The Str. Flava mix-tape Available to Download

Track listing:
- Intro
- live at mutha fm
- live @ Zula sound bar
- Kreation
- T.H citizen
- Can’t cool feat. Sammy Sparks
- Skit...
- Street Poet feat. Vuvu
- Another day
- live @ mutha fm
- Skit
- keep looking
- Sound Boy feat. Crosby
- Flavor skit
- Forever instrumental
- Outré


DJ BlaQt selects Korianda - Str. flava mix-tape by DJBlaQt


REVIEWS >>-------------------------------------------------

*Korianda - Freestyles, Unreleased and Rare treats

The timing of this release of Korianda freestyles, unreleased goodies and other rare treats (compiled by his number one fan DJ BlaQ T) makes little sense on a number of fronts.
Firstly, as the clutch of joints uploaded on his MySpace page suggest, Korianda Izajah has moved on to considerably harsher dancehall terrain; a zone more commonplace with the extended Chronic Clan’s repertoire than with Fifth Floor’s 2005 album Attention to Detail. Secondly, BlaQt has been sitting on this material since 2006, flashing it like a hobo rocking a trench coat on his blog and elsewhere in cyberspace.

But having said all that, this release, “mastered” in T’s Vosloorus bedroom, is important in its capturing the raw essence and versatility of this Gugulethu street poet, in a many-moods-of-Moses sort of way.

The collection launches with a static-filled radio dial up intro, which shifts into a wobbly freestyle before segueing into a fierce but somber poetry piece about the true lie that is Azania’s freedom. The unaccompanied piece was performed at Zula Bar in Cape Town’s Long Street.
From then on, the momentum picks up with the dark Kreation, a track whose mood and beat is reminiscent of Jeru’s Come Clean, except that Korianda’s careening multilingual flow is a has a rougher edge to it. The browbeating continues when T. H. Citizen, probably the most abstract weed anthem you will ever encounter, is scratched in immediately afterwards. This joint is a perfect example of Korianda’s connect-the-dots lyrical sensibility. But soon enough, the needle is pulled and lands on the b-boy-meets-Rasta tag team of Korianda and Sammy Sparks, in the form of Can’t Cool, as heard on Attention to Detail. Korianda kills the hook as if a chalwa flame resides in his throat, and drops a verse that burns those who eat “sperm and swine first thing in the morning”. Ouch! Street Poet, featuring Vuvu on the hook, is a personal favorite, with Kori running through a checklist of tools and motifs that typify the Cape Town hip-hop scene, weaving his vision in between a big booty bass line and a floating flute.

From here on, an uneven freestyle is framed by two flavor BlaQt joints, before a skit leads to the driving Sound Bwoy, featuring punching drums and the distinct vocals of Crosby on the hook. My verdict: a dope, fast-paced showcase for a 25 minute joint, but it leaves me wondering what new herbs Korianda is experimenting with...writes Kwanele Sosibo



*Mix-Tape Kulture....

DJ BlaQt went on digging on one of Mzantsi’s (SA) finest emcee/poet Korianda to bring out the Street Flava Mix-tape, the Gugulethu born and brewed verbalist who`s prolific styles of rhyming makes hard not to notices his artistry on the tape, a member of the crew 5th Floor is brought to your ears and attention like never before on this one.

On the tape BlaQt brings out some unreleased material, tracks like T.H Citizen, keep Looking and Street Poet (written about the cape town’s hip-hop scene and soon to be released with his forthcoming E.p).Freestyles live at mutha fm. Plus Kreation (which also appears on Yfm`s Harambe dope Session Compilation) and the reggae influenced Can’t Cool featuring his crew member Sammy Sparks from the album attention to detail by 5th floor.....Review by Y Magazine(issue#70)

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[Some Extra material from Korianda]



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Korianda`s links….
Email: gugz37@hotmail.com
Web page: www.myspace.com/korianda
Audio link: www.lala.com/artist/5th_floor_ft_korianda


DJ BlaQt`s links….
Fax: 0866 575 5316
Email: djblaqt@gmail.com
Blog: www.djblaqt.blogspot.com
Web page: www.myspace.com/djblaqt