J Brown & The Mic Smith Cooking Soul

The song I like keeping me company through the day while it plays on high rotate on Kiwi fm Is cooking Soul by Aucklands own J Brown & The Mic Smith. The video is awesome too, simple but effective and I didnt know the instruments were live samples in this song. That is very cool! I´m researching them now and have discovered The Mic Smith is Mikey Rockwell who has his own album Free Slaves and is the engineer for Kolab and J Brown aka James Brown is the beat maker and producer in Kolab. The song is going off on George Fm as well and is climbing their charts too. Check out the web site for J Brown & The Mic Smith http://jbrownmicsmith.com/

In the song The Mic Smith mentions The Kitchen which is Mikey Rockwells studio that he built. Rumour has it these boys are moving to Ausy like the rest of the young in this country, they´re off to the land of opportunity and jobs. But they have left us a gift of goodness.....Their debut ep. you can down load it from band camp here http://jbrownmicsmith.bandcamp.com/album/jb-tms-ep I know I will!

No doubt we´ll be hearing more of these boys. Good on ya guys. Take it to the ausies!

 

Check out Cooking Soul

THANKS FOR BREAKING THROUGH TOMMY ILL!

Recently signing with major record label EMI Tommy Ill´s persistence with his music career seems to be paying off. With his singles Bird Bath and Shaky Clouds playing regularly on Kiwi Fm and bnet Stations and recently completing a NZ tour for his Bird Bath single and scoring yet another NZ On Air video grant for his song Living Dead. Things seem to be looking up for Tommy Ill.

Tommy Ill is most generous with his music and offers free downloads of his E.P´s on his website www.tommyill.com. The Day We Became Models is a Live Tommy Ill and Buck Beuchamp EP recorded at Red Bull Studios in Auckland and Toast and Tea Kettles is Tommy Ills debut E.P featuring songs such as Bill Cosby and I’m so famous. You can also buy his self titled debut album and his Come Home Mr Ill E.P on Itunes or where ever good music is sold.

I remember once describing Tommy Ill as just one of many lost in the wilderness of New Zealand music in a scene-less sub genre of Hip Hop that was attended by rock n roll hipsters who really just came to watch the supporting rock band. All that seems to be slowly changing for Tommy Ill and years of slashing and burning through the wilderness seems to be paying off. So on behalf of the rest off us quirky alternative white rapper types in this small little country of ours. Thanks for breaking through Tommy Ill!

Check out the video to Bird Bath.