Rhythm Incursions / Primus Luta aka RIPL – May ’10

I’m very happy to introduce our first (of two) brand new regular presenters to the Rhythm Incursions airwaves. Primus Luta from AvantUrb joins us for a new monthly show direct from the East coast of the United states. Alongside DDay One’s semi-regular show from L.A we’ve now got two presenters repping both sides of the country.

Regular listeners will remember the name as he’s guested on the show quite a few times in the last year, first with the retrospective Beat Construction mix in April, and then with 3 parts of his four-part The Vanguard series earlier this year. An avid music fan and musician, he holds the same interest in new music as we do and brings to the show the same open minded and embracing attitude that we try and put into ours. After chatting by email, following his work and putting his mixes on the show for the best part of a year, it felt like a natural progression to bring him on board.

Here’s some words from the man himself regarding the new show, which has been dubbed RIPL:

For the first episode of RIPL the aim was to give a broad idea of the type of stuff you can expect to hear over the coming months. This is an incredible period in music, with folk from the four corners really representing at the leading edge, where sounds and styles are being born every minute. We like to umbrella these into singular genres for simplicity, but the truth of the matter is that genre’s themselves have become modular.

Each genre, each sub-genre, is like a pebble dropping into the ocean of sound sending out ripples in concentric circles. They bounce off of each other, absorb one another’s energy, intersect, and create new ripples, new sounds, new genres, new sub genres. This show is all about the ripples. Okay I just made that up. It sounded good though, nowhere near as good as the music itself. Bring on the RIPL!!

Primus Luta will be holding it down on the second week of each month starting next month with his RIPL show. He will be followed by our other new presenters XLII and Broken Haze from Raid System in Tokyo – who regular listeners will remember we featured recently in a 3-part special – who will hold down the third week of the month starting in June (their debut show goes out next week). And then on the last week of the month our regular show will continue to go out. So that’ll be 3 times the amount of regular music coming your way each month, each from a different continent but with the same aim of bringing discerning music to discerning ears.

Please leave your feedback on this show so we can continue to build and take in your input as well.

Enjoy!

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Tracklist:
Pariah – Detroit Falls – R&S
The Glitch Mob – Beyond Monday – Forthcoming Glass Air
Dark Party – Status – Mush Records
Free the Robots – Orion’s Belt Buckle – Alpha Pup
Shlohmo – Hot Boxing The Cockpit (Tokimonsta Remix) – Friends of Friends
Take – Quartz for Amber – Alpha Pup
Lorn – Army of Fear – Forthcoming Brainfeeder
RJD2 – A Spaceship for Now – RJ’s Electrical Connections
Paul White – Unnamed Beat – One Handed Music
Phat Kat – Katakombs (Demo) – Look Records (free download)
Busdriver – Least Favorite Rapper (Anti-Pop Consortium/Mega Man Remix) – Anti (free download)
Jahcoozi – Powerdown Blackout – Bpitch Control
H Prizm – Unnamed Beat – Unreleased
Ras G – Discipline 09-3 – Leaving Records
Alex B – Hot Chop – Elm & Oak
Pretty Lights – Still Rockin – Self Released
Blockhead – Only Sequences Change – Ninja Tune
Prefuse 73 – Return From Home – Beat Records
Scuba – Before – Hotflush Recordings
Electric Wire Hustle – Thank You Steve – EWH
Onra – Jeeps – All City records
Bonobo – All in Forms – Ninja Tune
Lusine – Think Of It – Ghostly International
Portformat – U$ (Dandario Remix) – Tokyo Dawn Records
Jneiro Jarel – Android Romance 2 – Who?
Baths – Mecha Joy – Forthcoming Anticon
Shlohmo – Post Atmosphere – Friends of Friends
Autechre – Treale – Warp
Tim Exile – A Little Bit More – Warp
Jogger – Superman – Magical Properties
Shafiq Husayn – Rebel Sawyer – Plug Research
Flying Lotus – Mmmhmmm – Warp

Rhythm Incursions – April ’10

After nearly a week of blue, planeless skies here in London I guess we can confidently say that spring has arrived – and hopefully summer isn’t too far behind. So as we do every month let us celebrate with some music and another 2 hours of new, upcoming, old and unreleased bits for discerning ears.

