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The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #281 (January 29, 2014)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #281 (January 29, 2014)
d’angelo – betray my heart (donnie most edit) (soundcloud.com/donniemost)
phony ppl – why iii love the moon. (phony ppl llc/dorian distribution)
cee-lo green – taxi cab confessions (sign of the times) (self-released?)
the rooks – intermission (wires) (therooksband.bandcamp.com)
beat spacek – tonight (ninjatune.net)
tropics (chris ward) – house of leaves (innovativeleisure.net)
josé gonzaléz – leaf off / the cave (mute.com)
diamond district – purveyors of truth (mellomusicgroup.com)
groove theory x stee downes x ishfaq – tell me (fitz lauder obviously rework) (facebook.com/fitzlauder)
red pill – smile (redpill360.bandcamp.com)
emanative – makondi featuring four tet (brownswoodrecordings.com)
benny sings – straight lines (jakartarecords.de)
sam irl – einerfuerheiner (jazzandmilk.com)
lupe fiasco – blur my hands featuring guy sebastian (atlantic)
taj – old town mofo (darkerthanwax.com)
braeden bailey. – open your eyes (braedenbailey.bandcamp.com)
tanya morgan – next time (hipnottrecords.bandcamp.com)
worlasi – destination featuring krack gyamfi (clean) (soundcloud.com/worlasirb)
teen daze – reykjavik, january 2015 (teendaze.bandcamp.com)
chris mcclenney – all i want is you (soundcloud.com/soulection)
parker madicine – exists (ct-hi records)
ambient jazz ensemble – the journey (leftside wobble ‘garden of earthly delights’ remix) (hereandnowrecordings.com)
kindred the family soul – not complaining (shanachie.com)
silk rhodes – group 1987 (stonesthrow.com)
von pea & the other guys – might as well featuring kooley high (hipnottrecords.com)
nick hakim – papas fritas (earseed)
fat freddy’s drop – dark days (itunes session) (the drop)
groeni – fold (projectmooncircle.com)
portico – bright luck featuring jono mccleery (ninjatune.net)

The Main Ingredient is a weekly radio show (formerly of East Village Radio – R.I.P.) presenting brand new soulful underground music from around the world and interviews with the artists making it, recorded live in Harlem NYC. Listen anytime at themainingredientradio.com/wp-content/uploads.

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The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #280 (January 15, 2014)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #280 (January 15, 2014)
dominic pierce – elevate (i love it) featuring muhsinah (closetomodern.bandcamp.com)
potatohead people – blue charms (bastardjazz.com)
d’angelo and the vanguard – really love (rca/sony)
diamond district – ain’t over (black milk remix) (oddisee360.bandcamp.com)
fat freddy’s drop – this room (itunes session) (the drop)
groeni – the oak (projectmooncircle.com)
silk rhodes – pains mix 2323 (stonesthrow.com)
emma donovan & the putbacks – black woman (hopestreetrecordings.com)
hiatus kaiyote – molasses (sony)
nick hakim – pour another (earseed)
hir-o – huron summer featuring antonia moses (melloworange.com)
xavier – it’s not right but it’s okay (tummytouch.com)
percussions (four tet) – february 2014 (percussions.bandcamp.com)
coultrain – like a dusty piano (freshselects.bandcamp.com)
alunageorge – supernatural (pomo remix) (soundcloud.com/pomobeats)
mark ronson – i can’t lose featuring keyone starr (sony uk)
son little (aaron livingston) – the river (soundcloud.com/wxpnfm)
djm trio – one beer (paxicorecords.com)
shortcircles x parks burton – composite, complete (hushhushseattle.com)
selfsays – sleeves (earnestendeavours.com)
shatoria rose – nobody (soundcloud.com/shatoriarose)
kay & luke of the foundation – the world on my shoulders featuring tanika keys (rappersiknow.bandcamp.com)
the voices of east harlem – can you feel it (just sunshine)
d/troit – stop (dtroit.bandcamp.com)
duke hugh – checkmate (soundcloud.com/dukehugh)
submotion orchestra – city lights (counterrecords.com)
aquilo – best of us (b3sci records is a division of blahblahblahscience.com)
thom yorke – the mother lode (@thomyorke)
us & sparkles – no way (boyoomconnective.bandcamp.com)

