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DTMD 'RAW' [Oddisee Remix]

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:49:00 +0000

<a href="http://mellomusicgroup.bandcamp.com/track/raw-oddisee-remix">Raw (Oddisee Remix) by DTMD (feat. Godly MC & Kev Brown)</a>

From the upcoming 'Self Sacrifice' compilation on Mello Music Group.

Interview With 'Out Da Box TV'

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:45:00 +0000

Sean Born 'Pluck Em Off'

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:44:00 +0000

Ladies & gentlemen, It brings me great pleasure to introduce you to Sean Born. Sean is the first person to but me in the studio over production. He taught me how to make beats & gave me my first beat machine. His new album, "Behind The Scale" is out on Mello music.

Here's a free track produced by yours truly. Beneath that is a stream of the whole album. Listen, love, purchase.

<a href="http://mellomusicgroup.bandcamp.com/track/pluck-em-off-prod-oddisee">Pluck Em Off (prod. Oddisee) by Sean Born</a>

Listen/Purchase

<a href="http://mellomusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/behind-the-scale">Behind The Scale by Sean Born</a>

Mr. IDGAF

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:32:00 +0000

Featuring & produced by yours truly. Shout out to Sim City for collaborating with me & Phil Ade. True DMV unity.

yU Discusses His New Album The EARN

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:39:00 +0000

Video of my brother yU discussing is amazing new album, 'The Earn'.

Purchase 'The Earn' Here.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-earn/id476733648

http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/yu-the-earn/MMG021CD/

http://www.fatbeats.com/products/yu-the-earn-cd

Olivier DaySoul 'Never Thought You Would Go'

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:25:00 +0000

New video from my brother Olivier.

Trek Life 'Get In Touch'

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:11:00 +0000

New digital single from my brother Trek Life. B-side is called, 'That's Alright" produced by Ayiro.

<a href="http://treklife.bandcamp.com/album/digital-12-get-in-touch-feat-j-bizness-richard-wright-belvi-prod-by-oddisee-b-w-thats-alright-prod-by-ayiro">Digital 12" - Get in Touch feat J.Bizness, Richard Wright & Belvi (prod by Oddisee) b/w That's Alright (prod by Ayiro) by Trek Life</a>

DTMD 'Untitled' Feat. Oddisee

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:04:00 +0000

I had to throw a verse on this newness from my little brothers, DTMD. PG county to the world.

<a href="http://mellomusicgroup.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-feat-oddisee">Untitled (feat. Oddisee) by DTMD</a>

Rock Creek Park Makes Stereogum's Top 50 Of 2011

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:44:00 +0000

Truly honored to be on a list with such great artists & some not so great. lol

Oddisee At The Black Cat With Talib Kweli & Res

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:13:00 +0000

Sunday, December 4th will be my first show back in Washington, DC since the release of Rock Creek Park. My sure you come to hear songs from my up & coming solo album "People Hear What They See". I'll be bringing some special guest on stage as well!

Purchase Tickets Here --> http://www.ticketalternative.com/Events/16362.aspx

Talib Kweli & Res [Idle Warship] w/ Oddisee
December 4th, 2011
@ The Black Cat
1811 14th st. NW [14th & S st.]
Washington, DC
20009

Get there early as it's an early show! I go on a 8:45 pm.

Rochester, New York

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:58:00 +0000

First time performing in Rochester, hope it won't be my last. Much appreciation to the crowd & the love they showed.

Warsaw, Poland

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:53:00 +0000

Lovely time & great show in Warsaw! Hope to come back again soon.

Prefix Geo-Tags DMV Locations Mentioned In My Lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:28:00 +0000

View Oddisee's DC in a larger map, and please feel free to add & edit with additional locations.

