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Genre/Style: Jazz / Soul-Jazz / Fusion / Flute / Spiritual Jazz
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The first thing to know about Lloyd McNeill is that his are the very best soul-jazz flute LPs, and each is first-rate, a masterpiece of self-direction. The second thing to know is there is much more to him than his recorded legacy. He is one of those incredible, super-sensitive people who excels at every artistic idiom and endeavor; making wonderful music is just part of his flowing creativity. A professor (at Rutgers University, earlier Dartmouth), he has much to say about music and creativity as well as an impeccable gift for saying it...sensibly. McNeill's writings on his musical experiences provide invaluable documents of "the period" (late 1960s-1970s) as well as a rare glimpse at the joy of a relatively unsung master.

Born in Washington, DC in 1935, McNeill earned his B.A. at Morehouse College in Atlanta and also studied painting at Howard University in his home town and lithography at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He has taught variously painting, illustration, and music at Dartmouth, Howard, Spelman, and Livingston College at Rutgers University. Films he has scored include "To Market, To Market," "TV Education in Samoa," and "Summer in the Parks." Also his quartet provided the music for the Spoken Arts LP "The Dream Awake."

McNeill has played with jazz legends --Andrew White (his longtime collaborator/producer), Eric Dolphy, Sabu Martinez, Mulatu Astatke, among many others-- and he has had a significant hand in the arts scene of Washington, D.C. The major galleries of art, including those of the Smithsonian, sponsored multi-media "happenings" that soared far above the hippie caricature of acid rock with light show. During the first flowering of post-Civil Rights, African-American culture, the Lloyd McNeill Quartet's improvisitory, simultaneuous jazz and large-scale painting "happened" while a lucky, perhaps unsuspecting public drank it in.

McNeill believes his influences and their results in his art, music, and poetry are inseparable and mutually reinforcing. Time spent with Picasso in Cannes, 1965 led to new expressions in all three, for instance. And when one brushes against a force such as Picasso, just the idea of "meeting Picasso" has a certain momentum, never mind the inevitable casting of rays of a different kind of light. Canvas, vinyl, the stage, paper, and books of poetry offer a few key imprints of McNeill, and McNeill consistently pays tribute to many illustrious peers.

There are six principal albums, all produced and entirely under the artist's control. Each title surpasses anything comparable on the major labels, even Blue Note. The Black Jazz label may be roughly similar in style, but Asha and Baobab are wholly Lloyd McNeill. The records reflect none of the usual external trends from the decade in which they were recorded; all sound like 1971 rather than 1979. The final record even reprises the first (the exotic, broodingly moody "Asha"), and the sound throughout remains somewhat interchangeable and timeless. But each record has its own themes and currents, and even improvisation has its signatures and fingerprints.

Genre/Style: Underground Hip-Hop
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Genre/Style: Underground Hip Hop
Format: mp3
Дискография конечно не полная, в будущем можно будет дополнить.
Special Reserve в сущности сборная солянка, так что, что есть из этой серии, то есть.

Mac Lethal was born David McCleary Taylor on July 25th 1981. In 1998 he would go on to win several rap battles against local emcees from rival Kansas City high schools, and began to generate a buzz amongst the very small, tightly knit Kansas City underground hip-hop community. Mac entered the emcee battle at Scribble Jam hip-hop festival in August of 2001 and took second place in the finals. Sage would later take Mac on the F*ck Clear Channel Tour in 2004.
In 2006, Mac Lethal founded Black Clover Records with longtime friend Jeremy Willis. Mac Lethal hosts Black Clover Radio Hour on the Kansas City alternative station 96.5 The Buzz. It has aired every Sunday night since the end of 2005

Genre/Style: UK Hip-Hop
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Tommy Evans is based in London but was born and grew up in Leeds. Tommy was introduced to hip hop in 1984 through Run DMC's "Walk This Way" and Roland Rat's "Rat Rappin’". After spells of casually breaking and graf writing, Tommy started rapping seriously in 1995 and linked with various crews on the Leeds scene. In ‘96 he formed the duo of Junkyard Tactics; their career highlight supporting De La Soul in ‘97. Tommy went solo in ‘98 linking with the then Huddersfield based YNR crew making his recording debut in 1999 on Jehst’s "DeadlyCombination" on the "Premonitions" EP.

Since then Tommy's released 2 eps and 3 singles on his own label YNR (run with Jehst and Cee-Why). Tommy’s collaborated with some of the top producers and MCs in the country on material that's out there or in the pipeline: Task Force, Lewis Parker, Jehst, Harry Love, Mark B, Braintax, Karl Hinds, Apollo, Mr. Wiz (Krispy), Bone Idols, Beyond There, Ayaman (The Planets), Foreign Beggars, Dark Circle, Ricochet, Dupa Styles, Doc Brown, LG & Lopez, and of course, all his YNR bredrins like Usmaan, Asaviour, Evil Ed and Cee-Why.

Tommy has also been tearing up shows with long time collaborator Yungun and new recruit DJ Blakey (DMC Team Champ 2003) around the UK from Penzance to Edinburgh and everywhere in between, headlining venues, playing big bashes (Kung Fu and Itch FM’s 2nd Birthday Jams) or supporting international acts such as Junior Reid, Non Phixion, El Da Sensei, Bobbito Garcia, Peanut Butter Wolf, Freestyle (The Arsonists) and DJ Noize. Plus music lovers worldwide have been getting accustomed to Tommy's unique lyricism with performances in Europe and the USA, including Philidelphia’s legendary Black Lilly night! Tommy even made history alongside Jehst by being the first rappers to perform in the Channel Islands!

Tommy Evans last single for YNR "Me/You" B/W "Silent Mobius” was released in summer 2002 and been his most successful yet, selling as far afield as the USA, Europe, Japan and Australia. It was playlisted on 1Xtra and lead to appearances on Itch FM, XFM and Westwood (Radio 1), the UKs number 1 hip hop radio show.

At the moment Tommy’s in the lab working on a hot debut album with contributions from some of the UK's most talented musicians. He’s also contributed to the “Virgin Souls” project with Neneh Cherry & Cameron McVee (Massive Attack, SugaBabes) and collaborated with artists from round the globe: The Are from K-otix (USA), Nookie (Sweden), Equicez (Norway) and Fat Daddy (Switzerland). In the meantime you can find him guesting on other numerous 12s, mixtapes and setting dancefloors ablaze with his latest single for YNR: “Who Am I?”

Genre/Style: French Rap
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French hip-hop crew from Cannes. Founded in 1992, and consisting of rapper Sako, and producer Hal (his name a reference to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey). Of Beninois and Italian origin, the group broke national ground on the soundtrack for the movie "Taxi".