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Frank Ocean's 2012 major label debut 'Channel Orange' was produced by Malay Ho - Malaysian/American producer with ties to the Pacific Northwest - including a childhood in Bellingham, and early collab with Seattle's Jake One.
Here is Frank Ocean sampling Mary J. Blige's "Real Love."
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In 2013, Glasper and his Experiment performed a full, improv-heavy set of music in the intimate KEXP Bumbershoot Music Lounge. The performance finds the band in a particularly playful mood, stretching a mere three tracks over the thirty minute period. First up is “I Can’t Help It”, followed by “All Matter”, and then a psychedelic cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana brings the set to a close.
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From his brilliant 2012 major label debut studio album 'Good Kid, M.A.A.D City'. Samples Grant Green's "Maybe Tomorrow" and the drum break from the track "Use Me" by Bill Withers.
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re-mixed and remastered versions of his 2011 mixtapes House of Balloons, Thursday and Echoes of Silence, and three previously-unreleased songs.
Enjoy Live Video from Shigeto's 2013 KEXP In-Studio, including this tune: bit.ly. Zach Saginaw, operating under the pseudonym Shigeto, is based in Detroit, MI.
Collaboration between NYC duo Travis Stewart (aka Machinedrum) and Praveen Sharma (aka Braille).
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Chromatics announced their breakup in August 2021, but singer Ruth Radelet just shared her debut single! www.stereogum.com
This is the first single off Lupe Fiasco's 2012 album 'Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1'. The lyrics lay bare the crimes and poverty imposed on American indigenous people, and the impact of imperialism on people all around the world.
Watch the video:
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The 2012 debut album from Orlando Tobias Edward Higginbottom aka Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (or TEED), a British electronic music producer, DJ and singer-songwriter.
www.totallyenormousextinctdinosaurs.com
The 2012 self-titled debut album from Berlin-based Russian DJ, music producer and singer Nina Kraviz.
Check out a live techno set from Berlin:
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Tame Impala's Kevin Parker on including "Elephant" on his second record - 2012's 'Lonerism':
"Elephant is actually one of the oldest songs that I have, it's just been in the vaults this whole time. I'm not sure why we never recorded it before, but we were just playing it at a sound check one night and everyone in the band was like, 'We should just put this on the album', and so we did"
In 2012, Fiona Apple ended a seven-year hiatus with the release of 'The Idler Wheel'. Listen to an interview she gave that year:
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Tthe first single from Austin-based, GRAMMY-winning guitarist, producer and Black Pumas co-founder, Adrian Quesada's upcoming album 'Boleros Psicodélicos'.
20 years ago, Quesada discovered the sophisticated – and slightly delirious – cultural movement of balada music that blossomed throughout Latin America between the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. A refined collision of bossa nova smoothness, Beatlesque psychedelia and torrid boleropathos, balada used art-pop instrumentation (mostly strings and harpsichords) and the warmth of analogue recording to maximum effect. It employed songs about heartbreak and longing as a means to transport the listener to an opulent, cinematic fantasy world.
Now, Quesada has penned a love letter to that golden era through Boleros Psicodélicos, a stunning album that lovingly recreates the specificity of the balada sound, adding a stellar list of guest vocalists, intriguing contemporary touches and just a hint of irony.
Check out the video for this song!
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A 2012 release from Light in the Attic Records compiling Stax & Volt singles from 1964-65.
Wendy Rene was the stage name of soul singer and songwriter Mary Frierson, later Mary Cross (1947 – December 16, 2014). She recorded for Stax Records in the mid 1960s. She released this great song in 1964. It featured Booker T. Jones on organ.
The True Loves (with Smokey Brights) will be at ZooTunes on Wednesday, August 11th!
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Until then, check out The True Loves live on KEXP:
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From a 2012 compilation release.
The Funkees are a late 1960s Nigerian Afro-funk band. They relocated in the 70s to London and gained prominence in the expat music scene.
New Music! Setting up the release of their long-awaited new album on Sept 3, the new single "The Human Chain" is a powerful and uplifting rocksteady roots anthem about the looming threats to humanity.
“The Human Chain” features reggae superstar Clinton Fearon, backed by an all-star band that includes Cuban trumpeter Julito Padrón (Irakere) along with Jamaican legends Sly Dunbar on drums, the late Robbie Shakespeare on bass and the late Winston “Bopee” Bowen on guitar.
Check out the video! - filmed on the rooftop of a skyscraper in Fearon’s current Seattle home!
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New music! Chronixx with Inflo on production!
"This one is for all the young musicians in Jamaica…we have lost so many of our guiding lights here on the physical plane. We are hurting and longing for the word sound of universal truth. Now we have to feel their essence in our creativity and keep the flame alive in the earth. This one is for our elder musicians. You have woven the fiber of who we are…your honor is our honor. We love you. You are our heroes."
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In 2012, Caribou's Dan Snaith released his first project as Daphni, 'Jiaolong'. Here he samples Buddy Miles's track "The Segment". www.caribou.fm
This is a new version of a song called "What Is This Voice?" from Xenia Rubnos' excellent 2021 release, 'Una Rosa,' which was the Brooklyn-based Puerto Rican-Cuban artist's first album in five years.
“El Individuo had just arrived to NYC from Habana for the first time and came straight into this session without us ever having met and just blew us all away,” Rubinos said about the collaboration with Cuban rapper El Individuo on "Madrugada."
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Check out Rubinos's 2016 live in-studio performance!
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Lamar's second studio album was named one of the best albums of 2012 by BBC, Complex Magazine, Fact Magazine, New York Magazine, and Pitchfork. www.kendricklamar.com
Get to know this amazing Seattle based shoegaze band blacknitecrash.bandcamp.com