Looking at this map, there's definitely a few more locations I can remember mentioning. Here's a few more:

Saint Marys County
Saint Marys county is the county in Maryland that half of my family originally come from berfor moving north to DC to find work. It's one of the area's Jay-Z used to hustle in, I've got cousins that remember him down there.
"I'm getting paid like Jay back in the day when he was moving yay round my way, down in Saint Marys" From - "I'm From PG"

Euclid ST. NW, DC
Euclid street is the street I would often walk down to get from Georgia ave to Adams Morgan.
"A Little way up the road, found he gold that they stole, around the next of Salvadorian's off of Euclid" From - "Gully"

Silver Spring
Silver Spring is one of the more well know suburban area's of the DMV. Sitting right on the line to the north of DC.
"My Silver Springs peeps yeah, riding on the Z2" From - "Propa"

Georgia Ave.
Georgia avenue is definitely one of the more famous avenues in DC. It's home to Howard university, the west indian day parade & is an overall center of black culture for uptown DC. It's so famous it's often simply referred to as "The Ave."
"Ery youngin on the ave. got my cised, good goddess" from "Delusional"

I'm sure there are more but that's all I can thing of at the moment. Feel free to leave more references in the comments.

Bars On Deck [BET Cypher]

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:25:00 +0000

Inaugural cypher at PNC Radio with Oddisee, Das Racist, Final Outlaw, Homeboy Sandman, and Blu. (Season 2011)

Performance In Brussels

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:06:00 +0000

The gentlemen who shot the video for the "Blooming" attending our show in Brussels, Belgium. I didn't even realize they were filming this performance. Well done gentlemen!

Mello Music Euro Tour 01

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:56:00 +0000

I'm super late on posting photos from the Mello Music Group European tour, I know. I've been busy making music, good excuse right? To bad that's my excuse for everything.
Shout out to Apollo Brown, DJ Soko & Journalist103, you guys were great to tour with & I'm sure we will again.
Thank you to all the promoters that booked us, we hope you were pleased with out performances & that'll you have us again.
Most of all, thank you to the fans that came out each & every night!

Much respect to Dan & Timm of "MindFeederz" for booking an amazing tour. I'll be sure to work with them again.

Berlin, Germany

Zurich, Switzerland

Paris, France

Stockholm, Sweden

To view more photos from this tour, click here ---> MMG Euro Tour Pics

Day Trip To Cambridge

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:54:00 +0000

Last Sunday, some friends & I took a day trip to Cambridge, England. One of my friends is from there so we were lucky to have an amazing tour guide. We visited a few colleges & museums, had a famous Chelsea bun from Fitzbillies, visited the pub where Watson & Crick announced they had discovered DNA & even went punting. All in all it was an amazing day with weather to match. Nice to get out of London for a change.

MMG European Tour

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:56:00 +0000

September 29 to October 8th Apollo Brown, The Left & myself will be touring Europe. Dates below.

Sep. 29 - Linz, Austria [Kapu]

Sep. 30 - Zurich, Switzerland [Stall 6]

Oct. 1 - ST. Etienne, France [Le Fil]

Oct. 2 - Paris, France [Glazart]

Oct. 3 Brussels, Belgium [London Calling]

Oct. 4 - Cologne, Germany [Bogen 2]

Oct. 5 - Duisberg, Germany [High5 Club]

Oct. 6 - Berlin, Germany [Bohannon]

Oct. 8 - Aarhus, Denmark [Voxhall]

Politics As Usual

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:27:00 +0000

Back in London hanging out with my brother Eric Lau. When ever I'm here, I play basketball on Wednesdays with Eric, his friends & allot of the London music scene. Afterwards we always go for a bite to eat & a shisha. Eric put me on to a new Turkish spot in Finsbury Park called "Leziz". Great food, great prices, lovely staff & great shisha.

