This dude DJ Burn One is such a beast behind the boards that it’s kind of difficult to put it into words. The way he blends Southern 808s-style production with bluesy vibes is flawless and the type of sound that massages your ear into submission. The good kind of submission, though, because when his work shows up on projects by the likes of Freddie Gibbs and ASAP Rocky, we’re all better for it. As such, I’m hyped to see Burn One decided to liberate the instrumentals from his latest features and throw them on the free Where There’s Smoke mixtape, which, if you didn’t know, is at insta-download status. Burn one, indeed. [via]

Hit the skip to stream/download the tape.

Gangrene dropped Vodka & Ayahuasca this past Tuesday, and boy is it gully. Giving you one more reason to cop the full-length, Alchemist and Oh No liberate “Dark Shades”, which is accompanied with rhymes from Evidence and Roc C. By now, I figure you know what to expect from this project, crass raps over in-your-face production. Enjoy the weekend, ya’ll.

Stream the track and download it after the skip.

As we hipped y’all to last week, Boston’s Sonnymoon released their first project since signing with Plug Research. The EP, appropriately titled 2012, is a slick-and-smooth blend of slightly glitched electronics and dreamy vocals. It’s also full of perfect remix fodder for any producer looking to show off his or her skills on the boards. The first to do so is Philly’s Mndsgn, who takes a familiar Brazilian staple and weaves it into the warped sounds of Sonnymoon. Ya dig?

Hit the skip to stream and download the remix.

Screw music is no longer unique. Any album that makes a dent comparable to a two mph car collision can get the chopped & screwed treatment. The cover gets its colors inverted, or drenched in a shade of purple, and people download, and listen once. And then it’s forgotten. With bopapocalypse.’s debut project, on the nod c60., you get the sense that he actually cared enough to not just run songs through an audio program and reduce the bpm. The style with which he mixes tempos is different enough that it can actually be called a “style.” And it’s a mixtape. One minute you’ll hear Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away”, some Kendrick Lamar or Common, and then a snippet from one of my favorite anti-drug commercials. Screw music can still be interesting when its makers don’t treat it like fast food.

Hit the skip to stream “Bhang Blow Back” and download the album.