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Promoe & Timbuktu winners at the Grammis award ceremony.

Daniel — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:01:44 +0000

The “Grammis 2010” award ceremony is over for this year. The award for “Club/Hiphop of the year” went to Promoe for his album “Kråksången“ and the award for “Music video of the year” went to Timbuktu for his video “Välj Mej” ,from the album “En High 5 & 1 Falafel“, directed by Daniel Wirtberg & Jonas Rudström for Daemon Films.

Petter inks a record deal with Pope Records and releases a new single

Daniel — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:49:42 +0000

Petter, who’s been without a record deal since last year when he chose not to renew his deal with Universal Music recently signed a deal with Pope Records. Pope Records will release his upcoming album “En Räddare I Nöden” which will be released sometime this spring. Pope Records are excited about the deal and says that:

“Petter has recorded his strongest and best material yet, and this phase two of his career is going to be something extra!”

The first single from the album is called “Fast För Evigt” and is produced by Collén & Webb who’s also going to produce the whole album. “Fast För Evigt” is available for listening on Petters Blog and will be available through Spotify Premium from Monday and trough iTunes Music Store, Spotify Free and other digital music stores from Wednesday.

Click here to go to Petters Blog and listen to “Fast För Evigt”.

DJ Akilles – Best of 2009 (mixtape)

Daniel — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:58:30 +0000

Dj Akilles has previously released two (as far as I know) mixtapes collecting the best, biggest and most influential tracks from the previous year. In 2006 he released The “Best of 2005″-mixtape through the site “Svensk Underjord” which mixed Swedish and American hip-hop. Last year he released “Best of 2008″ trough the Community/Blog Whoa which focused on Swedish hip-hop only. When it’s time to sum up the best tracks from 2009 he’s back to the concept of the 2005-mixtape and mixes both American and Swedish hip-hop.

31 tracks are mixed together by scratch and beat-juggling to form this mixtape that contains tracks from Snoop Dogg, Raekwon, Method Man & Redman, Jay-Z, Drake, Clipse, Organismen, Mofeta & Jerre, Ken Ring and many more. On top of this the mixtape also contains a brand new exclusive track from Professor P & Dj Akilles called “Each and Every Station”. Professor P & Dj Akilles will release a new EP later this year, so this could be a taste of what’s coming.

Click here to download “Best of 2009″ from Dj Akilles Blog.

Intro
Snoop Dogg – I Wanna Rock
Raekwon feat. Ghostface Killah & Method Man – New Wu
Blaq Poet – Ain’t Nuttin’ Changed
Method Man & Redman – A-Yo
M.O.P. feat Redman – Riding Through
Royce Da 5’9” feat. Phonte – Something 2 Ride 2
Mos Def feat. Talib Kweli – History
Asher Roth – I Love College
Edo. G & Masta Ace – Over There
The Game – Bang Along
Jay-Z – D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune)
Fat Joe feat. Raekwon & TA – Ice Cream
Busta Rhymes Feat. Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend & Common – Decision
Q-Tip – Blue Girl
Method Man & Redamn – Mrs. International
Kid Cudi feat. Kanye West & Common – Make Her Say (I Poke Her Face)
Wale feat. Lady Gaga – Chillin
DJ Quick & Kurupt – Blaqout
Michael Jackson – This Is It (DJ Akilles Refix)
J Dilla feat. Havoc & Raekwon – 24k Rap
Organismen – Den Vita Kaninen
Clipse feat. Cam’ron – Popular Demand (Popeyes)
Drake feat. Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem – Forever
Mofeta & Jerre – Sitter Som En Smäck
Drake – Best I Ever Had
Camp Lo feat. Tyler Woods – Gotcha
Raekwon feat. Lyfe Jennings – Catalina
Eminem feat. Dr. Dre & 50 Cent – Crack A Bottle
Slaughterhouse – The One + Travis Barker Remix
Ken Ring – Hiphop
BONUS TRACK: Professor P & DJ Akilles – Each And Every Station

New music from Superci

Staffan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:35:06 +0000

More christmas gifts, this time from Mr Noun and Arka of Supersci. “What It Is EP” consists of four tracks and some nice artwork. Music wise, producer team Flyphonic has left out the melodic jazz vibes from earlier releases in favor of a more electronic sound. And the result is dope as hell. Review is coming up.

