Essential Ear Candy Volume 4 by Wheels

Volume 4 of Essential Ear Candy, the freshest sounds in soul, funk, hip-hop, house, rock, and jazz. Turn it up!

 

 

Essential Ear Candy Vol. 4 (Click the link to get to 8tracks Playlist)

1. “Episode VIII” – Madlib (Madlib Medicine Show #5: History of the Loop Digga 1990-2000, Stones Throw Records 2010)
2. “It Ain’t Hard To Tell” – Elzhi (Elmatic, 2011)
3. “Do It Now” – Mos Def Feat. Busta Rhymes (Black On Both Sides, Rawkus Records 1999)
4. “The U.N. Plan” – Shafiq Husayn (Shafiq En’ A-Free-Ka, Plug Research Records 2009)
5. “Koko + Lee Roe” – Mark de Clive-Lowe (Leaving This Planet EP, Mashibeats Bandcamp 2011)
6. “All The Kisses” – The Foreign Exchange Feat. Paris and Amber Strother of KING (Dear Friends, Foreign Exchange Music 2011)
7. “Flight Of The Blackbird” – Zo! Feat. Phonte (Sunstorm, Foreign Exchange Music 2010)
8. “How We Met” – Count Bass D Feat. Edan (Dwight Spitz, High Times Records 2002)
9. “Windy Likes To Blow Trees” – Kaytradamus (The Weather Report, 2011)
10. “Blank In The Sky” – KAN SANO (Fantastic Farewell, Circulations 2011)
11. “Are You Ready For Love?” – Slave (Just A Touch Of Love, Cotillion 1979)
12. “Equipoise” – Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio Feat. Sa-Ra (Love Is The Answer, Ninja Tune 2005)
13. “Call Me” – Me’Shell Ndegeocello (Plantation Lullabies, Maverick Records 1993)
14. “Don’t Mess With My Man” – Lucy Pearl (Lucy Pearl, EMI 2000)
15. “Playground” – Hazel Feat. Eyo (Playground, Catblock 2011)
16. “Zodiac Shit” – Flying Lotus (Cosmogramma, Warp Records 2010)
17. “Love” – Roy Ayers (Ubiquity, Polydor 1971)
18. “Magic Mind” – Earth Wind & Fire (All N’ All, Columbia Records 1977)
19. “Wheelz Of Steel” – OutKast (Atliens, Laface Records 1996)
20. “Gospel Psychedelic Rock” – Black Milk (Album Of The Year, Fat Beats 2010)

DJ Neil Armstrong – Original [rscarrab]

Excellent mix of music for everyone!

J Dilla: Best of the Greatest, part 1

“I’m in the booth, chain swingin’, soundin like extra percussion”
-J Dilla, Make ‘em Envy

Black Spade 2.0

Theo Parrish

Sunz of Man

All things featured: Considering – Glyphick

Glyphick & Fat Free – Periodic Table of Elephants

Robert Glasper Experiment – “Black Radio” EPK and Tracklist

Dope video preview for the upcoming album from the Robert Glasper Experiment, Black Radio. That Sade cover with Lalah Hathaway sounds incredible. Impressive list of collaborators on the album. Check out the tracklist:

1. Lift Off/Mic Check (featuring Shafiq Husayn)
2. Afro Blue (featuring Erykah Badu)
3. Cherish The Day (featuring Lalah Hathaway)
4. Always Shine (featuring Lupe Fiasco & Bilal)
5. Gonna Be Alright (F.T.B.) (featuring Ledisi)
6. Move Love (featuring KING)
7. Ah Yeah (featuring Musiq Soulchild & Chrisette Michele)
8. Consequence Of Jealousy (featuring Meshell Ndegeocello)
9. Why Do We Try (featuring Stokley Williams)
10. Black Radio (featuring Mos Def)
11. Letter to Hermoine (featuring Bilal)
12. Smells Like Teen Spirit

Can’t wait to hear this project!

- wheels

Hawthorne Headhunters, revisited…

Incognito – The Song (feat. Chaka Khan & Mario Biondi)

Planet Asia x G_Force – “Cruise Control”

Dope track from Planet Asia with G_Force on the production. “Raw rhymes, melodic shit.” Off the free album Camouflage Jackets which can be downloaded here from freshselects.

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Shafiq Husayn – “The LooP” Album Preview

Short little preview video for Shafiq Husayn’s upcoming album, The LooP. His last album En’ A-Free-Ka is an all-time favorite of mine so I’m eagerly awaiting this release.

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Slum Village Feat. Phat Kat – Fat Cat Song (Live @ St. Andrew’s 1996)

Great old live footage of the original SV trio and Phat Kat performing “Fat Cat Song” at St. Andrew’s in Detroit.

- wheels