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Audio Examples (out of print CDs, free CDs. previews and original sound files)
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Many of the these CDs are out of print. For in print CDs only some of the songs are available for downloading. Original sound files not available on any CD will be here for downloading soon, including some live concerts & workshops. I now have a better Mp3 encoding program so I will redo many of the files below with higher quality and without some of the strange song endings that my previous program imposed on the encoding process. Thanks for your interest in this music.
 

An essay on my philosophy on the distribution of recorded music
(I've received a lot of requests asking me why as a musician would I supply music for downloading)
 

Motherland Pulse
1     Irate Blues (4:22)
2     Another Level (5:46)
3     Cud Ba-Rith (5:02)
4     Wights Waits For Weights (5:13)
5     No Good Time Fairies (5:48)
6     On This (5:11)
7     The Glide Was In The Ride (4:02)
8     Motherland Pulse (5:10)

On The Edge Of Tomorrow
1     Fire Revisited (4:53)
2     Fat Lay Back (2:16)
3     I'm Going Home (3:03)
4     It Is Time (2:10)
5     (In Order To Form) A More Perfect Union (7:00)
6     Little One I'll Miss You (4:37)
7     T-T-Tim (1:58)
8     Metaphysical Phunktion (4:53)
9     Nine To Five (1:44)
10   Profile Man (2:58)
11   Stone Bone (Can't Go Wrong) (6:45)
12   Almost There (2:10)
13   Change The Guard (6:01)

World Expansion (By The M-Base Neophyte)
1     Desperate Move (6:18)
2     Stone Bone Jr. (1:13)
3     Mad Monkey (3:37)
4     Dream State (6:36)
5     Tang Lung (2:49)
6     Yo Ho (4:05)
7     And They Partied... (4:17)
8     In The Park (2:10)
9     Just A Funky Old Song (2:26)
10   Urilai Thrane (1:52)
11   To Perpetuate The Funk (7:03)
12   Koshine Koji (1:43)
13   Tlydor's Bane (4:17)
14   Park (pt. II) (0:57)
15   Fire Theme [intro] (1:56)

Sine Die  (aka Death To Crack Dealers)
1     Destination (5:27)
2     Cinema Saga (5:16)
3     Soul Melange (3:51)
4     Circle C (3:54)
5     Proteus (6:37)
6     Passage (1:03)
7     First Sunrise (4:38)
8     Ur-Beat (4:22)
9     Dark To Light (4:21)
10   Profile Man (4:16)
11   Proteus Revamp (5:05)

Rhythm People: The Resurrection Of Creative Black Civilization
1     Rhythm People (7:13)
2     Blues Shifting (6:47)
3     No Conscience (5:31)
4     Neutral Zone (4:26)
5     Ain't Goin' Out Like That (5:01)
6     Step'n (6:22)
7     Dangerous (4:58)
8     Ice Moves (6:30)
9     The Posse (4:34)
10   Armageddon (Cold-Blood-ed) (6:17)

Black Science
1     The X Format (Standard Deviation) (6:44)
2     Twister (7:48)
3     Turbulence (6:22)
4     Beyond All We Know (4:10)
5     A Vial Of Calm (7:06)
6     Black Phonemics (4:01)
7     Ghost Town (6:56)
8     Magneto (2:52)
9     Cross-Fade (3:07)
10   Black Phonemics (Reprise) (1:52)

Drop Kick
1     Ramses
2     Drop Kick
3     Terra Nova
4     The Journeyman
5     Simbius Web
6     Dread Drop
7     Tschanz
8     Contemplation
9     Shift On The Fly
10   Bates Motel
11   Z Train

Rhythm In Mind
1     Afterthoughts
2     Left of Center
3     Pass It On
4     Slipped Again
5     Sweet Dawn
6     Vet Blues
7     Zec

The Tao of Mad Phat (fringe zones)
1     The Tao Of Mad Phat (15:29)
2     Alt-Shift-Return (7:10)
3     Collective Meditations I (Suite):
        Changing Of The Guard (3:56)
        Guards OnThe Train (3:04)
        Relax Your Guard (0:39)
        All The Guards There Are (2:10)
        Enter The Rhythm (People) (4:04)
4     Incantation (3:56)
5     Laid Back Schematics (8:15)
6     Polymad Nomads (10:36)
7     Little Girl On Fire (16:31)

Def Trance Beat (modalities of rhythm)
1     Flint
2     Verifiable Pedagogy (From Pedagogy And Confirmation)
3     Dogon
4     Multiplicity Of Approaches (The Afrikan Way Of Knowing)
5     The Khu (Divine Will)
6     Pad Thai
7     Jeannine's Sizzling
8     Patterns Of Force
9     The Mantra (Intonation Of Power)
10   Salt Peanuts