On the show this month we’ve got new and forthcoming music from B-Ju, Ras G, Robot Koch Lando Kal, Lorn, Jahcoozi, FaltyDL, Om Unit, Letherette, Uncle Lew, Alex B, Take, Deru, LV and Quarta330, Shigeto, Skitz, Tokimonsta, Space Invadas, Yosi Horikawa, Dimlite and more alongside some favourites of recent times from RSD, James Blake, Uyama Hiroto, Mount Kimbie, Daisuke Tanabe and Flying Lotus among others.

This month’s mini feature meanwhile looks at the work of Japanese producer O.N.O. Probably best know as the producer for Tha Blue Herb, one of Japan’s most famous rap crews, and hailing from the northern island of Hokkaido, O.N.O has also been releasing under his name as a solo artist for well over ten years now. And it’s his work as a solo artist that’s always fascinated me since I discovered him thanks to Waxfactor about five years ago. This mini feature aims to shine a little light on the man’s incredible production range which runs from hip hop to dub, jungle to house, ambient to abstract and at times crazy electronic music. The constant in a lot of his music is his use of machines to create the sounds, something which really takes meaning when you see his live shows (youtube here and here) where equipped with 2 MPCs, a sequencer and effects units he puts on one of the most fascinating and enjoyable live electronic music shows I’ve ever seen. On the mini feature we’ve got 4 tracks from releases spanning most of his solo career and which as I said gives a nice idea of his diverse output. For more on the man check his website and those of you in/around Tokyo can catch him playing with Flying Lotus for a Tokyo Brainfeeder session soon – hopefully this might help shine some more light on his work outside Japan.

For now though sit back and enjoy another two hours of discerning music for discerning ears. As always you can grab the show directly at the link below, stream at the bottom of this post, or subscribe to our iTunes and/or RSS feed and you won’t even have to click through and read through all this every time we drop a new show. Look out for more guest mixes coming up next and some news regarding the shows. Until then enjoy!

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Tracklist:
Flying Lotus – I Feel Like Dying – Bootleg, free download
Robot Koch – True – Forthcoming Project Mooncircle
UpHigh Collective – Blend – On Point
Tycho – Adrift (Shigeto’s A Dream Mix) – Ghostly International
Jahcoozi ft. M. Sayyid – Powerdown Blackout – Bpitch Control
Foals – Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie Remix) – Free download
Dong – Suzuran (LV and Quarta330 remix) – Forthcoming Hyperdub
RSD – Naked Mario Kart part 2 – Black Box
Sepalcure – Down – Forthcoming Hotflush recordings
Uncle Lew – Little Wolf – Unreleased
Letherette – On Video – Unreleased
Onra – Oper8tor – All City Records
Mini feature starts
O.N.O – KRK – TBHR
O.N.O – Light Velocity – TBHR
O.N.O – Hazed Over – Nike Run
O.N.O – Night Scene – Rambling records
Mini feature ends
Daisuke Tanabe – Artificial Sweetener – Circulations
Tokimonsta – Smoke and Mirrors – Ramp Recordings
Alex B – You and I Both Know – Elm and Oak
Take – Neon Beams – Alpha Pup
James Blake – Harmonimix (Bills, Bills, Bills) – White Label
Mount Kimbie – Serged (FaltyDL remix) – Hotflush recordings
Lazer Sword – Shot In The Nite – Innovative Leisure
Self Says – Same Space (Just Easy) – Self Says (free download)
Uyama Hiroto – Ribbon In The Sea – Hyde Out Recordings
Deru – Cottonmouth Lothario – Mush Records
Lando Kal – Fuzzy Ankles – Numbers
Lorn – Bretagne – Forthcoming Brainfeeder
Vex’d – Fire (Blood 1 remix) – CSM (free download)
B-Ju – Dog Day – Error Broadcast
Skitz – Born Inna System – Forthcoming Dragon Drop
Foreign Beggars – Move Higher (Om Unit’s Lights Down mix) – Forthcoming Dented Records (exclusive premiere)
Portformat ft. Blaktronics – It’s On (Swedeart Remix) – Forthcoming Tokyo Dawn
Yosi Horikawa – Cook From South – Forthcoming Ubeat Records
Dimlite – Elbow Flood – Forthcoming Now Again (free download)
Space Invadas – Imaginist – Invada records
Antipop Consortium – Lift (Audace Remix) – Unreleased
Aquadrop – Strong Vibes – Unreleased (free download)
Ras G – Discipline 1 – Forthcoming Leaving Records

