Alexis Davis - 'The Lift' x Free DL

This just popped into my e-mail this morning.

What a line-up of talent! I am a fan of all these guys and here they brought the chilled hip hop that we know and love from them all individually.

Filtered samples, snappy drums, Replife's easy flow and what sounds to me like a different flip on the sample that Dilla used for Common's track 'Nag Champa'?

"D'Angelo Live" - Sam Champ Mixtape

Sam Champ is the New York native who bought us THE best remix EP's of 2010/2011, the aptly titled 'Sam Champ Remixes' which featured his dope and oft-played remix of D'Angelo's 'Left & Right'...



Sam Champ: "You may have noticed me using the header Mixtape Mondays on a few posts recently–something we intend to make a semi-regular feature here at Okayplayer. We figured we would kick it off properly with an actual OKP mixtape; something official, something original, something exclusive. Something worthy to place alongside DJ Soul‘s incredible Best of Common and Dilla mixtapes. And then we was like, Hmm what’s happening the last monday in January that we could use as a theme? Superbowl? Newt Gingrich? Or MAYBE the phoenix-like reemergence of our beloved D’Angelo, who is currently spreading his fiery musical wings across the waters in Europe."

Head of HERE for the mixtape DOWNLOAD

 

BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Stories: Gone Too Soon: J Dilla

BBC's Benji B has always been a champion of the late-great J-Dilla.

As part of the 'Gone Too Soon' series, Benji recently broadcast  a one-hour special on Jay Dee the G.O.A.T.

Comments from Common, Mos Def, Mase from De La Soul, Questlove...

As an essential musical history lesson or an update for fiending fans, must-have.

Hit it up HERE for the DL

Monday (Tuesday) Five - 28th March, 2011

A good ol' fashioned rustic number 5 appears on this weeks list.

Let's take it back then with some classic faves of mine over the years...

One. Heatwave - 'Star of the Story' (From their smooth-as 1977 LP 'Central Heating'. Tip: ATCQ sample).

Two. Happy Mondays - 'Loose Fit' (From their only KILLER album 'Pills, Thrills & Bellyaches).

Three. The Roots feat Common - 'Act Too (Love of My Life)' ("The an-tici-pation arose as time froze...").

Four. Roy Ayers - 'Searchin'' (Good vibrations!)

Five. The Smiths - 'Half A Person' (Jangly Marr guitar and Morrissey rhymes at their best).