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.