Category Archives: FRSH KPT SCRT

FRSH SLCTS Steoples Mix Nate James © 2012 . All rights reserved.

FRSHCLSV MIX:
GB & A Race Of Angels –
We Are….
The Steoples

Today’s offering brings us a new mix introducing the world to a collaboration that I’ve much looked fwd to – The Steoples. A new duo marking the official coming-together of two longtime collaborators in the L.A. music scene – producer … Continue reading

FRSH SLCTS Kung Foo Grip Giorgio Momurda Indigo Children Nate James © 2012 . All rights reserved.

FRSH KPT SCRTS:
Kung Foo Grip
x Giorgio Momurda –
Indigo Children:
Tales From The Other Side

Just released today is a landmark release from two meteoric rising talents from Washington state. Olympia’s #RARE talent Giorgio MoMurda – producer for Lil B The Based God, Main Attrakionz and more, & Kirkland (a Seattle suburb)’s dynamic duo Kung … Continue reading

FRSH SLCTS Dropping Gems Podcast Seventeen Rebekah Long © 2011 . All rights reserved.

FRSH MIX PRMR:
BoneS x devonwho –
Dropping Gems
Podcast Seventeen

Adding another on the board for the home team, today we have the latest from fellow PRTLND-based label/collective – Dropping Gems from their ongoing series of split podcast mixes, featuring some of the scene’s best talents coming together two at … Continue reading

FRSH SLCTS Mugpush All US © 2011 . All rights reserved.

FRSH KPT SCRT:
MUGPUSH –
All U.S…
(w/ Coultrain, Teeko & more)

Carrying on the tradition of the raw, earlier recordings of groups like Funkadelic, Ohio Players, etc. & bringing it anew – we present to you – MUGPUSH. This new, Bay Area-based live band was founded by bassist/guitarist, Bill “Billy Bones” … Continue reading

FRSH SLCTS Time Wharp GRN EP © 2011 . All rights reserved.

FRSHCLSV DWNLD:
Time Wharp –
GRN EP

An artist I was first introduced to thru the Sonnymoon crew, Atlanta producer Time Wharp has quickly become one of my favorites of the moment, & one who I think a lot more people will be catching on to very … Continue reading

FRSH SLCTS Sam Trump Making Music Like Its Love Vol 1 © 2011 . All rights reserved.

FRSH KPT SCRT:
Sam Trump –
Making Music Like
Its Love, Vol. 1
EP

Ah… a young artist’s self-made debut. There’s really nothing else like it. That freeze frame in time that captures that pure, raw talent still just teetering on the cusp of something great – often times catching an artist @ their … Continue reading

Sonnymoon 2 © 2011 . All rights reserved.

FRSHCLSV PRMR:
Flying Lotus
“Zodiac Shift”
(Sonnymoon Remix)

One of my favorite discoveries made during the site’s hiatus last year has to be – Sonnymoon. After first hearing about them through Okayplayer’s The Lesson & Blind I – their self-released album, Golden Age, quickly became the go-to soundtrack-to-insomnia … Continue reading

txe tour ep © 2011 . All rights reserved.

FRSH KPT SCRT:
TxE
(Tope x Epp x G_Force) –
Rain In Cali Tour EP

Man – these guys. I can’t even tell you how happy I am this project came together and came out as ill as it did. PRTLND really needed this one – no, hip-hop needed this one. Okay, lemme fall back. … Continue reading

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FRSH KPT SCRT:
yU presents…
Charlie Ross –
The Charlie Ross Project

Keeping in line with this last week’s theme, I’ve got even more DMV area hip-hop for you guys today – and this time its an exclusive first look into an emerging talent from the region. Charlie Ross is a producer/MC … Continue reading

adadjpg © 2009 . All rights reserved.

FRSH KPT SCRT:
ADaD –
Intro To ADaD Mixtape
Mixed by Tone B. Nimble

Here is the FRSHCLSV premiere of the brand new mixtape from one of my new favorite MC’s, ADaD (pronounced uh-dod). Coming out of Chicago, ADaD has been making a name for himself as part of the All Natural, Inc. crew … Continue reading

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WKND BEATS #6:
Hi-Res –
1080 Beats

Bringing the Weekend Beats back from a brief hiatus with the latest project from a rising Portland talent, Hi-Res. This batch, entitled 1080 Beats, picks up where last year’s Sittin’ Up In My Room left off with more laidback but … Continue reading