Podcast eighteen features two excellent mixes from Portland, Oregon locals. First up is the coyote beat conductor known as PlumbLyne with an incredible mix of all original production, fallowed by crew member Brownbear with a stellar mix of spaced out future beat warmth. Artwork by Rebekah Long.

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PlumbLyne tracklist:
1. PlumbLyne – Intro w/ Michael Meade
2. PlumbLyne – In Deep
3. PlumbLyne – Pilgrimage
4. PlumbLyne – Again Begin
5. PlumbLyne – Flavor Saver
6. PlumbLyne – Noire Oh When
7. PlumbLyne – Radio Space Breaks
8. PlumbLyne – Dragon up
9. PlumbLyne – Occupado
10. PlumbLyne – Horizon w/ Tihou Beyatene

Brownbear tracklist:
1. Brownbear – Plane Language
2. Misel Quitno – Treehouse, Leaves Blowing (Brownbear Flip)
3. Brownbear – Donegal
4. Jazzo & Melodiesinfonie – H I
5. Brownbear – As We Recalled (II)
6. Brownbear – China Melt
7. Brownbear – Lift Locked (II)
8. Shut-Ins – Tropical Obstacles
9. Citymouth – Holodecker (Brownbear Remix)
10. Brownbear – Boxicles
11. @peace – Time Traveling
12. Dimlite – Heroine Roof

Podcast Sixteen features mixes from two Portland deejay / producer extraordinaires. First up is Roane of Grand Cooley and Organik Recordings followed by resident dream maker Rap Class. Photo by Patti Miller.

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Roane tracklist:
1. Dexter – Astro Thoughts
2. Muhsinah – Always (Smile)
3. Roane Namuh & Reva DeVito – Should Have Known
4. Roane Namuh – Sharkoil Pt. 1
+ Flying Lotus f/ Andreya Triana – Tea Leaf Dancers (Acapella)
5. Marc Rapson – Kalimba
6. Hawthorne Headhunters – A Song About Her (Ced No’s Remix)
7. Sa-Ra Creative Partners – Daylight
8. Jneiro Jarel – Indigo Eden
9. Arthur Verocai – Balada 45 (Jneiro Jarel Remix)
10. Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio – I Was Born On Planet Rock (Instrumental)
+ Sol Uprising – We Ourself And Us (Acapella)
11. Coleman – f/ Thundercat – Black Bush
12. Gumar And His Magical Midi Band – Sliding Down Rainbows (Roane Namuh Remix)
13. Full Crate – To The Floor
14. Tricera – Cheetoscheetoscheetoscheetoscheetos

Rap Class tracklist:
1. Rap Class – DA BOOTH
2. Mndsgn – Soup
3. Kenjyo Toru – Bun
5. Cappadonna’s verse – Camay
6. Nice Nate – Muse0muse
7. 2pac – Reputations AKA Temptations (Dirty Harry ’97 style remix)
8. Kool DJ EQ – Death of Hip Hop
9. Blu(e) – Beggars/Black Gold
10. Tricky – Strugglin’
11. Showbiz and AG – Runaway Slave (Rap Class ’08 remix)
12. Raekwon – Knowledge God

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.

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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

Installment fourteen of our podcast series features two West Coast beat luminaries. First up is A/V wizard Timeboy with a mix of psychedelic originals, followed by a mix of lo-fi textual beats by Barefoot Shrubs from the Ana.San collective. Photo by Jeffrey Acciaioli.

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Timeboy tracklist:
1. Timeboy – I Don’t Have A Clue
2. Timeboy – Progress
3. Timeboy – Cathartic Omisa
4. Timeboy – Nag Shakra
5. Timeboy – Funkamorphic
6. Timeboy – Murdolem
7. Timeboy – Such Beauty
8. Timeboy – Slow Times
9. Strangeloop & Timeboy – Growing
10. Timeboy – Comes With Something New
11. Timeboy – Cosmic Being remix ft. Rebekah Raff

Barefoot Shrubs tracklist:
1. Dak – Leas
2. Toro y Moi – I Will Talk to You
3. Kemialliset Ystävät – Suosikkiorjalleni
4. X L WOLF – Fun Mix.
5. Sumach – Garlikillz #7
6. sesshins & mezZo – (untitled)
7. YBP – Hymn (Herbal Sessions)
8. n e s t – Smoke Signals (Miko VHS mix)

Dropping Gems is proud to present the debut EP of our newest crewmembers, the Olympia-based duo Ghost Feet. The four tracks held within lay out a pretty convincing argument for the existence of supernatural beings, specifically ones that haunt the undersides of dead leaves or the tops of pine trees. The young duo combine the talents they’ve come to be known for through live performance, with Hobbes employing a range of drum machines, synthesizers and gritty sonic textures to build a framework for Qloq’s eerie guitar melodies. Their respective talents coalesce on Wires and Chords into a tight spectrum of tempos and moods. Some tracks bubble with the energy of ghost children during recess at midnight elementary school (“Pull Ups”), while others contemplate ancient laments as old as the land itself (“Bog”). We’re gratified to share this EP with the world, both for the tracks themselves and the suggestion of what’s to come.