Rhythm Incursions – Best of 09 pt 2

We wrap up 2009 with part 2 of our ‘best of’ mix. This is the last show of the year and continues to run down some of our favourite tracks from the last 12 months.

The mix starts with our second ‘Labels of 09′ mini feature looking at Ramp Recordings, a label that for me has had an incredible year and put out good music, consistently without worrying about scenes, genres and things like that. Doing eclectic isn’t necessarily hard though, doing it well however is and for me Ramp is one of those labels who managed to do just that: serve up a truly eclectic mix of releases, artists and styles and do so with a cohesion, quality control and consistency that only makes the music shine that much more. Add to this some quality artwork and an ear for snapping up producers that are bubbling under, like FaltyDL, Shortstuff or Tokimonsta, and you have a label which you need to make time for if you haven’t yet.

As I said they’ve had a rather busy year with something close to ten or so releases so I’ve managed to fit as much as I can in this mini feature with pretty much one track from every release this year, bar one or two. If you like what you hear then check the website and catch up with some seriously good music.

Elsewhere part 2 of the best of 09 features music from the likes of Darkstar, Peverelist, Joker, Dorian Concept, Daedelus, Clutchy Hopkins, Soundspecies, Mount Kimbie, Hudson Mohawke, Floating Points, Machinedrum, Poirier, Blue Daisy, Jamie Vex’d, Quarta330 and many more.

As usual tracklist and download links below. And if you haven’t yet may we suggest you sign up to the newsletter, RSS feed or iTunes feed and this way you’ll never miss a show.

So that’s it for 2009, and the first decade of this century/millenium. Many thanks to all our listeners, all the labels and artists we’ve worked with and who’ve supported us, all our guests, our extended family, DDay One, Mr Trick, 2tall and everyone else. It’s been a great year and here’s to 2010!

