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Continuing with our new Locals Only series, check out Volume 3 of us showcasing various Indiana hip hop artists. Today we have five different Indiana-based artists for you to check out, including songs, a video, and a couple projects. Volume 3 features Simon Sed, Flik, BLOTTBOYY, Da’Rell Miller, and LJ.

Our Locals Only series showcases various Indiana hip hop acts that have recently put out music, and pays homage to one of our favorite now defunct venue(s) that housed so many hip hop acts in years past (including many of our events). Dive into these five new songs below and let us know which ones you like best.

Artist: Simon Sed Where is the artist from? Indianapolis Producer(s): Father Focus Confucius Title: Under Construction Video Director (if applicable): Juan “Big Herc” Hernandez (animator) Twitter @: Simon_Sed More info: In anticipation of his new project, Perpetual Student (3/15/16) we are releasing a brand new animated music video for the title track off his most recent album, Under Construction. I am looking to promote his new video and would greatly appreciate you sharing it with your audience.

Artist: FLIK Where is the artist from? Indiana/Florida Featured artist(s): Mic Lee Producer(s): FLIK Title: Paradox Ep Twitter @: flikxciv

Artist: BLOTTBOYY Where is the artist from? INDIANA Producer(s): BLOTTBOYY Title: OUT THE CAGE Twitter @: BLOTTBOYY

Artist: Da’Rell Miller Where is the artist from? Indianapolis, Indiana Featured artist(s): Ammo4da$e and Big ETA Producer(s): Elevated Music and Mackology Title: Factors Of Love Twitter @: darellmiller317

Artist: LJ Where is the artist from? Indianapolis Featured artist(s): Jason Producer(s): Tone Jonez Title: Black America Twitter @: @lj_df3 Anything else we need to know? This is the first single for LJ’s upcoming EP, Ginosko.

Black America by LJ

Get introduced to Bulgaria’s own Infragreen, as he has recently released a four-track beat tape in Palm Trees & Drums Machines. Full of stuttering drums, organic keys, synth basslines and overall headnod worthy grooves, you’ll probably dig this one. Listen below and head to Bandcamp to purchase via the name-your-price feature. br>

Palm Trees & Drum Machines EP by Infragreen

Jakarta Records will be dropping Jakarta Dubplate #5 in mid April, and they’ve recently released a single in “The 1” by Otis Junior and Dr. Dundiff. The first single from the project can be streamed below, and you can pre-order the digital version from Bandcamp. Unfortunately, they’ve already sold out the vinyl. br>

Jakarta Dubplate # 5 by Otis Junior & Dr. Dundiff

Joell Ortiz just dropped That’s Hip Hop at midnight, and “Precious” featuring Raven Felix is a video from the project. The video has Joell sharing a story of a woman and her hustle to make a living, and it comes together at the end with her man finding out about her previously lied-about profession. The song as produced by 20th Letter. Below is the stream to Joell’s new 10-track album, and you can purchase it from iTunes. br>

Mr. Lif and Del The Funky Homosapien have linked for a dope new “World Renown” joint. The track was produced by Pas Doo with cuts by Mr. Sonny James. The headnod bounce is a heater from Lif’s upcoming Don’t Look Down project, which will be releasing on Mello Music Group on April 15th. You can pre-order today from iTunes. A few words from Lif below.

“Brought my portable lab over to Del’s crib to capture this madness.” Lif shared. “Wore my engineering cap & wielded my poetic license simultaneously to harness the chemistry of what has now become a long friendship between Del & I. Our goal was to bring you the uncompromised raw.”

DJ Todd grabbed STS and Ohio’s Nick Fury for “SuperPimpin'”, a fairly new joint released about a month ago. The song was produced by DJ Todd. Read more about the song below. br>

Nick Fury was just diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer. Vintage Records is making every effort to release as much of Fury’s music as possible.

