Dropping Gems is proud to present Gem Drops Two, the second installment of our compilation series Gem Drops. This time we’ve assembled exclusive material from a whole new set of prominent forward-thinking producers and once again paired them with brand new material from our collective’s members. The results speak for themselves: an electric melange of uptempo and downtempo jams, hazy dream melodies, and space station future-flights. As with our last compilation, our basic mission here has been to cull together the “best of” from the diverse range of styles, scenes, head-spaces and localities that catch our ear. We’re happy to call that mission a success, one that we hope to share with fans of the first Gem Drops and newcomers alike. We’re also happy to announce that all of the money raised by Gem Drops Two will be donated to our friends at the American Cancer Society to support cancer research, in the same manner as the first Gem Drops compilation. Listen, download, donate, and join us for another peek over the horizon.

The album is available as a ”name your price/donation” download on our Bandcamp page. We also have a limited run of pro dubbed cassettes with artwork available for those who donate $15 or more.

Preview Citymouth’s track Searches Birches featured by Mary Anne Hobbs on Xfm.

Tracklist:
1. Mndsgn – intenshnns
2. S.Maharba – For Someone (Abandonment)
3. DJAO – Engraving
4. Stangeloop – Duasi
5. Bone Rock – Yellow
6. Ghost Feet – Crystal Pet Part 1
7. Daedelus – California
8. Brownbear – Empty Jars
9. Co. fee – Florence
10. LDFD – SKiFREE
11. Timeboy – Twiddle Dee
12. Natasha Kmeto – Belly
13. Nocow – Sever Ties
15. Citymouth – Searches Birches
16. The Great Mundane – Deplete
17. Rap Class – Da Booth
18. D33J – Stuck
19. Gumar – Hitachi
20. Wires For Salu – WILD

Curated by Aaron Meola / Mastered by Ernest Gonzales / Artwork by ThoughtCloud

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We have a new run of Dropping Gems t-shirts now available in our online store. White design printed on black American Apparel tee with a gem logo inner tag. Ships worldwide with Dropping Gems sticker and pins. Sizes S-XXL, limited to 25. Photo by Patti Miller.

More information on our showcase, the festival and tickets can be found here.

Podcast Fifteen features mixes from LA’s Groundislava of the Wedidit collective and Friends of Friends as well as our very own purveyor of #trippy beats Citymouth. Photo by Patti Miller.

Please download this episode and subscribe to the podcast series through iTunes. You can also directly download it here.

Groundislava Tracklist:
1. SM – Empty Spaces
2. Ford And Lopatin – Break Inside
3. Groundislava – Sail Fin
4. Trey Songz – Grub On
5. Smash TV Feat. Takis – I Need
6. Oliver Huntemann and Dubfire – Terra
7. Groundislava Feat. Jake Weary – Very Basketball Remix
8. Groundislava – Sketches

Citymoth Tracklist:
1. Gumar – Darkest Dreaming
2. Ursula Bogner // Pill Wonder (COLLAGE)
3. yuk. // DJAO // Citymouth at the Gemplex (JAM SESH)
4. Oscar McClure // Hobbess (COLLAGE)
5. S. Maharba – Something In The Way She Moves
6. quick flip of this luther vandross cassette
7. Lapalux – Cousin If
8. Swarvy – MndOVrmttEr
9. WINE 3000 (Rapclassik)
10. tireduniverseman – Sungodown (ft. Citymouth)
11. Zeroh – High and Pondering

We were recently interviewed and invited to do a mix for London based Sonic Router. The in depth write up can be regarded as Dropping Gems 101, and gives background info as to the crew’s philosophy and process. Big thanks to Keith Pishnery and Oli at SR for making this happen, we feel honored to have been asked to contribute!

The mix contains exclusive and unreleased material from the whole crew.

