By DJ Fusion

What’s up Planet Ill family?

Its that time of the week to hit heads with another round Indiesent Exposure, Planet Ill’s weekly music column where I drop some FREE quality music downloads & info about quality Independent Music artists of different genres who deserve props for keeping things lively & non-cookie cutter status in the music world.

Hopefully post by post, Indiesent Exposure will give your ears some temporary respite from some of the daily audio wackness, boredom and/or iCoonery that bombards the masses through the mainstream radio and TV airwaves’ definitions of Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Rock, Reggae, House, World Music, etc.

If you like what you hear & download up in this section (some joints of which will hopefully be new to folks), PLEASE support these artists as much as you can in the future – hit up their websites, purchase some product, go to their shows, etc. At the end of the day, music artists need to eat like everyone else for putting in their work somewhere down the line.

For this week’s Indiesent Exposure piece, here some on point instrumental Hip-Hop & Electronica influenced goodies to properly get your weekend soundtrack started.

Please let these talented artists and the Planet Ill crew here know what you think of the selections when you have a chance – hope you enjoy everything!

Let’s get into it:

Washington, DC’s Damu The Fudgemunk has been doing this thing throughout the 2000s in the independent Hip-Hop scene with his own solo work and with the internationally acclaimed groups Y Society & Panacea.

As both an MC and producer/DJ, Damu’s style as shown through his releases on Rawkus, Tres Recods and other labels is that of a musician who is influenced heavy the the early 1990s era of Hip-Hop (which now more an more seems like a 3rd “Golden Age”).

The How It Should Sound (Promo EP) is the free 6 song sampler that previews the full How It Should Sound 27 track album release of the same title.

Each of the tracks on here is influenced by traditional “Boom Bap” Hip-Hop but doesn’t slavishly stick to that format.

Jazz, Funk, Soul and Soundtrack Samples are creatively put together on each song throughout the release that make Damu stick out from the recent wave of DJ Premier/9th Wonder/J.Dilla clones that have proliferated in the past few years.

Check out more of what’s going on with Damu The Fudgemunk either at his official blog, http://www.WonkaBeats.com or his label’s website, http://www.RedefinitionRecords.com.

Damu The Fudgemunk – How It Should Sound (Promo EP) (Download)

Preview:

Tracklisting:

1. New LP (EP Intro)
2. Judgement Day *
3. Fabrega’s Discotecas *
4. You Know Who!
5. Bills Be Gone
6. Non-LP Bonus – Wonka Beat 3 (2009) *

* personal favorite tracks

Music Video: Damu The Fudgemunk Live in NYC’s Madison Square Park (2008)

Damu The Fudgemunk Live in NYC’s Madison Square Park from jnota on Vimeo.

German pianist, keyboarder, music director and composer Ali N. Askin has put in work all over Europe’s music scene by doing everything from TV & movie scores to Electronica-based Dance Music (under the name S-Nemek) releases.

The release Tatort: Im Alleingang LP is the score from a 2005 episode of the popular German Crime TV series Tatort (after doing some Wikipedia research, the show’s most relateable to a REALLY long “Law & Order” type of detective show that’s been on for over 30 years).

Askin’s music on Tatort provides an exciting and heavy atmospheric soundtrack-like feel that even for those who’ve never seen one episode of the show provides a mood that could fit in on any police & law procedural show.

Listening to various tracks, you can imagine everything from interrogations to chase scenes to (hopefully) getting justice done in the courtroom.

Like most high quality soundtracks, Askin’s all instrumental music set can stand on it own as straight zone out music or become a part of some enterprising producer’s sound bank for more creative music to come.

Find out more information on Ali N. Askin’s latest musical works, news and other good stuff over at this official website, http://www.Askin.info.

Ali N. Askin – Tatort: Im Alleingang LP (Download)

Preview:

Tracklisting:

1. Im Alleingang – Titel
2. Eckermann
3. P.O.V. 1 *
4. Kosovo 1+2 *
5. Schr