Peace

Laurent

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Tracklisting:
Mini feature – Labels of 09: Ramp Recordings
Easy & The Center of the Universe – Legend of Selda – Ramp Recordings
Ras G – Lisa Bonnet – Ramp Recordings
Maxmillion Dunbar – Bare Feet – Ramp Recordings
Declaime and Flying Lotus – Lit Up – Ramp Recordings
Tokimonsta – Let Me Trick U – Ramp Recordings
Computer Jay – Distance – Ramp Recordings
Slugabed – Gritsalt – Ramp Recordings
FaltyDL – To London – Ramp Recordings
FaltyDL – Party – Ramp Recordings
Zomby – Godzilla – Ramp Recordings
Shortstuff – Stuff – Ramp Recordings
Desto – Disappearing Reappearing Ink – Ramp Recordings
Mini feature ends
Dorian Concept – Trilingual Dance Sexperience – Affine records
Starkey – Miracles (Jamied Vexd remix) – Planet Mu
Martyn ft dBridge – These Words – 3024
Pangaea – Mosaix – Hotflush
Breakage ft Newham Generals – Hard – Digital Soundboy
Sibian Mobile Disco ft. Beth Ditto – Cruel Intentions (Joker remix) – Free download
Krytics Minds – One of Us – Swamp 81
Peverelist ft Pinch – Revival – Punch Drunk
Jose James – Black Magic (Untold remix) – Brownswood
Mark Pritchard ft. Om’mas Keith – Wind It Up – Hyperdub
Quarta330 – Bleeps from Outer Space – Hyperdub
XLII – Podgy Swing – Raid System
Darkstar – Aidy’s Girl is a Computer – Hyperdub
Ben Sharpa – Off the Rails – Jarring Effects
Build An Ark – In Her Smile (Daedelus remix) – Kindred Spirits
Clutchy Hopkins – Tune Traveller – Ubiquity
Pearson Sound – Wad – Hessle Audio
Deadbeat – Lessons in Darkness – Superheadz
Blue Daisy – The Fall – Black Acre
Poirier ft Face-T – Enemies – Ninja Tune
Machinedrum ft Mickey Factz – Freshkids – Norm Rex
Aardvark – Duntit – Eat Concrete
Non+Hermutt Lobby – Saved (Cupp Cave remix) – Catune
Hudson Mohawke – Overnight – Warp records
Mount Kimbie – Serged – Hotflush
Floating Points – Love Me Like This (No Nonsense Dub) – R2
Mos Def – Quiet Dog, Bite Hard – Downtown Records
Shafiq Husayn ft Fatima – Lil’ Girl – Plug Research
Dam Funk – Kill Dat – Stones Throw
Mr Chop and CL Smooth – T.R.O.Y – Five Day Weekend
Toddla T ft Mr Versatile – Rice and Peas – 1965
Soundspecies ft Ahu – Can We Call It Love? – Burntprogress

Rhythm Incursions – Best of 09 pt1

And so here we are at the end of the year, and the decade. Let us therefore indulge in this most seasonal of traditions with a two-part, end of year ‘best of’ show for 2009. The idea was to build on last year’s first installment, and then before I knew it I’d sat down in front of the computer with a shortlist of 100+ tracks and the idea of actually doing a proper mix as opposed to a simple selection of tracks. As with last year there is no talking this time round, just pure music selection for your enjoyment.

We start with part 1 and 50 odd tracks which have all been highlights of the year here at Rhythm Inc towers from the likes of Architeq, Paul White, Alice Russell, Raekwon, DOOM, Oh No, Heliocentrics, Loops Haunt, LuckyMe, Robot Koch, Milanese, King Midas Sound, 2nd Class Citizen and many, many more. The selection is a nice representation of this year’s playlists too with a couple of previously un-aired goodies thrown in on top. As always complete tracklist below with link to the mix for those that aren’t subscribed to our feed or iTunes channels (hint hint).

As I said this best of show is more of a ‘mix’ than our normal shows – everything has been mixed and mashed up to allow me to fit as much music as I can in 75 minutes and still give every track a chance to shine.

Part two will be dropping very shortly, either on Christmas eve or Boxing day (the day after xmas) – it all depends on how much I manage to get done tonight. It will feature another 50 or so tracks from our best of 2009 list as well as the second ‘Labels of 09′ mini-feature, this time looking at the output of Ramp Recordings which is by far one of the stand out labels of the year for us. And don’t forget to check last month’s show for part of our ‘Labels of 09′ mini-feature which looked at the excellent One Handed Music.

So I won’t keep you any longer. Get stuck in, lie back, crank up the volume, ignore the family members and enjoy the first half of our best of 09 show!

