607 announces he's no longer releasing music

Longtime AiMT favorite 607 sent a ripple through the AR hip-hop community earlier this week when he announced that he will no longer release music. Today he clarified that he's not retiring from music—he's just putting the music on hold and trying to get a proper budget together for his next project. I support Lord Six's decision to slow things down and explore other avenues. Here's hoping he makes that dough and comes back soon.

Long-known for his unyielding work ethic, 607 recorded 37 albums over he past 12 years—that's three albums per year on average. Since summer of 2010, he has recorded one solo album and four EarFear albums. (EarFear is his duo with his brother Bobby.) As a parting gift, he's made all five albums available for free download for a limited time. Get them all here and here.

On top of that, Lord Six gave me permission to upload the flips he did for AiMT onto a SoundCloud set. He's submitted 12 flips since 2009. His take on Crookers' "What Up Y'all" made it to #2 on Hype Machine. His flip of Rich Boy's "Drop" got reblogged by Mad Decent. And his verse on a Diplo beat placed #2 in Mad Decent's Makin Xmas competition.

This SoundCloud set features 10 flips. You can download all 12 here.



More 607 goodies after the jump.

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Listening Station #4

Listening Station is an AiMT feature dedicated to exploring full new retail release streams via Spotify, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, etc. You must have Spotify installed on your machine to play the Spotify streams (duh).

New stuff from Chocolate Industries, Motion Sickness of Time Travel, Beach House, Auntie Flo, Lex Records and Hivern Discs.

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Squarepusher - "Stadium Ice"

photo by MTV Brazil
Squarepusher's Ufabulum is out today!

ANTS Podcast #005: Headphone Disco

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Earlier this month, I played two sets at the outdoor stage at Cool Shoes, a longtime AiMT-affiliated monthly I've helped bring to Fayetteville in recent months. My sets were run-throughs of the modern subdued disco movement, many of the tracks being easily categorized as "Balearic." Here are 10 of my favorite selections from these Cool Shoes sets. R.I.Y.L. Tim Sweeny's Beats in Space radio show on WNYU.

Big K.R.I.T. - "I Got This" Live on Fallon

Azealia Banks - "Jumanji" prod by Hudson Mohawke & Nick Hook

Azealia Banks with Karl Lagerfeld
The Azealia Banks release schedule is getting harder and harder to keep up with. As of now, it goes something like this:

This month: 1991 EP
This summer: Fantastic mixtape
This fall: Broke With Expensive Taste LP

Azealia tells us that the Hudson Mowhawke and Nick Hook-produced "Jumanji" is a taste of the mixtape. (Nick Hook is one third of Cubic Zirconia.)

TNGHT (Hudson Mohawke & Lunice) - "Bugg'n"

Hudson Mohawke and Lunice = TNGHT, and their debut EP is dropping in late July on Warp/LuckyMe.



BONUS: "Introducing... TNGHT" Promo Video

Videos You've Already Seen #9

Grimes
New videos from Grimes and Majical Clouds, Danny Brown and J Dilla, Buraka Som Sistema, A$AP Rocky, Swizz Beatz, Para One and Teki Latex, and The Very Best.

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Dibia$E - Looney Goons Sampler

Here's a "tour sampler" mix culling tracks from L.A. beatsmith Dibia$E's latest effort, Looney Goons, which dropped today. Dibia$E explained on his Facebook last week that this sampler has "beats that's not on the album."


Hear more Dibia$E and others from L.A.'s beat scene on the latest ANTS Podcast.

Listening Station #3

Listening Station is an AiMT feature dedicated to exploring full new retail release streams via Spotify, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, etc. You must have Spotify installed on your machine to play the Spotify streams (duh).

New stuff from Girl Unit, CFCF, Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, The Congos, Slugabed, Future, Killer Mike and Lone.

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