We discussed the possibility of Eric releasing a record on Mello Music over complimentary fresh mint tea & baklava. Eric just left to China for a gig there & then he's off to Thailand. (Lucky bastard)

Stereogum Gives Rock Creek Park Mix-Tape Of The Week

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:57:00 +0000

Mixtape Of The Week: Oddisee Rock Creek Park

Only two weeks into this column, and I’m already cheating. Oddisee’s mostly-instrumental pastoral soul-rap opus is a couple of weeks old already, and it’s only a mixtape by the most liberal definition possible. There’s barely any rapping on it, it doesn’t use any other people’s beats, there’s no DJ bellowing over it, and, most damning of all, Oddisee’s actually asking you to pay him for it; it’ll run you $8 at this Bandcamp page. And yet I’m taking this opportunity to write about it anyway, mostly because it moves me way more than any mixtape I’ve heard this week.
As a member of the Diamond District crew, Oddisee is one of the most important figures on Washington, D.C.’s underground rap scene, even though he doesn’t come from D.C. exactly, and he doesn’t live there now. Oddisee’s a recent Brooklyn transplant, and he’s originally from suburban Upper Marlboro, Maryland, just outside the District. He named Rock Creek Park after a wooded expanse on the D.C. border where he used to ride his bike as a kid. Which is to say: This is an instrumental rap album about being a kid and riding your bike through nature. If you look at it from a certain angle, it’s practically chillwave.
There aren’t any diffuse underwater synths here, though. As a producer, Oddisee has long been in a the neo-traditionalist boom-bap camp. His beats for Diamond District and other D.C. types owe a lot to Pete Rock; they’re all neck-snap snares and floating horn samples. And more than most of the modern-day producers who work that sound, Oddisee’s got a sense of cinematic grace in his style. The lived-in warmth of orchestral ’70s soul is an actual aesthetic basis for this guy; it’s not just a source of sounds for him to chop up in ProTools. His beats always sound heavy and full, not thin like those of so many other producers, which is the main reason why he’s able to put together a full-on instrumental album without letting things get boring.
Only one track on Rock Creek Park features vocals: Opener “Still Doing It,” which has a verse from fellow Diamond District member yU. After that, it’s all impressionistic drum-ripples and dizzy soul strings. There are samples in there, but Oddisee also used live-band arrangements. The production walks a tight-line, staying away from looped-up monotony on one side and session-player gloss on the other. And so the whole thing breezes by in 43 ridiculously pleasant minutes. Oddisee’s named the tracks after specific local geography (“Beach Dr.,” “Clara Barton”) or specific memory-trigger phrases (“Skipping Rocks,” “All Along The River”). And even though it’s not generally wise to read too much emotional connection into instrumental music, the album really does evoke the beauty and solitude of being a kid alone in a park, and traces of the clatter of the city around it also creep in. It’s a deeply pretty and thoughtful piece of music, and it deserves your $8, or at least your 43 minutes.
Stream and/or buy Rock Creek Park at this Bandcamp page.

TiRon & Ayomari - A Sucker For Pumps

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:54:00 +0000

The homies TiRon & Ayomari have recently released their latest project "A Sucker For Pumps". It's a concept album about love & relationships & it's amazing! I produced "Fin", the outro track for this album. I'm extremely proud to be apart of such a complete record. Don't take my word for it, give it a listen & if you like it buy it.

<a href="http://thecafeterialine.bandcamp.com/album/a-sucker-for-pumps">A Sucker For Pumps by TiRon & Ayomari</a>

Purchase

Bandcamp | iTunes

Came Through With The Chopper & They Got My Man

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:01:00 +0000

Working on music today & looked out my window to see the city taking down this tree. Now you'll be able to see completely into my place, thanks.

Mattered Much Feat. Olivier Daysoul

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:36:00 +0000

Went ahead & put some vocals on "Mattered Much", a track from my "Rock Creek Park" album. Olivier Daysoul is featured on the chorus.

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Rock Creek Park is now available on CD today, click on the links below to order it. It's also still available on iTunes

Brothers On Bikes

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:40:00 +0000

photo by W. Ellington Felton

Amazing day riding around DC with some good brothers.

Uptown XO ft. Diamond District "Told You So"

noreply@blogger.com (ODDISEE) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:27:00 +0000

Listen/Download XO's new album Monumental II

<a href="http://uptownxo202.bandcamp.com/album/monumental-2">MONUMENTAL 2 by UPTOWN XO</a>