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Here are my favorite EPs of 2013 in alphabetical order.

Dirg Gerner – Dirg Gerner EP
Based In: London
Label: Eglo Records
Release Date: July 8, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: Before Its Over, Vicious Cycle
Eska – Gatekeeper EP
Based In: London
Label: Earthling Recordings
Release Date: November 20, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: Red, Gatekeeper
FKJ – Time for a Change EP
Based In: Paris
Label: Roche Musique
Release Date: July 8, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: Unchained, So Much to Me
KRTS – The Foreigner EP
Based In: Berlin
Label: Project Mooncircle
Release Date: December 6, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: Berlin Girls, Sunrise Over Warschauer
Sampha – Dual EP
Based In: Morden/London
Label: The Young Turks
Release Date: July 29, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: Without, Indecision, Can’t Get Close

Other Great EPs and 12″s That Came Out This Year
Alice Russell (Brighton, England) – Midnight At The Beverly Laurel EP
B.J. Smith – Dedications to the Greats
Black Orange Juice – We Started Alone EP
Fatima – “Family” / “La Neta”
Freeze-Tag (Cleveland, OH) – Eskimo EP
Maribou State (London) – Truths EP
Olaf Stuut (Amsterdam) – Siren EP
Pomrad (Antwerp, Belgium) – This Day EP
Rachel Brotman (NYC) – Anecdote EP
Raleigh Ritchie (UK) – The Middle Child EP
The Rooks (NYC) – Something You Can Take
S O H N (Vienna/London) – Bloodflows
Todd Terje (Oslo, Norway) – Strandbar
Ty (London) Kick Snare And An Idea Part 2
Vindata (Los Angeles) – Paradigms
Yumi And The Weather (Brighton, UK) – All We Can

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The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #234 (December 31, 2013)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #234 (December 31, 2013)
sampha – without (theyoungturks.co.uk)
lone – airglow fires (randsrecords.com)
disclosure – latch featuring sam smith (pmr)
quadron – favorite star (vested in culture/epic)
james blake – retrograde (polydor ltd. uk)
fat freddy’s drop – mother mother (the drop)
jai paul – track 7 (bootleg demos)
fkj – unchained (rochemusique.com)
pomo – so fine (soundcloud.com/pomobeats)
falty dl – straight & arrow (ninjatune.net)
zero 7 – don’t call it love (soundcloud.com/zero7)
vindata – all i know featuring akw (audiomack.com/artist/vindata)
rhye – shed some blood (polydor ltd. uk)
denitia and sene. – lucy.loosie (input)
dirg gerner – before its over (eglorecords.com)
eska – red (earthling)
charles murdoch – dekire featuring oscar key sung (futureclassic.com.au)
thundercat – heartbreaks and setbacks (brainfeedersite.com)
olaf stuut – siren (atomnation.net)
bells atlas – incessant noise (bellsatlas.bandcamp.com)
the internet – partners in crime, pt. two (oddfuture.com)
kaytranada – all we do featuring JMSN (kaytradamus.bandcamp.com)
eric lau – for you featuring tawiah (kilawattmusic.com)
charlieRED – smile to you (tristate inventory)
krts – berlin girls (projectmooncircle.com)
laura mvula – diamonds (rcarecords.com)
philip owusu – goodnight (philipowusu.bandcamp.com)

The Main Ingredient is a weekly radio show covering brand new soulful underground music from around the world, featuring as in-studio interviews with the artists making it. New episodes can be found Wednesdays at noon at themainingredientradio.com/wp-content/uploads. The show began in May 2009 as a weekly broadcast from East Village Radio’s storefront studio on 1st Ave. & 1st St. in NYC and continued there until EVR closed it doors in May 2014. This episode is from the East Village Radio Archives.

