Long time no see

Hey there, long time no see/hear/read...
I know, but don't blame me, it's nice weather outside. Time to post some new music for you guys. As most of you know I'm a big fan of drum'n'bass and dubstep, so I decided to post a new High Rankin EP. Hope you like it!



High Rankin - 2010 - Cut You Down EP (Z-Share)

1 - Cut You Down (Original mix)
2 - Duncans Disco Dirtbox Disaster (Original mix)
3 - Running Up The Walls (Original mix)
4 - Soundboy ft. Pie (Original mix)
5 - They Are Watching (Original mix)
6 - Crumbling Beauty (Original mix)

A new kid from holland

This weekend a friend of mine came over from Zeeland to ride a small BMX contest here. After the contest he decided to come over for a bit to chill and listen to some music.
He gave me a name of a guy he recently met hanging in a skatepark: Devnik.
Devnik is a young guy (Same age as my little sister, who I still call "the baby") from Holland who is starting to make the rough kind of Dubstep I really like. Check out this guy's myspace and I managed to find one of my Devnik favourite's to share with you: Devnik - Falling Heads

Hope you enjoy this as much as I do!

The bad side of crate digging/Who sings this song? pt.2

After doing the orriginals tracks last time I thought it would be nice to post some more of these originals!


Faffi-J's Hiphop Originals pt.2 (Z-Share)

21 - Atmosphere - Gods Bathroom Floor
22 - John Klemmer - Humbling Love
23 - Atmosphere - Little Man
24 - The O'Jays - Who Am I
25 - Atmosphere - The Woman with the Tattooed Hands
26 - Blue Sky and Silver Bird - Lamont Dozier
27 - Apani B - A Million Eyes ft. Ndidi
28 - Mary Hopkin - Lullaby of the Leaves
29.1 - Army Of The Pharaohs - Swords Drawn
29.2 - RJD2 - Weather People
30 - Goblin - Suspiria
31 - Sleep - Orchestra Of Strangers
32 - Goblin - Profondo Rosso (Album Version)
33 - Blue Sky Black Death & Jean Grae - Shadows Forever
34 - The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs
35 - Sadistik - November
36 - Yann Thiersen - Comptine d'un autre été - L'après-midi
37 - The Last Emperor - Karma
38 - Morcheba - Over And Over
39 - The Beatnuts - Off The Books ft. Big Pun & Cuban Linx
40 - Buddy Baker - Sign Song

So, what's new?

A couple of my friends asked me to upload some of my favourite Dubstep tunes. After a whole morning of searching trough my files I came up with 20 of the songs I played the most the last couple of weeks. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!


Faffi-J Dubstep Favourites (Z-Share)

1 - Chase & Status - Eastern Jam
2 - Excision & Dz - Yin Yang
3 - Mt Eden - Sarah McLachlan: Silence
4 - Lea Luna - Leaving For Mars (B-Rich Remix)
5 - Flux Pavilion - Digital Controller
6 - Kid Sister - Pro Nails (Rusko Remix)
7 - Emalkay - When I Look At You
8 - Doctor P - Sweet Shop
9 - Borgore - Love
10 - Wartech - The Rattlesnake
11 - Chasing Shadows - Ill (Original Mix)
12 - Joker - Purple City (Joker and Ginz)
13 - Liquid Stranger & Excision - Get To The Point (Original Mix)
14 - Jazzsteppa Ft. Borgore - Shamen
15 - Reso - Beasts In The Basement
16 - Foreign Beggars, DJ Primecuts - Hit That Gash (Itchy Naaan Re-Rub)
17 - Nero - Bad Trip
18 - Bar 9 - Shut Ya Mouth
19 - Reso - Smash Yer Face In
20 - Borgore - Britney Spears: Womenizer Remix

The bad side of crate digging/Who sings this song?

