platinum pied pipers/sa-ra/the new downbeat-rnb thing: why don't i like this stuff more?

art of customization

1. Dollar - Steve Spacek
2. Now or Never - Platinum Pied Pipers
3. Hideyaface [Instrumental] - Prefuse 73
4. I Don't Care - Black Spade
5. Simply So [Sa-Ra Remix] - GB, Steve Spacek
6. Glorious - Sa-Ra Creative Partners
7. The Hop - Radio City
8. Reverible Top - Steve Spacek
9. Time Has Come - Exile, Slum Village
10. Can't Hold On - M.E.D.
11. Broad Factor - Quasimoto
12. Listen - Black Spade, Darien Brockington
13. Move, Pt.2 - Daz-I-Kue
14. Show Me the Way [Seiji Remix] - Zap Mama
15. Everybody Loves the Sunshine [Demo Version] - Roy Ayers

I remember at one point benji b says that "next week" he'll tell the listeners about some compilations and mixes that cover the same ground as he does....but i dont have a next week. :-(

dj language is a little bit too much on the hiphop/rnb side, most broken beat stuff is a little too generic-dancey (weak vocalists?) ...

avoid the "galactic soul" comp

09/21/2006 10:00 PM - Mighty, San Francisco
, San Francisco, CA 94101 - Unkown

09/22/2006 10:00 PM - King King, Los Angeles
, Los Angeles, CA 90001 -

Manhattan, NY, New York, NY 10001 -

09/29/2006 10:00 PM - Underbar, Boston
, Boston, MA 02101 - Unknown

09/30/2006 08:00 PM - Sonotheque, Chicago
, Chicago, IL 60601 - Unknown

thurs 21
TRIPLE 5 SOUL:::
Soul Sessions Tour faeturing:
Theo Parrish
Rich Madina
Waajeed . Benji B
Ge-ology
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For a second year in a row, Triple Five Soul will be taking its ongoing interaction with the most cutting-edge of underground music culture on the road. The T5 SOUL SESSIONS TOUR will be expanding internationally in 2006 to include both Montreal and Tokyo amongst its visited cities (NYC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston).

Set to kick off in conjunction with the Fall 2006 collection at retail, the major legs of the tour will visit Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Boston, Montreal and San Francisco between September 21st and 28th. The 2006 lineup will include Aloe Blacc (Stones Throw), Black Spade (Reca.Sto), Blu Jemz (Turntable Lab/Money Studies), DJ Spinna (Wonder Wax/Beyond Real), Ge-ology (Female Fun/Time Warp NYC), Low B (Hollertronix), Platinum Army (Waajeed and Tiombe Lockhart), Roger Yamaha (Moonwalk Records), Theo Parrish (Sound Signature), Twilite Tone (Great Weekend), Valida (Proper) and T5 Soul Sessions 5 resident Benji B (Deviation/Radio 1XTRA UK).

Performances will include in store sessions at the T5S flaship store in Soho and top T5S retailers Villain’s Vault, Untitled, Fred Segal, Karmaloop, and Style X-change, as well as evening events at Mighty (San Francisco), King King (Los Angeles), Sonotechque (Chicago), Canal Room (NYC), Underbar (Boston) and The Cabaret (Montreal). Media support for the tour will be handled by the fellow music/fashion lovers at The Fader.

For specific tour date/city/rsvp info, please visit www.triple5soul.com/soulsessions2006

date: city: venue: rsvp:
in store:
9.21 San Francisco Mighty [email protected] Villain's Vault, 5-7pm
9.22 Los Angeles King King [email protected] Fred Segal (Santa Mon./ Melrose), 4-6pm
9.26 NYC Canal Room [email protected] Triple Five Soul (SOHO), 6-8pm
9.27 Boston Underbar [email protected] Karmaloop, 5-7pm
9.28 Montreal Cabaret [email protected] Style X-Change, 6-8pm
9.30 Chicago Sonotheque [email protected] Untitled (Lincoln Park), 2-4pm
TBA Tokyo TBA TBA TBA

http://www.stonesthrow.com/georgia/

Is the Aloe Blacc record good?

ITEM!

this is pretty much sa-ra/andre3000/dudley perkins/many others in a nutshell, just replace latin with soul/funk/etc.

Anyone heard the new NORE?
OK this belongs in the rolling rap thread

also make sure it's really finished downloading

anyone else getting this?

^ WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE.

free download http://fatbeats.com/blackmilkpressuremixcd/

http://www.myspace.com/stacyepps

anyone else doing this kind of thing? im hopelessly out of touch w/ everything r&b.

What's the Science? Is the question we direct to all those that dwell on the Planet Earth! From the Mother Continent of Africa, to the hills of Europe, on over to the wilderness of North America, all the way back to the Coast of Asia, living under the umbrella of Hip-Hop Culture. We ask you all, What's the Science? We are living in a time where Hip-Hop Culture is one of the most powerful forces that exists around us that helps unite people of all races, colors, creeds, religions and schools of thought under one flag. It's time to give proper thanks and praise and reverence to the ERA that raised us and guided this same movement, that still exists today, on the next level. We stand here before you as Students of the same conscious movement that birthed the likes of AFRIKA BAMBATAA, KRS ONE, RAKIM, PUBLIC ENEMY, BRAND NUBIAN, X-CLAN, POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHERS, KMD, THE NATIVE TONGUE and countless others that brought forth an entire essence that took the world by storm and made it cool to be intelligent. What's the Science? How long will it take us to stand up strong again to make sure that the youth have some substance to feed off in order to grow into powerful, resourceful and responsible adults able to make positive changes to the world in which we live. What's The Science?

1. Inspiration
2. Love, Hugs And Hip-Hop Soul feat. Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Nick Rosen
3. The Right Song feat. Tiffany Paige, Fabian Ammon, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
4. The Natural Scriptures
5. Higher feat. Tiffany Paige, Daedelus
6. Circulate feat. Invizible Handz, Nobody, Flying Lotus
7. What's The Science?
8. Honor, Courage and Karma feat. Prince Po, Dexter Story, Nate Morgan
9. Constant
10. The Replenish
11. Freedom feat. Tiffany Paige
12. The Dream feat. Dwight Trible, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

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So the new PPP record Abundance is around. Hip hop elements are pretty much indiscernible. The music sounds like a live band, sometimes in a straight motown/stax soul kind of way, as in the excellent "On A Cloud", sometimes with cosmic funk keys, as in "Luv Affair". A handclap-doublehandclap rhythm pops up often. Track six, "Sanctuary", is the first song that could be called a downbeat r n' b ballad in the sa-ra mold, with beats, funk fuzz and off-kilter effects that continue into "Ain't No Ifs or Maybes". "The Ghost Of Aveiro" starts like a poetic torch song with sustained notes over Latin rhythms, then after a samba breakdown with dizzy high horns becomes something highly danceable with excited vocals. The double-handclaps re-appear for "Countless Excuses", a sweet poppy soul song of regret backed with spacey synths. Both of these are A+. Fuzz and scuzz returns on "Dirty Secrets", this time with a stompy schaffel backbeat. The two-minute "Goodbye" goes four to the floor with a Kraftwerk keyboard motif, introduces some snares and is in danger of becoming full-on dance music before stopping.

Singing is by Coultrain, Karma Stewart, Jamila Raegan and Neco Redd. It's fifteen tracks, sixteen if you count the hidden one. Clocks in under an hour and still felt a bit long to me on first listen. Definitely interesting though.