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The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #233 (December 24, 2013)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #233 (December 24, 2013)
william onyeabor – body and soul (radio edit) (luakabop.com)
k-def – rock it (redefinitionrecords.com)
evans pyramid – never gonna leave you (culturesofsoul.com)
e.j. stamp – i know all about it (bbemusic.com)
billy hoyle – milton (rocktheboat) (billyhoylemusic.bandcamp.com)
busta rhymes + q-tip – we taking off (theabstractandthedragon.com)
skyzoo + antman wonder – in love with living (loyaltydigitalcorp.bandcamp.com)
ross mchenry – distant oceans part ii (firstwordrecords.com)
benin city – wha gwan (ben de vries remix) (soundcloud.com/benin-city)
shigeto – no better time than now (ghostly.com)
gang colours – home (brownswoodrecordings.com)
masterclass – tap dancer (masterclass.bandcamp.com)
youngblood brass band – a gust inside the god (tru-thoughts.co.uk)
ad bourke – kid jupiter (fivefoldrecords.com)
body language – lovelife (lavish-habits.com)
saux – bring me home (saux.bandcamp.com)
osunlade – oia in winter (bbemusic.com)
asheru – love on the go featuring omar retnu/mr. hu, hhp (guerilla arts ink)
jamall bufford – travel light (mellomusicgroup.com)
american men – yo, artdog (thisisluckyme.com)
divine scienze – happiness is featuring blu, scene britain parker (redefinitionrecords.com)
lord echo – bohemian idol featuring toby laing (bastardjazz.com)
kiah victoria – gravitate (kiahvictoria.bandcamp.com)
joya mooi – pact with the sun (stichting mc)
fudge fingas – dindins4dadda (prime numbers)
fatima + the eglo live band – redlight (live) (eglorecords.com)
lux natura – an eclipse (cosmic-compositions.bandcamp.com)

The Main Ingredient is a weekly radio show covering brand new soulful underground music from around the world, featuring as in-studio interviews with the artists making it. New episodes can be found Wednesdays at noon at themainingredientradio.com/wp-content/uploads. The show began in May 2009 as a weekly broadcast from East Village Radio’s storefront studio on 1st Ave. & 1st St. in NYC and continued there until EVR closed it doors in May 2014. This episode is from the East Village Radio Archives.

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The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #232 (December 17, 2013)

The Main Ingredient on East Village Radio – Episode #232 (December 17, 2013)
a tribe called quest featuring busta rhymes – god lives through (theabstractandthedragon.com)
sly5thave & the club casa chamber orchestra – hold on we’re going home (soundcloud.com/sly5thave)
segilola – somewhere along the line (kingdeluxe.ca)
milosh – hear in you (milosh.bandcamp.com)
james vincent mcmorrow – red dust (vagrant.com)
skyzoo & antman wonder – conversing on coming up featuring diizco (loyaltydigitalcorp.bandcamp.com)
disclosure x nile rodgers x sam smith x jimmy napes – together (soundcloud.com/methodrecords)
sade – nothing can come between us (pomo edit) (soundcloud.com/pomo)
julien dyne – wood and brick (bbemusic.com)
diggs duke – crazy like a fox (brownswoodrecordings.com)
black orange juice – started in paris (truepanther.com)
the soft – uncanny valley (bam spacey’s bare minimum mix) (ceremonyrecordings.com)
sampha – can’t get close (jacques green edit) (thisisluckyme.com)
tanya morgan – pick it up (imprint180.com)
dlcvta – j dilla acappella tribute (soundcloud.com/dlcvta)
quelle chris – life beyond featuring mosel (mellomusicgroup.com)
john graham – t.w.i.m.c. (egofreemediagroup.com)
abjo – pareidolia (sober flow – melo-x) (abjo.bandcamp.com)
rachel brotman – seasons (live) (rachelbrotman.com)
teotima ensemble – gloves off (firstwordrecords.com)
joya mooi – beyond of you (joyamooi.com)
krts – nothing grows in red soil (projectmooncircle.com)
jesse boykins iii – lover of my world 1.0 (jbiiimusic.com)
rumpistol – asleep (kelpe remix) (rump-recordings.dk)
blap deli – farming w/ courtney harkins (pragmatictheory.bandcamp.com)
maribou state – hollow grove (southernfriedrecords.com)
lost midas – boss man featuring nu trik (tru-thoughts.co.uk)
flying lotus – about that time (flying-lotus.com)

The Main Ingredient is a weekly radio show covering brand new soulful underground music from around the world, featuring as in-studio interviews with the artists making it. New episodes can be found Wednesdays at noon at themainingredientradio.com/wp-content/uploads. The show began in May 2009 as a weekly broadcast from East Village Radio’s storefront studio on 1st Ave. & 1st St. in NYC and continued there until EVR closed it doors in May 2014. This episode is from the East Village Radio Archives.

