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Beautiful new piano-driven track from this certified dream team; one of our favourite MCs in the game right now with Friendzone on production - reliably pushing it into some gorgeous, tender heights

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RQ GUEST MIX 010: FRIENDZONE

MP3: RQ Mix 010 - Friendzone


The Bay area production duo of James Laurence and Dylan Reznick, Friendzone are responsible for some of the most invigorating beats of recent times, with the last year seeing a steady stream of their own productions, mixtapes and a series of collabs with rappers Main Attrakionz. Like Clams Casino they've received a lot of attention around the term 'cloud rap' - which refers to the textural and airy qualities of a style that uses ambience to a lilting and soft-focus effect - with their tracks typically based around emotionally-weighty piano lines and draped in atmosphere.


Their mix for us shows the same care and attention to melody we've come to expect from their productions - evident in tracks such as E+E's re-work of The-Dream's Rockin That Shit and the major-key Happy Hardcore of Ram - as well as showing they know their way around the more difficult strands of electronic music and hip-hop. 


Tracklist:
DJ NATE - SHE READY REMIX 
CHIEF KEEF - DIS YOUR SONG 
RAM - SATFINAL 
E+E - THE DREEM 
SQUADDA B - WE HOTT 
KEYBOARD KID - LONGLIVESWAG 
LEIF - &GOMORRAH 
ICEZ - LIKE NIKE PRO 
KUDEO - ONSET 
SELA - SONJA (II) 
OCEAN GANG - LAYIN IN DA SAND 
GRIND MODE - ECSTACY

ZOMBIES ON THE TURF

MP3: Main Attrakionz (prod. by Friendzone) - Zombies on the Turf (Part II)

New Main Attrakionz cloud-rap just surfaced on Twitter. Produced by our preferred uplifters Friendzone, this one's actually from a ways back when they started working together in April last year.

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MY WISHLIST

MP3: Friendzone - I Have Nothing

Bay Area producers Friendzone upped this new, typically soaring/cloud-situated instrumental hip-hop to their Tumblr today, andas with previous favs like "Perfect Skies", they're really going out on a limb with the crystal clear positivity. It's more discreet than the recent "II-Major" but still as almost jarringly uplifting.

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