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Tracklist:
Nasdroic – Room Mist – LuckyMe
The Slew – Robbin Banks, Doin Time – Puget Sound
Kids in Tracksuits ft Non genetic – No Hooks – Fluid Ounce
Dizz1 – Konotakosuke Yaro – Rush Hour
Instra:Mental – Watching You – Non Plus
Scuba – Symbiosis – Hotflush recordings
Stoney Jackson ft Talib Kweli – Get Started – Stones Throw
Heliocentrics & Mulatu Astatke – Masenqo – Strut
Oh No – When Nah – Stones Throw
DOOM – Ballskin – Lex records
Robot Koch – Heaven – Project Mooncircle
Teebs – Untitled 9 – Self-released
Samiyam – Bonus Mission – Poobah records
B-Ju – Philly Run – Error Broadcast (free release)
G.O.D – Desrunay – NozL recordings
Loops Haunt – Joplin – Black Acre
Exile – The Sound is God – Plug Research
Little Dragon – After The Rain (GB reinterpretation) – Self-released (free download)
Karriem Riggins – 12s in 8s – Scion AV
Mayer Hawthorne – Just Aint Gonna Work Out (Astronote El Camino remix) – Aside Worldwide (free download)
Mono/Poly – The Beatles – Faces Records
Tranqill – Payroll (Paul White clean dub) – One Handed Music
2nd Class Citizen – The Day You’re Lost or Found – Equinox records
King Midas Sound – Lost – Hyperdub
Diamond District – Who I Be – Mellow Music Group
Debruit ft. Om’mas Keith and Jamie Woon – I’m Goin’ Wit You – Civil Music
Erikah Badu – Real Thang (fLako remix) – Unreleased
Nosaj Thing – Quest – Alpha Pup
Joker – Digidesign (Om Unit’s Pop and Lock remix) – White Label
Foreign Beggars ft Kashmere, Jehst and 2tall – No More – Dented records
Leatherette – In July Focus Rite – Norm Rex
Depakote – Lilykoranic – Unreleased
El Michels Affair – Duel of the Iron Mics – Fat Beats
Milanese ft. Ben Sharpa – Disclosure – Planet Mu
Dr. Who Dat? – Viberian Twilight pt2 – Lex records
Lorn – Wake Up Fucked Up – Self-release (free download)
Ras G – Eunice in White – Brainfeeder
Alix Perez ft Yungun – Calm of Cast – Shogun Audio
Disrupt – Sega Beats – Jahtari
Architeq – Birds of Prey (Jackhigh remix) – Tirk recordings
Lambent – Groove Analyse – Project Mooncircle
Mike Slott – 40 Winx – LuckyMe
Alice Russell – All Alone (DJ Day meets Clutchy Hopkins remix) – Little Poppet
Architeq – Babylon – Tirk recordings
Raekwon – House of Flying Daggers – IceH20
Architeq – Sleeping Bear’s Lament (TAKE remix) – Planet Mu
M64 – Rhythm of the Drum (Dert remix) – Record Breakin’

Rhythm Incursions August 09

With September knocking at the door, it’s fair to say summer is well and truly over. And considering how strange it’s been weather wise here in the UK, I think it’s only fitting we end it with a blast of new music. Up this month we have plenty of forthcoming early autumn releases as well as a mini feature on Lorn, one of the producers we think you should definitely be keeping an eye on in the coming months.

Music comes in from all corners of the globe and all styles including Poirier, JS-1, Tiago, Ras G, Antipop Consortium, Luke Vibert, Shafiq Husayn, Milanese, Hessle Audio, Machine Drum, Lambent, Mos Def and more. You also get some previews of the forthcoming Ras G release on Ramp, as well as the new Friends of Friends EP.

The mini feature looks at the work of Lorn, someone who should be familiar to regular listeners as well as those who used to hang around scratch boards at the turn of the century. With an upcoming album on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label, a recent release alongside Adoptahighway, plenty of dope free remixes knocking about the internet and more collaborations in the works, I selected five tracks to showcase his work. Over the years Lorn has, for me, definitely developed a sound and approach to his music that is unique and refreshing, as you’ll hopefully hear with this short selection.

So that’s it for august and for the summer, enjoy our last summer selection and we’ll be back as usual in a few weeks for the September show. In the meantime stay tuned for more guest mixes and freebies. Enjoy!

