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Grammy Award-winning band The Roots return with their new album, …and then you shoot your cousin, out on May 19th (pre-order on iTunes). This DJ promo includes lead tracks “When The People Cheer” and “Tomorrow” featuring Raheem DeVaughn.

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PROMO TRACKLIST:
1. When The People Cheer (Main)
2. Tomorrow feat. Raheem DeVaughn (Radio Edit)

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International female rap sensation Iggy Azalea‘s long-awaited debut album The New Classic arrives next week April 22nd. This DJ promo features remixes for her latest single “Fancy” ft. Charli XCX (out now on iTunes) by Riddim Commission, Dabin & Apashe, Yellow Claw, and GTA. The New Classic drops one day before she kicks off The Hip Hop Outbreak 2014 Tour, the 15-city North American tour of the U.S. and Canada that opens April 23rd at House of Blues in Boston.

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PROMO TRACKLIST:
1. Fancy (Riddim Commission Remix)
2. Fancy (Dabin & Apashe Remix)
3. Fancy (Dabin & Apashe Radio Edit)
4. Fancy (Dabin & Apashe Dub Mix)
5. Fancy (Yellow Claw Remix)
6. Fancy (GTA Remix)

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23 year old international singer / songwriter Iggy Azalea recently unleashed an ingenius Clueless-inspired video for her new single "Fancy" (out now on iTunes) featuring the UK’s Charli XCX. Iggy Azalea’s debut album The New Classic (pre-order on iTunes) arrives April 22nd, and she will be embarking on the The Hip Hop Outbreak 2014 Tour in April and May with show dates across North America.

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PROMO TRACKLIST:
1. Fancy ft. Charli XCX (Dirty)
2. Fancy ft. Charli XCX (Clean)
3. Fancy ft. Charli XCX (Instrumental)

Giant Step‘s fourth volume of the Sonic Boom series is available via Bandcamp for free. This installment offers exclusive tracks, as well as some of our favorites that rounded out 2013. Since 1990, Giant Step has been at the forefront of new music discovery, and the Sonic Boom series, in collaboration with Maiya Norton, showcases what’s currently on our radar. Okayplayer premiered “L.M.O. (Giant Step Mix)” by up-and-coming R&B vocalist Muhsinah. This exclusive download is a version of the track “Let Me Out” from her upcoming album, Amazing, out in March. In addition to singing backing vocals for The Weeknd, the DC native was featured on Common’s Universal Mind Control album and nominated for a Grammy for her featured vocals on “Daykeeper” by The Foreign Exchange.

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Earlier this year, drummer / composer / conceptualist Jaimeo Brown transformed pain and deliverance into art on his debut album, Transcendence. The project fused Gee’s Bend Quilters southern spirituals with North Indian music and various electronic elements, generally uncommon for an acoustic modern jazz record. Now, Brown takes his cross-genre project a step further with support from Grammy® winning Transcendence guitarist and producer Chris Sholar, techno producer Carl Craig and hip-hop producer Q-Tip (who refer to the track as “fantastic” and “dope,” respectively), on a radical recasting of “Mean World.” The remix also takes advantage of the artists featured in the original track: saxophonist JD Allen and vocals from the Gee’s Bend Quilters as well as Falu.

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PROMO TRACKLIST:
1. Mean World
2. Mean World (Remix ft. Carl Craig & Q- Tip)

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Following the critically-acclaimed 2012 release of their beat-centric compilation Tempo Dreams Vol. 1 (assembled by Detroit/UK producer-at-large Tall Black Guy), Brooklyn wax purveyors Bastard Jazz Recordings have returned with Volume 2 of the enlightening, genre-bending series. This time around, the label has enlisted Bay Area mainstay DJ/producers Teeko & B. Bravo, driving forces behind the transformative “modern funk” sound emerging out of the West Coast. Sticking with the series’ theme of showcasing new styles and emerging artists, curated by their own musical peers, Teeko and Bravo have conjured up an LP of mind-blowing tracks that push the limits of soulful electronic funk, outernational boogie, and cosmic hip-hop. Tempo Dreams Vol. 2 picks up where the first edition left off, bridging the gaps between various geographic locations and local scenes, while also reaching for new heights with soaring vocal features and dance-floor primed beats.

This DJ promo features four choice album cuts: the 80′s R&B-styled bomb “Hard Pressed” by Rojai and E.Live is complemented by left coast collective Mugpush‘s “Came Too Far”, channeling a deft balance of smooth P-Funk with killer rhymes from the ever-versatile Black Spade. Also included are two tracks featured on the limited edition 7-inch teaser: the deep & sexy nighttime-synth vibes of the K-Maxx joint “Dreamin’ Of You”, backed with Teeko and Bravo’s own Starship Connection keeping things bumping with “We Can Go All Night”, complete with sexy boogie thump, understated vocals and twinkling synths.

