Minced Meat with Denmark Vessey of Crown Nation

Last Sunday night, my good pal Murad aka DJ ME of CJAM's Productive Confusion filled in for me as I drove up to my mom's and hit up Toronto for an interview at Humber College for one of their programs I'd like to attend.
Here's what Murad played, as well as an interview from Crown Nation's producer and emcee Denmark Vessey. Download it here!

USM ©© Froze Tongue
USM ©© Distortion
Citywide Vacuum ©© Psych-physics
Guilty Simpson ©© Hold Your Applause
Guilty Simpson ©© Outside
Guilty Simpson ©© For The D
Bizarre ©© So Hard
Elzhi ©© Flyest
Denmark Vessey ©© Casual Fridays
Denmark Vessey ©© Work To Do
Crown Nation ©© Bobby Womack
The Forgotten Arm ©© Trouble At The Metal House
The Forgotten Arm ©© Acoustic Wizard
14 KT ©© Verbal Intercourse
14 KT ©© Name Game
Invincible ©© Locusts
Furs ©© Level 1
Efan ©© Creatures Of Habit
D-Structo ©© CTRL ALT DELETE
Finale ©© Motor Music
Finale ©© Heat

Check out these innovative artists this Thursday May 13th at 5 E Gallery for Sl*t Bag Edition, Crown-Nations debut performance in Detroit alongside MARVWON, 5 ELA, MONICA BLAIRE and DANNY BROWN. Danny Brown is also performing Friday May 14th at The Magic Stick for the debut of his album The Hybrid, don't forget to show up!

Related post: Interview with Quelle Life!

Big thanks to Culture King for the re-post, lettin' those LA fans know what's up in The D.

Interview with Invincible + Dilla Dedication

Check out The Revival at The Fembassy as directed by Invincible! She'll be rockin a Detroit Music Showcase at SXSW (check out her Sledgehammer vid featured there last year) in March with Emergence Music, as well as holding it down at The Foundation with Ma Dukes this Tuesday at Elements Gallery.

You can also catch her via Detroit Summer February 17th at Oakland University and keep an ear to the ground for a new album from her (hopefully soon!) with Wajeed. Stoked for that one!

Props on a great interview. And great tracks!

No wonder. J Dilla's legacy is now stronger than ever. I have discovered that the more people find out about his contributions to Hip Hop musically, the more people's minds are changed about what Hip Hop is. It helps that his colleagues and contemporaries do not cease to impress listeners, having absorbed some part of the man's music that spoke to them, and injecting that into their own styles... and building up a higher standard for music-making in this age of the producer. I think it's sweet that artists still rock his beats, I plan to explore more of them and continue to play definitive local music. Help support a real movement towards musical health by clicking on the links. Ma Dukes is running www.J-Dilla.com so drop by.

.download show.

Steve Spacek -- Dollars
Slum Village -- 2u4u Remix
J Dilla -- Nothing Like This
Dabrye -- Game Over ft. Jay Dee & Phat Kat
Slum Village -- Fall In Love
J Dilla -- Pause (Frank & Dank)
J Dilla -- Searchin' (5 Elementz)
Slum Village -- Get It Together
Slum Village -- Get Dis Money
J Dilla -- Fire Wood Drumstykx ft. DOOM
J Dilla -- Featuring Phat Kat (ft. Phat Kat)
Invincible -- In The Mourning
Invincible -- Ropes ft. Tiombe Lockhart
Invincible -- Shotgun w. Dilla & MED
Buff1 -- Supreme ft. Invincible & Guilty Simpson
Madvillain -- Eye feat. Stacy Epps
Jay Electronica -- Dimethyltriptamine
Phat Kat -- Nightmare ft. Guilty Simpson
Drummer B -- Got Love ft. Drummer B & Miz Korona
Slum Village -- Yum Yum
Red Pill -- Witherwithoutyou ft. SelfSays
De La Soul -- Stakes Is High
Jay Dee/Four Tet -- As Serious As Your Life (ft. Guilty Simpson)
Slum Village -- Raise It Up

[Bright] Kadence Interview

Kadence, as he is quite amazing in many ways. He uses his lyrical talents to inform you - the listener - and give you fuel to fight against the ever-imposing powers that take away from natural human evolution, that force people to think that feeling alienated is natural. He makes a lot of sense out of this musical landscape. I wish we'd had time to talk about the concept of "real" on the air, a metaphysical concept that pretends to be manifested in a social group. Well, that's sort of my take on his explanation. Really, everything is subjective anyway, so leave your opinion in the comments.

Download the archive of the show.
Kadencetrax
Barefoot Sneaker Slaves
The Abolitionists Projects

Yellow Wood -- Tall tales
Nick Speed -- Transport Instrumental
ModeSelector -- Blazin' (Ghislain Poirier Remix ft. Face-T)
Erik L & Illingsworth -- Let's Get It ft. Stryfe & Paradox)
Nick Speed -- On Deck
Nick Speed -- Cars ft. Drummer B
Nick Speed -- Miracle ft. Nard
Marv Won -- Totally Awesome ft. Rio Data
Flying Lotus -- Grapesicles (Samiyam Remix)
Fes Roc -- Audio Visual
Fes Roc -- Rules of the Game
Jay Dee -- Heroin Joint
Reflection Eternal -- Just Begun ft. Jay Electronica, J. Cole & Mos Def
Awesome in Outer Space -- End of the End
Noafex -- Wake Up ft. L'Renee
Abolitionists -- Conclusion
Barefoot Sneaker Slaves -- Kidneys
Dabrye -- Reconsider
Kadence -- Insincerity (ft. Georgia Anne Muldrow)
Abolitionists -- Organix ft. Intricate Dialect & Kadence
Abolitionists -- Life As (Kadence)
Chris McNamara -- ooooohdear

umm...latepass, my bad
this came out last week (Jan 12)