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Experimental digital music producer Soaring Lotus, blessed Steven Ellison, is really a grandson of songwriter Marilyn McLeod (the co-writer of Diana Ross’ “Love Hangover”), and a great-nephew of pianist Alice Coltrane, and for that reason a cousin of saxophonist Ravi Coltrane. Ellison produced beats for the Toon Network’s Adult Swim …

The first hip-hop crew signed to the Sub Pop label, Shabazz Palaces may be the brainchild of Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler, even though Digable Planets member wasn’t so quick to admit it. In ’09 2009, Shabazz Palaces released two EPs — one self-titled, the additional entitled Of Light — but Butler’s …

Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner spent the final area of the fresh millennium’s first 10 years getting the go-to bassist for virtually every designer in black color vanguard music. His nimble, syncopated, groove-heavy basslines had been noticed on albums by Erykah Badu, Sa-Ra, Soaring Lotus, as well as others. Given birth to …