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The Very Best – SUPER MOM mixtape
The Very Best just dropped their free new SUPER MOM mixtape over on their website. Check a few jams from the tape below, and download the whole thing here and give it to your mom. Happy Mothers Day:
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Thom Yorke dances around like Thom Yorke when Flying Lotus drops Tyler, the Creator's "Radicals" at Low End Theory last week in L...
mp3: the very best x yeasayer
Esau makes anything/everything better:
Yeasayer :: Ambling Alp (The Very Best remix)
Download the mp3 here.
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mp3: the very best | warm heart of africa 7″
The Very Best has a new, extremely limited (500 copies) 7" single out now on Green Owl, with cover art from master painter BP Konan of the Ivory Coast. A-side summer jam/title track "Warm Heart of Africa" is backed with unreleased album track "Yalira," and you can download the single for free, courtesy of the label:
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buy the warm heart of africa 7" here
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warm heart of africa
the very best @ sxsw '09
"Ntende Uli" is a new track from the Very Best's highly anticipated upcoming debut full-length, Warm Heart of Africa, which is due out this fall on Green Owl, and features guest appearances by M.I.A. and Ezra from Vampire Weekend...
sxsw photos :: the very best | live at a pizza joint
ESAU MWAMWAYA + RADIOCLIT ARE THE VERY BEST:
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esau mwamwaya and radioclit are the very best mixtape .zip
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the very best 7″
So not surprisingly, everyone loves that Esau Mwamwaya + Radioclit are The Very Best mixtape we keep talking about (which predictably ended up in our top 20 records of '08). And yes, I know they're giving it away for free, but wouldn't you like to have a physical 7", with packaging that was "produced with wind power, made with 100% Post Consumer paper, water based printing and packaged i
esau mwamwaya + radioclit :: the very best mixtape
This was a nice surprise to wake up to this morning (thanks Scott). Officially scheduled to be released on November 1, here's the debut (free) mixtape from Esau Mwamwaya + Radioclit, aka the Very Best, complete with absolutely fitting The Lion King-esque artwork. We've already heard a number of these tracks, but as a whole, this mixtape is one of the most sincere and uplifting things I've heard i
the very best
esau mwamwaya
Remember that Esau Mwamwaya + Radioclit collab project I've been going on and on about for the last six months or so? Well it is now officially called The Very Best, and the dudes have dropped a little 3-song sampler in advance of their upcoming mixtape/bootleg album, which will be made available for free download on November 1...
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amadou et miriam
Following my man Esau Mwamwaya in the line of authentic, glorious, genre-transcending afro-pop to be released in 2008 is this new Damon Albarn-produced single from Mali's legendary Amadou & Mariam. The hypnotic "Sabali" showcases Mariam Doumbia's soulful and slightly weary vocals, which somehow manage to be both uplifting and devastating at once...