BADBADNOTGOOD is a jazz trio from Toronto (Keys, drums, bass) that re-imagines hip-hop tunes in their own post bop-harmonic and melodic language. It appears BBNG’s talented constituents are college students, since most of their performance videos and pictures posted up on their tumblr are shot in various classrooms. Staffed wipe boards and retractable desks in mid-sized rooms further suggest they’re property of some lucky music faculty.
The present self-titled EP is a collection of previously released covers from artists like Odd Future, Waka Flocka Flame, and A Tribe Called Quest. It’s tip top. Get the EP over on their bandcamp, and watch “The Odd Future Sessions Part 1″ below.
Gratias, Potholes In My Blog.
This is where we say, “thank you”.
Thank you for coming to every show. Thank you for rushing to the front of the stage. Thank you for driving ten hours to see us play for ten minutes. Thank you for taking taxis, buses, boats and planes. Thank you for telling your friends. Thank you for telling them to tell their friends. Thank you for singing the words. Thank you for screaming them. Thank you for wearing your shirt until the shirt wears out. Thank you for buying a new one when it does. Thank you for recording, downloading, ripping, burning, stealing, streaming and most importantly, sharing our music. Thank you for your patience.
Thank you for your support.
Two Crown King EP is finally here!!! They decided to release the album for Free but you can always support and buy the EP from itunes and you can cop physicals at Grooves Records and Sunrise at White Oaks and Masonville Mall.
Make sure to check our interview with Two Crown King for more info on this great band representing the Forest City and check out their website.
You and I
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We Get Down
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Please Believe Me featuring Odario Williams of Grand Analog.
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Download: Two Crown King- Two Crown King EP
It’s about time I posted this project, I really think most blogs today just post up music that they personally don’t even fully take in, absorb, and enjoy first, before sharing. That’s why we at The Come Up Show don’t always brag or try to be first in posting something because it’s not a race. This is more about sharing music that we feel you would enjoy and how can you share something if it doesn’t resonate with you.
I’ve known about The Airplane Boys for a year now and if you were at any Snoop Dogg concert in the past few weeks then you would had the chance to check their live performances. Where You’ve Been was just released in May and you should definitely take a listen and open your mind just a little bit if you are all about that “Hardcore Hip-Hop”. This definitely bumps in my Chevy Lumina haha. Let me know what you think!!
Escape
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Ice Age
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Gold Ribbons
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Download: The Airplane Boys- Where You’ve Been
We know how important good music is during the summer time, whether you are going to blast this from your car or boombox, Ray Black had the summer in mind with the Spring Forward EP. I’m still listening to Fresh Air mixtape and he just decided to put this out 3 days ago. Ray Black has set up a pay what you want download for the EP, if you don’t want to pay anything just type “0″ and the download will start.
I think I respond to new music really well when I discover it on my own or someone with a good music judgement tells me to take a listen. Not when an artist tells me “check out my music it’s the shit”. When Classified came to town a couple of weeks ago, Kayo was touring with him and he knew I was doing going to do an interview with Classified, Kidz in The Hall, J-Bru, basically everyone in the crew, I could sense he wanted me to interview him but he didn’t directly ask me and plus I wasn’t familiar with Kayo’s music.
After paintball I was about to head home to freshen up and Classified asked me to do an interview with Kayo, I was like cool. I went home took a shower, made some food, and researched what Kayo was about. I was surprised and I was so happy that I didn’t miss the opportunity to interview Kayo…watching music videos like Heavy this young artist from St.Lucia really wowed me. My interview with Kayo should be out Mid-may for now enjoy this new album by Quake & Kayo- The Search.
Update: April 19, 2011. Kayo just released an EP on itunes today, entirely produced by Classified. You can purchase it on itunes now.
P.S. Quake actually added me to BBM a week before telling me about this project but I completely forgot about it.
A couple days back, I was hanging out with some potholes people on David’s MUMU checking out an a preview of an instrumental cut from this album. Emay was in there too; he was actually the one who uploaded the track for us all to hear, which we all agreed (with !!!!!!’s) was and is raw as fuck. Raw in a couple different ways.
If you don’t know Emay yet, he’s a producer emcee out of Hamilton who loves his Witch House and Shoegaze as much as his G-Funk and Shaolin Steez, and this musical adoration sans prejudice comes through clearly and wonderfully in his creative opus which is growing steadily (you can dig all this music by doing a quick little exploration in TCUS search bar above). This EP, Incorruptible, is the second to come at us in a short period, while we await for his full length LP that will be built entirely from Slowdive samples.