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The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #231 (December 10, 2013)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #231 (December 10, 2013)
pablo ygal – disappear without a trace (classicdrugreferences.bandcamp.com)
bugseed – celestial change (beatsforchange.org)
skyzoo & antman wonder – meeting the presidents (loyaltydigitalcorp.bandcamp.com)
diggs duke – is it love? featuring vaughan octavia (brownswoodrecordings.com)
mapei – don’t wait (downtownmusic.com)
krts – don’t need your love (projectmooncircle.com)
milosh – water (milosh.bandcamp.com)
tall black guy – where to look (i.hayes and his band edit) (tallblackguyproductions.com)
john graham – solitary refinement (egofreemediagroup.com)
tinashe – black water (tinashenow.com)
eddie roberts and the fire eaters – i believe in miracles (soulab.com)
kid sundance – april sun (moods remix) (fremdtunes.com)
kiah victoria – aurora (kiahvictoria.bandcamp.com)
soul rebels – get lucky (thesoulrebelsnola.bandcamp.com)
black orange juice – i don’t know (true panther)
drogtech – around the corner (projectmooncircle.com)
alex the flipper – calmness (shashrecords.bandcamp.com)
marley carroll – the hunter (marleycarroll.bandcamp.com)
n.o.m.a.d. – ((((((( sun god ))))))) (cosmic-compositions.bandcamp.com)
joya mooi – looking backwards (joyamooi.com)
anderson .paak – hold the line featuring roquel rodriguez (breezylovejoy.bandcamp.com)
n*e*r*d – run to the sun (trackademics remix) (soundcloud.com/trackademicks)
ikebana – alone (sakaimasayuki + sigh remix) (flau.bandcamp.com)
florence + the machine – cosmic love (universal)
body language – the first (lavish-habits.com)
gregory porter – movin’ (bluenote.com)
daft punk – beyond (daft life/columbia)
joanna borromeo – hold it steady (joannaborromeo.bandcamp.com)
ephemerals – easy ain’t nothin (ephemerals.bandcamp.com)

The Main Ingredient is a weekly radio show covering brand new soulful underground music from around the world, featuring as in-studio interviews with the artists making it. New episodes can be found Wednesdays at noon at themainingredientradio.com/wp-content/uploads. The show began in May 2009 as a weekly broadcast from East Village Radio’s storefront studio on 1st Ave. & 1st St. in NYC and continued there until EVR closed it doors in May 2014. This episode is from the East Village Radio Archives.

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The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #230 (December 3, 2013)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #230 (December 3, 2013)
pandaboy – old friend (beatsforchange.bandcamp.com)
esta. – moet featuring jbird (esta.bandcamp.com)
james vincent mcmorrow – cavalier (vagrant)
milosh – hold me (milosh.bandcamp.com)
diggs duke – harsh words from the oracle (brownswoodrecordings.com)
krts – sunrise over warschauer (projectmooncircle.com)
blossom – canvas (projectmooncircle.com)
eska – she’s in the flowers (northern shore)
beat spacek – alone in da sun (ninjatune.net)
chance the rapper – chain smoker (chanceraps.com)
fatima – la neta (fLako production) (eglorecords.com)
quantic and nidia gongora – muevelo negro (tru-thoughts.co.uk)
kasim keto – long way (babygrande)
gb (gifted & blessed) – the road ahead (dego’s 2000black modification) (technoindigenous studies)
ad bourke – prelude (fivefoldrecords.com)
insightful – how u do (insightful.bandcamp.com)
yatha bhuta jazz combo – thats how i feel (cosmic-compositions.bandcamp.com)
shuko & f. of audiotreats – spacee lude (jakartarecords.de)
tanya morgan – the day i (imprint180.com)
k-def – the meeting (vocal version) (redefinitionrecords.com)
big mister doom – flourish (baron retif + concepcion perez remix) (fremdtunes.com)
superhumanoids – bad weather (innovativeleisure.net)
amel larrieux – soon (blisslife.com)
scrimshire – emperor (kratos himself remix) (wahwah45s.com)
jean du voyage – rise + appears featuring djela + pierre harmegnies (projectmooncircle.com)
quadron – avalanche (vested in culture/epic)
14kt – tri-city (pep rally) (mellomusicgroup.com)
amin payne & ben bada boom – uturn meon (cascaderecords.fr)
formtek – late (soundcloud.com/formtek)
teotima ensemble – darbari (firstwordrecords.com)

The Main Ingredient is a weekly radio show covering brand new soulful underground music from around the world, featuring as in-studio interviews with the artists making it. New episodes can be found Wednesdays at noon at themainingredientradio.com/wp-content/uploads. The show began in May 2009 as a weekly broadcast from East Village Radio’s storefront studio on 1st Ave. & 1st St. in NYC and continued there until EVR closed it doors in May 2014. This episode is from the East Village Radio Archives.

