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Welcome To Hellthy: Hip Hop
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Welcome to Hellthy: Hip Hop, a music podcast, mp3 blog, desktop radio station all rolled into one - highlighting the best music on the web released by the artists themselves or their labels. Support Waxploitation, Lex, Stones Throw, Matador, and Mush artists. These labels are on it.
Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:51:20 GMT
Hellthy Introduces Guest DJ Series
MP3 5 She
Artist The Accorns Website
Album Dropping From The Trees Buy Now
Label Candlewax Records Website
Genre Hip Hop Music Podcast
Mixing it up: I'm introducing the Hellthy Guest DJ series. If you are a podcaster who loves great music, and want to get your name, your podcast and the music you love in front of Hellthy drop me an email at nat@hellthy.com to become a Hellthy Guest DJ. Hellthy listeners don't want no junk. Email me - I'd love to hear from you.
So first up is Nashville Hip Hop producer Johhny Brickhouse who runs The Nashville Music Podcast. It's a mostly Hip Hop and Rock show with the occasional funked-out grab-bag sound collage and skit. It's a really good show. ... and hell yeah. I'm listening to episode 23 as I write this. Starts off with a crackling, potty-mouth voicemail message and resolves to - ahh - Bill Wither's classic Lovely Day. Great song.
So for his Hellthy Guest DJ spot he's playing DC-based underground Hip Hop act on Candlewax Records: The Acorns. The song is 5 She from their album Dropping From The Trees. Mad Squirrel has a super-laid back and honest delivery with a slight, endearing lisp. This is underground Hip Hop of the collegiate, backpack variety rather than the gold-plated "convinging-you-I'm-more-dangerous-than-I-probably-am" variety. I like both types myself. And I dig this. So thanks JB for introduing them to me and to Hellthy.
So visit his site: www.JohnnyBrickhouse.com and if you like what you hear subscribe to his podcast.
And if you want to be a Hellthy Guest DJ drop me an email.
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Cheers.
Sat, 6 May 2006 08:11:24 GMT
Blackalicious - I Declare
MP3I Declare
Artist Blackalicious Website
Here's a Blackalicious remix track which is part of a fighter video game soundtrack for PS2's "The Con." There's also remixes from Dan The Automator, The Alchemist and others.
Sun, 2 Apr 2006 08:41:46 GMT
Junko Yanagida - Flowers
MP3: Flowers
Artist: Junko Yanagida Website
London's Concrete and Clay brings us some creeped-out Japanese surrealism blending Japanese (and Japanglish) spoken word with classical samples (I'd say Dvorak but I'm a Classical jack-ass) over a simple hip-hop beat.
Junko's Japanese text is darker than her English - and if it was in English it would probably sound unbearably overwrought: "If I can forget everything, I want to forget everything. If this is my decision I cant blame it on anyone else. Everything I can see is messed-up and makes me puke. I want to throw it all away but I can't runaway from it. I need help but no one will help. Damnit! I want to do something. Kill. Damn!" The Japanese are so dramatic with their entertainment.
Then Junko switches to English and the flower talk. This is a very creepy, cool track that, if done by a native English-speaker, would probably sound like garbage art-school schlock. Wait for that chorus to hit. Call me a sucker for 1) anything Japanese, 2) classical music and 3) hip-hop (ha) but this short track is currently one of the favorites I've posted here. Content courtesy of Big Contact Open Channel.
Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:51:20 GMT
Daddy Ranks - Sports Freestyle
MP3: Sports Freestyle
Artist: Daddy Ranks Website
Another quickie from a Concrete and Clay label artist. "Ragga freestyle over dreamy hip hop instrumental." Courtesy of Big Contact Open Channel.
Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:45:05 GMT
Donkey Dicks - Lovers
MP3: Lovers
Artist: Donkey Dicks Website
London's Concrete and Clay label offers this instrument piece from an artist with a har-har name. "Hip hop instumental for lovers and MCs alike." Content courtesy of Big Contact Open Channel.
Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:41:36 GMT
BadR - Smoke Yourself to Death
MP3: Smoke Yourself to Death
Artist: BadR Website
Label: Concrete and Clay Website
Man finding full hip-hop tracks that hip-hop artists release themselves as mp3s seems like a very rare thing... Something about the genre being more single-driven than the indie rocker genre I assume - though in the underground I would think this wouldn't matter as much...
I did have some kool rare stuff from Kool Keith that I wanted to show ya'll, but there was something up with the files. I'm working on that... and this channel in general. Man, I don't like being so lax here. If you are a hip-hop artists or label or management and you think you have hot shit - post it to the Big Contact Open Channel. I'll get it...
Speaking of that: Indie French hip-hop from London-based artist BadR was found on the Big Contact Open Channel.
Tue, 17 May 2005 10:42:34 GMT
Crown City Rockers - Fortitude
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Artist: Crown City Rockers feat. Gift Of Gab from Blackalicious Website
Song: Fortitude Download MP3
From Album: Earthtones Buy Album
I happened across a mag called Mugshot in a little Japanese-run, uber hip arty Manhattan shop on Orchard Street I think it was. I can't remember the name of the shop but they had an incredibly cool custom-designed, Tokyo-made bike and a bunch of arty design books mixed with arty Japanese porn books. So I wanted to give credit to Mugshot where I came across Crown City Rockers and a handful of other jazz-tinged, live musician-based, backpack hip-hop - an often pretentious subgenre of music that seems so easy to do badly. This is pretty good though. So here is CCR - buy the album if you like it - just ignore, if you can, the stupid over-dubbed talk they added to this mp3 to get you to buy the album. With Gift Of Gab from Blackalicious.
Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:13:48 GMT
R.A. the Rugged Man - Lessons
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Artist: RA the Rugged Man Website
Song: Lessons (Clean) Download MP3
From Album: Die, Rugged Man, Die Buy Album
Label: Nature Sounds Website
Poor white rappers have so much to prove. Remember when British white kids did their best to mimic black American blues musicians? The limey singers tried their best to ape the inflections and lyrical content of orignal black, bluesmen singers. But eventually blues-loving honkies morphed into their own thing, allowing themselves to break away from blue's true past. Seems like we are still in the early days of white appropriation of Hip Hop where white rappers feel like fakes if they say "Earth" instead of "Erf" and put pictures of themselves on album covers in black and white, sepiatone or duotone manipulations meant to downplay their whiteness. Times have changed. A handful of generations ago many black albums, at the insistence of their labels, had random white guys and gals on their covers meant to encourage sales.
One-time Biggie collaborator R.A. says "this is who I be" and "I'm sticking to shit I'm livin'" and I don't doubt it. R.A. would say that his whiteness and his nonconformity has something to do with his inability to become more successful. The music is self-centered, self-loathing, myopic hip hop - the same ingredients for another white hip hop boy - the clown Eminem. So why is Eminem a money-ed star and R.A. still cruising the underground? R.A. says he won't bow to the "white boy needs a black boy to win" biz mentality. And I'd say Eminem without Dr. Dre would be even more unlistenable without Dre's skills adding a little sex to Eminem's catchy, bitchy, sexless whining.
So blues and jazz were both huge cultural and musical changes yeah? Rock n' Roll too. And most recently Hip Hop which is still working its shit out. All black American creations by the way - later to be changed and morphed by folks of all different races and nationalities. Does the future hold yet another seismic musical creation like those others? What will Hip Hop turn into next?
Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:13:47 GMT
Co Real Artists - What Was Her Name?
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Artist: Co Real Artists Website
Song: What Was Her Name? Download MP3
Label: Stonesthrow Website
Not Hip Hop - but dusty, classic funk re-released by Stonesthrow Records. Enjoy.
"This unreleased track was recorded in 1972, an intrumental normally performed with vocals in the Co Real Artist's performances. Courtesy Munyungo Jackson, this comes to you straight from a cassette, unmastered, and low-fi."
Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:13:48 GMT
Naše Vec feat. Illusionists - Tisicdvistideset
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Artist: Naše Vec feat. Illusionists Website
Song: Tisicdvistideset Download MP3
From Album: Hoøký menu
Label: Zee Prime / X-Productions
God damn, sometimes I love the internet. Sometimes. How the hell would I stumble across an outfit like Naše Vec? Czech scratch freestyling from the city of Brno in the Czech Republic. Hot shit. Visit Jinak and Hip-Hop.cz to find more Czech hip hop.
Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:13:48 GMT
D-Stroy - Roll Out
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Artist: D-Stroy Website | Buy The Album
Song: Roll Out Download MP3
Label: Matador Website
This track dates back to early 2001 - a simpler time.
Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:13:48 GMT
Aesop Rock - Basic Cable
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Artist: Aesop Rock Website | Buy The Album
Song: Basic Cable Download MP3
Label: Mush Website
"So I heard you all want to float". This is underground New York white rap (representing about 4 years ago). From Aesop's first full length which he released on the Mush label before heading to Jux. I'd love to put some Jux artists up too for you all to check out but they seem to be mp3 unfriendly. Check out Mush for a bunch of downtempo stuff and: "Mush originally started as a downtempo instrumental label, but has grown to include other types of underground music that we make and love - abstract hiphop, jazzy grooves, turntablist compositions, and even some music influenced by indie rock."
Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:13:48 GMT
Prince Po feat. Jemini and Rell - Hold Dat (Richard X Remix)
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Artist: Prince Po feat. Jemini and Rell Website
Song: Hold Dat (Richard X Remix) Download MP3 | Buy The Album
Label: Lex Records Website
This is a club remix by Kelis and P.Diddy colaborator Richard X - available on the Prince Po Hold Dat 12" - out on Lex Records.
Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:13:48 GMT
Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf - My World Premiere
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Artist: Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf Website
Song: World Premiere Download MP3 | Buy The Album
Label: Stones Throw Records Website
From 1996.
Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:13:47 GMT
Dangermouse and Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life
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Artist: Dangermouse & Jemini (Website)
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DJ Dangermouse.
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:13:11 GMT
KutMasta Kurt and Beastie Boys - Body Movin (remix)
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Artist: KutMasta Kurt & Beastie Boys (Website)
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From Redneck Games.
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:13:11 GMT
Tha Alkaholiks - Make Way
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Artist: Tha Alkaholiks (Website)
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Watch your head.
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:13:11 GMT
Dangermouse and Jemini - The Only One
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Artist: Dangermouse & Jemini (Website)
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DJ Dangermouse.
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:13:11 GMT