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Here are my favorite albums released in 2015, in alphabetical order.

Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color
Based In: Athens, Alabama
Label: ATO Records
Release Date: April 21, 2015
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Social: @Alabama_Shakes
My Favorite Tracks: Don’t Wanna Fight, Sound & Color, Future People
Bastien Keb – Dinking in the Shadows of Zizou
Based In: UK
Label: One Handed Music
Release Date: September 25, 2015
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Social: @Bastien Keb
My Favorite Tracks: Down River, Beat Without a Heart, Beat Without a Heart
Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment – Surf
Based In: Chicago
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: May 29, 2015
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Social: @DonnieTrumpet
My Favorite Tracks: Sunday Candy, Slip Slide, Familiar
Eska – Eska
Based In: London
Label: Naim
Release Date: April 27, 2015
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Social: @eskaonline
My Favorite Tracks: Gatekeeper, Dear Evelyn, Heroes & Villains
Farao – Till It’s All Forgotten
Based In: London
Label: Arts & Crafts
Release Date: September 11, 2015
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Social: @faraomusic
My Favorite Tracks: Warriors, Bodies
Floating Points – Elaenia
Based In: London
Label: Luaka Bop
Release Date: November 6, 2015
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Social: @floatingpoints
My Favorite Tracks: Silhouettes (I, II & III), For Marmish
Golden Rules (Paul White + Eric Biddines) – Golden Ticket
Based In: South London + Florida
Label: Lex Records
Release Date: August 7, 2015
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Social: @golden_rules_
My Favorite Tracks: The Let Down, It’s Over, Making A Move
Hiatus Kaiyote – Choose Your Weapon
Based In: Melbourne
Label: Flying Buddha/Sony Music Masterworks
Release Date: May 4, 2015
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Social: @HiatusKaiyote
My Favorite Tracks: Breathing Underwater, By Fire
Humus – Sensibility / Sense
Based In: Finland
Label: BBE
Release Date: April 13, 2015
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Social: Facebook
My Favorite Tracks: Love Affair, Sh*t, When I Feel Lonely (I Dance)
The Internet – Ego Death
Based In: Los Angeles
Label: Odd Future LLC
Release Date: June 26, 2015
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Social: @intanetz
My Favorite Tracks: Just Sayin/I Tried, Something’s Missing, Gabby
Jamie Woon – Making Time
Based In: London
Label: Polydor UK
Release Date: October 30, 2015
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Social: @jamiewoon
My Favorite Tracks: Celebration, Message
Jono McCleery – Pagodes
Based In: London
Label: If Music
Release Date: October 2, 2015
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Social: @JonoMcCleery
My Favorite Tracks: Desperate Measure, Bet She Does
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
Based In: Los Angeles
Label: Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope
Release Date: March 16, 2015
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Social: @kendricklamar
My Favorite Tracks: How Much a Dollar Cost, Alright, You Ain’t Gotta Lie (Momma Said), Mortal Man



Other Great Albums That Came Out This Year (in alphabetical order)
The Amazing (Stockholm) – Picture You
Astronauts, etc. (Oakland) – Mind Out Wandering
Columbia Nights (Washington, DC) – In All Things
Emily King (NYC) – The Switch
Fat Freddy’s Drop (Wellington, New Zealand) – Bays
fLako (London) – Natureboy
The Gene Dudley Group (London) – Zambidoose
Ibeyi (Paris) – Ibeyi
Jamie xx (London) – In Colour
José González (Gothenburg, Sweden) – Vestiges & Claws
KRTS (Berlin) – Close Eyes to Exit
Leon Bridges (Fort Worth, Texas) – Coming Home
Lianne La Havas (London) – Blood
Marbert Rocel (Leipzig, Germany) – In The Beginning
Maribou State (London) – Portraits
The Milk (Wickford, UK) – Favourite Worry
Oddisee (Brooklyn) – The Good Fight
Portico (London) – Living Fields
The Rebirth (Los Angeles) – Being Thru The Eyes Of A Child
Roseau (London) – Salt
SiR (Inglewood, CA) – Seven Sundays
Tropics (Chris Ward) (London) – Rapture

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Here are my favorite EPs released in 2015, in alphabetical order.

