[Nu-Disco] Mike Posner – Cooler Than Me (Eau Claire Remix)

Mike Posner
Cooler Than Me (Eau Claire Remix)

Up and coming producer from DC Eau Claire is back at it with another banger remix! This juicy edit of Mike Posner‘s hit single from a few years ago, “Cooler Than Me,” will have you dancing your pants off. Starting off with vocal samples from the original tune and a funky beat, the talented artist’s rework captures your senses through quirky and clever maneuvers. Combining both higher and lower-pitched vocals, this tune manages to show both complexity and character. It’s catchy, exciting and memorable all at the same time; yes, it’s just that good.

Following the success of her previous hit remix of Stevie Wonder‘s “Uptight”, Eau Claire is definitely making a name for herself in the revival of indie dance scene. Make sure to grab a free download of this remix here and check out her work as as part of Man & Woman, another nu-disco duo.

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Sunday Night Soul [Vol. 19]

March Madness has taken the nation by storm, and we here at TMN are no exception. In the quest for the perfect billion dollar bracket, all hearts have officially been left broken and shattered. No need to fret though, because we’ve got just the remedy here to heal your aching hearts and wounded egos. Getting in the spirit of the season, we’ve gone ahead and assembled our largest Sunday Night Soul yet (we really have gone mad). Gathering together 64 of the finest tunes we could get our hands on, this week’s collection is guaranteed to last you much longer than Duke’s tenure in the tourney.

Picking our favorites this week proved nearly as difficult as picking winners in this year’s competition. Oscar & The Wolf, The Night VI, AstronauticaVökVeronica Domingues, Freddy HefnerRoyce Wood Junior, and OBESØN lead the group of fresh new faces to our series, while BANKS, Mara HrubyKwabs, Keyshia Cole, Kyan, Jarell PerryJaymes Youngabhi//dijon, abstract youth, and Fortune return for outstanding performances of their own. Fans of remixes are sure to be pleased too, as XONA, MisterMack, Nanpa Noir, Swindle, KR$CHN, Joan of ART and OverDo$e headline a sensational group of producers. There’s something for everyone here, and just like this year’s Cinderella story, Dayton, at least one of these is bound to captivate your heart.

’BANKS – Are You That Somebody (Acoustic Cover) – BBC radio 1 Live Lounge w/ Phil and Alice’
’Daniela Andrade – Crazy In Love (Beyonce Cover)’
’Daeho – It Was You’
’Mara Hruby – Gone With The Wind’
’Conner Youngblood – Mercury’
’Kyan – Zoo’
’bAnoffee – Bleeding Love (Leona Lewis Cover)’
’Oscar & The Wolf – Undress’
’Mariami – Best Friend (Prod. Tito Tunes)’
’THE NIGHT VI – Sienna’
’Avery Storm – Party On The Roof Top’
’Jordan Rakei – All For Something (prod. esta.) (demo)’
’Simien fox –  Perfect (Prod. Strange Soul X TEME)’
’Astronautica – How It’s Gonna Be (feat. JMSN)’
’Vök – Tension’
’Xander Ghost – The Same’
’WithLoveXavier – Drake Medley’
’Jarell Perry – Own It’
’Veronica Domingues – I Get High (feat. C Flowz)’
’Yummy Bingham – Can We Stay ft Kardinal Offishall (Prod By Nyce Hitz)’
’Keyshia Cole – Next Time (Won’t Give My Heart Away)’
’Keyshia Cole – Rick James Ft. Juicy J’
’Freddy Hefner – See Saw – Produced By Burger Tyme’
’Ray J – Hey Love Feat. Tyga & French Montana’
’Verse Simmonds – Sexy Body REMIX Ft. Kid Ink & Eric Bellinger’
’Royce Wood Junior – Hardly’
’SAFIA – Paranoia, Ghosts & Other Sounds’
’Kyan – Stratosphere’
’Jaymes Young – Habits Of My Heart (Sufjan Stevens Remake)’
’Kwabs – Pray For Love’
’Jayne Rio – 100 MPH’
’Josh Record – For Your Love (Dot Major Remix)’
’The Weeknd – Twenty Eight (XONA REMIX)’
’XONA – DownTown’
’TVNE – deny.’
’Tech N9ne x Kendrick Lamar x ¡MAYDAY! x Kendall Morgan – Fragile (Joan Of ART Edit)’
’OBESØN – Hazy (Feat. Abigail Press)’
’Frank Ocean – Swim Good (Edit Juan w/ Jenny)’
’Alfa Mist & Tom Misch – Going Down’
’Tele Fresco – Lie To Me’
’Zara McFarlane – Open Heart (Swindle Remix)’
’Cosmic Quest – Water Winds (Feat. Molly Williams)’
’abhi//dijon – Let You Know’
’Usher – Climax (MisterMack Remix)’
’Duncan Gerow – Ciara + Joker = Body Party’
’NANPA NOIR – Millón (Download via Waxhole)’
’Brandy – I Wanna Be Down ( Real bootleg FINESE ▲ )’
’Elaquent – Yesssss. (Floetry Say Yes Remix)’
’aywy – Candy Ft. Fortune (Forthcoming on Play It Louder Vol.2)’
’How To Dress Well – Words I Don’t Remember (KR$CHN Bootleg)’
’Fortune – Would You’
’Sango – Me de Amor (Nikes Edit)’
’Radiohead – Reckoner (Go Yama Remx)’
’Ticklish x DJ Paypal – Bent Up’
’Erykah Badu – BUMP IT (DJ A1 REMIX)’
’Rudimental – Baby (AFTRHRS RMX)’
’M Phazes – I Don’t Wanna Fall In Love’
’Mike Posner – Please Don’t Go (kuma remix)’
’The Weeknd – Rolling Stone (Overdo$e edit)’
’Drake – Own It (DTWICE DE BEL AIR Edit)’
’HU₵₵I – Wings’
’R. Kelly – Every Position (Hasta Remix)’
’Chaos Kid – P a l m T r e e f e r’
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The Trap Dojo #47

