only on Fargo but on the midwest as a hole. Be on the lookout there will only be hot tracks and mean lyrics to come. We are workin on the album and drop the full length mixtape.”

The mixtape, for the ones who don’t know yet what it means, is a collection of tracks used for promo and often before the real launch of the official album, or as wrote in Wikipedia “as a way of generating hype” (especially in the hip-hop world).

So, this mixtape contains 16 tracks of cool hip-hop, with a Eminem / Dr. Dre / 50 Cents style.

We like all the mixtape, but we also love obviously some tracks of it.

It’s the case of the opening track The Foundation, with its orchestral samples. My 45 is a pretty clone of 50 & Eminem productions, with their typical arrangements and groove.

We really love Baby Girl, City Limits, Without You, Another Day and Rodeo. They are the most elegant and sophisticated of the whole album, with a magic sense on Another Day.

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A marvellous example of greate singers and greate musicians mixed in a explosive album.

CraZyH et Djézinho are artists famous because of their vocal improvvisations during live performances.

The athmospher of this album is a concept of a trip inside of the night time world.

Naferone, first song, it’s really a little jewel: vocally pressing and greate rhythm!

In Shak’um, second track, you will find morrocco sonorities mixed with electronic music, tribal percussions and raggae voice.

Sweet, romantic and very well played and sang Wouan dè, track number five.

We really like Ka’lyn Loj, track eight, because of it’s sound absolutely groovy and an incredible vocal part: crazy!

An album that you must discover!

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Excellent example of spanish hip-hop: good sound, good voice, good rhythm.

We very like the open track, Adictos, because the groovy sound introduce you ditectly to  the  core of the album.

More angry and syncopated the second track, Contrataco: wery well done!

Epic atmosphere is the feature of Lagrimas del luto, track number 5, maybe the most sad and tragic of the whole album.

Soldados de un destino, number 7,  is a protest song, singed by vcnt with aukan,an argentine artsit.

Scratched voice in Lo q toco 2009, track 8, one of the song that we like more!

A high class hip-hop album: isn’t it!

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Da ragga time is here!

Directly from the central Italy, straight from Rome, an explosive album with classic reggae-raggamuffin style merged with electro and dance sounds. And a little tribute to The Queens.

Bla Bla, the opening and titletrack, together with Mi Promote Marjuana, Romanamour and Sing a Song are a classic reggae – dub tracks, with fat bassline and classic reggae sounds.

Cucina Casareccia (Pasta all’ova version) is maybe the most funny track of the Baracca Sound’s album, the argument is about the handmade typical italian cuisine and foods.

Ragamuffin starts with a little tribute to We Are The Champion by The Queens. Even if the Queens reprise is not so good inside the track, the groove with the fat voice is a good.

Atollo is the most happy and with a sunny character track, you’ll see the sea, the sun, pretty guys and girls play on the beach in the meanwhile you’re drinking your preferred cocktail.

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The advantage of the global communication era, or at least the most interesting one of many, is the possibility to find out new trends, new ideas, new talents, both all around the world.

The concrete example is represented by 7F with their same name EP: a great production of brazilian hip-hop, with brazileros speech and lyrics, mixed with nice music ideas.

This extended playing contains 7 west coast style tracks (well, thinking about the last albums released from major artists, it could be also considered a real album and not just an EP), pretty mixed and performed.

Sétima Frequência (Intro) and Vendetta are pretty for the use of banjo — or most probably a japanese shamisen — on the first one, and the mix of fat pads and old style drumkit.

The most representatives of the brazilian soul are Epidemia and Invente Um Deus. Both played with acoustic guitar on a electronic drumkit, Epidemia has a good latin groove with some fusion style and Invente Um Deus is pretty played on a slow bossanova sound. We feel it simply amazing.

Projeto Destruição has the same energy of Come With Me by Puff Daddy from the Godzilla movie.

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For those who don’t know him yet, Russell Jones a.k.a. Ol’ Dirty Bastard was an active member of the Wu-Tang Clan crew. Unfortunately passed away on November 13, 2004.

Quoting Wikipedia: “Arguably the most unusual and erratic member of the group, his wild behavior drew significant media – and often police – attention. Along with Method Man, he was among the most popular members of Wu-Tang with high sales and guest spots with industry giants like Mariah Carey.“

This work, as wrotten in the txt file included with the compilation, don’t claim to be his best work, it’s “just” a compilation of some of his finest old and new tracks. Over 15 tracks to listen, precisely.

Selecting the tracks we love, for sure you have to listen Intoxicated, with the participation of  Wu bros Method Man, Raekwon and soul sista Macy Gray. Try to think to all the relative styles blended into a single track, and you’ll get the sound of it. Simply elegant.

Dirty The Moocher is one of the most Wu style track, with a great groove and samples from the 30′s. This track is also one of the songs used on the original score of Hoodlum movie (a story about two gangs in 1930′s Harlem, with Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Andy Garcia and Queen Latifah).

One of the most famous on the hip-hop scene is Woo Hah (remix), featuring Busta Rhymes. If you know the groove of Busta, you already know what you’ll go to listen.

Don’t miss groovy Back In The Air featuring Ghostface Killah, and Got Your Money featuring Kelis. Simply delicious.

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Three bands, one show. This is how Nine Inch Nails + Jane’s Addiction + Street Sweeper will be in tour on North America this summer.

The free EP released today is a sampler of exclusive unreleased tracks by the three bands.

To get it, just go to the dedicated website and enter your e-mail address to receive the download link on your inbox.

As usual Trent do, you could choose up to four file format: high-quality MP3, FLAC lossless, wave lossless and Apple lossless. All 100% DRM-free.

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SaReGaMa is n real eclectic artist that could play as various kind of instrument as different genres of music.

This EP is a 4-track selection of funky and jazzy grooves, very energetic and well made.

The very fast and funky jazz title track Honky Fonky is made together with Hamelin Bérengnier, an excellent saxophonist. Oh No Babe remember the older funky songs, like James Brown, with good vocal samples and hammond organ performance. Fonky S and Hip Hop 4 Alex are more hip-hop than the other ones, and especially Fonky S is pretty similar to A Tribe Called Quest style.

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If you like black sounds and trip-hop music, you’ll feel the works of Black Era an authentic pleasure to listen.

They play a very good dark music, finding the good sound and effect in every track. The singer apply an interesting use of her voice, modulating it, sometimes like a real instrument.

It’s really hard to choose the best tracks in this album, but trying it, The Black Page has a great singing (a real soul voice!) and interesting keyboard’s sound. Delete Careful has a wonderful singing, smoove sound and good hawaian-like guitar played.

Shielded simply rocks. A pure instrumental track, ipnotic and guitar based. If you like the Pink Floyd sound, you’ll really love this track.

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