Produced by DJ Todd of Dayton, OH, SuperPimpin’ provides a spectacular soundscape which breaks away from the current volatile state of Hip-Hop. While diggin’ in the crates (yes he still does this), DJ Todd discovered a hypnotic scandalous groove which he describes as “a super-hero theme with lots of horns.” Sick and tired of being force fed embarrassing music as a DJ, he darlingly created SuperPimpin’.

Nick Fury, of Cleveland, OH, was quick to bless the provocative track on the first verse. Fury’s laid back style fits perfectly with the groove as he lets you know, “My first grammy pimpin’ I’ma hold that shit high, and piss on every hater let that shit fly.”

After teetering on who should be on the second verse, DJ Todd tracked down Sugar Tongue Slim (S.T.S.), of Philadelphia. In true pimp fashion, S.T.S., slaughters the track. The real stunner is the second half of his verse when he spits double-time proving he’s a mind-blowing MC. The end of the song adds comedy between Fury and S.T.S. giving the song character. S.T.S. states, “There’s a lotta renegade hoes out here just running the streets rampant! No Guidance!” An all around great track.

Check out Tokyo, Japan’s OPTIC, as he has just recently shared his forth beat tape, the untitled EP. Check out the full stream of his new project below, and you can head over to Bandcamp or Soundcloud to hear more of his sounds. This release is free via the name-your-price feature at Bandcamp.

untitled EP by OPTIC

St. Louis, USA and the UK have combined for Handbook, RKZ, and Supreme Sol‘s collaborative Triad EP. Check out a bit more information below and give this a listen.

Driven by their passion for music and respect for each other’s craft, St. Louis emcee Supreme Sol, Luton singer RKZ, and York based producer Handbook come together to form the hip-hop and soul collective known as TRIAD. After spending months of crafting the right sound, the trio finally releases their self-titled EP for the world to vibe to.

ILLHD just dropped some new substance with his latest video for “Playa”, produced by Ced L. Young. I’ve also included his single below, “Way 2 Litt”. Check it out.

I told myself that I was going to walk away from the internet to do some other work, but I needed to share Tap Water Runoff by XL Middleton first. As you can probably tell, I’m in a funky music mood today. Middleton’s modern-day funk is full of dope grooves, and he has cassettes and vinyl available for purchase via Bandcamp. Read a bit more below and get the funk in your life.

Still on the heels of his critically-acclaimed LP “Tap Water,” XL Middleton returns, however briefly, with a cassette of cuts that were intended for the album but not included in the final run. This is “Tap Water Runoff.”

The EP includes six tracks, some instrumental, some vocal, all of which are laden with XL’s melodic, bass-heavy synthesizer funk. It is a funk that draws from the same wells of inspiration as “Tap Water” – uptempo 80’s boogie and sizzlingly slow 90’s g-funk, united and distilled into Middleton’s signature future-retro bounce.

“Back 2 Tha Slapp!” feels all-too-ready for a verse from Snoop circa “The Last Meal,” while “Tap Water,” the title cut that didn’t make it to its namesake album, feels like it’s been culled directly from the vaults of George Clinton and Bernie Worrell. “This Funk Ain’t No Phase” gives a strong head nod to the gutter Ohio funk of Roger Troutman. Yet, for all of its apparent reverence to its own influences, “Tap Water Runoff” is yet another reminder that modern funk is just that – cutting edge and always ready to bellow a definitive “yes” to the age old question – “Is this the future?”

Tap Water Runoff by XL Middleton

“Raw Land” and “Move On” are a couple dope joints I happened upon from Sam Irl‘s upcoming Raw Land 2LP album, dropping March 25th. I’ve added both of the funky dance-fueled joints down below, and you can read a bit more about Sam’s past as well. I’ve added a remix that he did a few months ago that I’m digging too. Head over to Bandcamp to pre-order Raw Land.