Album available worldwide on 2xLP, CD and Digital BUY NOW
“We Can Go All Night” & “Dreamin’ Of You” also available on limited-edition 7″ vinyl BUY NOW

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PROMO TRACKLIST:
1. “We Can Go All Night” – Starship Connection
2. “Dreamin’ of You” – K-Maxx
3. “Hard Pressed” – Rojai & E. Live
4. “Came Too Far” – Mugpush feat. Black Spade

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On their 2012 breakout Black Radio, Robert Glasper Experiment laid out a new paradigm for creative music, reaching beyond entrenched genre boundaries to create a singular vision that drew from all reaches of contemporary black music and beyond. Black Radio drew unanimous praise from critics across the board and earned Glasper the highest chart position of his

career when the album debuted at #10 on Billboard‘s Top Current Albums chart. The album kept earning accolades all the way to the 2013 GRAMMY Awards where Black Radio was awarded Best R&B Album. RGX ups the ante with the release of Black Radio 2, another genre-defying effort that takes the Black Radio blueprint and builds to even greater heights. This DJ promo features the soaring lead track “I Stand Alone” featuring rapper Common and vocalist Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, as well as “No Worries” featuring Dwele, “Let It Ride” featuring Norah Jones and a bonus track from the deluxe version, “I Don’t Even Care” ft. Macy Gray and Jean Grae.

RGX has also announced a Fall tour, Black Radio Presents: Common & Marsha Ambrosius with Robert Glasper Experiment. The tour will make stops in cities including New York City (Best Buy Theater, Oct. 29) and Los Angeles (Club Nokia, Nov. 14), with stand-alone RGX dates interspersed in between.

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PROMO TRACKLIST:
1. I Stand Alone ft. Common and Patrick Stump
2. No Worries ft. Dwele
3. Let It Ride ft. Norah Jones
4. I Don’t Even Care ft. Macy Gray and Jean Grae

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The multi-leveled musical world of Grammy nominated producer Salaam Remi takes on new dimensions with the release of One: In The Chamber, and its first single, the title track “One In The Chamber.” Available digitally now and released through Remi’s label imprint Flying Buddha, the track, which debuted on Hypetrak, is a collaboration with another Grammy nominated artist, platinum-selling R&B singer-songwriter Akon. The full album debuts digitally September 30, and features additional guest appearances by Ne-Yo, Corinne Bailey Rae, Stephen Marley and others in a fully orchestrated, richly imagined contemporary collection, encompassing a wide range of styles and musical forms.

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PROMO TRACKLIST:
1. One In The Chamber ft. Akon (Clean)
2. One In The Chamber ft. Akon (Explicit)

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“Sounds Of The Onyx … may be the start of a new music sensation of ‘jazz rap,’ producing an intoxicating new sound of sublime vintage jazz recordings reworked into a more modern day urban vibe.” – Vibe

HBO‘s acclaimed drama series Boardwalk Empire^® presents Sounds of The Onyx, a promo-only music project celebrating the show’s recently premiered fourth season and highlighting rare jazz recordings from the Prohibition Era. This DJ promo features the full set of remixes by Pete Rock, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Om’Mas Keith, Shafiq Husayn, JayCeeOh & B-Sides, and Tall Black Guy.

While the majority of the source tracks for this project are almost a century old, the spirit of musical fusion, lyrical signification and cultural revolution embodied in the original works truly form the roots of modern American music and DJ culture, from hip-hop to EDM. The featured remixers worked off of original recordings from legends Eva Taylor & Clarence Williams’ Blue Five, Ethel Waters, Lloyd Scott & His Orchestra, Jim Jackson and Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten Orchestra breathing new life into their songs for the gangsters, heroes, and club-denizens of today.

A joint collaboration between HBO, Giant Step, ABKCO Records and Sony Music Entertainment, the full project is now streaming exclusively via SoundCloud.

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PROMO TRACKLIST:
1. Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks – Sugarfoot Stomp (Pete Rock Remix)
2. Eva Taylor & Clarence Williams’ Blue Five – Red Hot Flo From Kokomo (Jazz Vampires) (DJ Jazzy Jeff Remix)
3. Ethel Waters – One Sweet Letter From You (Om’Mas Keith Remix)
4. Lloyd Scott & His Orchestra – Happy Hour Blues (Shafiq Husayn Remix)
5. Jim Jackson – Bootlegging Blues (JayCeeOh & B-Sides Remix)
6. Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten Orchestra – You Ain’t The One (Tall Black Guy Remix)

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An electrifying fusion of original style and diverse personalities, funk octet Sunny Daze collaborates with certified Hip Hop legend Grand Puba on their new record “I Like It” b/w “The Jam,” out on October 11th.

Watch Sunny Daze open for The Roots
“Don’t expect much from us after that act” – Questlove

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PROMO TRACKLIST:
1. I Like It
2. I Like It (Radio Edit)
3. The Jam
4. The Jam (Radio Edit)