Lex Records just slipped out a new mixtape of MF DOOM, this one by Pipomixes came from listening to DOOM’s whole catalog. It’s totally unofficial (even though the label is helping hype it.) It’s also totally dope.
At the same time, Lex gave us a more proper selection by Dr. Who Dat? (aka Jneiro Jarel, Shape Of Broad Minds,
After Count Bass D’s Dwight Spitz record dropped, he immediately vaulted into one of my favorite artists. There’s something simultaneously soothing and disturbing about his slothy lilt. And his beats always bring the soul (and occasionally the creepy). Check out his video for “Neon Soul” above and below for the moving pictures surrounding “What I Do.”
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Shape of Broad Minds were a CMJ highlight for me and I was glad as fuck that it was at the URB + LEX Records party that these cats were taking the stage.
In part 1 they do two versions of the same song back to back; the first is a light and jazzy, conversational, singsong rhyme, the second a punishing remix with a menacing bounce and a demented, spiraling rhythm. Then they launch into gorgeous, haunted, spacey, smoking-a-j-on-the-rooftop instrumento jams, and they aren't afraid to throw up a work-in-progress, which is how it should be. In Part 2, (upcoming) you’ll hear their gutbucket valentine to Jazz, “They Lied”, and more verse-based hip-hop. 'Good shit …
Coming soon from DJ Benzi and also check that debut album Get Right coming in '08
Really though, what do you know about this? Sure, there's that “Paper Planes Remix” with Donnis (one you can't get anywhere else but here), but what about Lil Wayne sandwiched between The Beatnuts and Hieroglyphics? And Wale? Dude kills it on two cuts on this DJ Benzi podcast exclusive to URB.com. We have other mixes on deck from Shape of Broad Minds, Dieselboy, Klaxons and all your purveyors of cool. So peruse the tracklisting below, head over to Benzi's page for some nip slips and, most importantly, download this mix…
001. M.I.A. & Donnis “Paper Planes Remix”
002. Common & Kanye West “Start The Show”
003. Nas “It Ain't Hard To Tell …
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