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Tracklist:
oL – Night flight – Unreleased
DJ JS-1 ft. Aesop Rock, C-Rayz Walz and Vast Aire – Karma Killaz – Fat Beats
Thavius Beck – Part 2 – Big Dada
Afta 1 – Nightlight – Melting Pot Music
Untold – Luna – Unreleased
Tiago – Babel Fish – Rush Hour
Mono/Poly – Red and Yellow Toys – Planet Mu
Ras G – Stealth Mode – Dublab
Teeko – Easy Going – Unreleased
The Gaslamp Killer – Anything Worse – Brainfeeder
Lambent – Hook Rip – Project Mooncircle
Denka Nights – War of the Words – Unreleased
Kindred Spirits Ensemble – Ja-mil – Kindred Spirits
Mini feature starts
Omega Clash – Junior – Self released
Lorn – None An Island – Brainfeeder
Lorn – Requiem (ft. Mobb Deep) – Unreleased, download here
Lorn – Outlines – Unreleased
Lorn – Wake up Fucked Up – Unreleased, download here
Mini feature ends
Milanese – The End (Untold remix) – Planet Mu
Pearson Sound – Plsn – Hessle Audio
Terror Danjah – Zumpi Hunter VIP – Planet Mu
Joy Orbison – Wet Look – Hotflush recordings
Machine Drum ft. Theophilius London – Night Operation – Norm Rex
Depakote – Believe That – Self released, download here
Mos Def – Supermagic – Downtown Recordings
MBE – Logon To The Calling – Fullsteam Records
Luke Vibert – De Pimp Act – Planet Mu
Larytta – Promises – Friends of Friends
Poirier ft YT – Let Them Hate – Ninja Tune
Shafiq Hussayn – Rebel Soldier – Plug Research
Ras G – Lisa Bonet – Ramp Recordings
Antipop Consortium – Volcano (Four Tet remix) – Ninja Tune

Rhythm Incursions: July 09

We’re back with a much delayed regular show. Apologies for the lack of updates and shows in June, but life got in the way with work, other projects and my own Original Cultures work. Still the upside is we’ve got quite a lot of stuff to get through, so this month there’ll be two regular shows, with the next one dropping towards the end of the month. In between we should also have a few guest mixes and other surprises so stay tuned to the site.

As for this month’s new show, it’s another 80 mins of fresh new sounds and older favourites taking in music from Cooly G, Awol One, Busdriver, Milanese, Om Unit, Clutchy Hopkins, FaltyDL, Mr Dibiase, SA-RA, Push Button Objects, Prefuse 73, Joker, Bibio, Ras G and many more. Full tracklist below.

This month’s mini feature shines a light on L.A. producer Take aka Sweatson Klank. Take is by far one of my favourite producers in the whole ‘beat scene’ movement, and someone who I think is quite often forgotten or underated when discussing the recent rise in popularity and attention surrounding the whole beat thing. More than that, having been around for 10+ years, Take links the old and the new as far as the beat thing goes, having helped to usher in the beat movement in L.A. alongside people like Kutmah, Eric Coleman and others. His work, like that of people like Prefuse and Dabrye, nicely shows this and this mini feature shines a little light on this acting as a nice introduction to those who may not know of him. Peep the tracklist for full details and check his myspace for all the latest release news. Also look out for an interview I did with the man coming out shortly, here’s a sneak peek.

As usual you can download/stream the show directly below and/or subscribe via RSS or iTunes so you never miss a thing.

Enjoy and catch you in a few weeks.

