Lyve‘s beats are so proper! Like…old school boom bap but still new sounding. Not a lot of producers can walk that fine line like he can. Here’s the blurb from ELMNT himself:
ELMNT – All Figured Out (Prod. Lyve)
All Figured Out is the latest free offering from Toronto emcee ELMNT. With production by Lyve (Tona, HighDEF) this release of All Figured Out serves as the leading single off the “Stara-Nova mixtape”, a collection of ELMNT’s favorite cuts to date.
Stara-Nova mixtape is the first of three forthcoming projects set to be released in the following months. Following this tape will be the release of “Dorian Grey”, a collaboration EP with Juno nominated Emcee/Producer Muneshine.
“Peace. Wrote this last summer at the HighDEF headquarters. Ironically we were trying to piece together a joint & kept being interrupted by Century Room’s shitty DJ doing his warm-up sets to some industrial night Canadian artists purged over for, probably in hopes to fool themselves into quasi-stardom.
Anyways, L’s were smoked, not a fuck was given, life was lived. All Figured Out.”
Now I wanna watch Zodiac again. I’ll let Karla tell it tho:
Jeremy Rose has recently been working under the moniker Zodiac. As he’s gearing up for his self-titled EP due digitally on September 24 and on vinyl October 8, he happily delivers his first single titleCome featuring Jesse Boykins III. Zodiac is responsible for producingThe Weeknd‘s ‘What You Need’, ‘Loft Music’ and Side A of ‘The Party And The After Party.’ Below is the tracklisting for Zodiac, & more:
∀ – VSE06 Zodiac
1. GirlGirlGirl 2. Come ft. Jesse Boykins III 3. So Soon We Change 4. Loss Config. 5. 138
digital out Sept 24th, 2012 physical out Oct 8th, 2012
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Official viz for one of the stand-out tracks off the must-have album that is Ian Kamau‘s One Day Soon. Directed by RT! and starring Toya Alexis and her son Lyric!
Black Bodies: from the album ‘One Day Soon’ available here..
Behind the scenes look at Era‘s “Mount Olympus” music video featuring Shi; the song that ISN’T on No Handouts…??? Never got that one (especially since they’ve been pushing it). Ah well….video soon come.
Check out the teaser for JD Era’s new video “Mount Olympus” Ft. Shi Wisdom Directed By Footage
This is kinda cool. Don’t think I’ve seen an online video-mixtape before. I know the whole “video DJ” thing has been getting a bit of buzz out there (mainly in the Dance genre) but this is actually a cool use of the technology as a viral audio + visual experience. Plus it’s all CanCon so we good, lol. Shouts to DJ Law! Here’s the tracklist:
MIXTAPE RADIO INTRO TONA – Blue Shield Kardinal Offishall – Kill Shot JellyTooFly – The Shinnin’ Rich Kidd – Back In The Day SepTo – EZ When Approachin’ Angerville – Royce Birth – _The Arrival_ Ghettosocks – Invincible (featuring El Da Sensei) Mathematik _Universal_ Sese – Baby Im Gone _Produced by Rich Kidd TONA _TIMING_ FEAT. KARDINAL OFFISHALL Gee Wunder f. Rochester, Mezziah, TRA, Yung Jixx & Neno Rocwell Okay, Okay, Okay Dan-e-o – Serial Killer (Inspired by _Dexter_) (Official Music Video)
Opening reception is Thursday night but the exhibition runs from the 23rd to the 31st. Should be dope! Def looking forward to checking it out. Shouts to Javid and all artists on the grind.
And to support even further, check out the IndieGoGo page set up to help sponsor the exhibition!
‘ALAAMA (SHE KNOWS) A Solo Exhibition by Javid (JAH)
‘Alaama explores the artist’s vision of feminine divinity. Through a series of mixed media paintings that experiment with calligraffiti, the work represents an expression of Sufi Islam.
Opening Reception is on Thursday, August 23rd from 7-10pm at 185 Augusta Ave, Kensington Market.
For more information, visit 185augusta.com
Peace JAVID | UTR | STILLKIDS | WAY OF ACTING | BLACK IRON GIANTS 2012
Video Credits:
SHOT & CHOPPED BY BLACK IRON GIANTS.
Cinematography by Danilo “Cinematic” McCallum and Chris Ak. Edited by Danilo McCallum Music from “Draw The Line” by Zaki Ibrahim Paintings and Voice over by Javid (JAH)
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