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By
sweeney kovar
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Jun 8, 2013
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Last evening, San Francisco experienced a rare visit from The Beat Konducta. Billed as a sort of vague unveiling of his Rock Konducta project, Madlib brought Egon and the Zamrock outfit WITCH to 1015 Folsom to help set the vibe. I missed Egon, b...
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Sounds like:
Flying Lotus,
Sun Ra,
Madlib
By
sweeney kovar
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May 22, 2013
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For the un-initiated, Ras_G & The Afrikan Space Program are direct descendants of Sun Ra's lineage. Cosmic and aloof, timely and out-of-time, Le Sonny Ra blazed a trail unmatched by anyone before or after. He is still progressing and contributing...
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Sounds like:
Ras_G,
Invincible,
Thee Satisfaction
By
sweeney kovar
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May 7, 2013
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As a culture/genre/industry of its own, hip-hop houses a continuum within itself. You can have two songs that are based on syncopated rhythms with rhyming, metered vocals that are vastly different from each other in style, content, and audience.Boom-...
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By
sweeney kovar
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Feb 2, 2013
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Ras_G is one of the pickiest aliens I know when it comes to MCs. He cuts no slack for anyone. I guess I can't blame him; if I came up in L.A. during the heyday of The Good Life Cafe/Freestyle Fellowship era and served as a DJ for the famed Project Bl...
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sweeney kovar
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Jan 18, 2013
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Sometimes music lifts you off your feet into another world, ethereal and gentle. Other times music lovingly punches you in the stomach out of nowhere, and you are left on your knees, gasping for breath and completely grateful for it.The latter would ...
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By
sweeney kovar
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Jan 14, 2013
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Michael Cohen, aka Cohenbeats, recently relocated to Los Angeles from his native Tel Aviv, Israel to spend more energy on his craft of hip-hop production. After linking up with local heavyweights like Gaslamp Killer and Samiyam, young Cohen began to ...
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Sounds like:
Georgia Anne Muldrow,
Dudley Perkins,
Ras_G
By
sweeney kovar
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Jan 7, 2013
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Georgia Anne Muldrow is a criminally underrated producer and vocalist. It has become the stuff of underground legend that barely out of her teens, she was astounding the likes of J. Dilla and Madlib with her drum programming.DJ Romes is a criminally ...
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By
sweeney kovar
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Dec 22, 2012
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Ras_G, the Crate Creator, Admiral of Bass and NETERU Beat God, has been creating amp-blowing, trunk-rattling, outer-space beat compositions humbly and on his own terms for years. Since graduating from the turntables at Leimert Park's famed Project Bl...
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