In an age when it sometimes feels like everything is for free, what’s cheap is not always good for you, and the imitations never seem to get the details right. Red Bull Music Academy goes against the grain by presenting the latest addition to our weekly blog calendar: Podfood. It’s an exclusive download every Tuesday, to supplement the nutritious beats currently bumping your portable mp3 player.

No empty-calorie bottom-feeder business here. Strictly high class (and highly-classified) menu items from our friends at indie record labels around the world, as well as the top-notch output of the Academy's own A Class Of Its Own recording sessions, where you might just catch the Om'mas Keith, Mizell Brothers, Aloe Blacc, Hannibal of Owusu & Hannibal or Theo Parrish manning the Rhodes, MPC or mic. There’ll also be offerings from Academy events from Moscow to Sydney, including previews of jam sessions from the Academy studios in Barcelona.

First in line is Westcoast hip hop legend and Academy lecturer Arabian Prince, whose anthology Innovative Life is out today on Stones Throw. Download Let’s Hit The Beach below, get the podcast of ‘Rab’s lecture session at the 2005 Academy in Seattle, or listen to his recent DJ set at Chicago’s Sonotheque on Red Bull Music Academy Radio.

Podfood #1: Arabian Prince - Let’s Hit The Beach (Stones Throw)