For your Mellow Monday evening, we have a little hip hop instrumental gem from Soulstruck and MKSB. It also describes the state of my bedroom 99% of the time. Messy Bed features some funky instrumentation on the keys and guitar, with a swingy, laid back broken beat bringing it all together. Have a listen, and enjoy the rest of your Monday night.
- KJ
The 70's has never sounded so fresh. A collaboration between Jackson Breit and Carneyval, the two artists have redone Bill Withers' funky and soulful disco classic Use Me. It was dropped on Soundcloud a while back, but I just stumbled across it while doing the writeup and background for the remix of Kendrick Lamar that I posted earlier in the week.
This revision of the original maintains much of the original instrumentation and even some of Bill Withers' vocals through sampling, but the overall feel is very much modernized, along with the addition of Jackson Breit's own vocals and original lyrics. Have a listen for yourself, and then hit the shopping cart in the player below to download your free copy of this awesome revision of a classic.
- KJ
What's more relaxing than listening to a Canadian weather report with a smooth, funky and jazzy backing track? If you didn't have anything that fits this description before, it exists now, and it's pretty mellow. Canadian producer falcxne got a bit experimental in sampling the news for his most recent free download Tams. Check this funky jam out, and hit the download button if you're feeling it.
And in case there was any doubt as to just how Canadian falcxne is, take into consideration that he put out two albums that are up as name-your-price on Bandcamp called Timbits and Timbits II. There are few things more Canadian than that!
- KJ
Toronto producer Harrison just dropped a summer mix for i-D over the weekend for their "Music To..." series. Harrison's is entitled "Music To... Make Summer Love", and is aptly named for the music that is in the mix. Packed with groovy, funky, summery music, this has everything from dreamy reworks of pop jams to funky nu disco and house tracks to hip hop and rap. No download or tracklisting on this, so you'll have to use your ears, memory, or maybe Shazam to ID your personal gems from the mix. I know there are some Harrison originals along with some tracks from Jafunk, Geotherory and a Royce remix, but I won't ruin your track searching adventures.
Stream and enjoy the full mix below.
- KJ
"I'm holding on, I'm holding on for love." The newest track revealed by Julio Bashmore for his upcoming debut album Knockin' Boots is one for the idealists out there who are waiting for what feels just right. Holding On features the vocals of Sam Dew, and is a really funky piece of house music. This is some feel good and let go dance music.
Although this is Julio Bashmore's debut album, if you haven't heard of him by this point already, we have no idea where you've been for the past number of years, but it certainly wasn't following international house music. If you need a refresher, try Au Seve on for size. Now that you've become reacquainted, check out the other tracks that will appear on Knockin' Boots that have already been put up on Julio Bashmore's Soundcloud Page - Simple Love, Rhythm of Auld (both featuring J'Danna), and Kong (which features Bixby). The sampling already up gives a pretty solid feel for the vibe the rest of the 12-track album might have - which seems to be a great mixture of funky disco and classic house.
The full album will be dropping on July 10th on Bashmore's own label, Broadwalk Records. Until it drops, we'll be rocking the streams of these 4 tracks.
- KJ
A couple chill hip hop jams coming in for Mellow Monday this week, from an artist that we've featured multiple times before - Flamingosis. Both of these tracks are remixes that have been reworked to have a completely different feel from the originals, and into that funky, jazzy and loungey hip-hop flavour that is Flamingosis' specialty.
About A Week Ago... is a remix of Bobby Shmurda's Hot N*gga, which is a pretty heavy gangster rap originally - but the rework turns the vibe into a much more laid-back jazzy hip-hop jam. The original lyrics still flow without much editing aside from the tempo.
The second track is a remix of Sage The Gemini's Gas Pedal. Again, this puts a really fresh groove on the original - Flamingosis keeps the lyrical content, and simply weaves a whole new backdrop that they are presented against. Similarly, this rework brings in some grooving guitar licks and brings that signature funky hip-hop sound.
Both of these are up for free download, so pick them up and add them into your collection of summer jams.
- KJ
If you've been following freshdrops for any length of time at all, you'll already know we're big fans of the folks over at Eton Messy. They have come back today with the newest release on their free downloads series, with a really funky house track from Polish producer Klaves. Come On is really a house track that goes to show that sometimes, less is really more. A funky bassline, really cool vocal loop, some added keys and of course the drums all come together to keep things moving the whole way through.
Tune in and enjoy, and grab the free download courtesy of Eton Messy. Make sure to check out the rest of their download series, as there are some real gems in there that have been released previously.
- KJ
Some really cool hip hop production coming out of Saskatoon hit my Soundcloud stream this week from Chief Beats. Memories is a chilled funky hip hop beat with stings, funk guitar and that great vocal sample all masterfully woven together - and it's uploaded for free download. With tight production like this from a local artist, there's no way I could not support this.
If you're a producer and would love to remix this somehow, Chief Beats has thrown all the stems up for download as well, available here. If you want more, he has a significant back catalogue of tracks, most released as free downloads all on his Soundcloud page.
- KJ
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