With Xmas just round the corner, seasoned Cali producer and rapper Exile has gifted the world a free compilation of unreleased material. 

Most hip-hop fans will have stumbled across Exile at some point: he worked with Aloe Blacc as Emanon back in the mid 1990s, and spent the following decade farming out beats for the likes of Jurassic 5 and Mobb Deep. Having stepped into the spotlight as a rapper on 2006′s Dirty Science LP, Exile’s repeatedly clubbed up with Blu (cf last year’s Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them), and thrilled us with 2010′s Radio AM/FM, an inspired collage piece stitched together entirely from radio recordings.

Free compilation Cassette collects a host of offcuts from across the producer’s career. The selections are taken from 1996-2009, covering everything from Exile’s earliest work with Emanon to more contemporary efforts with Blu. Unused material from the Dirty Science sessions also features.

It’s an avowedly rough and ready set, recorded “straight out of the muthafukin four track”. This being Exile, there’s some great stuff here that elevates Cassette above the usual odds’n’sods giveaway fodder. Click here to download the tape.

Tracklisting:
1. Hour Glass
2. Holla
3. Hoe
4. Never No
5. Motherfucker
6. Like That [produced by Kan Kick]
7. Exile Smile
8. My People
9. Jail
10. Paquito
11. 6 Million Ways
12. Its Gonna Be Okay [ft. Blu]
13. I Am Blu (demo version) [ft. Blu]
14. Blamexile Pt. 2 [ft. Blame]
15. Amercian Dreamz 1996 [ft Aloe Blacc]
16. Farewell (demo version) [ft. Aloe Blacc]