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The Next 24Hours De La Soul Are Giving Away Their Complete Music Catalogue As Free Downloads

By chrome February 14, 2014

“De La Soul want you to have all of their music for free. The American hip-hop group are celebrating their 25th anniversary by making their “entire catalogue” available, at no cost, on their website.

Starting today at 11am EST and continuing for 25 hours, visitors to De La Soul’s official site will be able to legally download the group’s complete discography, according to Rolling Stone. “It’s about allowing our fans who have been looking and trying to get a hold of our music to have access to it,” Posdnuos explained. “This is our way of showing them how much we love them.”

Most of De La Soul’s seven studio albums are hard to find on digital platforms: as hip-hop pioneers, their early records are filled with samples, making them difficult to license. “We can’t even have our music on iTunes,” Posdnuos revealed. While the group’s labels are still trying to clear the material for future sale, “it’s been a trying journey”, he said. Bizarrely, a brief online free-for-all seems the best way to get their songs into some fans’ hands.”

“Love You More…” A Few Sincere Songs About Love By Alexi Murdoch

By chrome February 13, 2014

“And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.”

The Universe Is Singing A Song

No matter what you do and how you spend your Valentine’s Day here is a credo to live by: “Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.” And yes, you make the world a better place when you take the trash out of your head and don’t go on spilling it throughout the world. Right here and right now, we have to remember, time and again, to surrender to what is… already inside of you. Clean up within, over and over, again and again, and then you are able to surrender to Love, not the propagated idea of love but to what is already the true nature of your essence. You are love and for the first time you are able to love – starting of course by loving and accepting yourself first. And you will see it all connect, the universe unfold and things will become obvious to you, not the other “you” that loves to be involved in outside happenings, that is constantly restless and needs to be the centre of attention. It’s oxymoronic. You already are the centre of the universe as it is. The ‘real’ you is the universe itself. No need to look. So how can you prefer/dislike different parts of what you already are over other parts? Just follow the words “I Am” in meditation and you will find it sooner or later. ”

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

When your mind becomes still – over and over again – you will notice that you are nothing. That is knowledge. You will notice that you are everything. That is Love. And between the two is the path you go in life. No balance needed. The two are not reflections of outside duality. You are both and you are one. We are one.

These songs speak directly from my soul. Enjoy. Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Valentine’s Hip Hop: “Baby, I Could Rule The World With A girl Like You, In My Arms”

By chrome February 13, 2014

“Baby, I could rule the world
With a girl like you, in my arms”

The perfect Valentine’s Day Song if you like Hip Hop and don’t care about the cuss words ;) Like the lyrics a lot. Play this song to your ms and “try to make her your misses.” This is for your sweethearts. G-Eazy – Dear Ms. Rose (ft. Phenomenal Handclap Band)

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This Song Just Won’t Stop… And I Am Glad It’s Like That

By Marki February 13, 2014

Mat McHugh – Go Don’t Stop (Marki’s YUM YUM Edit)

Enjoy our new YUM YUM Edit hopefully while you are sitting on the beach and sipping on a refreshing drink, cause this one is for you. Only spiced up with some drums, a bassline & few samples to stay true to the original. Grab your free download and spread the love <3 Cheers Marki

18 Tracks To Prove Why FlicFlac Create Some Of The Nicest Alternative/House Edits

By chrome February 11, 2014

…”but, they just added a kick to that song”…

Everybody’s favourite Austrian beatmakers make a sweet mix out of tender and well known indie anthems by bands like Angus & Julia Stone, Bon Iver and basically all the music every alternative, hipster cafe has played during daytime for the last couple of years. Well they get a lot of criticism from the guys that call themselves real “electronic producers” and i hear that a lot when we meet, but one thing should be taken in consideration when criticizing someone for just adding a kick or doing minor productions on finished tracks… When you go out to dinner, it’s not the amount of ingredients and spices that counts but whatever gets served on your plate. And sometimes, or actually quite often, less is more. Take the italian or the japanese cuisine for example and their simple but carefully selected ingredients of just one or two spices like olive oil and some good salt, that makes every tomato taste better. It still tastes like the very same tomato, enriched with a few rewarding flavours.

“why make edits at all?”

Same goes for this whole edit game that took flight on Soundcloud over the past few years. Apart from the overproduced US EDM tools that are more marketing than anything this is another one of the common trends on Soundcloud. Edit a simple song and make it danceable for the floor. And with their Warner release of Bedouin Soundclashs’ Brutal Hearts ft Coeur de Pirate you will wonder if they have done any production at all compared to the original, but the result and that thumping kick will have you grooving once on the floor. We will see how good their own productions fare, and you can be justifiably sceptical, for we have seen too many edit creators fail as actual musicians, but when it comes to simple edits for your house game: Point proven and case closed. Enjoy these 18 selected edits of some already lovely tracks!

Erykah Does Not Mourn Missing You, But Celebrates Meeting You Again! – “Where You Are”

By Coco February 10, 2014

Can It Be I Stayed Away Too Long?

Did I Leave Your Mind When I Was Gone?

Now that you are so far away…

…i notice time after time just how much i miss you. It’s not only the little things anymore. Home is wherever you are becomes such an obvious statement. The most beautiful song ever written about missing your love from a distance as a wonderful cover version. The Roots feat. Erykah Badu – I Wanna Be Where You Are is possibly the best Jackson 5 cover i know, and like any attempt of covering the Jacksons pales in comparison, but has a unique playful beauty of its own with its 70s sounding instrumentation, that compels me to move. A wonderful tune and one of those drift off to foreign places kind of songs where minds, hearts and souls connect across the vastness of oceans and continents. I wanna be where you are.

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