Wires and Chords is available as a free download and limited edition cassette tape over at our Bandcamp.

Tracklist:
1. Top Papez
2. Car Pool Time
3. Bog
4. Pull Ups
5. Siq 20 (DJAO Remix) CS Only
6. Pull Ups (Slug White Remix) CS Only

Artwork by Paulina Ruiz
Mastered by Twerk @ Audible Oddities

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

Podcast Twelve features mixes from Ana.San’s nomadic lo-fi beatsmith DTCPU, and the newest members of the Dropping Gems family, Ghost Feet, from Olympia, WA. Artwork by DTCPU.

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DTCPU tracklist:
1. White Flight – Panther
2. DTCPU & Ichiro – Skua
3. Al_pd – Wahoo
4. Swarvy – Cloudbustrr
5. Delofi – Unknown
6. Matthewdavid – Motion Trouble
7. Mgr – Unknown
8. DTCPU & Offbalanceatlas – Offbalance Interlude
9. Filthy Ingredients – Sleemkau
10. DTCPU & Swarvy – Atilla
11. DTCPU & Sir Froderick – Aslowgrind
12. DTCPU & Filthy Ingredients – The Shaker
13. Filthy Ingredients – Rabbit Stew

Ghost Feet tracklist:
1. (Intro)
2. Ghost Feet – Top Papez
3. Hobbes – Every Floor has a Different Story
4. Calika – Shallow Work Is the Work I Do
5. Hobbes – Swordfish Face (DJAO Mezclada Screwmix)
6. Slug White – Yesterday
7. Mount Kimbie – Ruby
8. Ghost Feet – Bog
9. Hobbes – Telepathic Grasshopper Twins ft. Citymouth

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

Podcast Eleven is here with mixes from two very talented West Coast producers. First up is Mezzo out of California representing the ana.san collective with a mix of blissed out favorites and originals. Next up is our Portland homie Graintable throwing down a super fly and original mix of sound system bangers from his epic live set.

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Mezzo tracklist:
1. Kankick – Morning Intro
2. Caural – Sending You Colors
3. Matthewdavid & Offbalanceatlas – Roomthumpr
4. DTCPU & Ichiro – Outro
5. Shigeto – Ann Arbor pt. 1
6. Dimlite – Metal-snake Rider
7. Jamie Vex’d – Radiant Industry
8. Mono/Poly – Vibrations
9. Loon – New Life
10. The Fibonacci Spiral – (Lockbox Remix) X MF Doom
11. Ages – A Coney Island of the Mind
12. Mezzo – Chonyid Bardo
13. DTCPU & Barefoot Shrubs – Dtbsone
14. Mezzo – Paranoid Mosquito
15. Lapti – Per Aspera
16. AL_PD – Hein
17. Barefoot Shrubs – Fall Upwards Raining Dumpster (Mezzo Remix)

Graintable tracklist:
1. Graintable – Lost Frost (Gouseion Remix)
2. Gouseion – Let’s Crush (Graintable Remix)
3. Vincent Parker – Jiggy Ghost Dance (Graintable Remix)
4. The Great Mundane – Supra Mundane (Graintable Remix)
5. Graintable & J Roby – Trap Door
6. Graintable – Safehouse
7. Graintable – Shells
8. Halo Refuser – Lumbering (Graintable Remix)
9. Graintable – Sea Foam Mean
10. Graintable – Blueberry Circle

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

We’ve reached the double digits. Big one oh! This go around we have a supreme mix of smooth up-tempo party music for future society from Break Mode, a recently reunited side project of Gumar and longtime collaborator Luc Heuer. Next up is a mix of heavy hitting beats from Seattle’s DJ Introcut repping the weekly Stop Biting night.

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Break Mode Tracklist:
1. Break Mode – Requests
2. Break Mode – Hey You
3. Arthur Russell – In the Light of the Miracle (Ponytail Club Mix)
4. Fantom – Faithful
5. Break Mode – Celestial Sound
6. Break Mode – Pow
7. Break Mode – Nite Eyes

Introcut Tracklist:
1. Fulgeance – I Luv U
2. Blackpocket – Ur a sta (DBridge Remix Instrumental)
3. Darkhouse Family – Mein atari (Mr. Dibiase Lofi Reflip)
4. JSBL – The Flu (Dorian Concept RMX)
5. Loops Haunt – Joplin
6. Waajeed – Tetris
7. Caribou – Sun (Huess Remix)
8. Kelpe – Margins
9. Dizz1 – Here we go again
10. Mosca – Tilt Shift

Dropping Gems is proud to present GEM005, the long awaited release of Bone Rock’s full-length album EARS. Countless hours, records, and MPC chops have gone into this 24-track jazz-infused exploration of hip hop’s future, the defining statement in a discussion that began with the release of the “Bone Rock EP” in 2010. EARS represents a highly personal journey through the spiritual connection between people, their instruments, and their natural surroundings. More than half the tracks pay tribute to influential artists that, in their own way, have spoken to this connection and explored its contours themselves. The end result is a prismatic reflection of music’s past & future as seen through the basement laboratory windows of the present. Head-crack snares included on most beats.

Handmade limited pressing CD’s with artwork by Bone Rock and digital download available now on Bandcamp.