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Jay Stay Paid -- new album of unreleased J Dilla jams, mixed by Pete Rock, w/vox from Black Thought and MF Doom.

Chinatown Wars -- new jam from the upcoming Ghostface/MF Doom collab.

Hey hey hey folks! Things have been quiet here at the Audiozine for a while now due to exams and the holiday season. So it's time to start off 2007 the right way, with lots of great stuff for yr listening enjoyment. Click the links below to download these songs.

1) Miles Davis - A Night in Tunisia and Stablemates

I recently snagged an out-of-print vinyl double LP by Miles Davis called "Green Haze". It's from fairly early in his career, well before he was considered a living legend. Most of the songs are jazz standards being played in Miles's elliptical cool jazz style of the time. "Stablemates" features a young John Coltrane on saxophone.

2) Ghostface Killah - Charlie Brown

Ghostface had a great 2006 with the release of his "Fishscale" and "More Fish" discs (even if the sales didn't match the critical response). "Charlie Brown" is an outtake from Ghost's recent albums; it didn't make the cut due to sample clearance issues, but it was leaked to various mp3 blogs. The beat is produced by MF Doom and liberally samples a tropicalia era song by Caetano Veloso.

3) Nas - Where Y'all At

This track was leaked to Prefix months before Nas's "Hip-Hop is Dead" was released. However, the track didn't make the final cut. Peep the hazy beat, in which upright bass keeps time while the drums play in a more suggestive, dubby style.

4) Talib Kweli and Madlib - Funny Money

Kweli and Madlib's collabo album, "Liberation", was available as a free download last week on the Stones Throw Records website. They have since taken it down. Here's my favorite track.

5) Finally, there's been a big buzz about a recently unearthed acetate featuring alternate takes and mixes from the Velvet Underground and Nico sessions. It may be the only surviving copy of these takes and it was found at some random record sale for 75 cents! The good folks at FM Shades have posted all of the songs here. Get it while it lasts!

Unreleased Ghostface track, supposedly produced by MF Doom. The rumor is that this was left off of Ghostface's "Fishscale" and "More Fish" albums due to sample clearance issues. The beat liberally samples the song "Alfomega" by Caetano Veloso, available on this compilation.