LISTEN: Toro Y Moi – Grind (Aeon’s RePriseMix)

Donwill — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:33:31 +0000

This shit is jammin!

5/18 – Half Baked Day Party

Donwill — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:36:14 +0000

Yup, I’m playing records in public places again. This time we are gonna be in Williamsburg by Milk Bar so if you roll through kindly bring me a corn cookie, birthday cake truffle or pork bun. I’m not sure what time I’ll be rocking but I am sure that I’ll be rocking so drop by.

WATCH: Quelle Chris – Greene Eyes ft. Tanya Morgan, Fresh Daily, Cavalier)

Donwill — Wed, 15 May 2013 02:13:59 +0000

WATCH: Jermiside – Back Again

Donwill — Wed, 15 May 2013 02:09:43 +0000

Tagged: Jermiside, lessondary, Red Giants

WATCH: Spec Boogie – Dutch Guts

Donwill — Wed, 15 May 2013 02:08:37 +0000

Tagged: spec boogie

WATCH: Von Pea & Aeon – Things Have Changed

Donwill — Wed, 15 May 2013 02:07:23 +0000

Lessondary Link Roundup – Donwill, Von Pea, Ilyas & Spec Boogie

Donwill — Wed, 15 May 2013 01:44:02 +0000

I’ve slacked on keeping up with my blog and for once the crew has been pumping out music at a rapid rate. So instead of posting everything separately imma just let all the links live here. If you’ve got some time to kill (which you do) check out it out.

Von Pea - Fire Whips (click both links)

Tagged: donwill, ilyas, lessondary, spec boogie, tanya morgan, von pea

LISTEN: Top 5 Breakups Unreleased Demo

Donwill — Wed, 15 May 2013 01:23:21 +0000

Every time Stevie Wonder’s birthday rolls around I think about the original version of Top 5 Breakups because it uses Tuesday Heartbreak. Originally DCIHF was supposed to be fully produced by me and was going to be a more of an EP than LP. Well that didn’t happen and while I do still plan on doing a fully self produced project it’s hard to commit to based on how many great producers I have access to. It’ll happen tho…

At any rate happy belated birthday to one of my favorite musicians of all time, Stevie Wonder. Also shout out to DJ Low Key for sending me this demo who I hope isn’t mad at me for acting like a dick in a non-related email.

Tagged: don cusack in high fidelity, donwill, john cusack, stevie wonder

WATCH: AKIR ft Che Grand

Donwill — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:13:33 +0000

The ever elusive Che Grand pops up on the hook to this joint from AKIR and while its a very brief cameo i’ll take it. Here’s hoping we get GRAND by years end

WATCH: Cult Favorite – For All These Birds

Donwill — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:17:13 +0000

Cult Favorite is Elucid’s group with A.M. Breakups. They have an album out now titled For Madmen Only. It’s better than whatever you are listening to.

LISTEN: God Protects Me

Donwill — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 03:14:11 +0000

The date on this file is 2007 but the song is actually a few years older. I was still living in Ohio and Ilyas’ basement was our “Dungeon”. We had so many albums mapped out and in various phases of finish because Tanya Morgan was supposed to be a side project. One of those albums was an Ilwil (me and Ilyas’ pairing) album produced by Suhburb. Somewhere on a hard drive in my apartment (and probably spread out over several CD-R’s in Ilyas’ studio) lies roughly an album’s worth of demo’s for this album that are in my humble opinion pretty damn amazing. This song is probably the best, most fully realized example but if I remember correctly everything else had immense potential.

I managed to get an album out of Suhburb (Suhburban Sprawl) before he left music for academia and photography but based on me moving away from Cincinnati a lot of the Ilwil material is still just sitting around. Ilyas asked me if I was down to do a Beat Thieves 3 a few months ago but to be honest I ain’t tryna rap over a beat that I can’t call my own. He let me hear some of the stuff he had put together for it and all I can say is hopefully it sees the light of day. Maybe that’s why he signed up for Soundcloud recently.

Tagged: donwill, ilyas

3/15 Public Assembly: Tanya Morgan, Neil Armstrong, Cosmo Baker, Unkle Chip

Donwill — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:50:34 +0000

Come party with the gang this Friday as Von Pea and myself will be DJ’ing alongside a heavyweight roster including Neil Armstrong, Cosmo Baker and Unkle Chip. Shouts to Freebase & The Couch Sessions for putting this together.

Tagged: Cosmo Baker, Neil Armstrong, tanya morgan, Unkle Chip

LISTEN: Von Pea & Aeon – Alone

Donwill — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:49:37 +0000

Duly Noted drops everywhere on March 26th

Tagged: aeon, von pea

LISTEN: Tanya Morgan Live At Sputnik (Circa 07)

Donwill — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:54:33 +0000

Word to Von Pea Things Have Changed, For Real. I don’t even think Sputnik is open anymore. It probably is under new ownership or a yoga studio or some shit but at one point in time (specifically when I first moved to NYC) it was a performance venue. This show was before Brooklynati (hell The Bridge for that matter) while Ilyas was still very much a member of the group but he wasn’t at this show. Regardless check out a quick set of songs that mostly ended up on the Tanya Morgan Is A Rap Group mixtape and pardon how drunk we were.

SETLIST:

So Sweet
Chez Tanya
Sittin At The Bar
Walk My Way
We Be
Stay Tuned ft Spec Boogie
Von Sees
And You Say ft Che Grand

*That picture was taken after Brooklynati tho. Around the time the Bang N Boogie video was shot. I can tell by my jacket. I believe it was the last tour Ilyas went on with us. This post is what happens when I am sifting through my old hard drive looking for stuff.

Tagged: tanya morgan

DOWNLOAD: Tanya Morgan – For Real

Donwill — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:30:01 +0000

Some of you may have heard this at Donuts Are Forever 7 thanks to DJ Tara. Others caught it last night on Hot 97′s Real Late with Rosenberg. Most of you haven’t heard it at all though so it is my pleasure to present to you the first offering from our upcoming album Rubber Souls. I won’t say a release date yet (Summer 2013) but I will say its coming, soon. Thanks for your patience.

Produced by 6th Sense
Mixed by Ariel Borujow for ImprintOne80
Creative Direction by Crooked Engine