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.


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


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

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.


The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #278 (December 10, 2014)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #278 (December 10, 2014)
lion babe – jump hi featuring childish gambino (outsiders/interscope)
djm trio – the official (paxicorecords.com)
hiatus kaiyote – by fire (sony)
o mer – crazy flames (soundcloud.com/moonvehiclemechanic)
rachel brotman – grant it cause + be (rachelbrotman.bandcamp.com)
flako – illusions (soundcloud.com/natureboytunes)
emma donovan & the putbacks – over under away (hopestreetrecordings.com)
future islands – seasons (waiting on you) (badbadnotgood reinterpretation) (4ad.com)
margie joseph – i’ll take care of you (atlantic)
ana-tole x jonah christian – noise + ready or not (remix) (ana-tole.bandcamp.com)
marvin gaye – anger (extended mix alternate take with marcus miller) (motown)
j. cole – st. tropez (roc nation)
mélat & jansport j – everything (beholdmelat.com)
von pea & the other guys – chasing amy aka in your heart (hipnottrecords.com)
james fauntleroy – the present (blackmario.com)
shaun escoffery – you (dome)
kay & luke of the foundation – lost in the garden (rappersiknow.bandcamp.com)
zero 7 – distractions (madlib’s ynq remix) (quango/palm)
rise – psalm 64 (expansionscollective.bandcamp.com)
jmsn – ’bout it (whiteroomrecords.com)
thestand4rd – asaprockytypebeat (soundcloud.com/thestand4rd)
us & sparkles – rain (boyoomconnective.bandcamp.com)
bläp dëli – myothermind (demo) (soundcloud.com/bl-pd-li/)
noah slee – ruins beauty (wondercoreisland.com)
shigeto x kyson – water collides (fofmusic.net)
a thousand years – deep within (kingdeluxe.ca)
computer jay & orfeo – i want you (standards instrumental) (soundcloud.com/computerjay)
dawn pemberton – hello love (dorightmusic.com)
rasa – when will the day come (govinda)
monsoonsiren – maso (projectmooncircle.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.


The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #277 (December 3, 2014)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #277 (December 3, 2014)
the milk – deliver me (thisisthemilk.bandcamp.com)
booker t. jones – rent party (anti.com)
de la soul – the people (www.wearedelasoul.com)
emma donovan & the putbacks – voodoo (hopestreetrecordings.com)
donnie trumpet & the social experiment – sunday candy (soundcloud.com/donnietrumpet)
jmsn – delay (whiteroomrecords.com)
curtis mayfield – love to the people (curtom)
ahmed sirour – the mourning after (ahmedisthemusic.bandcamp.com)
mr president – city rocking (favoriterec.com)
floating points – nuits sonores (eglorecords.com)
blue six – beyond this life (naked-music.com)
the mimm ensemble – homecoming (soundcloud.com/mimmstore)
son little (aaron livingston) – cross my heart (soundcloud.com/wxpnfm)
oceaán – veritas (b3sci records is a division of blahblahblahscience.com)
lockjaw – with you (lockedconcept.bandcamp.com)
mélat & jansport j – l.i.p.s. (beholdmelat.com)
wu-tang clan – ruckus in b minor (warnerbrosrecords.com)
the neighbourhood – silver (soundcloud.com/theneighbourhood)
tony allen – calling featuring mary & norman (planet woo)
the brand new heavies – you are the fire (trunk entertainment)
pomo – how i feel (hw&w huhwhatandwhere.com)
dhafer youssef – sura (olaf stuut remix) (facebook.com/olafstuut)
andreya triana – everything you never had pt. ii (counterrecords.com)
j-louis – beautiful (pharrell) j-louis edition (soundcloud.com/thisjaylouis)
warsaw afrobeat orchestra – your way (ubiquityrecords.com)
the nite-liters – valdez in the country (rca)
gogo penguin – kamaloka (brownswoodrecordings.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.


The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #276 (November 20, 2014)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #276 (November 20, 2014)
pomo – cloud cruise (huhwhatandwhere.com)
dali – heartbeat remix (columbia nights remix instrumental) (recordbreakin.com)
the rebirth – this is coming to? (walkin talkin)
diamond district – march off (mellomusicgroup.com)
wyles & simpson – light and dark (mtarecords.co.uk)
mirror signal – 20th century fix (warm weather) (brownswoodrecordings.com)
dorian concept – the few (live) (ninjatune.net)
aquilo – human (b3sci / blahblahblahscience.com)
submotion orchestra – trust / lust (counterrecords.com)
andreya triana – superlove (counterrecords.com)
dawn pemberton – for you (dorightmusic.com)
clara hill – flawless (part 1) (sonarkollektiv.com)
theophilus london – get me right (warnerbrosrecords.com)
gregory porter – musical genocide (ludovic navarre aka st germain version) (bluenote.com)
zara mcfarlane – plain gold ring (kjell anderson remix) (brownswoodrecordings.com)
thom yorke – a brain in a bottle (@thomyorke)
jazz madicine – m.a.s.h. (ct-hi records)
young & sick – breathe (soundcloud.com/youngandsick)
rvdical the kid – free spirit (soundcloud.com/rvdicalthekid)
james brown – i feel good (el. train remix) (facebook.com/eltrainmusic)
the 1978ers (yu & slimkat) – one-nine-7-t-8 (mellomusicgroup.com)
josé james – angel (bluenote.com)
jamie cullum – the seer’s tower (islandrecords.com)
catching flies – quiet nights (catchingflies.bandcamp.com)
safe (scott thorough) – normal needs (scottthorough.bandcamp.com)
fka twigs – hours (theyoungturks.co.uk)
wildbirds & peacedrums – soft wind, soft death (theleaflabel.com)
htmlflowers – icanthearyooooo (anatole remix) (soundcloud.com/anatolemusic)
sieren – glitterbug (soundcloud.com/sieren)
fat freddy’s drop – slings & arrows (the drop)

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.


