SATURDAY MATINÉE: The Black Power Mixtape
Relive moments from the Civil Rights America and the Black Power Movement through the eyes of Swedish journalists in The Black Power Mixtape.
Tag: Erykah Badu
SATURDAY MATINÉE: Erykah Badu At Red Bull Music Academy Madrid 2011
Erykah Badu’s RBMA lecture at their Madrid 2011 event is our Saturday Matinée feature presentation. She might have spoken at the New York event this year but back in 2011, Erykah Badu gave a RBMA lecture in Madrid (hosted by Now Again Records owner Egon). The “Queen of Neo Soul” touched upon a number of …
The Unused Word - The Healer (Erykah Badu Cover)
The Unused Word is a singer, producer and instrumentalist from Vienna. Here is her cover of Erykah Badu’s The Healer. We’ve shown you BINKBEATS reconstruct the beat from scratch, now hear Erykah Badu’s The Healer in a minimalist acoustic form. The cover artist in question is The Unused Word (real name Anna), a singer, producer …
VIDEO: Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N feat. Erykah Badu
Janelle Monáe adds some visuals for her funktastic new single, Q.U.E.E.N, featuring Erykah Badu. I’ve found it hard to formulate words for this as it gave me pure unadulterated LIFE, but I’ll keep it professional for a minute. Janelle Monáe dropped “Q.U.E.E.N” from her upcoming album Electric Lady towards the tail end of last month …
VIDEO: BINKBEATS Reassembles Madlib's "The Healer" From Scratch
Dutch producer BINKBEATS reconstructs “The Healer” from Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part One (4th World War). We’ve seen a few “beat remake” videos over the past year, with things like Marley Marl’s ‘Classic Recipes’, this Flying Lotus reconstruction (both for Dubspot) and that amazing Massive Attack track made from vegetables but this is arguably the best we’ve …
Bonobo - Heaven For The Sinner feat. Erykah Badu
Erykah Badu provides the vocals for a new Bonobo track, Heaven For The Sinner. I think Erykah Badu has collaborated with about 90% of my favourite producers and she has been flawless on every single track. Personally, I was pretty stoked when I saw her name on the tracklist for Bonobo’s upcoming album, The North …
Empiyah - The Unity Vol. 1 [Mixtape]
Our friends at Empiyah have released a dope new mixtape. U·NI·TY [noun] – A whole or totality as combining all its parts into one © Empiyah Now THIS is what we call a mixtape. London clothing label Empiyah Clothing have produced a superb mixtape via the mixing skills of Akil aka Vodou. You’ve got everything from …
Review: Gizmo - Red Balloon
Out this week is Gizmo’s debut album Red Balloon. I have to thank my girlfriend for this inadvertent recommendation. In fact, she didn’t recommend the album itself; she put me onto The Revivalist and this was one of the first posts I read about. Upon listening, I was right to be curious. It’s such a …