Summary of Recent Discoveries Pt. 173

 Here are some things I've enjoyed recently:

• A Flying Lotus mixtape of Thundercat songs (the emerging electronic musician, not the classic cartoon of the late 80s), including stuff from his new album, plus some older joints, remixes and unreleased material.

• A superb reggae documentary streaming online.

• A stream of the highly anticipated (and released digitally today) Jay-Z x Kanye collaboration album Watch the Throne, which is cool to listen to first, but which I can unequivocally say is one of the strongest hip hop albums in the mass cultural cache division, and good enough to merit purchasing it in order to make a statement that major labels need to promote hip hop as much as ignant club/trap rap. Money talks.

• Roy Ayers discusses the merits of sampling.