SATURDAY, 7/18 -> Acclaimed artists, the Dope Group, invade So Damn Down w/DJ Low Key at Shag (15th & Champa downtown) for an art show featuring their ridiculous art, live painting, limited Dope Group tees & more. Check out TheDopeGroup.com for more about them and examples of their art and whatever you do, don’t miss the show. Starts at 9 / 21+ / No cover.
FRIDAY, 7/17 -> Family Affair, Speakeasy & SlamXHype present the official Phil Ade – Starting on J.V. Release Party at the Solution w/DJ Low Key & Sounds Supreme on the Funky Buddha’s rooftop. Download the Maryland Native’s mixtape here to see what all the fuss is about and don’t miss the release party. 776 Lincoln St / No cover / 21+ / Music at 9.
1. Pacific Division – Church League Champions
2. Twista & Kanye West “Alright”
3. Terrace Martin, Bad Lucc, J Black & Pete Rock “Ridin Out”
4. Peter, Bjorn & John w/Wale, Young Chris & Rhymefest “Nothing To Worry About (Kickdrums Remix)”
5. Kid Hum & Arize Mag – Fresh Picks Mixtape
6. Elucid “However U Want”
7. Third Element, Ilwil & Ariel “Abstract”
8. Ghostface & Raheem DeVaughn “Baby”
9. Donwill “Tribute To Quik & Kurupt”
10. Fresh Daily “Gotta Go”
FRIDAY, 7/10 -> Don’t miss a special guest set from the youngest in charge, DJ Squirt, at Denver’s best hip hop night (c) Westword. Squirt will join me at the Solution for another night of the best in hip hop & more on the Funky Buddha’s rooftop. And don’t worry, Sounds Supreme will be back next Friday (and stay tuned for his birthday party on 7/31, guaranteed madness). 776 Lincoln St / No cover / 21+ / Music at 9.
SATURDAY, 7/11 -> Catch the first Denver screening of One Day, the acclaimed documentary following 9th Wonder proteges Kooley High as they break into the music business, at So Damn Down w/DJ Low Key at Shag (830 15th St). Phonte says you should check it out. Movie starts at 10:30, we’ll have free popcorn and we’re partying after. No cover / 21+ / Music at 10.
And don’t forget to check Kooley Is High, the dope new Kooley High mixtape with K-Salaam. And while we’re talking about Kooley, just wait til you here there joint they did with Median for me for MIA #3 (you’re gonna be waiting for a minute though, just MIA #3 is coming before the year’s end, trust).
A couple of weeks ago, Red Bull Big Tune hit Denver and 700+ heads came out to see a dozen of the best beat-makers in town compete head to head on the beats at Beta. My fellow Radio Bums and occasional Solution guest features DJ Vajra & DJ Psycho, internet sensation Boon Doc, recent Westword cover feature Yonnas of the Pirate Signal, Xperiment of Educated Figures and sometimes Whygee collaborator Good Knight were amongst the producers competing at the Denver stop of the premier producer showcase/battle in the country.
In between the rounds, producer’s producer Exile rocked a live MPC set that blew the crowd away and Black Milk got love for an animated performance, but the focus of the night was clearly on the competing producers. Throughout the night, Boon Doc showed why his youtube videos have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times with crisp, bangin’ beats and great melodies that took out everyone he faced. The level of competition was thick throughout the night and ultimately DJ Psycho beat out Vajra to make it to the finals to face Boon Doc. Psycho came with it, but Boonie’s beats were just too nice and he took the title. Both Psycho and Boon Doc will be heading to ATL this fall to rep Denver and compete for the national Big Tune title, good luck guys. Speaking of luck, I was lucky enough to have the pleasure of helping Red Bull organize/promote/produce the event and I gotta admit, the event went better than anybody had hoped for. The field of talent was great, the crowd was mad enthusiastic & a good time was had by all. Thanks for supporting some quality iddish Colorado, I’m proud of us for reppin’ so hard. Last but not least, these pics are from the Public Works Blog, check it out for more.
Above: Boon Doc aka Boonie Mayfield /// Below: DJ Vajra /// Pics from The Public Works Blog
1. Fashawn & Exile “Life As A Shorty”
2. Maxwell – Black Summers ‘Night
3. Jay-Z “Blueprint 3 Intro Live”
4. Ryan Leslie “You’re Not My Girl”
5. Wale “Pretty Girls”
6. Mayer Hawthorne “Little Boxes”
7. Novel & Ced Hughes “Suspended Animation”
8. Mr Hudson & Kid Cudi “Everything Is Broken”
9. Bishop Lamont, Dr. Dre & Xzibit “Hallelujah”
10. Plant Life, Missy & Jasmine Sullizan “I Could Have Loved You”
Brickbeats (1/2 of the production on Tanya Morgan’s 2 albums, featured on Ilwil – Beat Thieves 2 & more)
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Jermiside (as featured on both TM albums, the Fixtape, MIA #2 and the upcoming Die Jerm Die mixtape mixed by none other than yours truly & more)
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The Red Giants (go cop their self-titled debut album right now & download their new Chain Reaction EP for free below)
.:Jermiside & Brickbeats are the Red Giants – Chain Reaction:The EP:.
