Mandala, by Mello Music Group

Mandala

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Udo Born into Big Band, Jazz, Motown, with parents in the industry. I found hip-hop back in 87 myself so this was a NO BRAINER 👍🏽

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Omakase, Bushido, Persona, Mandala, Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows, Mandala Vol. 2, Today's Mathematics, Self Sacrifice, and Helpless Dreamer. , and , .

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1.	Audible Doctor - No Design To This (feat Fredro Starr) 02:52	info	buy track
2.	L'Orange - The Lost Nova (feat. Mr. Lif & John Robinson) 03:07	info	buy track
3.	Quelle Chris - Supreme Codeine (feat. Miz Korona, T. Calmese) 03:41	info	buy track
4.	Oddisee - Le Boulevard Montmartre 04:26		buy track
5.	Oddisee - Invisible Walls 03:49	info	buy track
6.	Apollo Brown - The Pain Is Gone (feat. Murs) 03:22	info	buy track
7.	L'Orange - Brick Walls & Blurry Faces (feat. Castle & Blueprint) 02:35		buy track
8.	Quelle Chris - Going Swell 01:45		buy track
9.	L'Orange - You Are Safe Now (feat. Milo) 02:52		buy track
10.	Audible Doctor - The Last Real One (feat. Wise Intelligent & Has-Lo) 02:57		buy track
11.	Oddisee - Nothing Has A Never 03:21		buy track
12.	Audible Doctor - Space Age Love 02:26		buy track
13.	Juk (feat. Stik Figa & Rapper Big Pooh) 03:11	info	buy track
14.	Oddisee - Crazy High 02:58		buy track
15.	Georgia Anne Muldrow - Lost Children 02:22	info	buy track

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Mandala is the fourth Mello Music Group compilation – previous compilations include Mental Liberation, Helpless Dreamer, and Self Sacrifice.

The album showcases the ever-evolving roster of top-tier producers and rappers on MMG, many of whom (e.g. Oddisee & Quelle Chris) fill both roles with equal dexterity. Additionally, it features several artists nearby MMG, a testament to their commitment to working with those who possess singular sonic and lyrical abilities.

Mandala is at once compact and comprehensive. There is not a minute wasted and not a miss in sight. It is diverse and yet somehow cohesive, tailor made to rock your car speakers and your brain stem. It is MMG’s reminder that hip-hop is alive and well, and a reintroduction to a label that’s tried never to forget what makes music compelling.

With a multitude of producers behind the boards, the soundscapes on Mandala cover the map and the album is all the better for it. Oddisee helms the opener and tracks throughout with a musicality like few in Hip-Hop today. L’Orange brings subtle, jazzy suites to the table, and Quelle Chris provides dusty samples looped over hard-hitting drums as well as anyone else. Each beat is far richer and more inventive, able to play on its own and provide the perfect complement to the raps at hand.

As far as the rhymes are concerned, the rappers on Mandala leave nothing to chance. The MCs on the comp are intelligent and self-aware, capable of the comic, tragic, and in-between at the sound of a snare. They have an old-school reverence for rhyme with a modern state of mind and modern problems. Come-up or comedown, shine or shadow, friend or foe – they are fearless in confronting all fears.

Above all, Mandala is a sign of the great and innovative music in the history of MMG.

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released January 29, 2014

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