Art Nap – GIVENTAKE EP
Based In: NY + NC
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: December 2, 2015
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My Favorite Track: I Believe
Bells Atlas – Hyperlust (EP)
Based In: Oakland
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: May 28, 2015
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My Favorite Track: Future Bones
Electric Wire Hustle – Aeons EP
Based In: Wellington, New Zealand
Label: Bastard Jazz
Release Date: August 28, 2015
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My Favorite Track: March featuring Deva Mehal
Groeni – Hewn
Based In: Wellington, New Zealand
Label: Project Mooncircle
Release Date: February 24, 2015
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My Favorite Track: The Oak
Monsoonsiren – Falstrati
Based In: Bengaluru, India
Label: Project Mooncircle
Release Date: January 30, 2015
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My Favorite Track: Photographs
Nao – February 15
Based In: London
Label: Little Tokyo
Release Date: May 1, 2015
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My Favorite Track: Golden
The Rooks – Wires EP
Based In: NYC
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: June 29, 2015
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My Favorite Track: Secrets
tennyson – Like What EP
Based In: Edmonton, Canada
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: November 23, 2015
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My Favorite Track: Too Long
Zak Abel – Joker Presents
Based In: UK
Label: Atlantic UK
Release Date: February 6, 2015 (UK release)
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My Favorite Track: Wise Enough
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The Main Ingredient on East Village Radio – Episode #318 (January 6, 2016)
twilight and twilite tone – higher (ubiquityrecords.com)
alabama shakes – don’t wanna fight (atorecords.com)
ephemerals – you’ll never see me cry (jalapenorecords.com)
zak abel – wise enough (atlanticrecords.co.uk)
bells atlas – future bones (bellsatlas.bandcamp.com)
the internet – just sayin/i tried (odd future llc)
just a band – winning in life featuring owuor arunga (just-a-band.com)
bastien keb – down river (onehandedmusic.com)
kendrick lamar – alright (top dawg/aftermath/interscope)
jamie woon – celebration (polydor.co.uk)
donnie trumpet & the social experiment – sunday candy (donnietrumpet.com)
samm henshaw – better (sonymusic.co.uk)
the rooks – secrets (therooksband.bandcamp.com)
dr. dre – animals featuring anderson .paak (aftermath/interscope)
sir – n.b.n. (freshselects.bandcamp.com)
floating points – silhouettes (i, ii & iii) (luakabop.com)
roseau – accelerate (bigdada.com)
tennyson – too long (tennyson.bandcamp.com)
teen daze – pink (paperbagrecords.com + teendaze.bandcamp.com)
kwabs – cheating on me (tom misch refix) featuring zak abel (soundcloud.com/kwabs)
columbia nights – now featuring diggs duke (recordbreakin.com)
harriet brown & astronauts etc. – fiction (soundcloud.com/company-record-label)
cee-lo green – robin williams (atlantic)
nao – golden (little tokyo)
kendrick lamar – how much a dollar cost featuring james fauntleroy & ronald isley (top dawg/aftermath/interscope)
tropics (chris ward) – house of leaves (innovativeleisure.net)

The Main Ingredient is a weekly show on East Village Radio presenting brand new soulful underground music from around the world and interviews with the artists making it, recorded live in NYC.

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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.

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The Main Ingredient Radio Show Episode #235 (January 7, 2014)

The Main Ingredient Radio Show Episode #235 (January 7, 2014)
the procussions – virginia wolf (theprocussions.bandcamp.com)
stepkids – symmetry (stonesthrow.com)
dj koze – ich schreib’ dir ein buch 2013 (pamparecords.com)
!!! (chk chk chk) – one girl / one boy (warp.net)
abigail wyles – mantra (mtarecords.co.uk)
the twilite tone – do it properly (soundcloud.com/thetwilitetone)
tanya morgan – for real (imprint180.com)
diggs duke – is it love? featuring vaughan octavia (brownswoodrecordings.com)
b.j. smith – umi says (nunorthernsoul.co.uk)
jose james – sword + gun featuring hindi zahra (bluenote.com)
okapii – don’t mind the rain (gsmusic.wordpress.com)
falty dl – kenny rolls one (ninjatune.net)
omar – simplify (freestylerecords.co.uk)
charliered – lovely (tristate inventory)
columbia nights – as we are (brother spanky’s upper room remix) (recordbreakin.com)
zaki ibrahim, kid fonque, dj whisky – be (atjazz.co.uk)
dan electro – lead me on (soulab.com)
todd terje – strandbar (samba version) (olsen)
the hics – lines (sqemusic.com)
sohn – bloodflows (4ad.com)
kenautis smith + black spade – look around featuring ari lourdes + demetrius upchurch (allnaturalhiphop.com)
booker t – sound the alarm featuring mayer hawthorne (concordmusicgroup.com/labels/stax)
ephemerals – things (part 1) (ephemerals.bandcamp.com)
shortcircles – sometimes things are exactly as they seem (plugresearch.com)
alice russell – i loved you (tru-thoughts.co.uk)

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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Here are my favorite albums of 2013 in alphabetical order. The spotify playlist at the bottom includes my favorite tracks from each release.

