Flying Lotus ft. Kendrick Lamar "Never Catch Me" (directed by Hiro Murai)

Amamamamaaaaaaaaaaazing video!!!!!!!!!!!

OKSG Best of 2012

•OKSG BEST OF 2012•


Best LPs:

• Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
• Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.a.a.d. city
• Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
• Actress - R.I.P.
• Jessie Ware - Devotion


Honorable Mentions LP: 

Roc Marciano - Reloaded
The Internet- Purple Ladies
Karriem Riggins - Alone Together
Tame Impala- Loner
Schoolboy Q- Habits and Contradictions
Santogold - Master of My Own Make Believe
Evian Christ- Kings and Them


Tracks:

Adorn- Miguel
Bad Girls- MIA
Sayso- Eva Jane
Tenderly/ Flow- Disclosure
Anywhere but Here- Killer Mike
Hyperparadise(Flume remix)- Hermitude
I Just Go - Djemba Djemba
Eclipse/ Blue- Nosaj Thing
Neva Knew (Baauer remix) - Obey City
Strawberries- Jam City
Double Take ( outro) - Girl Unit
Always Have A Chioce- Clams Casino
Keep it Mobing- Jeremih
773 Love (Cashmere Cat Edit)- Jeremih
Pink Matter (Sivey Slow Burn Edit)- Frank Ocean
Changes (Shlohmo remix) - LOL Boys
Rain - Homeboy Sandman
Terrorist Threats- Ab Soul
Draw - Cid Rim
Sixteen- Rick Ross ft. Andre3k
Higher Ground- TNGHT
Climax- Usher
Every Single Night - Fiona Apple
The Don - Nas
Im Gone - Dj Rashad
Rock You- Traxman
The System- Popcaan
1991- Azelia Banks
On My Way - DJ Rashad
Afro Blue - Robert Glasper ft Erykah Badu
Nova- Burial/ Fourtet
Wayne Country Hill Cops Pt.2 - Omar S.
Blessed- Schoolboy Q ft. Kendrick Lamar


Mixes:

FADER/MoMA PS1 Warm Up Mixes: Sinjin Hawke and Zora Jones 

Sinjin Hawke- Rinse March 28

Yao- Honey- Tinged Time Turbine Vol.1 ( mix of YAO Beats)

FACT Mix 358: JETS


Radio Show:

Benji B Radio 1

Flying Lotus "Until the Quiet Comes" [stream]

Flying Lotus delivers another great album, "Until the Quiet Comes" feat. Erykah Badu, Thom Yorke, Thundercat and Niki Randa, which you can go and stream in its entirety at the NPR First Listen site. Support the album when it comes out Oct. 2nd

Flying Lotus "Until the Quiet Comes" (short film) directed by Kahlil Joseph

Great short flim directed by Kahlil Joseph ( Shabazz Palaces) for featuring music from Flying Lotus' upcoming album Until the Quiet Comes.  Amazing, inspiring work!!!

Thundercat "Shenanigans Pt 1" mix

We are eagerly anticipating the new Thundercat album to come out later this month on Brainfeeder. Thundercat, who is a frequent collaborator with the likes of Erykah Badu, Sa Ra and Flying Lotus, is a bass player whose work you've surely heard. On his debut album "The Golden Age of Apocalypse", produced by Flying Lotus, him and the band will sonically explore where fusion jazz legends like George Duke and Jaco Pastorius left off.

Until its release, you can check out this mix put together by FlyLo of some released and unreleased tracks the cat has played on.

Thundercat "Shenanigans Pt. 1" Mixed by Flying Lotus

Sum Summer Mixes

Summer is one of our favorite times of the year for obvious reasons. Whether you are relaxing on rooftops, in backyards, on the beach or just in your room, these are some excellent mixes that will make all that relaxing even more enjoyable.



Nguzunguzu - XLR8R mix
Nguzunguzu's mix of unique 'mythic' bass/ dance music will have you dancing at moments but mostly modding your head and grooving to the big sounds.



Flying Lotus - Lovers Melt 2
A follow up mix to his Lover's Melt podcast mix for Stones Throw, here Flying Lotus breaks out the soulful, funky and jazzy sounds mixing everything from Stevie Wonder to Curtis Mayfield, CAN and Donald Byrd. Alot of my favorites on here as well. This is a grand mix round these parts. [highly recommended]

Thundercat "For Love I Come"

Thundercat, a basist collaborator with Erykah Badu, J Davey, Bilal, Sa Ra and Flying Lotus is coming out with an album of his own this fall. Pitchfork is streaming the new single, a cover of George Duke, and its smoooooooth.

"For Love I Come"
Check it out

and as a bonus, here is another track from the album entitled "Daylight".....

