Oddisee – Odd Summer [mixtape]

I first heard this cat on DJ Jazzy Jeff’s classic The Magnificent LP back in 2002. I didn’t start hearing any of his production work until Little Brother released their …and Justus for All mixtape a few years ago. Since then, he has worked with a number of artists including Freeway (for his Month of Madness in December), on last year’s mixtape EP with Hot97’s Peter Rosenberg, “A Rosenberg Oddisee” and then finally with DC-based Diamond District, a group he founded with XO and yU. Check out DJ Jon Oliver’s blog for a review of this one. This summer, Oddisee has released a new mixtape of his own new instrumental material, save for the last track with Muhsinah Abdul-Karim who has most recently appeared on Common’s and The Foreign Exchange’s last albums. Odd Summer is a groovy and yes, very summery, mixtape (download it here). It is only eight tracks long and mostly very fun and upbeat. I have included the very Roy Ayers / Donald Byrd jazz-funk-sounding track “When Everything Changed” to give you a taste of his work:

Oddisee – When Everything Changed | mixtape