After various EP’s, remixes and compilation features, the Lower Bavarian Vienna-based musician and producer Sam Irl releases his debut album „Raw Land“. Assembling his collection of analogue synthesizers and stacks of vinyl records around his MPC sampler, he chopped up, sequenced, played and mixed together twelve jams ranging from broken beat, dub-influenced grooves, disco-ish material to raw deep house vibes. The combination of vinyl fragments, analogue synthesis, the grit of hardware samplers and mixing on a vintage mixing desk from the seventies create punchy, rough, yet also deep and soulful grooves.

Press play on Houston’s The Hue, as they’ve just unleashed their new Aurora project. Conceived in 2013, this futurist soul hybrid consists of songstress/femcee Spacebunny Jefferson, emcees Scottie Spitten, Equality, and Savvi, along with producers King Midas and DJ Cozmos. Read a bit more and listen in full below. You can purchase to this space odyssey from Bandcamp.

What happens when you bring together a space hop juggernaut with a spacey electro-soul outfit? The Hue collective, hailing from Space City, is the aftermath of combining the critically acclaimed groups H.I.S.D. (Hueston Independent Spit District) with their cosmic kinsmen and rising sensation Radio Galaxy. Their mission is to explore the creation of music with no boundaries.

Coming off of stellar projects, H.I.S.D.’s The Weakend and Radio Galaxy’s We Come in Peace, the aptly titled collaborative sequal, Aurora marks a new beginning in the ongoing mission to end the weak and space up the world through sound and color. What’s your hue?

Aurora (Deluxe Version) by The Hue

Black Milk just dropped a new single in “The Rebel”, and it comes with a new project announcement. On April 4th, Black Milk will release a 10-track project with his Nat Turner band for The Rebellion Sessions. Stream Black Milk’s newness below, and be on the lookout as he will be hitting the road with Slum Village, Guilty Simpson, and Phat Kat later this spring. Pre-order your copy of The Rebellion Sessions on iTunes today. br>

Smoke DZA and Harry Fraud have united again for a video in “100K”, a new video from their recent He Has Risen EP. The project, which I’ve linked below, is also available on iTunes. There is one lone feature from Snoop. br>

Watch “Who Want What”, a new video from band Political Animals. Front man Sotorios delivers his bars while floating through a dark alley, levitating during meditation, and defying the laws of physics. Band mates are bassist Jen, drummer Trenton, and live-sampler DJ Neb. Read a bit more below and watch the video above. The video was directed by Shane McLellan.

Political Animals’ new video for “Who Want What” is what happens when you take the key elements of any work of art—the music video, in this case—and completely flip them on their head. That’s due to the handiwork of director Shane McLellan, who has previously worked work with Ceschi, I.N.F., as well as the PACT (Political Animals). Here, he captures the New Haven, Conn. four-piece’s genre-bending approach and applies it to film for something reminiscent of the Beastie Boys’ most influential videos.

You watch as front man Sotorios delivers his potent bars while floating through a dark alley, levitating during meditation, and defying the laws of physics. And the same goes for his band mates—bassist Jen, drummer Trenton, and live-sampler DJ Neb—who ignore gravity while performing their blend of grimy Hip-Hop and Funk.

Although an album title and release date has yet to be announced, be sure to follow PACT on social media for updates. In the interim, head over to their Bandcamp page (refer to link below) if you’d like to support their previous releases.

Boston’s Black EL just recently dropped “Highlight Film” for you to bump. The song was produced by Durkin. The song, which you can tell by the artwork for the song, is and ode to none other than Dominique Wilkins. Be on the lookout for some singles from Black EL’s upcoming Anywhere But Here project, which will be dropping later this year. br>

The 62nd volume of our Turn Off Your Radio music curation series has arrived. Press play on new joints in the last few weeks from Anna Wise, Royce Da 5’9″, Elzhi, Bangers by One,  DITC, Joey Bada$$, Samiyam, Sunni Colon, Suff Daddy, and much more.

Press play below and get hip to our full Turn Off Your Radio series, as we have 61 other volumes of music for to browse!

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