First up on this weeks Dojo is RL Grime with a couple of the tracks from his massive new High Beams EP on Fools Gold. RL Grime has consistently released some of the biggest tunes of the trap era thus far, and almost every track can hold its own to classics like “Mercy” and “Trap on Acid”. These were my favorites, but you can get the whole album from Fools GoldRedman hops on this next track with Break Science while Diplo teams up with everybody for this track celebrating his one millionth twitter follower. The Socialytes mash-up a couple trap classics with the new Jay-Z and some old school Snoop Dogg gets a new school gansta-trill flip from Gooffee.  The next bunch of songs are all foot working, ass shaking, fist pumping party starters that get seriously turnt up before it calms down again at the end with some incredibly laid back remixes of “Get Lucky”, Alicia Keys, and even “Summer Breeze” by Seals and CroftsWith the exception of the RL Grime tracks at the beginning, every song this week is free, so hit that “Buy” button, like the artists on facebook and get free music.

’RL Grime – Heard Me’
’RL Grime – Secondary feat. Problem’
’Break Science – Who Got It (feat. Redman) Free Download’
’Diplo – CROWN Ft Mike Posner & Boaz Van De Beatz & Riff Raff’
’Jay z  Vs Luminox Vs Carnage – I Rock Tom Ford (Socialytes Bootleg)’
’Snoop Dogg – G’d Up (Gooffee Remix)’
’Usher – ‘Yeah’ (Prince Fox 1k Remix)’
’D!RTY AUD!O & MEAUX GREEN – Twerkulator (Original) [Free Download’
’Dooze jackers – Got Line (Ookay Remix) ///FREE DOWNLOAD///’
’Run DMT – Shaman Juice [Free Download’
’Milo & Otis – THLACK (An Unoriginal Mix)’
’Five Knives – All Fall Down (Kennedy Jones Trap Remix) Red Bull Records FREE DOWNLOAD!’
’Dimitri Vegas, Like Mike, GTA – Turn It Up (Combustibles Turnt Up Bootleg)  Free DL!!’
’Schroff
BATTLE CATS (FREE DOWNLOAD FKK RECORDS)’
’Jay Z – Holy Grail (Rell The Soundbender Bootleg Remix)’
’All I Ask – Huglife Remix’
’Dinah Washington – I’ve Got You Under My Skin (DJ Carnage and Victor Niglio Remix)’
’Lucky – HUGLIFE REMIX’
’Alicia Keys – Unthinkable (Fwdslxsh Remix)’
’Seals and Crofts – Summer Breeze  ✝H0ℛDᶓ$✝ BOOTLEG’
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The Hip-Hop Dojo [Vol. 13]

June was definitely a monumental month for hip-hop. With album releases from the likes of Kanye WestJ. ColeWale, and even more, it’s easy to feel a bit overwhelmed from the wide influx of new music. While we were all preoccupied with the heavy hitters, it may have been easy to sleep on some of the other hustlers out there trying to push the music game forward. I admit I fell behind myself, hence why this edition of the Hip-Hop Dojo has been sitting in my drafts for weeks now. Lucky for you guys though, we here at The Music Ninja are here to fill you in on what you might’ve missed over the last month or so.