Bells Atlas – Bells Atlas
Based In: Oakland
Label: Self-Released through bellsatlas.bandcamp.com
Release Date: June 18, 2013
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Social: @BellsAtlas
My Favorite Tracks: Incessant Noise, Jyeah, Capable People
CharlieRED – MUSE.
Based In: NYC
Label: Tristate Inventory
Release Date: September 3, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: Smile To You, Lovely, Gotta be a God, Champion
denitia and sene. – his and hers.
Based In: Brooklyn
Label: Input
Release Date: March 19, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: lucy.loosie, trip.fall., she’s not the only one.
Diggs Duke – Offering For Anxious
Based In: Washington, DC
Label: Brownswood Recordings
Release Date: December 1, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: Is It Love?, Something In My Soul, Harsh Words With The Oracle
Disclosure – Settle
Based In: Reigate, Surrey, England
Label: PMR
Release Date: June 3, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: Latch, Second Chance, Tenderly
DJ Koze – Amygdala
Based In: Germany
Label: Pampa
Release Date: March 22, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: Ich schreib’ dir ein Buch 2013, Nices Wölkchen, Amygdala featuring Milosh
Falty DL – Hardcourage
Based In: NYC
Label: Ninja Tune
Release Date: January 18, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: Straight & Arrow, Kenny Rolls One, She Sleeps
Jai Paul – Jai Paul
Based In: London
Label: (Unauthorized Bootleg Release of Demos)
Release Date: April 13, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: Track 7, Track 3, Track 5
Laura Mvula – Sing To The Moon
Based In: London
Label: RCA
Release Date: March 4, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: Diamonds, Green Garden, Make Me Lovely
Omar – The Man
Based In: London
Label: Freestyle Records
Release Date: June 24, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: Simplify, Come On Speak to Me, I Love Being With You
Quadron – Avalanche
Based In: Los Angeles (via Copenhagen/Hovedstaden, Denmark)
Label: Vested in Culture/Epic
Release Date: May 31, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: Favorite Star, Neverland, Hey Love
Rhye – Woman
Based In: Los Angeles/Toronto
Label: Polydor Ltd. UK
Release Date: March 5, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: Shed Some Blood, The Fall, Last Dance
Shortcircles – Between Waves
Based In: Oakland
Label: Plug Research
Release Date: July 2, 2013
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My Favorite Tracks: Sometimes Things Are Exactly As They Seem, All I Can Be For You, Patience

Other Great Albums That Came Out This Year
Ainslie Wills (Melbourne) – You go your way, I’ll go mine
Alice Russell (Brighton, England) – To Dust
Alice Smith (NYC) – She
Amel Larrieux – Ice Cream Everyday
Atoms for Peace – Amok
Black Milk (Detroit) – No Poison No Paradise
Bonobo (Brooklyn/NYC) – The North Borders.
Booker T (Los Angeles) – Sound The Alarm
Charles Bradley – Victim Of Love
Chico Mann (Jersey City, NJ) – Magical Thinking
Ephemerals (London) – Nothin Is Easy
Eric Lau (London) – One of Many
Fat Freddy’s Drop (Wellington, New Zealand) – Blackbird
Gold Panda (UK) – Half Of Where You Live
Gregory Porter (NYC) – Liquid Spirit
James Blake (London) – Overgrown
Jesse Boykins III (Brooklyn/NYC) – P.O.P (Purpose or People)
Ladi6 (Auckland, New Zealand) – Automatic
Lady (Nicole Wray & Terri Walker) – Lady
Marley Carroll (Asheville, NC) – Sings
Milosh (Toronto) – Jetlag
Mop Mop (Andrea Benini) (Cesena, Italy) – Isle Of Magic
Myele Manzanza (Wellington, New Zealand) – One
Myron & E – Broadway
Osunlade (Santorini, Greece) – A Man With No Past Originating The Future
Raashan Ahmad (Oakland) – Ceremony
Sandra St. Victor – Oya’s Daughter
Shigeto (Detroit) – No Better Time Than Now
Skyzoo & Antman Wonder – An Ode To Reasonable Doubt
Sweatson Klank (Los Angeles) – You, Me, Temporary
Tanya Morgan (Brooklyn) – Rubber Souls
Thundercat (Los Angeles) – Apocalypse
Toro Y Moi (Berkeley) – Anything In Return
William Onyeabor – World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor?
Yosi Horikawa (Japan) – Vapor

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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.