Swag this out by streaming below then downloading after the skip. Artwork by Erik Kirtley.
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Childish Gambino is the rap alias of comedian Donald Glover (Fuck you for liking cool shit!), and this fall scene snapshot you see above is the album art for his brand new five track EP, Freaks and Geeks. It has the donwill co-sign stamped all over it, so starting from that place about to get down with it after I finish typing this.
The IAMDONALD tour is sweeping through Toronto at some point in May. You can check out the tour dates, download the EP, peruse comedy videos, check out the Iranian pop girl Donald has a crush on.. yadda yadda.. here. Lots of time wasting fun to be had. And the music, too, of course.
Click below to stream the video for the first single. ENERGIAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Break Science is producers Adam Deitch and Borahm Lee who make banging fusion hip-hop that more than nods to modern electronic music. The drum break that characterizes hip-hop at its fundamentals is always there (hence “Break Science),” but what these two layer above it around it and beneath it remains stylistically free reign. You can expect thick synth sounds, glitches, digital warbles, vocal effects, MIDI noises, flanging, and just about any other DAW effect these scientists feel like.
In Further Than Our Eyes Can See, a free EP released around the same time as the website for their very own imprint Pretty Lights, they’ve explored some sludgey dub (“Zion Station” ft CX), captured some really great live head knocking breaks on “Wisdom of Antiquity” and called in Talib Kweli for a huge track called ‘The Alliance.” It’s kind-of unusual to hear Kweli’s verses cut up and glitched out like this so make sure you check it out. If you don’t dig it, which I think is pretty much impossible any way, TK comes armed and ready with a snip for you: “Real recognize real and you don’t look familiar!”
Stream “The Alliance” ft. Talib Kweli then click “Read The Rest of The Entry” below to see the album artwork and access the download link.
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Last week emcee Muneshine and sample based producer Vinyl Frontiers dropped a double teaser –”Easy Does It” and “Freeze”– for their full EP, Larger Than Life. We’ve had those tracks on heavy rotation since they came our way, so I’m super excited for all of you to hear the EP in its full glory. Coming in at eight tracks long, it has features from recent Juno nominees Ghettosocks and D-Sisive, Sean Price, Termanology, Timbuktu, The Get By, and the one and only Rich Kidd.
After streaming the classic hip-hop and scratch graced “What Now” (ft. Sean Price & Termanology), click below to see the album art and download. (IT’S FREE, FOLKS!)
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Photo: Robert Michael
Along with Potholes, we’re super psyched to be presenting the Bundle Up EP + Scattered Flurries EP from Hamilton ON’s Canadian Winter. Emcee Kobi told us in an interview that this collection of singles (Bundle Up) and remixes (Scattered Flurries) can be thought of as a “trailer” to their full length debut LP Just Wait Till February set for release on February 1st. Both Bundle UP and JWTF are concept albums that creatively chronicle Kobi’s first experiences in Canada since he moved here two years ago from Woking, Surry. The full album will be available for purchase through Dr. Disc and Laced in Hamilton, BandCamp, and good old fashioned contact through their twitter.
In all, the EP The Come Up Show presents today is a nice collection of Hamilton born tunes that feature some highly original sample/live oriented production and detail oriented narrative lyricism. Gather around, Canadian Winter’s gotta story to tell.
Stream “Plaid Shirts” ft. Queen Cee below, and hit the skip to see Jeremy Kemeny‘s artwork, view the tracklisting, and download.
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Last week you heard “Iron Pulse (Starboy),” the first single from Hamilton experimental producer and emcee Emay. And now, thanks to Emay’s cahoots with the righteous sites Potholes In My Blog and Pigeons and Planes — both indie and hip-hop based blogs that appropriately reflect this producer’s style– we get to hear the EP in full. When we caught up with Emay last week, he said this EP is sort of a side track project from his forthcoming full length album that is based around the music of the shoegazer band slowdive. But Emay’s taste for frequency saturated and reverb heavy soundscapes isn’t bracketed out in this project, nor is his penchant for effectively setting creepy ass samples. Just check out the beginning of “Iron Pulse (Staaaaaarbooooy)” [my emphasis], and tell me you don’t envision some deranged psychopath sitting eerily still, head tilted, in the corner of a room.
Stream the wonderful skin crawling “Iron Pulse” below, then hit the skip to check out Erik Kirtley’s artwork and violently attack the download link (via. Potholes).
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