As I mentioned earlier, this post is long overdue, which is exactly why it’s bursting at the seams with 40+(!) new tracks for a hearty heaping helping of hip-hop goodness (try saying that 5 times fast). I’ve been on my grind over the last couple of days to finally get this playlist in your hands, and there’s a reason why I carefully selected this date to finally unleash it to the world. Today just so happens to be my birthday (yes, this is a shameless attempt at getting more birthday wishes), so as my present to all of you loyal ninjas, I bequeath unto you the thirteenth edition of The Hip-Hop Dojo. Now I’m not quite crazy enough to do a summary of all the songs on this list, so this time around I’ll just give you a rundown of my favorites. Although picking out of a list of roughly 45 songs is no easy task, I’d probably have to say my favorites are (in no particular order): Curren$y’s “Killer$,” Vic Mensa‘s “Hollywood LA,” Fabolous‘ “Young OG,” MeLo-X‘s “The Truth,” Jon Connor‘s “When I Was Young,” Dillon Cooper‘s “Kung Fu” Action Bronson‘s “Heel Toe,” Produktive‘s “Show Me Love,” and finally the knxwledge remix of Denitia & Sene‘s “Casanova.” With that being said, I’d like to think each and every song in this collection brings something unique to the table. Given the length of the playlist, I suggest taking the weekend to sift through it all. Maybe you could even give it a go during your Independence Day cookouts.

We hope you guys enjoyed our thirteenth edition of The Hip-Hop Dojo as much as we did! As always, you can send all submissions/suggestions to baseer@themusicninja.com.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ALL THE FREE TRACKS (ALT. LINK)

P.S. As an added bonus, I’ve included some of the best material from those stellar June releases I alluded to earlier as another “mini-playlist” after the jump. Definitely check them out if you haven’t gotten a chance to get through all the albums yet.

’Curren$y x Young Roddy – Grizzly’
’Curren$y – Killer$ Ft. Trinidad Jame$’
’Rockie Fresh – Kush Do (Feat. Wiz Khalifa)’
’SYG – Sex.Your.Girl (prod. Vanilla)’
’Donnie Trumpet – Zion ft. Chance the Rapper & Vic Mensa’
’Vic Mensa – Hollywood LA’
’Dom Kennedy – Never (prod. The Futuristiks)’
’Flatbush ZOMBiES – Palm Trees’
’Derek Wise – LXVE’
’MeLo X – The Truth’
’Martin $ky – S’all Good’
’Bishop Nehru – Fickle Mind$ (Prod. Ghost McGrady)’
’Leather Corduroys (Joey Purp & Kami de Chukwu) & theMIND – Prophet. (prod.THEMpeople)’
’GDNA – Bad Mutha F*cka feat Macon Hamilton, Frank Leone, & Waju’
’Joey Bada$$ – 95 Til Infinity (Prod. Lee Bannon)’
’Warm Brew – Word (prod. by Lord Quest)’
’Produktive – Show Me Love’
’King Vada – Fini$h (produced by Cardo)’
’Big K.R.I.T. – KING Pt. 3’
’Fabolous – Young OG’
’Silent Knight – Work in Progress’
’Bizzy Crook – Emails From Kanye West (Prod. By SkipOnDaBeat)’
’Jon Connor
The Sarah Song (Tour Life The Sequel)’
’Jon Connor – When I Was Young Feat. Chris Webby & Smoke DZA’
’Freddie Gibbs – Freddie Soprano (Prod. by ID Labs)’
’KuroiOto – Demons feat. James Gardin, The Amature, Jahshua Smith & Rafael’
’Dillon Cooper – Kung Foo’
’Perrion – Corleone (Prod. By Shy Guy)’
’Dominic Lord – Overworld’
’The Kid Daytona – Shotgun (Prod. by Marce Reazon)’
’Bijan – Social Graces feat. Cecily Madanes (Prod. By Monaco)’
’Da YoungFellaz – Fall Down’
’Denitia & Sene – casanova. (knxwledge remix.)’
’DJ Sidereal – All I Need Is Sunshine (Finding Novyon & D.Glove)’
’Brothers From Another – Drunk Talk’
’Radical Something – Cheap Drink’
’D Pryde – Lifted’
’Daz Dillinger & WC – Stay Out The Way (ft. Snoop Dogg)’
’Metabeats – Hookers ft. Action Bronson’
’Action Bronson – Heel Toe (Prod. by Harry Fraud)’
’Hayk x dFresh – Choices (prod. YoYo)’
’Chamillionaire – Overnight’
’Machine Gun Kelly – Breaking News’

’Hassani Kwess
My Money Jam (Prod. by Royal)’

’Asher Roth – Actin Up (ft. Rye Rye, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown) (prod. by Oren Yoel)’

’YONAS – Leaving You’

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The Hip-Hop Dojo [Vol. 4]

It’s hard to believe we’re already a month into this process as we present to you the fourth volume of The Hip-Hop Dojo. We’re really excited to bring you possibly our most unique lineup to date. We start things off with three talented femcees whose names should be familiar to loyal listeners out there, B Mac The QueenRapsody, and Nitty Scott MC. Last time we heard from B Mac, she was doing her thing alongside names like Rick RossRaekwon and Redman for HS87’s “Cypher.” Now she’s out to prove that she can hold a song down on her own, with her harrowing new single, “Always Knew.” Meanwhile, Jamla representative, Rapsody, hopes to make an “Everlasting” impression over some smooth Khrysis production. Nitty Scott wraps things up for the trio, demonstrating her flair for the “Language Arts,” over some whistling flutes (shout out to Kendrick).