Every once in a while you hear a nice hiphop song and you just start wondering what artist the sample is coming from. It's usually a lot of work to find that out, so I decided to find the originals of some of my favourite songs and to share them with you. Now you're finally able to sing the complete song and not just the part you heard in the sample!


Faffi-J's Hiphop Originals (Z-Share)

Tracklist:



1 - Input & Dope Fiction - My World
2 - Adele - Hometown glory
3 - Promoe - New Day
4 - Nina Simone - Feeling Good
5 - Cunninlynguists - Rain
6 - Elton John - We All Fall In Love Sometimes
7 - Dilated Peoples - Worst Comes Worst
8 - William Bell - I Forgot To Be
9 - Camp Lo - Luchini AKA This Is It
10 - Dynasty - Adventures In The Land Of Music
11 - The Dynospectrum - Anything Is Everything
12 - Hank Crawford - Wildflower
13 - Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M
14 - The Charmels - As Long As I've Got You
15 - The Pharcyde - Runnin'
16 - Luiz Bonfá & Stan Getz - Saudade Vem Correndo
17 - Blackstar- Brown Skin Lady
18 - Gil Scott Heron - We Almost Lost Detroit
19 - Fugees - Family Business
20 - John Williams - Tarrega-Recuerdos de la Alhambra

Kryptic Minds

Back again, after a long time of nothing. Well, posting nothing. With Queens day fresh in the back of my head (at least, the parts I can remember) I decided to post some Dubstep tunes for y'all.
I wasn't always in to Dubstep that much, but then Gabrielle just kept playing it over and over again whenever she visited me. And, boys and girls, she visits this house a lot. (Who could blame her for visiting the coolest house in The Dam so often :-P. Feel free to come check it out whenever) On song just kinda stuck with her the whole time: Kryptic Minds - Six Degrees. This is such a chill and relaxing Dubstep tune I just had to share it with y'all. And why share the song, if you can share the album!


Kryptic Minds - One Of Us (Z-Share)

01 - Intro
02 - One Of Us
03 - Generation Dub
04 - Stepping Stone
05 - Something To Nothing
06 - Six Degrees
07 - Three Views Of A Secret
08 - Secure Lost
09 - Dissolved
10 - Chosen Few
11 - Organic
12 - Distant Dawn

A friends request (Een vraag van een Gabber)

Gabbie was over here and asked me for this allbum. I downloaded it for "kreep", the track playing during the Jay Dick session on Hoax 3...
Well.. here you go gab!


Chino XL - Here To Save You All (Z-Share)


01 - Here To Save You All
02 - Deliver
03 - No Complex
04 - Partner To Swing
05 - It's All Bad
06 - Freestyle Rhymes
07 - Riiiot!
08 - Waiting To Exhale
09 - What Am I?
10 - Feelin' Evil Again
11 - Thousands
12 - Kreep
13 - Many Different Ways
14 - The Shabba-Doo Conspiracy
15 - Ghetto Vampire
16 - Rise

more girls

After posting the Dessa album, I decided to look for some of my favourite rapper girls. Psalm one is one of them!



Psalm One - The Death Of Frequent Flyer(Z-Share)

1 The Death Of Frequent Flyer Featuring - Thaione Davis
2 The Living
3 Prelude To A Diss Starring - Ang 13
4 Rapper Girls
5 The Nine
6 Macaroni and Cheese Vocals Featuring - Kadi
7 Standbye Rap Featuring - Brother Ali
8 Rap Star
9 Let Me Hear
10 Beat The Drum Featuring - DJ DQ
11 Sworn Habit
12 Mountain High Featuring - DJ DQ
13 Peanuts
14 Rest In Peace

A female in the scene

There aren't to many good female hiphop artists that I like, but this girl can sing and rap. It really surprised me, never heard of her before while she's making such cool music.


