Inspiration Classics Mixtapes... Free Downloads

no tracklistings, but some classics from the past that have inspired me and simply gotta be heard.... :) enjoy

and another week in LA... east coast HEADS UP!

i love that a week can go by here and i've managed to spend time on the bike riding around the beach, getting plenty of sun, swimming in the pacific ocean, eating great fresh food and making some dope music with good people :) life is blessed!

this week i finished mixdown for the new collaboration: MdCL presents SY SMITH - 'TRUTH'.



there's the original mix which is a club-soul joint and the remix, a more straight 4/4 tech-soul affair strictly for the dancefloor. watch out for previews soon on soundcloud and the exclusive release on traxsource in the coming months followed by full worldwide release. if you don't know about sy, check her out. one of the illest and most soulful singers anywhere.

i'd met shafiq husayn (from SA-RA) at the art don't sleep jam session a few weeks back and a chance conversation at a party last friday with another mutual friend ended up with me doing a remix for shafiq's forthcoming solo album project on plug research. i got the parts for the remix on saturday, a downtempo afro styled vibe called NIRVANA. saturday and sunday evenings i did the remix, bringing it up to dancefloor tempo and ended up with a fela-meets-detroit tech kind of vibe. by 10pm sunday night it was on its way to mixdown, and now it's off to mastering and will be on the first 12" from shafiq's project 'Shafiq En A Free Ka'. check the album preview - including the original version of 'nirvana' here...



it was a pleasure to work with shafiq's material and flip it in a direction that's definitely in a different space but still keeping that nutty experimental vibe that he's so fresh with.

gonna squeeze some more beach in before heading to the east cost this weekend...

SATURDAY 18 JULY - carmina soul @ the old iron works in brooklyn... the official giant step after party for the summerstage show which features q tip, little dragon and benji b. the carmina soul party's hosted by afrokinetic's chris annibell and i'll be dropping a live freesoul set with very special guests including sandra st victor of the family stand... on stage about 1am

SUNDAY 19 JULY - sundae @ piazza at schmidts, illadelphia... the legendary sundae philadelphia party and finally, my debut show in one of the illest musical cities there is. live set featuring none other than philly's first lady of soul lady alma on mic. gonna be VIBES. on stage 8pm

MONDAY 20 JULY - back2basics @ silk city, illadelphia... two nights in a row in philly ? say WHAT ?!? :) spinning a DJ set at king britt's (also legendary) monday night music institution.



i'm looking forward to the trip, seeing all you east coast fam over the weekend and bringing the music. some fresh from the studio exclusives to be road tested on monday @ sylk130 for sure.

peace!

HVW8 Super Session... sicking it down with Chris Bailey on drums

kinda unusual to spend sunday afternoon chilling in an art gallery banging out beats while the peeps hang outside on the sidewalk kicking back, hanging and getting their barbecue on... but that's how we do!



one of my favorite beats from that afternoon for sure... the clip ends just before laurnea jumped up and kiLLLLLed it some more.

check the podcast for full audio... no setlists, no rehearsal, no plans... just vibing out on a sunny sunday afternoon



http://hvw8.podomatic.com/

MJ RIP... a lil tribute vibe

we lost a true gem and a goliath in his prime. i don't really have ample words to pay homage and full respect to MJ and his passing... so i'll hand it over to some music. lady alma and i recorded this a while back but this seems an appropriate time to share it with everyone... feel free to share and vibe outtttt :)

rest in peace MJ



yes, it's a free download of course :) - hit the arrow on the player....

I Can't Help It - Lady Alma + MdCL by mashibeats

another week in LA... HVW8 Super Session, studio and sun....

thanks to everyone who came out sunday to the HVW8 gallery for their barbecue/podcast/hang/Super Session! ty from HVW8 invited me down to play and what started off as "for sure, i'll come down and spin a few tunes" morphed into a fully fledged improv jam a la freesoul sessions UK style.... i had the live rig - minus rhodes or clav (a variation on the usual setup that i'm getting quite into now... necessity being invention's mama and all that), chris bailey joined me on live drums, and nia andrews and laurnea stepped up on mic.





it was the first time chris and i had played together in ages - we met through a jam band/studio project in london which i also met pino palladino through - a whole lot of us who had never met before ended up forming some great friendships and musical bonds. both pino and chris played on my tide's arising album which i recorded not long after we'd all met. chris is on playing live drums on the intro joint 'Masina's World' and additional drums on a few other cuts. he's one sick sick sickkk drummer, living in LA now and on the road with miss spears. so with a few days off from tour, i invited him down to join the vibe and come with some illizms on the kit. nuff said!

nia i met at the art don't sleep jam the previous week; and laurnea is a legend on the mic i'd met a few years back at a show in atlanta. it was a pleasure to have both of them up on mic and killing it proper with some off the top of the dome freestyling :) i'm looking forward to more with both of them. word on more live hits in LA soon as it's ON....





sometimes it's those really casual setups which really bring some different and heavy vibe to the moment - the HVW8 space is a small art gallery and not a fully rigged music venue, the barbecue was outside on the street, there was a rock band playing two shops up the road, we had a makeshift setup, nothing flash, but for sure, the vibe was on point from the get-go and it was great to see LA fam come out for a sunny sunday hang, some food and some beats.

podcast recording of the jam coming soon on the HVW8 site >>> pics courtesy of HVW8. in the meantime, a lil raw footage from beats & crates - the sound isnt great, but you can check some of the vibe... :)



apart from the HVW8 session, i managed to hit studio a little to lay some keys down for booty brown from the pharcyde's solo project. it's on a soulful house vibe - i think people are going to be digging his direction on this album. also did an interview with sofisticati.com which should be online in a few days... check out their site :)

the june gloom is over and summer's kicking off... loving it!

Rob van de Wouw: Tunnelvision - produced by MdCL

Tunnelvision by trumpeter Rob van de Wouw, produced and co-written by MdCL drops in the Netherlands on Embrace Recordings 27 October 2009 with a launch at Paradiso in Amsterdam. Featured guests including replife and Sharlene Hector, read about the making of the album here. Audio previews below. The album is only slated for a Holland release at the moment...

Licensing information contact

Tunnelvision Album preview by mashibeats

Rob van de Wouw on myspace

Nujazz Spirit interviews MdCL

Big supporter and deep music head Nujazz Spirit from France interviewed me late last year... check it out



http://nujazzspirit.blogspot.com/2009/06/interview-de-mark-de-clive-lowe.html