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    (Video) Action Bronson – “Easy Rider” + Original Sample

    You’ve probably heard this doing the rounds on the net already, but I think this is a DoPe ViD! Action Bronson presents the first single from his debut album ‘Mr. Wonderful’, which will be released this Autumn. The track is titled “Easy Rider” and was produced by Party Supplies who produced both the ‘Blue Chips’ mixtapes. The sample in “Easy Rider”, comes ...

    On August 21, 2014 / By
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    (Audio) K-Def – ‘Tape One’ (Early 90′s Demo Tape (Album Stream)

    Recently, K-Def and his one man band released this 20-year-old demo tape “Tape One”, which you can listen below in full length. Marley Marl at the time was so taken with the tape that he drafted in K-Def for the classic album “Here Come the Lords” from NY vetties The Lords of the Underground. What followed is history: K-Def became a successful ...

    On August 21, 2014 / By
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    (Audio) The Jazz Jousters – ‘Connect The Dots’ (Mixtape)

    Man these guys are so consistent with their releases it’s hard to keep up! This is number 32 in their mixtape collection from The Jazz Jousters This time Dorothy Ashby is in the spotlight, who became known as the most outstanding jazz harpist and composer in history. The American is one of the few harpists of the modern jazz sound and was ...

    On August 20, 2014 / By
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    (Audio) REdefinition – ‘Bahia Affair EP’ (Produced by Mecca:83 – Full Stream)

    Manchester based artists Mecca:83, Buscrates 16-bit Ensemble & DistantStarr are REdefinition: a trio of friends with a long history of musical collaboration have brought through to us the “Bahia Affair” EP their first release to date. The whole thing is a tribute to the Brazilian state of Bahia. It’s an influence of classic Brazilian music from the 60s and 70s, which is ...

    On August 20, 2014 / By
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    (Audio) Figub Brazlevic – ‘Keats Vol.1: Moabit’ (Full Album Stream)

    Here we have the first part of a music series, whose publications will be dedicated to a special district of Berlin. First up is a favourite of mine from Germany at the mo, the man responsible for those heavy Boom Bap beats from rap group Man of Booom, Figub Brazlevic. It will be interesting for the German folk to see which neighborhoods ...

    On August 20, 2014 / By
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    (Audio) Chopped Herring Recs – ‘Fly Fishing Vol 2’ Mixed by DJ Statik aka Mr Sonny James (Free D/L)

    You may have already seen/heard this, but it’s only a week old and it’s f**kin DoPe! Full of classic tracks from the Chopped Herring Records collection of releases from January 2013 to May 2014 mixed by the man like “DJ STATIK aka MR SONNY JAMES” reppin the ill vibe collective from outta Philly! The artwork has been done by KEO aka LORD ...

    On August 20, 2014 / By
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    Soundcloud Sunday

    Well well well this caps another fine Sunday y’all..I hope you are digging these almost weekly posts hah! Anyway, I did some cleaning on my SC feed so hope this gets you on some new artists or reminds you of the ones buried in your feed … ONE LOVE. Beatmachinearon ...

    On August 18, 2014 / By
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    A.C.E – Deep Trouble (Prod – ToneDeff CuTz) (FREE D/L)

    Hey what’s up all! About a month ago we released the self titled album from #MASSACR now two of the familiar names from the crew: NY producer ToneDeff Cutz along with NJ emcee A.C.E have a collaborative album in store for late this year 2014. In the meantime, they have released one of the singles ‘Deep Trouble’ available right here on Pragmatic Theory ...

    On August 15, 2014 / By
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    Prozak Morris – Rise Of The Hamster Warlock In The 5th Dimension (Name Your Price D/L)

    “In the same tradition as my last Mix-Tape “Jazzmatic”, “Rise Of The Hamster Warlock In The 5th Dimension” is a multi layered, real time recorded, and re cut to cassette tape, and then converted back into digital files recording. The overlying theme and motive of this mix-tape was to for lack of better terms for this tape to be “trippy as fu*k” ...

    On August 9, 2014 / By
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    DJ Ivan6 – The Super Doopa Tape Vol.3 (Free D/L)

    “This mixtape contains an hour + of old, new and rare music, cut the heck up for your ear holes only. Enjoy.” – DJ Ivan6 The Super Doopa Tape Vol. 3 contains : Brenk / Nottz / Stainless Steele / DJ Vadim / Team Dreebs / AK-Beatzh / Illuzual / V. Raeter / J Rocc / Quasimoto / Ta-Ku / S. Raw ...

    On August 9, 2014 / By