Hey folks,
After a hectic end to 2006, it’s time to get things cranking again with a new post in the Audiozine Listening Series. On the jazz tip, we’ve got some choice out-of-print vinyl-only tracks from early in Miles Davis’s career (with a young John Coltrane on one of the tracks). I also snagged an unreleased Ghostface Killah song that features a beat by MF Doom that samples Caetano Veloso. There’s also an excellent unreleased Nas song from the “Hip-Hop Is Dead” sessions. And for just a little more hip-hop, there’s a track from the tasty new Talib Kweli and Madlib collaboration, “Liberation”. Stones Throw Records posted the entire album as a free mp3 for one week and then took it down. And last but not least, I’ve posted a link on the Listening Series post to a blog that is hosting the Velvet Underground unreleased acetate that was recently discovered for 75 cents at a record sale; it features unreleased alternate mixes and alternate takes from “The Velvet Underground and Nico”, VU’s first album.
Check all of this niceness out here:
http://www.audiozine.org/node/57
And if you somehow slept on the first Listening Series post, check out the Animal Collective “Purple Bottle (Stevie Wonder Version)/Polly (Nirvana Cover)” rare vinyl single here:
http://www.audiozine.org/node/40
Merry listening,
-K