Well this has been a long time coming… Mr. Hudson finally released the video for Anyone But Him song featuring Kanye West that you can find on his Straight No Chaser album that was released last year via G.O.O.D. Music.

The video was shot nearly a year ago in the streets of Rome and was initially put on Vimeo six months ago, but made its way to the public eyes only recently.

Straight No Chaser in stores now.

download : Mr. Hudson – Anyone But Him ft. Kanye West

Yes, I’m back from my North Carolina trip, but even if I ended up battered and bruised, like Eli Porter, I MADE IT MAYYYYNE. Jokes aside, I have to thank Ryan for keeping it moving forward while I was away, the guy went in almost every day of the week and I greatly appreciate it.

Anyway, what better way to start the week than the unveilement of the highly awaited G.O.O.D. Music mixtape? I could find a couple, but right now this is topping the list. The mixtape is over 30 songs and features pretty much all the members of the G.O.O.D. Music family and extended family. I’m still in the process of listening to it, but so far I can say that the tape is dope.

Grab it while it’s hot.

thanks to Hypetrak for the player.

download : Perajok and Kanye West Presents: G.O.O.D. Ass Mixtape

If you don’t know yet, I’m a big fan of Mr. Hudson and last time I’ve heard of him was with the release of his own version of Young Forever and I was really awaiting new material from his part with much eager. Well here’s something new by one of my favorite British artist with his very own contribution to the upcoming G.O.O.D. Music mixtape entitled G.O.O.D. Ass Mixtape.

No date has been confirmed so far, but rumours has been going on that it might be released in August, but I guess that we’ll have to wait and see.

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download : Mr. Hudson – Love Never Dies

Here’s the unreleased, Mr. Hudson-only, version of Hov’ latest single Young Forever. This version of the song was supposedly going to be on Hudson latest effort, Straight No Chaser, but was cut from the final product, possibly for being too similar to Hov’s version. I can definitely say that it sounds much more fitting for Hudson than Hov to have a track like this one on his album, but you know, it’s not the first time I heard of Jay ‘jacking‘ songs like that.

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download : Mr. Hudson – Young Forever

Damn, I’ve been waiting for this track to drop ever since I’ve heard them [Big Sean & Mr. Hudson] do it at the G.O.O.D. Music performance at last year SXSW, it sounded great on the live recording and it sound even better on the studio version… apparently this version of the song is not the final one and has been asked to be taken off a couple of websites in wait for the final version to drop, but hey, I’ve been waiting for almost a year to hear this track on studio quality, so it sure ain’t going to be a different drum loop that will make me not post it. enjoy!

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download : Big Sean – Way Out ft. Mr. Hudson

If last year retrospective was called ‘Laisse Moi Tranquille 2008‘ since it was quite fitting considering the fact that I wanted nothing else from it, 2009 on the other hand was quite different, like I said in my previous post, it shared it’s own of ups and downs but the pace was more stable than 2008… leaving me time to breathe, which was a very good thing.

Anyway, I’ve always found that making lists was a bit egotastic as everyone has different tastes and rarely you will find an universal list for anything, at least a list that is ranked. Which is why, my lists are not actually ranked as I also find it very hard to put music in order, especially when so many good albums came out in 2009.

I highly suggest to check out the albums that I listed down below if you never did or heard of them before. They’re also accompagnied by reviews, a thing that I never (or rarely) did before, something I’ll probably look up to in twenty ten.

download : Phoenix – 1901

download : Florence + The Machine – You’ve Got The Love

download : KiD CuDi – Heart Of A Lion

download : Mr. Hudson – Time

download : Grizzly Bear – Ready, Able

download : Animal Collective – My Girls

download : Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is The Move

download : Passion Pit – Little Secrets

download : Miike Snow – Silvia

worth mentioning: Jay-Z – Blueprint 3, Handsome Furs – Face Control, Metric – Fantasies, Japandroids – Post-Nothing, Patrick Watson – Wooden Arms, Fever Ray – Fever Ray, Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz, La Roux – La Roux, Bat For Lashes – Daniel, The xx – xx

ps. I had to make them as images, because I couldn’t format my post in ‘advanced html’ with the use of <div> nor <table> … somehow Tumblr does not allow that.

This video needs no introduction as this is the visuals for one of the stand out track of Hov latest effort. Combining Jay and Mr. Hudson seems like a perfect match as they take a fresh spin on Alphaville’s Forever Young song. Run This Town, Empire State of Mind and this song are all good and all, but I personally cannot wait until Jay decides to put out A Star Is Born as a single.

download : Jay-Z – Young Forever ft. Mr. Hudson

As the release date of Mr. Hudson debut album Straight No Chaser gets closer and closer, material has been flowing onto the internet more and more, after the release of Time yesterday, here’s the video for Instant Messenger, another song that’s going to be featured on the album.

While October 19th arrives, you can preview Straight No Chaser here.

previously : Mr. Hudson – Time

Here’s a little video of Mr. Hudson working it up in the studio … working on his upcoming album Straight No Chaser, out 10/19. Also the mp3 for his song Time.

download : Mr. Hudson – Time

My favorite bloke out of London, Mr. Hudson revealed his latest music video for the track White Lies that’s going to be featured on his upcoming Kanye West-produced album entitled Straight No Chaser due for October.

download : Mr. Hudson – White Lies