Myths, Modes and Means
1     Mystic Dub
2     Finger Of God
3     The Initiate
4     Madras
5     Song Of The Beginnings
6     Numerology
7     Transits

The Way of the Cipher
1     Freestyle
2     Fast Lane
3     Slow Lane
4     S-Ludes
5     Black Genghis
6     Chaos (Tech Jump)
7     Hyped
8     Laxed & Warped
9     Night Breed

Curves of Life
1     Multiplicity Of Approaches (The African Way of Knowing)
2     Country Bama
3     The Streets
4     Round Midnight
5     Drop Kick Live
6     The Gypsy
7     I'm Burnin Up (Fire Theme)

The Sign and The Seal (Transmissions of the metaphysics of a culture)
1     The Diurnal Lord (for Agayú) (7:56)
2     The Seal (Elekotó for Agayú) (9:35)
3     Passage of the River (for Oshún) (9:08)
4     Oyá Natureza (4:57)
5     Secretos del Abacuá (11:19)
6     Saudade (5:11)
7     The Metamorphosis of Amalia (12:31)
8     The Mystery of Seven (the Guaguancó in progression suite):
        Prologue (0:19)
        Guaguancó (2:35)
        Abacuá/Obatalá (1:39)
        Són (2:28)
        Abacuá/Obatalá (0:27)
        Montuno & Epilogue (5:28)

Genesis
1     Day One (9:03)
2     Day Two (10:17)
3     Day Three (5:36)
4     Day Four (8:33)
5     Day Five (7:13)
6     Day Six (9:59)
7     Day Seven (13:48)
8     Awareness (3:51)

The Opening of The Way
1     Law of Balance (6:50)
2     Pi (6:48)
3     First Cause (4:31)
4     Wheel of Nature (6:13)
5     Rite of Passage (7:04)
6     Regeneration (11:43)
7     Organic Movement (2:55)
8     The Law (7:21)
9     Fortitutde and Chaos (4:46)
10   Seti I (5:14)
11   Polar Shift (7:24)
12   Third Dynasty (4:37)

The Sonic Language of Myth
1     Precession
2     Maat
3     The Twelve Powers
4     The Gate
5     Seth
6     Ausar (Reincarnation)
7     Heru (Redemption)

The Ascension to Light  (not released in USA)
1     Reciprocity
2     Embryo
3     The 42 Assessors
4     Urban
5     Instantaneous
6     Obscurity
7     Cud Ba-Rith Redraft
8     Polarity and Equilibrium in a Fluid
9     Treading Water

Resistance Is Futile (Double CD)
1st Set  Abundance (Fullness)  (CD #1)
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1.    Wheel of Nature
2.    Beyond All We Know
3.    9 to 5
4.    Change The Guard
5.    Ah-Leu-Cha (fast)
6.    Law of Balance/Figit Time

2nd Set The Wanderer  (CD #2)
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1.    Resistance Is Futile (Limitation)
2.    Hits/Straight No Chaser
3.    Easy Living
4.    Urban
5.    Flint
6.    Pad Thai
7.    Straight Ahead
8.    Reflex

Alternate Dimension Series I  (Five Elements' release, a FREE CD available for download NOW!)
1.    Common Law (9:00)
2.    Cycle of Absolute Dominants (11:54)
3.    Ascending Numeration (9:03)
4.    Reflection Upon Two Worlds (9:12)
5.    Octagonal Dance Abstract (11:22)
6.    Ascending Numeration (alternate take) (8:57)
7.    Common Law (alternate take 1) (4:20)
8.    Common Law (alternate take 2) (4:50)

 liner notes and information for Alternate Dimension Series I
 

On The Rising Of The 64 Paths
1.    64 Path Bindings (6:57)
2.    Mist And Counterpoise (6:52)
3.    Call For Transformation (10:43)
4.    The Movement In Self (6:16)
5.    Dizzy Atmosphere (6:06)
6.    Eight Base Probing (12:45)
7.    Dizzy Atmosphere (alternate take) (7:07)
8.    Fire Revisited (8:49)

CDs released under the group name Strata Institute (Steve Coleman/Greg Osby collective ensemble)

Cipher Syntax
1     Slang
2     Bed Stuy
3     Turn Of Events
4     Decrepidus
5     Ihgnat Down
6     Micro-Move
7     Wild
8     Humantic
9     Abacus
10    Ihgnat

Transmigration
1     3 Against 2
2     Mr. Lucky
3     Speake
4     Knowledge of Cult
5     If You Could See Me Now
6     Minor Step
7     Kahn
8     Hey Jim!
9     It's You
10   Thebes
 

Anatomy Of A Groove
1     Cool Lou
2     Teefah
3     Anatomy Of A Rhythm
4     Nobody Told Me
5     Non-Fiction
6     Prism
7     Cycle Of Change
8     One Bright Morning
9     Hormones
 

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