Erykah Badu - Honey
Filed under Hiphop, Music, Video.
Erykah’s fourth full-length looks promising. After eight years of musical silence, New Amerykah will be the title and features a wide range of producers like Madlib, 9th Wonder and J Dilla.
I’m feeling it. The cover art looks great and her first single, Honey, is a soulful funky 9th Wonder beat overlayed with Badu’s sweet and eccentric voice, breathing on top of it.
The music video for Honey is funny, refreshing and original (apparently K-Os had that idea first, cool video btw).
Aphilas - Instrumentally Ill EP
Filed under Electronic, Hiphop, Instrumental, Music. | Comments (2)
Aphilas is a producers duo from Finland, Helsinki. There isn’t a lot known about the duo only that they make some very interesting electronic organic instrumental hiphop.
Apparently they had some problems with their record label, they used to be on merck, which before the release of their debut album was shut down.
They released the “Instrumentally Ill EP“ which was well received in the blogosphere. The EP is a fantastic piece of work. They use their sample based sounds in such a gentle soulful and wonderful way, overlayed with soft hiphop beats, that it floats you away into other atmospheres for the next half hour.
If you like Rjd2, Boom Bip or Four Tet to name a few, definitely don’t hesitate to download the EP completely free over at archive.org and streamable at Last.fm.
I feel like the album “Prisoners of the Planet” is kind of an extension to this EP, more of the same, in a positive way I mean.
The album got released in some way but it seems to be very rare, so I can’t link you to it. I don’t even know where to contact Aphilas. I also looked everywhere to buy the album without luck, so I got my copy in a not so nice way, sorry Aphilas.