The Main Ingredient is a weekly radio show (formerly of East Village Radio – R.I.P.) presenting brand new soulful underground music from around the world and interviews with the artists making it, recorded live in Harlem NYC. Listen anytime at themainingredientradio.com/wp-content/uploads.

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Here are my favorite albums released in 2014.

S O H N – Tremors
Based In: Vienna/London
Label: 4ad
Release Date: April 7, 2014
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Social: @SOHN
My Favorite Tracks: The Wheel, Bloodflows, Artifice
Taylor McFerrin – Early Riser
Based In: Brooklyn
Label: Brain Feeder
Release Date: June 3, 2014
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Social: Facebook
My Favorite Tracks: Decisions, Already There, The Antidote
Fatima – Yellow Memories
Based In: London
Label: Eglo Records
Release Date: May 12, 2014
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Social: @queenfatima
My Favorite Tracks: Do Better, Biggest Joke of All, Family
Emma Donovan & The PutBacks – Dawn
Based In: Melbourne
Label: Hope Street
Release Date: November 11, 2014
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Social: @EmmaDonovanDAWN + @theputbacks
My Favorite Tracks: My Goodness, Voodoo, Under Away Dawn
Submotion Orchestra – Alium
Based In: Leeds, UK
Label: Counter Records
Release Date: November 25, 2014
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Social: Facebook
My Favorite Tracks: Worries, Trust / Lust, Rust
James Vincent McMorrow – Post Tropical
Based In: Dublin, Ireland
Label: Vagrant
Release Date: January 14, 2014
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Social: Facebook
My Favorite Tracks: Cavalier, All Points, Gold
Sinkane – Mean Love
Based In: Brooklyn
Label: DFA
Release Date: September 2, 2014
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Social: @sinkane
My Favorite Tracks: New Name, Yacha, Hold Tight
Chet Faker – Built On Glass
Based In: Melbourne
Label: Downtown Music
Release Date: April 15, 2014
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Social: @Chet_Faker
My Favorite Tracks: 1998, Talk Is Cheap, Gold
Little Dragon – Nabuma Rubberband
Based In: Gothenburg, Sweden
Label: Seven Four/Republic
Release Date: MONTH DAY, 2014
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Social: Facebook
My Favorite Tracks: Pretty Girls, Paris, Let Go
Electric Wire Hustle – Love Can Prevail
Based In: Wellington, New Zealand
Label: Okayplayer
Release Date: September 8, 2014
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Social: Facebook
My Favorite Tracks: Look In The Sky, Light Goes A Long Way, To See You Again
Jesse Boykins III – Love Apparatus
Based In: NYC
Label: NoMadic Music
Release Date: April 22, 2014
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Social: @jesseboykins3rd
My Favorite Tracks: Plain, The Wonder Years, B4 The Night Is Thru
BADBADNOTGOOD – III
Based In: Toronto
Label: Innovative Leisure
Release Date: May 6, 2014
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Social: @badbadnotgood
My Favorite Tracks: Since You Asked Kindly, Can’t Leave The Night, Kaleidoscope
Ambient Jazz Ensemble – Suite Shop
Based In: London
Label: Here & Now
Release Date: June 9, 2014
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Social: Facebook
My Favorite Tracks: Eyes Wide Open, The Journey, Cinematize, Jazz-Face



