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FREQUENCY | ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD & THE MIGHTY SA-RA LIVE! [TICKET GIVEAWAY]

It’s that time of the month yet again! Frequency continues to bring the freshness to our ears & this time they are bringing the legendary Ali Shaheed Muhammad got me doing calisthenics of A Tribe Called Quest & Lucy Pearl to rock the 1′s & 2′s. If that ain’t enough you got The Mighty Sa-Ra all together fresh off their solo efforts to bring that grown sexy next level funk schitt we all know & love. Blind I in association with V-Tech Phones & Frequency are providing you a chance as always to win you a pair of tickets! Hit the jump for more details on how…

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Tags: A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD, frequency, LUCY PEARL, MIGHTY, Om'Mas Keith, Sa-Ra Creative Partners, SHAFIQ HUSAYN, Taz Arnold, V-TECH

SONNYMOON SIGNS WITH PLUG RESEARCH

Congratulations to our good friends Dane & Anna, better known as Sonnymoon, for  signing to one of todays leading labels in future sound; Plug Research! Plug Research is home to artists such as Bilal, Exile, Flying Lotus, Om’Mas Keith & Shafiq Husayn of Sa-Ra Creative Partners & Quadron just to name a few. Since late 2009, it has been a roller coaster ride  for them as they have made a noise louder than bombs with their free debut album they asked us to drop on Christmas, to performing @ SXSW, to getting remixed by Melo-X, to J*Davey twitting their appreciation for witnessing the “whiter & trippier version” of them, to now signing with a label that pushes the envelope on creativity and delivers each artists vision with quality. We here @ Blind I are proud of our folks! Congrats & Jedi Respecognition & LET’S GOOOOOO!!!

Peep their latest song entitled “Blast Off” which can be found on the Potholes In My Blog summer sampler.

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Tags: ANNA WISE, Bilal, DANE ORR, Exile, FLYING LOTUS, Om'Mas Keith, PLUG RESEARCH, Quadron, Sa-Ra Creative Partners, SHAFIQ HUSAYN, Sonnymoon

BLAKROC & DD172….

As the recent publicity surrounding Mos Def, Jay Electronica and Curren$y‘s collaborative-side-group Center Edge Territory reached a feverish pitch in the viral music world, questions arose around the studio where said collaboration and countless other secret musical rendezvous are rumored to have occurred. Alas, Mr. Damon Dash, a very familiar face in the trend-setting music mogul world has been behind it all, providing artists with the DD172 space in Tribeca. DD172 seems to be a new hot-spot for brainstorming sessions, musical vanguard, and almost certainly a long, raucous line of eager artists wanting in to create their own masterpieces. For this is how musicians work. We are historians at heart, purists of our art form, and suckers for atmospheres where our creativity can flow at ease. Dash and DD172 have recently partnered up with rock group The Black Keys and artists like Mos Def, Zoe Kravitz, Raekwon, ODB, RZA, Ludacris, Pharoahe Monch, Billy Danze of M.O.P., Om’Mas Keith of Sa-Ra, Tash and more, to create the BlakRoc project, of which we recently posted a video clip on the site. Chicago-bred video mavens Coodie & Chike have spearheaded the coverage of the project as well as Creative Control. Pretty much a creative mash of great proportions! We’ll see what fruitful creations come from this space in the future, but one thing is presently sure: the future is bright for ideas of this magnitude, and I hope it spurs more individuals to create workspaces and projects similar to this one. Great music!

Tags: Billy Danze of M.O.P., blakroc, Center Edge Territory, Coodie & Chike, Curren$y, Damon Dash, DD172, Jay Electronica, LUDACRIS, Mos Def, ODB, Om'Mas Keith, PHAROAHE MONCH, RAEKWON, RZA, Tash, Zoe Kravitz

PHAROAHE MONCH | SHAFIQ HUSAYN | OM’MAS KEITH | SKID ROW SESSIONS (AUDIO FOOTAGE)

Ayo! So we had flubbed up a bit and posted the Art Don’t Sleep Skid Row Sessions on the double (which is understandable because it’s SO ill), but we just Voltroned and figured it out. Only difference in this post and the old one is that NO got ahold of the audio footage from the sessions! So indulge in that here, and hit the jump for the all-star lineup featured and the video if you haven’t already seen it!

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Tags: AINJOY, ALLA KOI, ART DONT SLEEP, blu, Brook d'Leau, GENE COYE, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Om'Mas Keith, PHAROAHE MONCH, Sa Ra, SHAFIQ HUSAYN, SKID ROW SESSIONS, STEPHEN "THUNDERCAT" BRUNER

SHAFIQ | GARTH TRINIDAD

Last Wed I had the pleasure of catching the brilliant Shafiq Husayn along side his 2/3 SA-RA member Om’Mas Keith @ The Lounge & all I can say was it was like hearing a soundtrack to my moods. Shafiq seems to always bring a certain mood to each track he either spins or creates. You should really get his album if you havnt already. Music aficionado Garth Trinidad mixes the brilliance of Mr.Husayn lovely in this podcast brought to you by the good folks over @ Plug research.

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Tags: GARTH TRINIDAD, Om'Mas Keith, PLUG RESEARCH, Sa-Ra Creative Partners, SHAFIQ HUSAYN, Taz Arnold

SHAFIQ HUSAYN | OM’MAS KEITH | SA-RA | LIVE [SJ]

You know one of Blind I’s faves are the ever so brilliant and boundary pushing Sa-Ra Creative Partners. Two thirds of the crew Om’Mas Keith & Shafiq Husayn, who is droppin’ his solo schitt on the 6th and NOT to be slept on, will be in the house like an appliance droppin that next level science! Ungrammar does it again by bringing out only the illest to the bay. Your presence is required if you live on that other side of the musical fence where the soundtrack TO THAT side of the fence is Shafiq & Om’Mas.

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Tags: D1ME, FAHRENHEIT, MERK, MUSIC THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR PINCHE LIFE, Om'Mas Keith, PLUG RESEARCH, Sa Ra, Sa-Ra Creative Partners, SAN JOSE, SHAFIQ HUSAYN, THE LOUNGE, THE SLAPNASTIES, UNGRAMMAR

FOOTAGE: SKID ROW SESSIONS

This is great music! A recent music session with the likes of Pharoahe Monch, Shafiq Husayn, Om’Mas Keith, Brook d’Leau, and others….crazy!

Tags: Brook d'Leau, Om'Mas Keith, PHAROAHE MONCH, SHAFIQ HUSAYN