And stay tuned for Jermiside & DJ Low Key – Die Jerm Die, coming soon…
Donwill of Tanya Morgan has a dope new project he’s working on. It’s called Don Cusack in High Fidelity, check out the tracklist below. As far as what the album’s about, I’ll let him tell it:
The album ‘Don Cusack in High Fidelity‘ is a remake of the movie ‘High Fidelity‘ (starring John Cusack). It is one of my favorite movies of all times. I feel that the movie has alot of parallel’s to my personal life, so many that I’ve decided to cast myself in the role of Rob Gordon (Cusack’s character) for the duration of this project.
And here: Don Cusack is almost done and in honor of letting people in on the process to sneak a glimpse at the work in progress I put together a short snippet tape. You know just so you can see where I’m at and help motivate me to finish this damn thing. Its not all the songs from the album or nothing like that, just 5 of the joints that were the most finished.
As for the project being done, who knows. Sometime soon tho so that I can start finish my work with Von Pea and Brickbeats. More than anything it just needs to be mixed down at this point and there are a few people im still waiting on to finish a few songs but I wont name names… YET!
So here we go! The bold joints are the ones that are on the snippet tape. I didnt wanna give TOO much away but I wanted to let yall hear something. I decided to include the tracklist as it stands right now including features and producers for people who are into that sort of thing. Oh and the album is split into 2 parts. If that doesnt make sense then you dont know me or this project at all. Regardless I will be explaining it at a later date. Just enjoy this for now…
DOWNLOAD: Tanya Morgan Presents: Don Cusack in High Fidelity [Snippets]
THE MOVIE
1. Laura’s Song – Produced by Astronote
2. Top 5 Breakup’s – Produced by Brickbeats
3. Championship Vinyl feat the Lessondary – Produced by A-Plus
4. Ian’s Song feat Opio – Produced by Von Pea
5. Shake It Easy feat Peter Hadar & DJ Low Key – Produced by Martin Slo
6. December 27th – Produced by Donwill (ME)
7. Breathe feat Nicky Guiland – Produced by Neon Collars
8. I See You feat Ragen Fykes – Produced by Algorythm
9. Good feat Che Grand, Ced Hughes & Ragen Fykes – Produced by Aeon
10. Baby Wont You – Produced by Keelay & ZaireTHE SOUNDTRACK
11. P*ssy Rules the Worldfeat Mykestro – Produced by the Twilite Tone
12. Maybe You and I – Produced by Wale Oyejide
13. Girl Girl feat Kay & Uzoy – Produced by Aeon
14. Love Junkie feat Peter Hadar – Produced by Aeon
15. Fold Em feat Ragen Fykes – Produced by Keelay & Zaire
SATURDAY, 7/4 -> Kid Hum dropped some of the best Colorado hip hop records to date over the last year (the CMJ charts & over 50,000+ downloads seems to agree) and in my humble opinion, there wasn’t enough fanfare for the releases. So I decided to call the homie Hum the other day and see what he’d like to do to promote his music, next thing you know we’d put together a “Kid Hum Records Release Party” at So Damn Down at Shag (830 15th St) for both Fossil Fuel and Offshore Drilling featuring performances from some of CO’s finest, including Whygee, Sunkenstate, B-Money, brikAbrak and of course, Kid Hum himself, plus some other surprises. The party is free, the lineup is thick & when have I steered you wrong before? See you there. No cover / 21+ / Music at 10.
P.S. If you haven’t already, download Fossil Fuel, Offshore Drilling & Suicide Watch for free right now & get up on Kid Hum’s music, you’ll be glad you did.
FRIDAY, 7/3 -> Two of our favorite artists, Patrick Hansen and Path One, are bringing their new works to the Solution w/me & Sounds Supreme for a very special first Friday at the Funky Buddha (776 Lincoln St). Check out both PatrickHansen.com & PathsOne.com to get a taste of their impressive work. And if that wasn’t enough, our good friends the Dope Group are having the afterparty for their art show (over at TS Board Shop at 135 S. Broadway earlier Friday evening from 5-10 pm) at the Solution as well, so you know things will be crazy. 21+ / No cover / Music at 9.
