Mellow Monday 19: Omar LinX and Kings of the City

     Its a serious shame that I waited till halfway through the week to write this post, but in all truthfulness my intake of music over the last couple days has increased exponentially. Just yesterday I downloaded over sixty single tracks not including an hour mini mix by Rameses B and three albums, by Sabrepulse, Pyramid and Day One (no links, you'll hear them soon enough). Its gotten so bad I've started deleting podcasts on the biggest ipod money can buy. All that being said lets get stuck in.

     As may of you will know I've been following Omar LinX since A Cold Welcome was fresh and if you feel the need to hear his first two albums follow the link here. His brand new album Victor again lays down some of the best beats to cross my firewalls in a very long time, and yes the whole album features Zed's Dead, seriously try to make this sound more appealing. Once you get into it you're going to have a hard time not loving it, sure its only seven tracks long but thats half an hour of brutal dubstep backed by masterful vocals and the flow of the century. Come for the rap stay for the old school samples and more wubs than you can shake your stick at.

     Alright time for something a little closer to the heart, I have a little affair going on with anything from the UK like Kings of the City. Nationality aside I have nothing but kind words and respect for these chaps, I mean its not everyday that you just up and find six other people that agree to make music together, its even more uncommon that you'll stay together for five tapes and then make all of them free. Yeah free you read that right if you head on over to their bandcamp you can get their Covers EP, No Rules to the Game EP and the Listen to the Old Man EP, not to mention singles for I Try and Darkness featuring Klashnekoff. That's 31 tracks, over two hours of
boundary pushing tunes. When I say boundary pushing I mean no two tracks are the same, discounting the Covers EP cause that's too easy, but there original tracks are an eclectic mix of indie, rock, rap, hip hop, grime and dubstep, none of it less than top notch. So if you have the hard drive space grab it all up for the price of your email address, tell them I sent you.

   
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Mellow Monday 4 : Feature : Omar Linx

     Welcome to another solid week of music to assault your ear holes. Hopefully you've been enjoying the ride so far, we've got something special for you today, something I was saving for a while.... so we're off to the City of Ommz.

     So along time ago I agreed to let one of my publishers write on this topic but apparently my phone slept with his phones girlfriend and they don't talk anymore. The fact he released a new mixtape a week or so ago sealed the deal, you've waited too long.

     Omar Linx, an unsigned hip hop artist from  Toronto, Ontario, and one of my all time favorite rappers. He works with DJ Nef-You, in case you couldn't tell by the tags, and he's produced a couple bangers with DC & Hooks from Zed's Dead, a Toronto based dubstep duo. He's dropped two mixtapes in the last couple years and they sound more like albums.

Omar Linx - A Cold Welcome

Omar Linx - City Of Ommz 

     Hit those links to download from Mediafire for free obviously, but if you're feeling generous (and I encourage you to do so) grab them from itunes. Now on to the actual tapes. Both of these tapes contain more talent and heart than most of the mainstream rap thats being lauded as award winning these days. His first album, the one that caught my attention is a soul rending masterpiece. I could compare Omar to Kid Cudi, only for the fact that they both like to tell it how it is, life isn't always happy and those moments need to be heard. The second release tones down the emotion a bit and focuses more on the actual rap which is a bit disappointing but still amazing. So in retrospect, hit "A Cold Welcome" first then once you're sure you love Omar as much as we do grab his new release off itunes and show some support.