Category: Review

ON + OFF: Day 2 // Be Water Tour x Guard D’Avant @ Military Park 7/7/15

Episode 2: Guard D’Avant @ Military Park w/ Ezrakh + Judah Rising

In this interactive series, ON+OFF is an ongoing visual narrative that sheds light onto the every day experiences of performing/recording artists that give human perspective of life outside the booth and stage. For the summer, black congo will accompany MoRuf on tour to document the developments of L.O.E. on the road and provide fans with a closer look of how the movement came to be before Shades.of.Moo.

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LOE x Blackcongolese Presents: ON + OFF // Be Water Tour @ The Bishop 7/1/2015

In this interactive series, ON+OFF is an ongoing visual narrative about the every day experiences of performing/recording artists and their perspective of life outside the booth and stage. For the summer, black congo will accompany MoRuf on tour to document the developments of L.O.E. on the road and provide fans with a closer look of how the movement came to be before Shades.of.Moo.

Sh*t I Missed | Singer-Songwriter/Producer Gwen Bunn, “The Verdict,”

Classic, addictive, real, transcending, non-conforming, bold, brave and unapologetic, fierce and persistent, “Turn the Lights Out” reminds me of what pure love feels like. Like: the feeling of when you see your parents dance together for the first time, barefoot and young minded in the carpeted living room, curtains tied back and windows cracked to let the fresh summer evening breeze swim inside your home to wash over the surface of hot and sticky skin perspiring from Memorial Day heatwave, record player spinning a 12″ original pressed “Outstanding” vinyl, your father getting carried away from his signature 2-step your mother would tell you in stories in childhood that made her knees weak, and forget to lower the heat on the BBQ grill, leading everyone to gut-rippling laughter, knowing good and well nothing so small could impact the connection shared anywhere prior to this moment. Not convinced yet? Take a listen for yourself.

#FreshOwt: MoRuf, “mosdef. (freestyle)”

From the sunny streets of Cali to the brick city blocks of Newark, New Jerusalem soul-hop artist MoRuf never disappoints with a sick drop of a freestyle, “mosdef.(freestyle)”, over Mos Def’s smooth instrumental, “May-December.”

Top 10 | Best Non-Hip/Hop Tracks to Sample

Burrowed deep inside genres so far off from what the average Hip-Hop artist would go to first to sample, many would be surprised by how overlooked categories like folk, house, ambient, and lo-fi can make a significant difference in how sound can progress during the building process of project in motion. I have compiled a short list of some atypical tracks from even greater musicians who are guaranteed to give your next project the knock in the jaw that will break of stiff spinned listeners. The list goes as follows.