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After a long battle with cancer, the legendary Guru passed away this Monday. The best that ever emceed over a Premier track left us at the young age of 43, rest in peace.

Droppin’ Science & Upper Playground Clothing presents…

Fresh Cuts Radio Feburary 2010 edition, featuring DMC champ DJ Matman.

Part mixtape, part knowledge, all fresh! Nothing but the very latest in underground hip-hop music.

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Tracklist:

01. Matman & Daredevil (The Brothas Grimm) – Fresh Cuts Radio Intro
02. DJ Daredevil – Shake That
03. Ty – Emotions Ft. Sarina Leah & Sean Escofrey
04. Statik Sekektah Ft. Souls Of Mischief – Laughin
05. Silhouette Brown ft. Sadat X – Get With It
06. Slum Village – Climax (Instrumental)
07. DTMD – Fantastic
08. Planet Asia & Goldchain Military – Organic Food
09. Freeway & Jake One ft. Raekwon – One Thing
10. Eliphino – Media
11. JoJo Pellegrino ft. Raekwon – Dead Serious
12. P.S.O. Ft. Homeboy Soundman, 8thW1 & Fresh Daily – Incredible (Soundmen Rmx)
13. Strong Arm Steady ft. Montage One, Evidence, Oh No & Roc C – True Champs
14. Haircut – 1000 Paper Cranes
15. Smiley The Ghetto Child & DJ Premier – I’m Legend
16. Sadat X ft. Pete Rock – Turn It Up
17. Oddisee – Kansas Bay ft. Stik Figa
19. Oddisee – Long Beach
20. X.O. – Black Broadway
21. Tranquil – Payroll (Paul White’s Dirty Dub)
22. Tranquil – Payroll (Paul White’s Dirty Verion)

Cold Legistics: After hearing some of their beats, I got in contact with Chris Brassard, one half of Cold Legistics, to get a bit of background on them and their sound. Cold Legistics started about 4 years ago, and consists of Chris Brassard & Teddy Rosenthal. Teddy goes by the name of Teddy Roxpin, lives in Boston, MA, and works with a lot of rappers in the Boston area. Chris, a native of Providence RI, currently lives in Portland Maine studying at Uni and started producing when at high school, at the young age of 15. Chris’s main influences are Dilla, Dj Premier, Pete Rock, Hi Tek, RZA, Kev Brown, and Bullion. Apart from the ‘Deeper Than You Think’ EP, Cold Legistics’ most recent release is an album released online last week called ‘Northern Star’, which can be downloaded at the link below:

Download: Cold Logistics – Northern Star

Deeper Than You Think EP: Cold Legistics uses clean, intricate drum beats and have immaculate use of sampling. Throughout the EP you can hear samples of Marvin Gaye, Gil Scott-Heron, Redman, Big L, David Axelrod and even The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, all used in moderation to compliment the beats. The album takes you on a journey through different tempos and sounds, from the laid back ‘Didn’t Want To’ with it’s Kev Brownesque guitar samples & vocals subtly echoing in the background, the Dilla inspired genius of Sampling Interlude’ and ‘I’m Gone’, to beats like ‘Coming Home’ and ‘Traffic Interlude’ which could be mistaken for 9^th Wonder produced masterpieces. This EP has a unique sound and is my favourite of what I’ve heard from Cold Legistics, but do check out the ‘Northern Star’ album too.

Download: Cold Logistics – Deeper Than You Think EP

Future Releases: Apart from future Cold Legistics releases, Chris and a crew consisting of Maine locals O*zee, Shane, Reis and Essence, will also be dropping an album soon under the name ‘In the Attic’. I’ll keep you all posted on news regarding that one.

Big thank you to Chris for help with this post.