This cat Juan Deuce is everywhere. From The Providence Phoenix with Falside, to New York City rooftops with bare breasts and hand-grenades. Deuce also held-down some real estate in this bad mother-fucker, and is scheduled to make an appearance or two on the upcoming Time Machine mixtape, Vicious Experiments. Like I said, he’s all over the place, and, from the looks and sounds of things, Juan may be riding the Ocean State waves into new waters in 2012.

His latest and greatest, the Fonzi Wells-produced “Freeze,” slated for release on Juan’s No Sweat mixtape, can be heard right here on TECB:

Cool out with a listen, and grab the free download via SoundCloud.  For those of you feeling the tune with an interest in seeing some live Juan Deuce, peep the sidebar for all of the particulars to Juan’s show on Saturday night at PVD Social Club with fellow RI-rhymers B.Dolan and Prolyphic of Strange Famous Records.

#BEARDGANG

And I’m out.

Towards the end of last month we posted “Say Disease” from Dirty Hank and Reason which was available for free streaming to all. Well the duo’s EP is officially out and you can now get the other 8-tracks for the same exact price. Which is free, if you have trouble keeping up. Grab it over at The Monty Brogan Bandcamp page, here. I would do it sooner rather than later only because, as quoted by Hank and Reason; “For now, it’s a free download. But the safe bet is to grab it quickly, because Congress can only pass so many unemployment-benefit extensions and Brooklyn Lager isn’t getting any cheaper.” As someone who got denied unemployment, I’d like to thank them for their hospitality. Here’s “Local Press” off The Monty Brogan EP.

Rap’s Hank Moody and Reason work well with each other. Hank’s intense, liquor filled flow feeds Reason’s laid back demeanor. Each track they’re both on has the perfect change of pace in that regard. Production on the album is handled mostly by Falside the Beatsmith with a couple of tracks done by Mad Plaid. By all means, download this 9-track EP and support independent, local hip-hop.

New track off of I Self Divine’s latest release, The Upliftment Struggle. This “mixtape” is available for free download here or if you want to try it out for size and stream it first, head over to the man’s Soundcloud page. Production for “Up Aboves” is courtesy of Benzilla and Mike Swoop. My first taste of both Benzilla and I Self Divine was off of Bk-One and Benzilla’s Radio Do Canibal, which is one of my favorite compilation albums ever. The Rhymesayers camp is giving away The Upliftment Struggle in preparation for I Self Divine’s The Sounds of Low Class America, which will be out this May.

It’s a cool, dreary day in Long Beach, California today, and this track fits perfectly into the vibe the weather is giving off. I hope everyone out there is having a good Tuesday and shit.

Prolyphic will be have a set this weekend at PVD Social Club (details on the sidebar), so there isn’t much of a better way to prepare than to download yourself this little mix of obscurities:

Enjoy! And be sure to check this track if it somehow passed you by.

Black-Tokyo has been busy; steadying flipping, chopping, and sampling in his Virginia based lab. Recently we featured his collaboration with us, The Echo Chamber Ep, which is still available for free download, and not soon after he finished that project, he wrapped up another collaboration with a good friend of ours, DJ Jazz Pants. You can grab that at Jazz’s site here.

He wasn’t done with his new-found fondness of teaming up with other creatives (yeah I just said bloggers were creatives: somewhere a real writer just fell out of his chair laughing — well fuck him, and you…kidding) as he enlisted the help of artist, He Dreamt Mars, an artist and graphic designer hailing from my people’s homeland, England. He and Black-Tokyo got together on this collaboration and added a different twist. For each track Black-Tokyo crafted, HDM designed a correlating design. Pretty dope concept if you ask me. Check out my personal favorite track on this EP, “Monochrome.”

Kind of has some old Disney-movie-montage-of-characters-cleaning feel to it, but with the chops and loops we’re expected to hear from Black-Tokyo. Show some support for two artists by naming your price for this 9-track EP. Grab it up here and don’t forget to check out the accompanying track-artwork at He Dreamt Mars’ website.  Let us know what you think and as always shoot some love in the comments section.

New music out of the Phenetiks camp. Roc Doogie releases this track, “F.Y.U.” with help from producer extraordinaire JK 1 The Supernova. Take an ear gander:

If you’re not familiar with the Phenetiks, allow me to learn you real quick. They’re a hip-hop collective made up of Roc Doogie, Deto-22, The Protege, and DJ Sir.Cumference. They rep Connecticut and more recently New York. And per Roc himself, he’s not condoning domestic violence in this track, it’s more of a PSA … that he’ll “fuck you up.” Download your MP3 copy of this track here and scope some of the Phenetiks music here. Tell them The Echo Chamber crew sent ya.

We heard about Dirty Hank and Reason getting together for an EP this past summer. “Say Disease” is the first track off their forthcoming EP, The Monty Brogan EP, and if this Falside-produced track is any barometer of the rest of the EP, it should be well worth the wait. The duo feed off each other on some throw back Alkaholiks shit. Take a listen:

Be sure to grab the EP when it drops on February 7th. Shout out to the whole Poorly Drawn People crew and shout out to Ed Norton. I’m really hoping these guys got him as a feature on a track.

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SterbyRock dropped this all-vinyl x demo tape mix of B-sides and rarities the other day for free download. Most DJ’s are too frightened to put out a tape like this, but Ster did so and its made for a great collection of lost-and-found, or even forgotten, hip-hop gems.

First person that can name the artist/group, song title, and producer of at least ten of the tracks heard will be a renowned hero at TECB.  If you’re feeling over-zealous and think you can name all of the above for every track on Tape 19, please feel free to do so. You’ll certainly be schooling me.

Superheros get nice, but super villains always have the cooler outfits, cooler super powers, and more of an overall bad-ass appeal. It’s too bad Hollywood would never make a superhero movie where the superhero loses. All us comic book nerds know there’s plenty to choose from, but until then we can settle on this posse cut from Revelation, “Super Villains.”

Revelation also does the beat for this track, which is on some epic, symphony type shit. I dig it. Cuts courtesy of DJ Bishop and DJ L-Gus. Shout out to Philadelphia. Download yours, for gratis (free, for you uncultured) here. Do it.

We get a fair share of crap in our in-boxes here at TECB. So much, in fact, that when we receive something good, Chris and I celebrate by adopting a child from a war-torn nation. One such nation, Canada, is where this two-manned group, Verbezerker, originates from. Waatu and Vig Vega are who make up this (self-proclaimed) Left Field Hip Hop group and if the Waatu-produced “Memoirs of 2071″ is any indication of 2012, we should be in store for some raw, frigid music from our neighbors to the north.

Stay tuned to TECB for more work from the duo as well as other non-smut we’ll end up pushing out to your computer screens. Download your copy here and tell them TECB sent you.