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Tracklist:
Cooly G – Love Dub refix – Hyperdub
FaltyDL – Human Meadow – Planet Mu
Floating Points – J&W Beat – Planet Mu
Jungle Drums – Walk – We Ain’t Music
Prefuse 73 – Overkill Choir – Warp
Flying Lotus – Camel (Mr. Dibiase remix) – Unreleased, download from here
Mr. Dibiase – Mario Galaxy –
The Clonious – Fogged Spacesuit – Ubiquity Records
SA-RA – Bitch Baby – Ubiquity Records
Clutchy Hopkins meets Lord Kenjamin – Tune Traveler – Ubiquity Records
Build An Ark – Dawn (Ras G and the Afrikan Space Program remix) – Kindred Spirits
Bibio – Fire Ant – Warp
Mini feature – Take aka Sweatson Klank
Take – Walk Away ft. Gaby Hernandes – Innercurrent Recordings
Take – The Start of our Ending – Buttermilk records
Take – Sugar – Eat Concrete
Take – Wonderman’s Flask – Unreleased
Mini feature ends
Debruit ft Ommas Keith – Going wit’ You – Civil Music
Juice Aleem – Who is He? – Big Dada
Awol One – Glamourous Drunk – Fake Four Inc
MRR-ADM – Track 1 – Stone Throw
The Gaslamp Killer ft. Gonja Sufi – Kobwebs – Milan Records
Om Unit – Cradle – Terror Rhythm
Milanese ft. Ben Sharpa – Disclosure – Planet Mu
The Heavy – How You Like me now (Joker remix) – Counter records
Mark Pritchard ft Ommas Keith – Wind it up (freak mix) – Hyperdub
Pantyraid – Beba – Marine Parade
Busdriver – Split Seconds – Anti records
Push Button Objects – Breakers delight – Chocolate Industries x Adult Swim, download compilation for free here

The beat generation interprets Sun Ra

Regardless of what you might think of the current beat/instrumental hip hop movement, one of the most interesting things about it is just how well the whole thing lends itself to the reinterpretation of other genres and classics. It’s no surprise considering that reinterpretation has been a cornerstone of hip hop production since the beginning, when loops and breaks were getting chopped up. Today though the new generation of producers are taking things further thanks in no small part to the internet and modern technology allowing people to link together regardless of distance and make use of a wealth of recorded music.

With this in mind, it was a surprise to see something pop up on twitter yesterday about a bunch of producers, including L.A’s Ras G, having released a mix of reinterpretations of Sun Ra. The surprise quickly turned to pleasure when I started listening to it. There isn’t a wealth of information about it, beyond a tracklist, some art (one of which is used in this post) and a link to a myspace page for Re:source who seem to be the mastermind behind this effort. Looking at the tracklist it features quite a few known names to us, such as the aforementioned Ras G, Powell from Paris, Elaquent from Canada and Ichiro from Tokyo. Can’t say I’m too familiar with all the others though a few names ring a bell. See below for yourself.

As for the music, as I said it’s definitely worthy of your time and a keeper as far as I’m aware. It’s easy to see the inspiration that all the producers drew from, Sun Ra’s music, and yet they’ve all managed to come through with different takes, sounds, moods and atmospheres resulting in a 1h30 of instrumental goodness. Definitely a fitting tribute to an artist who I think would no doubt approve of such a project.

Looking on the myspace it seems the good people over at Monday Jazz are going to be airing this on their show, but in the meantime you can download it from the link below. Big thanks to @scaloni for the tip!

Download the mix here (via sendspace, zip file)

Alternative link:
Download the zip here

Tracklist:
Electric Egypt the invisible spectrum
Ras_G jouful noise!!!
Space Monk hello sun ra
Afro Bluu all systems go
SoulJim sun ra beat
Ichiro mori
Movementss cosmos
Powell popcorn contact
Skipless sometimes the universe speech
Samon Kawamura antique black
Sauce travel
SK.ILL 5:49 in the a.m.
Blak Maul china gate
Space Monk majestic waves
Stevo into the sun
Sudan Life what i learned from le sony’r
Elaquent calling planet earth
The Billion Dollar Quartet sun ra project
Cozmos one for the sun
Infinite Potentials not like planet earth
SK.ILL graveyard planet
-G-R-A-D-E- summer in paris
Ravage Beats 2012 sun ra 2012 mix
Don Bo anhk
Blunted Monks lars vertoht de sun ra et
Samon Kawamura imagination
Soul Kid shine like the sun
SoulJim Moon Shoes
-G-R-A-D-E- bad character
Dank Grooves the final sun
Jomac sun rawness
The Samurai i am sun ra
Depakote one for the sun
Sun Ra space is the place (Live)

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