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Walk It Out feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow by Tensei Tensei is a Chicago -based composer/producer/musician/beat-maker/song-writer "dream" team consisting of Chris "Kramer" Kramer and Midas Wells . "The two have a vast wealth of influences and history to inform their production including: Hip-Hop , House, Soul , Jazz, Library , and Electronic music among others; as a result, they create eclectic compositions that fuse many disparate styles," Tokyo Dawn Records' press page explains. Since about 2012, Tensei have worked alongside and remixed the likes of A. Billi Free , Anderson .Paak, Bilal , Black Thought, Denmark Vessey , Jimetta Rose, Tall Black Guy , TOKiMONSTA, and Dirty Science emcee ADaD . Interestingly enough, Midas Wells & Kramer rarely ever make use of source material/samples, both playing and composing most musical elements themselves, but, often, enlisting a talented cast of Chicago -based Jazz & Soul artists, which includes Maka...

high desert low tide by CLUTCHY HOPKINS & FAT ALBERT EINSTEIN " Clutchy Hopkins is the son of a Motown recording engineer. As a young man, Clutchy traveled the globe exploring exotic music, rhythms, and mysticism. He worked at recording studios in Bombay to Cairo and studied musical techniques of the Cahuilla Indians , Rinzai Zen monks in Japan, and Tribal drummers in Ethiopia . Returning to the US in the 90's, Clutchy worked as a session musician on obscure Funk and Jazz records; he was rumored to have collaborated with Moondog ," reads the introductory paragraph of Clutchy Hopkins' Facebook -published Biography . Hopkins, by his own submission, "is a mystery wrapped in an enigma, covered in tape hiss, and deep-fried in a pot of melted Funk " and the story goes that although he recorded music throughout his travels over the years, his music only first saw a wider release as recently as 2005. The Life of Clutchy Hopkins was likely culled fr...