1. Citymouth – Singlecycles
2. Brownbear – Pretty Mouth
3. Bone Rock – Chalmers
4. DJAO – Towards The Sun w/ Gumar
5. Brownbear – Empty Jars
6. Brownbear – Wings
7. Bone Rock – First Light
8. Gumar and His Magical Midi Band – Sliding Down Rainbows (Sumsun Remix)
9. DJAO – Pacific City
10. Ghost Feet – Top Papez
11. The Great Mundane – Mustache
12. DJAO – Underbrush
13. Citymouth – Neighborhoodcults
14. Ghost Feet – Bog
15. Hobbes – Telepathic Grasshopper Twins ft. Citymouth
16. Matthewdavid – Dropping Gems
17. Gumar and His Magical Midi Band – Through The Clouds

In preparation for his forthcoming full-length, Dropping Gems presents resident brain-in-a-jar Citymouth’s Holodecker EP, a five track selection of new and unreleased material. Fans of his live show will recognize several reliable classics, but for the rest of the world, these tracks are an intro to the development of one of our crew’s finest.

The Holodecker EP represents an early sampling of the current satellite-relay transmissions we believe to be authored by reclusive beat-futurist Citymouth. Held within these 5 tracks are the ancestral memories of wars fought between robo-tribes (“Fingercrampz,” “Planetsquat”), miracles beheld between bulkheads (“Sepakulive”), love baked between transistors (“Holodecker”), and docking procedures choreographed between ships which have long since dissolved into the endless rings of space debris that encircle our planet (“Nimbusfloor”). The pace alternates between frenetic and contemplative, depending on which chemicals your spacesuit nutria-tube is currently feeding you. You try to turn the knob but it’s covered in grime. You expect to hear ticking but instead perceive beeping. You’re blazed in the habitat ring. You vaporize as Earth becomes a distant memory inscribed in grease upon the plate-metal wallpaper. Five tracks later you reassemble, subtly altered, and try to decide whether you’ll press rewind.

Holodecker is available for free download and limited edition cassette tape over at our Bandcamp.

A-Side:
Fingercrampz
Holodecker
Planetsquat

B-Side:
Sepakulive
Sliding Down Rainbows (Nimbusfloor version)
CS only bonus: Holodecker (Brownbear version)

Artwork by Mark Junkunc
Mastered by Twerk @ Audible Oddities

Dropping Gems is proud to announce the compilation album Gem Drops, our sixth release. As a central goal of the project, 100% of the revenue from Gem Drops will be donated to the American Cancer Society to support cancer research.

We’ve assembled 21 tracks of amazing new material that expresses everything we love about experimental electronic hip-hop-inspired music today. We went to those we trust: friends, family, and artists from all corners of the U.S. who push boundaries and infuse their work with heart and soul. Gem Drops brings together a diverse array of styles, but remains focused on spotlighting the kind of future-sound sensibility that makes modern music worth listening to.

The album is available as a ”name your price/donation” download on our Bandcamp page. We also have a very limited run of handmade CD’s with artwork available for those who donate $15 or more.

yuk. – Sundaze
Download audio file (Sundaze.mp3)

Devonwho – Brushmetal
Download audio file (Brushmetal.mp3)

Tracklist:
1. Ankaa – Tabouli
2. Anenon – Myriad Multiples
3. Citymouth – Circuits Circuits
4. yuk. – Sundaze
5. DJAO – Shore Ghost
6. Culp – Coke N Guns
7. Bone Rock – Karmelwave
8. DTCPU & Filthy Ingredients – The Shaker
9. Juj – Kale Jams
10. Connie Hawkins – Closer To That Situation
11. WD4D – Black Body Glow
12. Gumar – Shift
13. Brownbear – Orginal Face (Timeboy Mix)
14. Natasha Kmeto – Embraces
15. Devonwho – Brushmetal
16. AL_PD – Lime Leaf
17. Shigeto – Cupids In Mud Puddles
18. Ghost Feet – siq 20
19. Sumsun – Stay FRESH Young
20. The Great Mundane – Solar Food
21. Ages – A Coney Island (Of The Mind)

Artwork by Robert Pellicer
Mastered by Twerk @ Audible Oddities
Curated by Aaron Meola

Video for Fingercrampz off Citymouth’s Holodecker EP coming out March 2011. Video chops by Shittititty.