Label: Duck Down Records
Album: Game Tested Streets Approved
Artist: Black Rob
Genre: Hip Hop
Black Rob, whose biggest hit single "Whoa!" has recently been sampled in B.O.B.'s "The Biz" and Girl Talk's "Let It Out," is back with a brand new album of his own. Black Rob dropped his first album Life Story in 2000 while signed to Bad Boy. It instantly debuted at number three in the Billboard top 200 and number one in the rap chart. Now he's back and better than ever! His new album Game Tested Streets Approved features production work from names as big as Jay-Z and his long time Bad Boy friend, Diddy. "The biz is reefer, I sold more of that s*** than Wiz Khalifa," raps featured fellow Duck Down artist Sean Price on the album's last track "No Fear." Track 14 is the only with a vocal guest appearance but the album is so good, it didn't need to be sugar-coated with a multitude of guest artists. Definitely a must-listen for hip hop lovers.
Label: FiXT
Album: RED (The FiXT Remixes)
Artist: Cell 7
Genre: Electronic Rock
After Cell 7's last album RE: COGNITION reached number one in FiXT store music sales and was named one of FiXT's "Must Have Albums," the track "Red" was selected to be remixed by FiXT's online community. The result was RED (The FiXT Remixes). The album consists of the original version of "Red," as wells as eight remixed versions and two different mixes of the previously unreleased track, "Splinter." The two western Aussies, Nick and Paul, that comprise Cell 7 have a very unique musical chemistry. Their sound is genuinely unlike any other. If you can imagine scene-metal vocals and guitar over electronic house music with bursts of industrial sound effects, you may be getting a pretty close idea. Oh, who are we kidding? The sound is indescribable. This is definitely worth hearing for yourself.
Label: Moodgadget Records
Album: Vintage Romance
Artist: 18 Carat Affair
Genre: Electronic, R&B
Time to break out the acid wash jeans, color block tee's and AquaNet because the '80s are back in full swing in 18 Carat Affair's Vintage Romance. These 14 tracks of throwback lo-fi synth-pop will have your bangs standing up on end. Even the music video for the track "Pretty Girls I Don't Know Anymore" screams 1980s in everything from the apparel to the video quality. The album hops back and forth between long, lyrical songs and short, instrumental interludes. Nonetheless, it keeps a very chill-wave consistency all the way through. Time to break out your favorite '80s movies and reminisce about the Vintage Romance of the days of Top Gun and Dirty Dancing.
