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Mixtape Monday Features Sets and Tapes From DJ Jazzy Jeff x MICK, Talib Kweli, American Matthew, wowflower + More For July 17th, 2017.
Mixtape Monday Features Sets and Tapes From DJ Jazzy Jeff x MICK, Talib Kweli, American Matthew, wowflower + More For July 17th, 2017.

Mixtape Monday: DJ Jazzy Jeff x MICK, American Matthew, wowflower + More

Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY.

This week's Mixtape Monday is a beat maker's dream come true, as we spotlight tapes from DJ Jazzy Jeff, wowflower, American Matthew and more.

Creatives from the music world rejoice as some of the best and brightest in the game have joined forces once again to break the seal of dopeness for your earholes. We got the new work from DJ Jazzy Jeff and MICK, legendary Brooklyn lyricist Talib Kweli drops his inaugural set for the Gavotte mix series and France's Cosmic Analog Ensemble rounds things out with Les Sourdes Oreilles — a smoking original score brimming with the kind of cinematic jazz funk that should excite fans of Adrian Younge.

Check out all that and more on the drop-down below!

Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY.

DeAnte Hitchcock x Michael Aristotle - No Pressure

ATL spitter DeAnte Hitchcock teams with Michael Aristotle on the No Pressure tape. Combining clever lyricism with club-ready production, the 6-track project produced by Brandon Phillips Taylor is a proper appetizer ahead of the Hitchcock’s forthcoming BETTER solo LP.

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Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY.

VA Lowtemp Music - Low Temporary Vol. 3

Lowtemp Music drops the third installment in its instrumental compilation series with Low Temporary Vol. 3. Nineteen tracks deep, the spacious experimental tape features contributions from Adam Deitch, Gramatik, Kotek, Luxas & Holly, TheSpvceAge and more.

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Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY.

American Matthew - The Black Tape

American Matthew keeps it DIY with the instrumental concept project The Black Tape, which was inspired by dreams and recorded at his studio in Puerto Rico. His dream about blackness plays out over the course of eleven ethereal, soulful and electronically charged tracks. Get carried away.

The Black Tape is an instrumental album by American Matthew. The Black Tape marks the second full length release from Texas-born artist Matthew Nelson following the 2016 album Europe Demo. The Black Tape is completely instrumental and is designed to play out musically the a dream plays out visually; a dream of Blackness in various forms. The Black Tape is produced, arranged, mixed and mastered entirely by Matthew at La Factoria, his Ocean Park art studio in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY.

DJ Jazzy Jeff x MICK - Summertime Vol. 8

The summer season is not officially on until the arrival of the annual Summertime mixtape from MICK and the magnificent DJ Jazzy Jeff. This year is no different, as the eighth installment of the tape surfaces at the peak of the season. Dig in and get all of the Summertime mixes at summertime.fm.

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Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY.

Talib Kweli - Javotti Mix #1

Brooklyn spitter and Javotti Media label head, Talib Kweli, mans the turntables for Javotti Mix #1. The inaugural set in the series follows Kweli and Styles P’s collaborative project, The Seven, which dropped in April. If you happened to miss it or any other Javotti releases, this mix is a great primer.

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Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY.

KanKick - KAN KICK REMIXES #1

Oxnard’s KanKick reworks joints from a handful of rap greats with the arrival of KAN KICK REMIXES #1. The 19-track tape features remixes of tracks from Camp Lo, Remy Ma, AZ, Consequence, Mobb Deep, Asheru, Apani, Jay-Z and more.

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Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY.

GRAMZ x amani.cove - [FBN-007]

A split tape from GRAMZ and amani.cove, FBN-007 is the latest from Cleveland’s Fresh By Nature Records. GRAMZ opens the tape with dusty, analog productions that have an otherworldly feel. Amani counters with a killer ear for melody and experimental sounds on the b-side. Both producers offer a nod to the boom-bap sound with their respective approaches to percussion across seventeen tracks.

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Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY.

wowflower - balloons

Connecticut producer wowflower drops his 20-track balloons instrumental tape with a healthy co-sign from the almighty House Shoes. His Street Corner Music debut combines expertly chopped samples with relaxing tones and ambient chords to create a project that is perfectly suited for head nodding or deep meditation.

"While preparing for my radio show about a year ago, I put a kite out to the kids that I was looking for some heat to play. This kid sent me a 20 second clip of a work in progress. It was sublime. He kept sending beats per my request. It was exciting how consistently good the shit was. Blissful, downtempo escapism. His production took me somewhere else, in a time where a retreat from the increasingly stressful day to day is more than welcomed. That first track he sent, "Huey", starts off Balloons, Wowflower's debut LP on Street Corner Music, just as it started the dialogue between the two of us. The Street Corner faithfuls will not be disappointed. This shit is fantastic."

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Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY.

fly anakin. - people like us.

Mutant Academy alum fly anakin. follows the Koncept Jackson-assisted Chapel Drive tape with People Like Us. The 8-track project is a quick bite that packs a punch courtesy of brooding, lo-fi beats and candid lyrics dripping with angst.

this is for you from me, music is all we really have left in this shithole. the game gon always be the same cause bullshit don't change. the first half is for me the second half is for you. thank you. vibe the fuck out.

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Lenny Kravitz, Grace Jones, Lauryn Hill, Lion Babe, Thundercat, SZA & More Rock The Afropunk Festival 2015 in Brooklyn, NY.

Cosmic Analog Ensemble - Les Sourdes Oreilles

Charif Megarbane aka Cosmic Analog Ensemble delivers 70s film score revival gold with Les Sourdes Oreilles. CAE’s latest is another artisanal work of jazz funk gold that finds him playing and tracking every instrument himself. Les Sourdes Oreilles is a work of art that should delight diggers across the globe.

Les Sourdes Oreilles (The Deaf Ears), is the next generation analog cinematic music from the 21 century. Following the sound of 70's cinematic jazz funk, this first 300 X 12" from Cosmic Analog Ensemble is the new My Bags emergency hammer glass breaker. Designed like a 70's movie soundtrack Graal, with the perfect hijacking artwork of Jerk 45, the album is a future now crate digging target. Built like a narrative scenario, scene after scene, each composition deploys his uniqueness, from the explosives intense actions of "Camille 3000", moments of suspence with "Sol Sur Sol" to running chase on "En Faction" and flying panoramic views of "Point De Bascule"... the compositions are depicting a rich range of situations, moods and intrigue.