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    Damu The Fudgemunk
     
    Kilawatt: V1
    Damu The Fudgemunk displays his signature production talents on Kilawatt: V1, with vocal assitance from Panacea rapper Raw Poetic!
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    Soulmance
     
    The Soulmance Project
    Songs that you live by, love with, cry over and sing along with. Music with purpose! Music with Soul! "Soulmance" A romantic affair infused with soul
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    Mellow Orange
     
    Last Resort - EP
    In a world where hip hop music is truly dominated by commercial/radio hits this album may be the "last resort" in an effort to find hip hop music that people have been waiting and searching for.
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    Cambio
     
    Or Does It Explode?
    This Hip Hop Soul influenced album features artist Joell Ortiz, Stic.Man from Dead Prez, Bocafloja (Mexico City), Hache ST (Dominican Republic), Lady Keys (Puerto Rico) and other Bay area artist.
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    Pimpin Nino
     
    Welcome 2 Newmack City
    this is one of the hottest albums out.pimpin nino has a universal flow.this album was desinged to be appreciated in every city and state.thing im bluffin just listen for yourself and if u agree please cop it!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Angel Cheran
     
    Walking in the Spirit
    It's deep transforming all about love and power Neo -Soul sounds of Hip-Hop/Rap Blues, Country, Reggae, with slamming hot beats, take heed to the call, enjoy the journey and watch out and stay tuned for more in the near future. Also when buying this album
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    Us3
     
    stop. think. run
    7th album from producer Geoff Wilkinson's London-based hip hop jazz outfit, featuring US rappers Brook Yung & Sene. If you liked "Hand on the Torch", this is for you!
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    Us3
     
    Say What!?
    5th album from producer Geoff Wilkinson's hip hop jazz outfit, featuring US rappers Akil Dasan & Gaston. Hip hop ain't dead, it's breathing fire on here!
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    Us3
     
    Schizophonic
    5th album from London-based producer Geoff Wilkinson's hip hop jazz outfit, featuring US rappers Akil Dasan & Gaston. Hip hop ain't dead, it's alive & kicking in here!
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    Jaysin & Anecha
     
    Delta Blues
    Classic production and songwriting lay the ground work for a very personal journey of release
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    Luther Thomas
    Luther Thomas Quintet 'don't Tell' Rhythmelodic Music
    Freebop: a reharmonization of 'be/hardbop' and a transcendental approach to group spontaneous melody construction.
    by Derek Taylor April 2001 Luther Thomas is a living answer to the Monk coined phrase 'ugly beauty'. His signature tone on alto is anything but comely, but there's an underlying candor and confidence to his sound that is strangely beguiling. A founding member of the AACM styled BAG (Black Artist's Group) out of St. Louis, Thomas cut his improvisatory teeth early with other consonant-minded colleagues. Some of his earliest experiments involved the alchemical melding of funk and free jazz into an exciting, if unruly amalgam. The mutinous spirit that fueled such proleptical investigations leaves telltale footprints all over his first date for CIMP. Incorporating a variety of specially-devised compositional and conducting techniques referred to variously in the liners as Semi-conduction and Rhythmelodics, Thomas sets up a variety of ensemble combinations based essentially on pairings of instruments. On "Swimming Lake Oliver" the horns work as lead voices with bass and drums supplying a steady rhythmic drive. The compositional crux on the phonetically centered "BoBopBoLuBo" is Rollins' "St. Thomas" theme unzipped, overblown and recombinated over the Calypsonian traps work of Denis Charles. With the titular "Tag (You're It)" the players play a quick game of chasing melodic tails as Thomas reaches for Aylerian altissimo heights and Ted Daniel sounds strangely like Dizzy Gillespie circa "Salt Peanuts". In each instance the results are playfully erratic, but come off sounding somewhat overwrought. Thomas is more overtly linear on "Don't Tell", dappling a thematic line with dots of tone color. Daniel's entry on the piece is more subdued as he hunts and pecks at the same theme, fingering his valves and devising some crafty slurs. Wilber Morris and Charles march along on a thumping beat before opening solo space for themselves that closes the track. Daniels sits out on "As If It Were Love" and Charles takes to the sidelines too for the duet piece "Straight No Tonic". In both instances Thomas seems less structurally self-conscious and the bravura inherent in his off-kilter, vibrato-stained tone is given greater purchase. The underlying influence of Ornette Coleman rises up in stark relief on the blues-flavored "Kool Aid", where Daniel's smears clip the edges of Thomas' piercing banshee wails. The mellow, almost meditational "Spirits' Roost la Rush" is an unexpected turn with Daniel shifting to Kahai horn, Thomas blowing at his most soulful and Morris bowing beautifully. "For Don C.", a quick homage to Don Cherry (an obvious influence on each of the players) that returns to the mood to rollicking whimsy, winds up the set. A disc with some warts and blemishes to be sure, this date is still an exciting ride and offers an accurate portrait of Thomas as a composer and improviser.
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    Euneverse
    Materials of Music
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    Soulmance
    The Soulmance Project
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    Jaysin & Anecha
    Delta Blues
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      Hip-Hop Jazzman (vocal mix)
      Andre Jones
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