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The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #229 (November 26, 2013)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #229 (November 26, 2013)
lost midas – dance monkeys featuring nu trik (tru-thoughts.co.uk)
rjd2 – suite 2 (rj’s electrical connections)
eska – red (northern shore)
fatima – family (eglorecords.com)
drake – too much featuring sampha (jessie andrews & jason burns remix) (soundcloud.com/jasonburns)
lone – begin to begin (randsrecords.com)
s o h n – red lines (aesop)
14kt – slo swerve (mellomusicgroup.com)
reginald omas mamode ivth – do you? (brownswoodrecordings.com)
amel larrieux – afraid (blisslife.com)
wesix – nobody (nopromo.cz)
terry tester – white russian (soundcloud.com/terrytester)
yosi horikawa – stars (firstwordrecords.com)
oddisee – the goings on (mellomusicgroup.com)
valerie june – wanna be on your mind (concord music group)
blood orange – high street (domino)
maribou state – moon circles (southernfriedrecords.com)
zero 7 – likufanele (quango)
turner brothers – cause i love you (sun sound re-edit) (ubiquityrecords.com)
alice russell – to dust (sam sparro remix) (tru-thoughts.co.uk)
mount kimbie – made to stray (dj koze remix) (warp.net)
disclosure – voices featuring sasha keable (pmr)
inner – shelter (soundcloud.com/inn_er)
insightful – she swoons featuring jessica cooke (insightful.bandcamp.com)
hanami – ribbons (projectmooncircle.com)
jesse boykins iii – from time with time featuring moruf (soundcloud.com/jesseboykinsiii)
koda – staying (soundcloud.com/kodachrome)

The Main Ingredient is a weekly radio show covering brand new soulful underground music from around the world, featuring as in-studio interviews with the artists making it. New episodes can be found Wednesdays at noon at themainingredientradio.com/wp-content/uploads. The show began in May 2009 as a weekly broadcast from East Village Radio’s storefront studio on 1st Ave. & 1st St. in NYC and continued there until EVR closed it doors in May 2014. This episode is from the East Village Radio Archives.

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The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #228 (November 19, 2013)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show NYC – Episode #228 (November 19, 2013)
ephemerals – things (part 1) (ephemerals.bandcamp.com)
sly5thave & the club casa chamber orchestra – pour it up (soundcloud.com/sly5thave)
thomas dybdahl – this love is here to stay (thomasdybdahl.com)
maribou state – blue sunday (southern fried records)
charliered – norah jones (wearecharliered.com)
asheru – last days featuring hhp, kingpen slim, kanjia (guerilla arts ink)
black milk – codes & cab fare featuring black thought (fat beats)
amel larrieux – i do take (blisslife)
gregory porter – no love dying (bluenote.com)
alabama shakes – be mine (shakes/ato)
yaaba funk – james brown (ishfaq’s voodoo refix) (soundcloud.com/ishfaq)
robert valsinger – pip till (projectmooncircle.com)
blu & nottz – end of the world (remix) (coalmine)
alice russell – hard and strong (let the machines do the work cover my love remix) (tru-thoughts.co.uk)
marvin gaye – what’s going on? (roundhouse kick remix) (one eyed jacks)
ancient astronauts – tuff gong featuring martin perna (switchstance)
mop mop – kamakumba (simbad dub) (agogo-records.com)
donny hathaway – the ghetto (dimitri from paris inna disco) (soundcloud.com/dfp)
benny tones – time (bennytones.bandcamp.com)
koda – staying (xndrj remix) (soundcloud.com/xndr-j)
iron + wine – low light buddy of mine (nonesuch.com)
tanya morgan – more featuring rocki evans (imprint180.com)
quadron – lft (urulu’s reinterpretation) (facebook.com/urulumusic)
fudge fingas – s1ngularity (prime numbers)
linkwood – tears (prime numbers)
george jackson – aretha, sing one for me (hi)