The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #275 (November 5, 2014)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #275 (November 5, 2014)
emma donovan & the putbacks – my goodness (hopestreetrecordings.com)
jake one – bartman (@jakeuno)
dawn pemberton – say somethin’ (dorightmusic.com)
diamond district – say what you mean (mellomusicgroup.com)
niia – body (something local)
ryan hemsworth – snow in newark featuring dawn golden (lastgangentertainment.com)
jmsn – waves (whiteroomrecords.com)
theophilus london – water me featuring leon ware (warner brothers)
fonzi thornton – i work for a living (jon’s monday mawnin edit) (soundcloud.com/jonreyes916)
sena dagadu – accra city people (freestylerecords.co.uk)
red astaire – change your way fools (groovedis.com)
miguel migs – runnin away featuring martin luther (soul-heaven.com)
turbojazz – dat soul (ct-hi records)
herbert – it’s only (dj koze mix) (pamparecords.com)
mansions on the moon – radio (mansionsonthemoon.com)
tony allen – african man (harmoniamundi.com)
black milk – grey for summer (blackmilk.biz)
submotion orchestra – worries (counterrecords.com)
brogan bentley – goodbye (stonesthrow.com / leavingrecords.com)
the lamplighters – london station (hereandnowrecordings.com)
flying lotus – the protest (warp.net)
jon phonics – elevations featuring yasine (hotep)
guilty simpson – next phase (stonesthrow.com)
paul chin – sparrow eye (eli colburn remix) (music.cosmonostro.com)
darkstar – young heart’s (warp.net)
dorian concept – clap track 4 (ninjatune.net)
illum sphere – spectre vex (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.


The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #274 (October 29, 2014)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #274 (October 29, 2014)
da lata – free (agogo-records.com)
badbadnotgood – kaleidoscope (kaytranada’s flip) (soundcloud.com/kaytranada)
dawn pemberton – freedom time (dorightmusic.com)
tony allen – go back featuring damon albarn (harmoniamundi.com)
black milk – story and her (blackmilk.biz)
submotion orchestra – rust (counterrecords.com)
bonobo – stay the same featuring andreya triana (live) (ninjatune.net)
damiano von erckert – a lot of love (avarecords.de)
stereolab – rainbo conversation (elektra)
kixnare – rknr featuring miles bonny (uknowme-records.com)
monkeyrobot – bright (darkerthanwax.com)
andras & oscar – french twist (chaptermusic.com)
tinashe (tee-nah-shay) – vulnerable (pomo remix) (soundcloud.com/pomobeats)
mansions on the moon – heart of the moment (mansionsonthemoon.com)
disclosure – help me lose my mind featuring london grammar (sohn remix) (universal island)
wildbirds & peacedrums – the offbeat (theleaflabel.com)
repeat pattern – half of half (submerse remix) (mophrec.net)
stwo – aura (mcclenney version) (soundcloud.com/mistermack-1)
dntel – bay loop (stonesthrow.com)
thom yorke – guess again! (@thomyorke)
diamond district – first step (mellomusicgroup.com)
guilty simpson – rolled (stonesthrow.com)
dorian concept – nest nest (ninjatune.net)
sbtrkt – temporary view featuring sampha (theyoungturks.co.uk)
lemonade – vivid (truepanther.com)
marcus alan ward – you do (marcusalanward.bandcamp.com)
nick hakim – cold (earseed)
prince – breakdown (artofficialage.com / npg)
early clover & the georgia soul drifters – freedom (recordkicks.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.


The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #273 (October 22, 2014)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show – Episode #273 (October 22, 2014)
diamond district – erything (mellomusicgroup.com)
freddie joachim – kool in the summer (freddiejoachim.com)
leon bridges – coming home (soundcloud.com/leonbridges)
robat – the words (soundcloud.com/thebandrobat)
dorian concept – the few (ninjatune.net)
tony allen – koko dance (harmoniamundi.com)
guilty simpson – presence (stonesthrow.com)
submotion orchestra – time will wait (counterrecords.com)
emprss – down (familyartists.com)
richard spaven – vintage year (original mix) (equinoxrecordings.com.au)
julien mier – pixel skin (beatsforchange.bandcamp.com)
wildbirds & peacedrums – who i was (theleaflabel.com)
disclosure – january featuring jamie woon (kaytranada edition) (universal island)
chris mcclenney – best you got (soundcloud.com/mistermack-1)
bonobo – flashlight (ninjatune.net)
missing – like a rush featuring heidi vogel (fivefoldrecords.com)
thom yorke – truth ray (@thomyorke)
ylwfrnd – memory loss (shashrecords.com)
hudson mohawke – king kong beaver (warp.net)
prince – u know (artofficialage.com / npg)
shafiq husayn – it’s better for you featuring anderson paak (eglorecords.com)
sinkane – how we be (dfarecords.com)
nick hakim – heaven (earseed)
mayer hawthorne – stay (live) (soundcloud.com/mayerhawthorne)
chance the rapper – no better blues (soundcloud.com/chancetherapper)
jarrod lawson – music and its magical way (radio edit) (jarrodlawson.com)
paul chin – see the forest (go yama remix) (music.cosmonostro.com)
sbtrkt – wonder where we land featuring sampha (theyoungturks.co.uk)
daisuke tanabe – allergy (ki-records.com)
garden city movement – lir (bldg5records.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.