Here's a live recording of the infamous Brainfeeder night @ Fabric last week. The stream is provided by the Red Bull Music Academy who hosted the night and features the sets from Tokimonsta, Gaslamp Killer, Dorian Concept & J Rocc.
Shame that there's no video of the Gaslamp Killer set. When he dropped the high pitched tones over Timbaland's Bounce at 4:00 minutes in, he was going bezerk on stage!!!
Tasty selection of funk and rare grooves by the one and only J Rocc - Beat Junkie Sound!!! Recorded for the clothing brand Supreme...
I wasn't too impressed with his set last week at the Brainfeeder night @ Fabric, but this one is definitely a keeper :) DOWNLOAD: J Rocc - Take 2 Mixtape
Ras G, Daedelus, Nobody & J Rocc go hunting for samples in LA thrift
This year it's like an avalanche - more and more Dilla stuff posted on the web every freakin hour. It's good to see people keepin Dilla's Legacy alive!
Tony Touch had a Tribute show, with Black Thought freestylin and Questlove on the 1's and 2's. Download it here. Then there's this J Dilla Interview @ Roxy Blu in Toronto 2002Care for J Rocc's Thank you Jay Dee Act 1-4? DOWNLOAD Act 1COP Act 2GRAB Act 3 GET Act 4OK, now have deep breath and on to some more: Download: Benji B: Deviation J Dilla Tribute MixDownload: Ge-ology + J Dilla Rarities Mix
Stonesthrow describes this mix best, nothing to add:
"The year was 2003. J Dilla and Madlib had just wrapped up their album Champion Sound, recording as Jaylib, with Dilla then still in Detroit and Madlib doing all his work from his bomb shelter studio in Los Angeles. J Rocc - who would later become the third member of Jaylib, on the turntables for each of the shows the guys did together - put together this mixtape of Dilla, Madlib and Jaylib songs, as well as some of their sources, essentially telling the story of this group." DOWNLOAD (29 mins, mixed by J Rocc)
House Shoes & J.Rocc put together a collection of Strong Arm Steady & Madlib tracks on the eve of the release date for their album In Search of Stoney Jackson. Some of these songs are off the album, others are not.
GET IT HERE!
Not so long ago I wrote about the Secondhand Sureshots movie that's premiering soon.
Today Stones Throw Podcast 52 was released. Apparently all the $1 records that ended up not being used in the project landed in J Rocc's hands. Now he put together a 47 minute long mix of obscure (and some not so obscure...) vinyl finds from the dollar bins of LA. Grab it free on iTunes.It's finally being released!!
"Secondhand Sureshots is a filmed experiment in creative sound recycling. Dublab director Bryan “Morpho” Younce sent beatmakers Daedalus, Nobody, J.Rocc and Ras G on safari into L.A. thrift stores with orders to make new music out of five finds while the cameras filmed the whole process. The result is a mini-documentary about putting new life into old vinyl. Over 2 hours of footage, music & bonus material."