Dessa - A Badly Broken Code(Z-Share)

01 Children's Work
02 Poor Atlas
03 The Crow
04 Dixon's Girl
05 Mineshaft II
06 The Chaconne
07 Matches To Paper Dolls
08 Go Home
09 Seamstress
10 Dutch
11 The Bullpen
12 Momento Mori
13 Crew
14 Alibi
15 Into The Spin

Stay Positive

This guy is a fighter! When he started making this album it took him longer then he could ever expext, overcomming a lot of personal problems and even cancer.
Elemental Zazen's parents were international school teachers so he used to move to a lot of difrent countries as a kid. That's where he found out all what's wrong with the world, but he is still hoping he can change te world and believing in world peace. And as he tells the people who listen to his music: "If you don't like the music, I still send positive karma your way", you can see that this is one possitive dude!
This Album has some real nice productions of DJ Kno(of one of my all time favourite groups: Cunninlynguists), Joe Beats (from Sage Francis cool side project: Non Prophets) and Maker (one of the hardest working and most underrated hiphop producers in the scene)


Elemental Zazen - The Glass Should Be Full (Z-Share)

01 - Silence Of The Now
02 - Disappear
03 - Handcuffs
04 - Machine
05 - No Survivors
06 - Break
07 - Dying Planet
08 - Don't Front
09 - Hanging By A Thread
10 - Your Love Is Fate
11 - Life Is Priceless

Horror sounds

This album has a nice dark feeling to it. Listening to the song "orchestra of strangers" you can hear the horror tunes of Profondo Rosso (at 1:50)


Sleep - Hesitation Wounds (Z-Share)

01 - Intro
02 - Day Dreamer
03 - Talk About It
04 - Who To Point The Finger At
05 - Ginelli
06 - Spent
07 - Orchestra of Strangers
08 - Hesitation Wounds feat. Grayskul
09 - Commercial
10 - Lothar feat. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
11 - Get It
12 - So Far
13 - Roll Call

That Nice Spring Feeling

This album always gives me a good felling. The melodic tunes of Embee collaborating with artists such as José González, Looptroop, Vanessa Liftig and Bless make this a good album to listen to during spring time I think!


DJ Embee - Tellings From Solitaria (Z-Share)

01 - On My Way There
02 - Not Tonite feat. Vanessa Liftig
03 - Wondahful feat. Rico Wondahman
04 - Send Someone Away feat. José González
05 - The Kid
06 - EMBEE For President feat. Looptroop
07 - Soulrain feat. Bless
08 - Shibuya feat. Reinis Zarins Quartet
09 - City Lights feat. Timbuktu & Daniel Lemma
10 - Drop Me By The Stairs
11 - Gothia Limone
12 - The Sallad Days feat. Timbuktu
13 - Shadows In Sorrowtown feat. Rantoboko
14 - Transitional Area

Moeders

Fresku komt dit jaar dan eindelijk met een eigen album op het "Top notch" label. Dit is een van de "gelekte" tracks. Klik HIER voor de mp3

Some mixed drum'n'bass

D-Love and Little Daniel asked me to make them a mixtape with some chill drum'n'bass. So here it is! (Dedicated to Tommie the housecat too)



Follic - D2 Mixtape (Z-Share)

01 - Chase & Status - Take me away
02 - Ben sage - Fiendin ft. Savvy
03 - Logistics - Eastern Promise
04 - Adele - Hometown Glory (High Sontrast Vocal Mix
05 - Ben Sage - Never Far From Right
06 - Syncopix - Nightlistener
07 - Sub Focus - Rock It
08 - Logistics - Braindrops
09 - Muffler - Falling (2009)
10 - Logistics - Platinum
11 - Pendulum - The Tempest

One for the B-Boys

When I was younger, I reallly was in to the whole B-Boying thing. Not only as the part of hiphop and the role it played in making the hiphop culture as big as it is nowadays, but as the danceform too. I was watching movies on the internet and even trying it myself. The dancing isn't something I do anymore, though I still enjoy watching it. And listening to the music, of course!



