Indiesent Exposure:SMKA, A Broken Code And The Stroke Affair Liven Your Spirits

Posted On: May 8, 2011
Posted By: odeisel
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By DJ Fusion

What’s good Planet Ill crew!

It’s time again after a bit of a hiatus for your regular weekly Indiesent Exposure installment of FREE quality music downloads and info about independent music artists of different genres who deserve serious credit for keeping things lively and original in the world of music.

Post by post, Indiesent Exposure is set to give your ears some respite from some of the daily audio wackness that bombards the masses through the mainstream radio’s and TV airwaves’ definitions of Hip-Hop, Rock, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Rock, Reggae, House, World Music and more.

If you like what you hear and download in this section, PLEASE support (monetarily and otherwise) these artists as much as you can in the future – hit up their websites, purchase some product, go to their shows, etc.

This week’s group of great Indiesent Exposure audio selections features joints with Hip-Hop, R&B, Electronica, Dubstep, Metal and Afro-Punk flavors.

Whenever you have the chance, please let all of the talented Indiesent Exposure artists and the Planet Ill crew know what you think of the music in our comments section!

Here we go:

First off, we have the latest annual Hip-Hop compilation from the SMKA music collective.

For the past 3 years, this Atlanta, GA based crew of producers, musicians, studio engineers and business people have been dropping dope music collections that unite independent and mainstream artists (including Freddie Gibbs, 4-Ize, Aleon Craft, Tony Williams, Donny Goines, XO of Diamond District and more) over original, inspired production.

Whether you prefer more traditional Boom Bap sounds, electro-based grooves or 808 bounce vibes, people should find enough fly tracks on the 19 track SMKA – The 808 Experiment: Vol 3 release from producer 808 Blake to enjoy. Check out more of the latest happenings with the SMKA crew over at their official website, http://www.TheSMKAExperience.com .

SMKA – The 808 Experiment: Vol 3 (Download)

Preview:

Tracklisting:

1. In The Laboratory
2. Laws feat. Thee Tom Hardy – “Live My Life”
3. Spodee – “Who Run It” *
4. DaVinci – “Slide Through” *
5. Aleon Craft feat. Grip Plyaz & Tuki (of Hollyweerd) – “My Girlfriend”
6. Donny Goines feat. Bobby Creekwater & Mikkey Halsted – “For The People”
7. Nesby Phips feat. Phil Ade – “Do Re Mi” *
8. STS feat. Tony Williams & Freddie Gibbs – “Cloud of Endo” *
9. Sam Dew (of Cloudeater) – “District in the Dark”
10. Jack Preston feat. Spree Wilson – “Mechanical Love”
11. brandUn DeShay feat. Young Lyxx & RE – “Quite the Fiasco” *
12. Scar feat. El Prez & Aleon Craft – “Smoke & Ride Out”
13. Jackie Chain feat. Rittz, Jarren Benton & Young Scolla – “Certified Shit”
14. A-1 the Supergroup feat. Raye Rich (of FKi) – “After Party (Hotel)”
15. Casey Veggies feat. Young Scolla & Skewby – “On Everything”
16. Mike Schpitz feat. XO (of Diamond Distrcit) – “So Cruel” *
17. PRGz – “Rocks & Rolls”
18. Goines feat. K.Sparks – “Less Than Zero” *
19. 4-ize – “Four 16s” *

* personal favorite tracks

Next up we have the Retribution For The Afflicted LP album from the New York City Afro-Punk band, A Broken Code.

Members Mansa, Nate, Jenko and Sansa, make music that can best be described as Hip-Hop Metal – an organic combination of rhymes floating effortlessly off of chunky Hard Rock guitar & bass chords & driving breakbeats similar to Rage Against the Machine, with an intensity sorely needed in the Rap Rock hyrbid space.

Having joints ready for either stage diving or hard head nodding with conscious/message based lyrics that don’t get too preachy, the crew should hopefully be on the scene for a long time. Find out about the latest music, shows, videos and more from A Broken Code’s official website, http://www.ABrokenCode.com.