Bilal "Levels" video directed by Flying Lotus

Stellar video for an already interstellar song, Flying Lotus at the director's helm and Special Problems knocked this one out the park..kudos!! The video continues where the "Mmmhmm" video left off. And overall, I feel like this is taking over from where the Soulquarians left off.

Featuring Bilal, Erykah Badu, Shafiq Husayn and Thundercat

FULL SCREEN
The Sounds of VTech / Bilal Levels   

MMMHMM

new video for my fav tune on the album



go get that Cosmogramma if you aint already , its a movie

May Shopping List

Go and do yourself a favor and pick up these two albums

click on the cover to stream the respective album via myspace, but trust ,
these are both great solid albums and you wont regret your purchase

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Flying Lotus x Lil Wayne x Muhsinah

FlyLo doing the damn thing right now. Here are a couple of remixes/ collabos that are sounding dope.
First is a remix of Lil Wayne's "I Feel Like Dying"



which you can download over at XLR8R along with the heavy HEAVY instrumental which you can freestyle over while feeling like dying...

and second is this great track "Lose My Fuse" that he produced for the lovely Muhsinah



which you can download here

enjoy!

Jose James - Black Magic EPK

First sneak peek at Jose's forthcoming Black Magic EPK

José James, Vocalist + Lyricist + Songwriter :: Artist Profile from friendswelove.com on Vimeo.

can.not.wait.

Sound Species - Can We Call It Love? feat Ahu

the dudes of Sound Species

I don't know much about Sound Species besides the fact that they are out of UK, but Gilles Peterson has been riding for this track for a minute now and I've been feeeling it!

I finally got my hands on it, and immediately dropped it into the 2009 JAMS playlist. So dope.
It features Ahu (aka Dolly) who featured on some Flying Lotus tracks on (the epic) Los Angeles.

Check it!

Download: Sound Species - Can We Call It Love? feat Ahu

FLY beLO da BLU skies

another collab from two of our favs, blu jumps on fly lo's "GNG BNG" from last years Los Angeles album

"GNG.BNG" (via the fader)

Best Ofs - 2008 (Camille's favorite albums)

This was tough to do. I'm still kinda uncertain....so I'm not explaining anything. Check out the tags, we've written up most of these artists in the past.

Camille's Top Ten Albums of 2008

1. Babyshambles – Shotter's Nation
2. Black Milk - Tronic
   
3. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah
4. Janelle Monae- Suite
   
5. Jose James – The Dreamer
6. Jamie Lidell – Jim
7. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
   
8. Beck - Modern Guilt
9. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
10. Daedelus - Love To Make Music To
    

Photocredits: 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10

Flying Lotus "Camel" (Nosaj thing Remix)

Don't know much about Nosaj thing, aside that he is amongst the bevy of talented LA electronic producers alongside Flying Lotus, Samiyam, Ras G, Free the Robots, the list goes on and on. Warp had him remix a track off Flying Lotus' Los Angeles (ahem, stay tuned for Ace to Ace Best of 2008 wrap up btw). Nosaj very tastefully uses some of the same samples from the original tune as well as adding his own flavor with some nicely chopped arrangements.

Flying Lotus - Camel (Nosaj Thing Remix)

Dont sleep..Flying Lotus Los Angeles

thas the cover, crazy huh?

Flying Lotus' Los Angeles (Warp Records) album just came out yesterday(the big day for releases) and it is fire. Homeboy is straight taking shit to another level and the best thing about it is that in the tradition of great leaders he is putting all his homies on and leading the movement, not unlike Dre in the 90s putting on Snoop, WarrenG, etc.

Anyways, really go and support this, get on the wagon now before the band- starts setting up and before you gonna need a late pass like a lot of yall needed with Dilla.

ill leave yall with a sampling from the album:


alright "motherfucker...wordup" -Julia Louis Dreyfuss from skit on"The Vacation from Ourselves" off Wale Mixtape About Nothin

More José James

Photo Credit

So James got me hooked on that other James, José James. If you're feeling him like I'm feeling him then right after you finish copping The Dreamer, click here and grab Gilles Peterson's free one hour podcast with the dude from last summer. I hope for big big things for this cat.

oksoundsgood addendum:
plus as a bonus, here goes the b side of the track that we posted yesterday called "Visions of Violet" produced by Flying Lotus. They are to be collabing on an album, that will be released on Blue Note!!! Y'all aint ready,wait.. Yall ready?

Jose James... get to know one!

Jose James is a young jazz vocalist from New York signed to Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings. Affiliation with GP already says a lot, as the man commands a lot of respect with his great taste. Anyway James' album The Dreamer is very worthy of copping, and here is a video from one of the tracks from that album, a cover of Freestyle Fellowship's Park Bench People. Enjoy and look out for a collab album between Jose James and another one of the faves Flying Lotus.



update: here is the original Freestyle Fellowship version