various artists - The Street Level Mixtape (DJ Addikt/Pro & Reg Records/ElementsParty.com)

The Elements Party folks have been important to Baltimore hip hop for a long time, and their message board is still easily the best online forum the scene has. Lately they've been stepping up their web prescence with original blogs (as well as some content copied from Gov't Names without permission, which I thought was kind of strange and unnecessary, but I'm not mad) and now this new podcast. They recruited a whole bunch of artists from the message board and elsewhere, mostly Bmore artists, to make a whole album-length compilation available as a free download on the Pro And Reg website, featuring music by Ogun, Profound, Jade Fox, E Major, Tislam The Great, Third Kind, Minlus McCracken, Wordsmith, and the Unstoppable Nuklehidz, among others. I think it's a great idea, I keep encouraging more artists around here to do things like this and DJ D-Mob's mixtapes on datpiff.com to make some of their music available for free online and make it easy for people to sample their stuff. There's going to be a listening party for the Street Level podcast Thursday November 8th at the Turntable Club

Joey Nine - "Just Forfeit" (mp3)
I believe this is the same Joey Nine aka J-Nina from The Black Family, this song is dope.

Labels: E Major, Jade Fox, mixtape/album review, mp3, Ogun, Third Kind