A Broken Code – Retribution For The Afflicted LP (Download)

Tracklisting:

1. Fed Up *
2. Rock A Session
3. My Inspiration *
4. Strong Or Strange
5. Dedicated To A Lie
6. Beyond Malice
7. Moses *
8. How Patriots Act

* personal favorite tracks

Lastly, here’s a head-nodding, dancefloor-ready collection of solid mid- to-high-tempo eclectic tunes (including Electronica, Hip-Hop, Soul, Dubstep, Jazz and more influenced joints) ready to rock out to as a part of your new weekly soundtrack.

The creation of the 20 track Project Mooncircle Presents STROKE.MUSIC compilation is pretty interesting…here’s a description of what went down from their own words:

The STROKE.ARTFAIR is the world’s first art fair with a main focus on all developements concerning the worldwide movement of the so called Urban Art. The fair was planned as a wandering-concept to justice the demands of this international art movement.

The STROKE.ARTFAIR took already place twice in Munich (October ’09 and Mai ’10) and once in Berlin (October ’10).

The next issue of the fair – STROKE.ARTFAIR – will take place once again in Munich (may 26 – 29). Additional shows will be presented throughout Germany next year.

The STROKE.ARTFAIR and PROJECT: MOONCIRCLE – founded in 2002 and presently one of the most creative german Music-labels – have teamed up to present STROKE.MUSIC, their first joint cooperation; a “soundtrack to art”.

The Berlin based label, with its unconventional and genre-crossing mixture between Hip Hop, Electronica, Downbeat, Soul, and Dubstep, and the first worldwide Urban Art Fair share a great set of ideals and, therefore, promise to be the perfect partners for STROKE.MUSIC.

To bring STROKE.MUSIC into being, the artists of the STROKE.ARTFAIR galleries were asked to choose their personal favorite song out of the vast musical label-archive and use it as inspiration to create a new piece of art.

The results of this venture will be presented in Munich during the STROKE.ARTFAIR in a special exhibition.

Every interested visitor will be able to listen to the music while looking at the art in order to blend the impressions into a complete audio-visual experience.

Find out more of what’s good with Stoke.Artfair at http://www.Stroke-ArtFair.com and the latest music happenings + releases with Project Mooncircle at http://www.ProjectMoonCircle.com .

Project Mooncircle Presents STROKE.MUSIC (Download)

Preview:

Tracklisting:

1. Long Arm – Double Bass In Love *
2. 40 Winks – The Day Breaks *
3. Dday One – Look Again (Remix)
4. The Q4 – Lose Control *
5. Nienvox – Left
6. Numaads – 5 Minutes
7. Graciela Maria – Through The Night
8. Pavel Dovgal – Andromeda
9. Killing Skills – Van Dijck Brown
10. Robot Koch – Water And Solutions *
11. Robot Koch X Numaads – Now
12. Glen Porter – 5AM
13. Robot Koch And John Robinson – The Planet Is My Canvas *
14. Comfort Fit – Bermuda
15. Ta Ku – Zine High
16. Joe Kickass – That Type Of Night *
17. DZA – Pick A Star
18. fLako – Shake It Harder
19. Szenario – Another One Featuring Jakub Czep
20. Mike Gao – Melamine *

* personal favorite tracks

Fill up your iPod and Catch up on the all of Planet Ill’s Indiesent Expsoure article series & FREE music downloads at anytime – click here to get details of the great Indie Music artists we’ve already covered!

DJ Fusion’s E-Mail: djfusion@planetill.com (Back Up: fuseboxradio@gmail.com)

DJ Fusion is the creator and co-host/mix DJ of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast (hit up http://FuseBoxRadio.podomatic.com for the radio show archives + podcast and our overall official site at http://www.FuseBoxRadioOnline.com) and the blog BlackRadioIsBack.com, two areas trying to fight audio B.S. one day at a time…check folks out around either way when you can.

Also feel free to touch base with a sis on the Twitter Expressway at http://twitter.com/FuseBoxRadio.

If you dig the music vibe I’m on & want to download some free mixtapes from the FuseBox Radio/BlackRadioIsBack.com collective, hit up the constantly updated Bandcamp page over at http://FuseBoxRadioBroadcast.bandcamp.com.

FuseBox Radio Broadcast w/DJ Fusion & Jon Judah

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