DJ Nas'D - Fly By Night (Z-Share)

Tracklist:

1 - Keep Moving
2 - Fly by Night
3 - Feels like Fire (Daddy)
4 - The Floor is yours
5 - Hit me
6 - Don´t hang araound (Billy)
7 - Interlude
8 - Give me some more
9 - Jump out of Bed
10 - The Break
11 - Leacy (R.I.P James Leacy)
12 - Out of Control
13 - It´s so Sensational
14 - Outro

Mr. J

M. J. Medeiros & Boonie Mayfield - Art Of Broken Glass (Z-Share)

1 - Love Is All feat. Tara Ellis
2 - Broken Windows
3 - The Measure
4 - Tower of Cards
5 - Umpire State

Now for something a bit harder!

After a complaint (Syo!) about the previous album being to soft, I decided to upload something a bit harder. Here it is.

Ammunition Recordings is a young drum'n'bass label from America signing mostly the more darkstep type of artists. This is an Ammunition Label album with various of those nice "dark drum'n'bass" artists.



Ammunition Recordings - The Uprising EP (Z-Share)

1 - Beneath A Steel Sky - Venom
2 - Wreckage Machinery, Biolysis - Zero Code
3 - Exorcist, Inward Phase - Never Land
4 - Miditacia - Evolution
5 - Nasty Genius - Nerdy Gerner
6 - Pizhik - Crazy Death
7 - Proton Kid - You're Mine

Something not quite so hiphop

Ignite, one of my all time favourite hardcore bands. Need I say more....



Ignite - Our Darkest Days (Z-Share)

1 - Intro (Our Darkest Days)
2 - Bleeding
3 - Fear Is Our Tradition
4 - Let It Burn
5 - Poverty For All
6 - My Judgement Day
7 - Slowdown
8 - Save Yourself
9 - Are You Listening
10 - Three Years
11 - Know Your History (Guitar [Lead] - Alex Grossi)
12 - Strength
13 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (Music By, Lyrics By - U2)
14 - Live For Better Days

12 and some more

My dad always taught me that when different music genres collide, it gets more interesting. For exaple: he used to be really in to folk-rock. The conventional folk was a bit boring to him, but add a little rock to the mix and you immediately get something vivid. This works mostely for every kind of music. (look at bands like urban dance squad and rage against the machine who mix rock and rap together)

On the album I'm posting today you have American-based group Themselves, an expirimental hiphop and electro group, colliding with the Germany-based group The Notwist, an indie-rock and electro group. Both allready making music that can't be defined into one genre. The outcome is an expirimental indie-hiphop sounding album unlike any other music, though matching some sound with other Anticon (the label Themselves is on) groups. An explenation on where the name comes from can be found here on wiki.




13 & God - 13 & God (Z-Share)

Tracklisting:
1 - Low Heaven
2 - Men Of Station
3 - Ghostwork
4 - Perfect Speed
5 - Afterclap
6 - Soft Atlas
7 - Tin Strong
8 - If
9 - Superman On Ice
10 - Walk

Atmosphere

One of my all-time favourite Hiphop groups is Atmosphere so I decided to grab, what I think are, the best 25 tracks from all their studio albums and put them all together in one file. I think it's the easiest way to introduce you to them if you didn't already know them of course.



Atmosphere - F-Favourites (Z-Share)


Tracklisting:
01 - Gods Bathroom Floor
02 - Scapegoat
03 - Between the Lines
04 - Guns and Cigarettes
05 - The Woman with the Tattooed Hands
06 - Fuck You Lucy
07 - Godlovesugly
08 - Lovelife
09 - Modern Man's Hustle
10 - One of a Kind
11 - Trying to Find a Balance
12 - Bird Sings Why the Caged I know
13 - Gotta Lotta Walls
14 - Always Coming Back Home to You
15 - The Arrival
16 - Pour Me Another
17 - Smart Went Crazy
18 - Little Man
19 - YGM
20 - The Things That Hate Us
21 - Your Glass House
22 - Guarantees
23 - The Waitress
24 - In Her Music Box
25 - Millie Fell Off The Fire Escape

Track 1 - Overcast! EP
Track 2 - Overcast!
Track 3-5 - Lucy Ford
Track 6-10 - God Loves Ugly
Track 11-14 - Sevens Travels
Track 15-18 - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun Were Having
Track 19-20 - Leak At Will
Track 21-24 - When Life Gives You Lemons, Paint That Shit Gold
Track 25 - Leak At Will

Sunshine...