Other Great Albums That Came Out This Year (in alphabetical order)
D’Angelo and The Vanguard – Black Messiah
Dawn Pemberton (Vancouver) – Say Somethin’
Diamond District (DC Area/Brooklyn) – March On Washington
Dorian Concept (Vienna, Austria) – Joined Ends
Illum Sphere (Manchester) – Ghosts Of Then And Now
Jungle – Jungle
Lone (Manchester) – Reality Testing
M&O (Chicago) – Almost Us
Natural Sequence (Moscow) – Galactic Soul
Peliroja (NYC) – Injusticia
Pell (New Orleans) – Floating While Dreaming
Phil Beaudreau (Los Angeles) – Ether
Sorceress fka Funkommunity (Auckland, New Zealand) – Dose
The Souljazz Orchestra (Ottawa) – Inner Fire
Sylvan Esso (Durham, NC) – Sylvan Esso
Teebs (Los Angeles) – E s t a r a
Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
Todd Terje (Oslo, Norway) – It’s Album Time
Tôg (Oslo, Norway) – Feiring
Wildbirds & Peacedrums (Stockholm, Sweden) – Rhythm

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Here are my favorite EPs released in 2014.

Nick Hakim – Where Will We Go, Pt. 2
Based In: “East Coast”
Label: Earseed
Release Date: September 15, 2014
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My Favorite Track: I Don’t Know
James Tillman – Shangri La EP
Based In: NYC
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: April 29, 2014
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My Favorite Track: And Then
Oscar Key Sung – Holograms EP
Based In: Melbourne
Label: Two Bright Lakes
Release Date: May 25, 2014
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My Favorite Tracks: So Here, All I Could Do
Segilola – Somewhere Along The Line EP
Based In: London
Label: King Deluxe
Release Date: February 3, 2014
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My Favorite Track: Paint The Way
Phoenix and the Flower Girl – photo synth thesis EP
Based In: UK
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: April 22, 2014
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My Favorite Track: Smile
Hiatus Kaiyote – By Fire EP
Based In: Melbourne
Label: Sony
Release Date: November 28, 2014
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My Favorite Track: By Fire
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The Main Ingredient Radio Show Episode #279 (January 6, 2015)
bläp dëli – love&yourimagination (pragmatictheory.bandcamp.com)
taylor mcferrin – decisions featuring emily king (brainfeedersite.com)
nick hakim – i don’t know (earseed)
fatima – do better (eglorecords.com)
s o h n – artifice (4ad.com)
chet faker – 1998 (downtownmusic.com)
emma donovan & the putbacks – my goodness (hopestreetrecordings.com)
sinkane – new name (dfarecords.com)
tourist – patterns featuring lianne la havas (mondayrecords.co.uk)
natural sequence – here at last featuring muc j (free-crates.com)
zetroc – facsimile (zetrocmusic.bandcamp.com)
long arm – sleepsafe featuring i.v.a. & ruslan gadzhimuradov (projectmooncircle.com)
james vincent mcmorrow – cavalier (vagrant.com)
m&o – run! (mnosoul.bandcamp.com)
robat – the words (soundcloud.com/thebandrobat)
brasstracks – say u will (soundcloud.com/brasstracks)
illum sphere – near the end (ninjatune.net)
oscar key sung – all i could do (two bright lakes/warner music (au/nz only))
james tillman – and then (jmtill.com)
aneesa strings – simpin’ (aneesastrings.com)
submotion orchestra – worries (counterrecords.com)
segilola – paint the way (kingdeluxe.ca)
garden city movement – move on (bldg5records.com)
caribou – back home (mergerecords.com)
diamond district – erything (mellomusicgroup.com)
wildbirds & peacedrums – keep some hope (theleaflabel.com)
rachel brotman – grant it cause (rachelbrotman.bandcamp.com)

The Main Ingredient is a weekly radio show (formerly of East Village Radio – R.I.P.) presenting brand new soulful underground music from around the world and interviews with the artists making it, recorded live in Harlem NYC. Listen anytime at themainingredientradio.com/wp-content/uploads.