Download from http://www.flyphonic.com, or by this direct link.

Erik L – Loose Control EP [Download]

The nominees to Grammis 2010

Daniel — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:51:49 +0000

The final nominees for the Swedish Grammis Award 2010 was revealed earlier today. After the jurys first nomination and a public voting round the final nominees in the category “Club/Hip-Hop” are

Andreas Tilliander - Show
J-Son – Never Half Stepping
Lorentz & M.Sakarias – Vi mot världen
Maskinen - Boys II Men
Promoe - Kråksången

Petter, Ison & Fille och Mogge – För Alla Dom (Video)

Daniel — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:07:50 +0000

We wrote about “För Alla Dom” a week ago and now the single and video is finally released! “För Alla Dom”, which is a collaboration between Petter, Ison & Fille and Mogge, is released as part of the alternative christmas show “Oh no…It’s Christmas“. The single is available through iTunes Store for 18 kr and it’s definitely worth the money! The track is really great and all surplus from the single will be donated to “Situation Stockholm”.

The music video can be viewed through Aftonbladet TV!

Update: The video is now avaliable on youtube aswell.

Lazee – 1st Class 5 Stars (Season 2)

Daniel — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:27:22 +0000

We’ve written plenty about Lazee in the past and by now he shouldn’t need any introduction. The first “First Class Five Stars” mixtape was released earlier this year and featured guests such as Adam Tensta, Kano, J-Son & Skrilla Kidz. Now it’s time for the second installment in the series, “First Class Five Stars – Season 2″. Even though I liked the first installment I still felt it weren’t near the brilliance of his first tape “It Is What It Is” but I was glad that it wasn’t as (in my opinion) commercial as the debut album “Setting Standards”. On “First Class Five Stars – Season 2″ Lazee has upped his game and he says on his blog that:

“this mixtape is not only a mixtape its a mixtape album and the difference between those two is that I put a lot of work, organizing and planning for this tape…”

Something which, from what I’ve heard from the tape so far, I believe. This mixtape definitely outshines “First Class Five Stars” and it really sounds like he’s put in a lot of work into this!

Click here to download “First Class Five Stars – Season 2″

Tracklist

Intro
Better than the best
Baby ft. Mawuli (prod. Tinitus)
Dont Stop (prod. Collén o Webb)
Get Right ft. Beldina (prod. Saska)
Used To Be ft. Mawuli (prod. A-De)
Set It Off ft. Eboi (prod .Keione)
My Thang ft. Pato Pooh & Beldina (prod. Gameboii)
Keep It Real (prod. Tinitus)
Fantabolous Life Continues (prod .Charlie)
Movin’ On Up ft. Json (prod. A-De)
Walking Away ft. Danjah (prod. A-De)
Hello (prod. Tinitus)
Man in the Mirrow ft. Mawuli
You Get Yours Get Mine ft. Aycash o Santiago *Bonus (prod. Gameboii)
Mind Games *Bonus (prod. Charlie)
Custom Made*Bonus (prod. Charlie)

Kaanquest – Waiting For The Bus

Daniel — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:45:18 +0000

We wrote about Kaanquest yesterday but this track was to good not to write about. The track is entitled “Waiting for the bus” and is a storytelling track which aims to be a contrast to the more commercial sound of a lot of the hiphop today. “Waiting for the bus” is produced by The Busdriver and was chosen as “Mp3 of the week” last week on the community Whoa.

The track can be downloaded from Whoa’s blog.

Eboi – Panic

Daniel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:37:40 +0000

Eboi just released a new track called “Panic” and it’s his own version of the group Far och Son’s track “Panik” from last year. The release is a collaboration between Respect My Hustle and Hybris and is available as a free download on My Best Friend is My Grind.

I’m really looking forward to hearing more stuff from Eboi. It’s definitely time that he gets some shine!

Ken Ring – Änglabarn (Video)

Daniel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:14:02 +0000

Ken Ring, who recently moved to Kenya, has released a new video to the track “Änglabarn” from his album “Hip Hop”

The track is produced by PabloPaz for DehDinPoik and the video is filmed by Natanael Goldman and edited by Kamisol.

Ken is training a soccer team in Kenya called K.R.A.C.K United and if you’re interested in helping them out financially or by sending soccer gear you can find more info on his blog.