The Main Ingredient is a weekly radio show covering brand new soulful underground music from around the world, featuring as in-studio interviews with the artists making it. New episodes can be found Wednesdays at noon at themainingredientradio.com/wp-content/uploads. The show began in May 2009 as a weekly broadcast from East Village Radio’s storefront studio on 1st Ave. & 1st St. in NYC and continued there until EVR closed it doors in May 2014. This episode is from the East Village Radio Archives.

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Denitia and Sene. (Brooklyn) In The Studio for Episode #227 (November 12, 2013)

Photos from Denitia and Sene.‘s interview on last night’s The Main Ingredient.

My Set
amel larrieux – you don’t see me (bliss life)
shuko & f. of audiotreats – taijay (jakartarecords.de)
krts – berlin girls (projectmooncircle.com)
ephemerals – life is good (ephemerals.bandcamp.com)
olaf stuut – suty (atomnation.net)
yumi and the weather – all we can (xvirecords.bandcamp.com)
tanya morgan – the vehicle featuring spec boogie + 6th sense (imprint180.com)
lianne la havas – twice (inthewoodsfestival.co.uk)

The Interview
denitia and sene. – casanova. (input)
denitia and sene. – lucy.loosie (input)
denitia and sene. – trip.fall. (input)

Denitia and Sene. Pick The Tracks
corinne bailey rae – i’d do it all again (emi)
beyonce – party featuring andre 3000 (columbia)
major lazer – get free featuring amber (of dirty projectors) (secretly canadian / mad decent)
aretha franklin – bridge over trouble water (atlantic)
chance the rapper – cocoa butter kisses featuring vic mensa & twista (chanceraps.com)
donny hathaway – jealous guy (atco)
saint ballatine. – ashes. (forthcoming)
kid cudi – young lady featuring father john misty (universal republic)
mirah – the garden (k records)
giraffage – even though featuring xxyyxx (kitsune)

The Main Ingredient is a weekly radio show covering brand new soulful underground music from around the world, featuring as in-studio interviews with the artists making it. New episodes can be found Wednesdays at noon at themainingredientradio.com/wp-content/uploads. The show began in May 2009 as a weekly broadcast from East Village Radio’s storefront studio on 1st Ave. & 1st St. in NYC and continued there until EVR closed it doors in May 2014. This episode is from the East Village Radio Archives.

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Tanya Morgan & 6th Sense (NYC) In The Studio for Episode #226 (November 5, 2013)

Photos from Tanya Morgan and 6th Sense‘s interview and on last night’s The Main Ingredient.

My Set
maribou state – truths (southern fried records)
billy hoyle – marlins (billyhoylemusic.bandcamp.com)
mark de clive lowe – that minnie break / fall in love (live/one take) (mdcl.tv)
black milk – black sabbath featuring tone trezure (fat beats)
ab + 14kt – lover’s galaxy (saturnreturnalbum.com)
charliered – champion (tristate inventory)
14kt – slo swerve featuring jamall bufford & jmsn (mellomusicgroup.com)
oddisee – back of my mind (mellomusicgroup.com)

The Interview
tanya morgan – the only one (imprint180.com)
tanya morgan – for real (imprint180.com)
tanya morgan – eulogy (imprint180.com)

Tanya Morgan & 6th Sense Pick The Tracks
love life featuring lee sissing (astronote remix) – donwill (donwill.me)
bill withers – can we pretend (sussex)
a tribe called quest – god lives through (jive)
tanya morgan – do it tanya (tanyamorgan.bandcamp.com)
steve winwood – the finer things (island)
von pea – things have changed (hipnott)

The Main Ingredient is a weekly radio show covering brand new soulful underground music from around the world, featuring as in-studio interviews with the artists making it. New episodes can be found Wednesdays at noon at themainingredientradio.com/wp-content/uploads. The show began in May 2009 as a weekly broadcast from East Village Radio’s storefront studio on 1st Ave. & 1st St. in NYC and continued there until EVR closed it doors in May 2014. This episode is from the East Village Radio Archives.