I'm really feeling this sunny weather!

Atmosphere - Sunshine (Live on the Sad Clown Bad Dub 13 tour)

Lessons Learned

Yesterday I posted one of my favourite Input albums only to remember that the guy promised to release a free album today. The album, which he produced together with Dope Fiction, is just something to keep us buisy as he's currently working with Satyr on a new album entitled "This Old House", that is releasing early this year too. This album has some songs from his previous release "unreleased & unrelating" on it, but mostly new tracks.
You can download it for free on Input's "Famele$$ Entertainment" blog or by clicking on the link below.



Input & Dope Fiction - Lessons Learned (Z-Share)

Pictureface

About a year ago I heard of Input for the first time and straight away I was amazed by the sound and rhymes of this Denver based Hiphop artist.



Input - Pictureface (Z-Share)

The youngster with the grown-up lyrics

Grieves is a young guy from Chicago based in Boorklyn that makes some nice emo rap. When he begun rapping he used to do it all himself. He wrote the rhymes, made the beats, produced and was his own mannager. Nowadays he's signed with Rhymesayers, witch is one of the best hiphop labels if you ask me.
The 88 keys & counting album is his first collaboration with local Seattle-based producer Budo. He helped Grieves make a complete sample free album, wich created a nice and one of a kind sound.
Just listen for yourself.



Grieves With Budo - 88 Keys & Counting (Z-Share)

Promote your friends!

Who am I not to promote my friends and people I know?
I met the dutch rapper Engel a few years ago on Splash Hiphop Festival when I was there together with my friends Bint, Just (called Krieper back than) an Bathmuts, who formed "De Kroegdichters" back then. Hangin out I found out he was a rapper who even had a few albums out. I should have known better, but back then I wasn't realy big on Dutch Hiphop (Nederhop) except for de kroegdichters (what wasn't realy fair, their being my friends and all). Finaly Back in the Netherlands I descided to download some of his stuff and I really got in to his music.
Engel is one of the guys in the Netherlands who keeps it orriginal and is not ready to sell out to any mayor record label, scared they will change his sound and make it more into the crappy populair Hiphop that's going big nowadays. You kinda got to give the guy some respect, he doesn't go for the big bucks while struggeling for rent (don't we all). This Album follows the "geen weg terug" album and is the second free album he produced scince he started doing Hiphop. It has a nice oldskool sound to it and has some nice collaborations on it with different arists like Just (die van de Kroegdichters), Per.Verz and Master Surreal.
Download it from Statemagazine or click the link below: It's Free!!



Engel - Op Karakter EP (Z-Share)

Here I am!

Dear friends and other people,
Here I am. Right now it's via tether on my I-phone. My home internet broke down, and this was the best possible way to share my thoughts and music though it's a bit hard to upload something new now.
Luckily I allready had some music uploaded on megaupload for you to listen to. While most of what I will upload will be more Hiphop en Drum and Bass orientated, I had a semi-classical album of Douwe Eisenga online.

Douwe Eisenga is a Dutch composer who studied at the Conservatory in Groningen and now lives in Zeeland where he teaches piano at the Zeeuwse Muziekschool (Music School of Zeeland). He discribes his music as "Mesmerizing music for the open mind. Time and again he creates a modern, irresistible groove with classical instruments. The resulting music is an intriguing mix of minimal and maximal, Colorful and sparkling with every new listening."

I hope You enjoy it!



Douwe Eisenga - Rose Road/City Lines (Z-Share)