We step into some old school territory with our next few tracks. Chicago’s Jarred A.G. proves he can rap circles around everyone else on “VerbalCursive,” just one standout from his recent Luxury Tax EP. Next, we move on to underground veterans, Massinfluence, who bring us the self-titled single, “Massinfluential.” Produced by Circa 94, the track actually feels like it was pulled straight out of that era, save for a few tweaks that give it a more modern flair. On “Live From Kissena Blvd,” Action “Bam Bam” Bronson lays down some lick bars over some blaring, boom bap grooves, courtesy of Statik Selektah.

Our next group features a few stories that really tug at your heartstrings. Two of the most powerful tracks deal with the theme of death. Emilio Rojas reflects on the untimely passing of his dear friend and hip-hop visionary, Chris Lighty. The most impactful song of them all, comes in the form of Mike Stud‘s “Past Gone” which deals with his relationship with a fan on the brink of suicide. It’s a truly touching story that reveals how Mike was able to help save her life, and recover from her insecurities. You’ll have to watch the video to get the full effect. Lorenzo Asher‘s “The Color of Ignorance” discusses the challenges of maintaining an interracial relationship, especially when coming from two very different cultures. It definitely does a much better job of approaching race relations than that LL Cool J and Brad Paisley track that dropped earlier this week. Rounding things out, we have “Long Day” from Phil The Thrill. Utilizing an appropriate sample of Maroon 5‘s “Sad,” Phil sheds light on some of the stresses involved with being an independent rapper.

The last batch of tracks doesn’t really have a recurring theme, but they feature a talented group of young emcees flaunting their skills. “24K” features rap duo Square Off, sons of rap legend Doug E. Fresh, spitting some dope bars alongside A$AP Rocky over a chopped up sample of MGMT‘s “Electric Feel.” Neako’s “Hot Boys 3000” will have you nodding your head from start to finish, with the pauses in the beat really emphasizing each and every lyric. Finally, the most unique track comes in the form of Smokey Robotic‘s rim shattering “Gandhi.” We’re not sure the legendary leader would ever approve of the track, but we’d love to see his reaction to this bizarre dedication.

We hope you guys enjoyed our fourth edition of The Hip-Hop Dojo as much as we did. As always, send all submissions/suggestions to baseer@themusicninja.com.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ALL THE FREE TRACKS

’B Mac The Queen – Always Knew’
’Rapsody – Everlasting (Produced by Khrysis)’
’Nitty Scott MC  – Language Arts (Produced by Good Reverend Dr.)’
’Jarred A.G. – VerbalCursive (prod. Samiyam)’
’Mass Influence – Massinfluential’
’Action Bronson – Live From Kissena Blvd (Prod. Statik Selektah)’
’Corner Boy P – 1997 (feat. Curren$y)’
’GrandeMarshall – Mugga Man (Feat Mugga Mar the 1st Lady of The Petty Boyz)’
’Rittz
Switch Lanes feat. Mike Posner’
’Zilla Rocca & The Shadowboxers – Stormy Monday (feat. The Kid Daytona & Has Lo)’
Emilio Rojas – Can’t Sleep’
’Lorenzo Asher – The Color Of Ignorance feat. XV’
’Mike Stud – Past Gone (prod. by Judge & Swedes)’
’Phil The Thrill – Long Day’
’Square Off – 24K (Feat. A$AP Rocky)’
’Von P – Address’
’Marcè Reazon
Rain (feat. Euro League)’
’Airline Jay – Let Her Choose (feat. Dao Jones) (Prod. Kyle Powis)’
’Neako – Hot Boys 3000 ft. Nasa & Fresh Moss’
’Smokey Robotic – Gandhi’
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[Preview] Avicii feat. Mike Posner – Stay With You (Preview)

Avicii has a damn easy button in his studio, and every time he clicks it, out comes a house anthem. I have never been a fan of Mike Posner so be completely honest this one was almost ruined solely for that reason. None-the-less this track has a summery uplifting vibe that Avicii is so well known for. Bringing some awesome chords to accompany the simple, but infectious melody that he delivers. This track was ripped from his Creamfields set and was extended by Overline. We will definitely be covering the full version so stay tuned! Cheers.

’Avicii ft. Mike Posner – Stay With You (Preview)’
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