One for all you vinyl aficionados:

just found this fine blog called

"LP COVER LOVER"  

the world´s greatest LP Album Covers,
45s too...

"Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of record covers from the golden age of LPs"

Enjoy...

Before we're heading right into the weekend, I want to inform you about a new free mixtape/album download straying around on the holy www. It's kinda hard these days with stuff labeled "for free" because lots of music you can get a hold of like this isn't even worth the disk space - apart from a few gems in between, which can be quite hard to pick out.

This is one of these gems in my opinion, an album preview of Return of the New which is due to be released this Summer, mixed by DJ Itch13 and hosted by Othello. It's the (well kinda) debut release of Chicago based crew 1773 (Seventeen Seventy-Three) which was formed in 2004, consisting of members Wisdm O.N.E., Just J and Moral One featuring great underground trueschool music with production by Ohmega Watts (check out the lead single It's On Again here!), Othello and many more. Nuff said about this one, head over to the 1773 Blog to get it and enjoy your weekend. Peace.

Many of you might remember an album called The Grey Album by producer Dangermouse that came out a couple of years ago, many of you might remember the hard time it had, many might remember "Grey Tuesday" and the aftermath. Now, five years later, once again Dangermouse is held from releasing his OWN album by record label major EMI due to what they call "legal issues". Therefore, for the sake of protest, the album called Dark Night of the Soul is now released as a 100+ page book with artwork by David Lynch and a blank CD-R to be filled with mp3's downloaded via p2p networks. Here's the official statement taken from the release site, www.dnots.com

Danger Mouse's new project Dark Night Of The Soul consists of an album length piece of music by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and a host of guest vocalists, along with a collection of original David Lynch photography inspired by and based on the music.

The photographs, which provide a visual narrative for the music, are compiled in a limited edition, hand numbered 100+ page book which will now come with a blank, recordable CD-R. All copies will be clearly labeled: 'For Legal Reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will.'

Due to an ongoing dispute with EMI, Danger Mouse is unable to release the recorded music for Dark Night Of The Soul without fear of being sued by EMI.

Danger Mouse remains hugely proud of Dark Night Of The Soul and hopes that people lucky enough to hear the music, by whatever means, are as excited by it as he is.

By the way, there already is a possibility to listen to the album, head over here to listen to the stream.

finally - about one month ago, after two great wu tang related 7inch releases called the "shaolin series" from 2006, and the 12inc "PJs from afar feat. Raek Won" - El Michels Affair released the long awaited and nearly forgotten :) full length album "enter the 37th chamber" with all the 36th chambers instrumental live versions.

i was really waiting for this and enjoyed every track! For most of us that were growing up with the "36 chambers" a "must have". There is also a great live recording of an XM radio studio performance from 2007 with all the Wu-Tang Clan MCs on Think Differently.

lately released and upcoming from truth & soul:
El Michels Affair - Isaac Hayes: A Tribute (2009)
Lee Fields & The Expressions - My World (6/2009)
+ various 7inches,

i'm out for a little working holiday.
enjoy and digg it! lens.

truth and soul records
el michels affairhttp://www.fatbeats.com
press about el michels

For all you Hip Hop Heads and Listeners out there, diggin the deeper and live "freestyle" side of it. Go ahead and press the button. Los Angeles beat maestro Omid Walizadeh - one of underground hip-hop's best kept secrets - dropped me a link to his "Omid Goodlife Mix - Chapter I".

I'm diggin his music for several years now and he is responsible for one of my personal most favourite HipHop tracks ever: the track "for her souly, slowly, solely" featuring one extraordinary MC called "H.I.M.N.L" from the "beneath the surface" ltd 3LP. All the beats on this mix are produced by Omid. Read the cover information for vocalists, ... among others: aceyalone, abstract rude.


also look for the "split ltd 10inch" with busdriver/neilla on subversive*rec. dope! sothen: have fun and get yourself some more information on:

mushrecords
myspace
download link
discogs

• for the new "DRUM BROTHERS" 12inch "living the dream feat. justis" that is goin to be in stores from may 15th on kif records (some smooth jazzy bangers & DOPE)!!! • for the new "KERO ONE" full length LP "early believers" (may 8th) - some laid back nice tracks on that one featured by Ohmega Watts, Tuomo, ... (remembers me a little bit on Q-Tip's latest drop, because of the singing in it). • DJ VADIM's new album "U Can't Lurn Imaginashun" has some great tracks on it too: "Soldier", "Hidden Treasure" and "Thrill 103" for example. It doesn't kick me like the one's before, but i'm sure one of those last two track mentionend will make the soundtrack to a part of our summer. support artists, buy records, peace.