Celebrating 11 years of sharing great music & culture and doing things a little differently than the average music site, long-running music blog, DIFFERENT KITCHEN ( www.different-kitchen.com ) finally releases the THIS ONE GOES TO ELEVEN… compilation album (the title a tongue in cheek homage to the movie, Spinal Tap) today to mark the milestone of their 11th anniversary.

THIS ONE GOES TO ELEVEN… features 11 brand new, unreleased tracks by a selection of favorite artists that have been featured on and supported by DIFFERENT KITCHEN over the past eleven years plus two extra cuts which have seen only limited release previously. Leading Canadian music magazine, EXCLAIM! will co-premiere THIS ONE GOES TO ELEVEN… at 11:11am ET with a stream of the entire album on the Exclaim.ca website at the following link: exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHea…_compilation_stream.

Artists featured on THIS ONE GOES TO ELEVEN… include acclaimed Bronx, NY-based rapper and former Battery/Jive records artist, Mickey Factz; veteran Toronto MC, King Reign; electronic soul duo from Australia, Audego recently featured on KCRW’s blog as an ‘Artist You Should Know’; 2013 Harbourfront Soundclash Music Award winner singer, Brendan Philip and the 416 Band, a brand new group project produced by 2013 Red Bull Thre3style Toronto champion and remix/production wiz, DJ M-Rock.

A mix of contemporary and classic hip-hop, electronic and urban alternative sounds, DIFFERENT KITCHEN head curator, Ian Steaman explains, “I’ve long wanted to do a compilation album of original music tied to DIFFERENT KITCHEN and, after missing our 10th Anniversary last year due to life and work issues, the 11th Anniversary concept just came to me. The album came out exactly the way I was hoping: different, creative & quality showcasing incredible artists who may or may not be getting as much shine as I think they deserve which is why I started the blog in the first place way back in 2003. Also, as a (now) Toronto-based site, I’m really happy that over half the artists featured on the album are from Canada. I hope people are as excited when they hear the album as I was putting it together.”

The release of THIS ONE GOES TO ELEVEN… was preceded by an 11-day promo campaign orchestrated by the CoolerBuzz agency during which five singles from the compilation were released. Each single was premiered with an Instagram teaser video trailer at the @iansteaman IG account followed the next day by a feature post on DIFFERENT KITCHEN premiering the full song. Promotion for the album will continue post-release with more feature posts on other songs from the album, artist interviews and the premiere on 8.12.14 of the video for Montreal rapper Jai Nitai Lotus’s “Pi (Brahma Built)” single which will be available exclusively on THIS ONE GOES TO ELEVEN… until it’s official release on his forthcoming ‘Acknowledgement’ mixtape later this month.

Album Track List:
01. The Names Are Known – Known P.S.A.
02. King Reign – The Books
03. Keita Juma – YRWEONTHISBEACH?
04. Brendan Philip – Look
05. Noah Vinson – Ex feat. Isis Ash
06. Joel. feat. Arthur Lewis – Make It in America
07. J.Nolan – Deluxe Edition
08. Jai Nitai Lotus – Pi (Brahma Built) feat. Sam I Am Montolla
09. Audego – Gone
10. Emay – Dash
11. Third Mind – Life To Be
12. 416 Band – Feel Bad
13. Mickey Factz – Me & My Paintbrush

Additional credits:
Marketing by CoolerBuzz (flavors.me/coolerbuzz)
Audio mastering by @echosound-studiolab (www.echosoundstudiolab.com/)
Art by @Krunkpony for Tiffany Pilgrim Art Direction & Graphic Design (www.tiffanypilgrim.com)
Promo Art by Shehab Tariq for Implant Media (implantmedia.com.au/)
Viral video production by Ian Jones (@i-james-jones) for the @ear2much collective
Media Partner: @exclaim (www.exclaim.ca)

For more information on the THIS ONE GOES TO ELEVEN… compilation album, visit:

– Blog: www.different-kitchen.com
– Facebook: www.facebook.com/differentkitchen
– Twitter: @Stellaskid and @DiffKitchen
– Instagram: @iansteaman
– Tumblr: www.differentkitchen.tumblr.com

Previously: NEW MUSIC: DIFFERENT KITCHEN PRESENTS: KING REIGN FEAT. SAUKRATES “THE BOOKS” (PROD. E3)