Machine Drum – Many Faces EP
We are so glad that Machinedrum and the LuckyMe collective have teamed up to bring us the Many Faces EP. Jam packed with early electronic production values this EP fronts up with quaking bass and acid tinges while squeezing in Hip Hop and dubby beats. There is still room however to fit in more melodic [...]
WTF!? & Dead Prez – Its Bigger Than Hip Hop UK
Originally a cheeky bootleg of the Dead Prez classic, word soon got round to the New York hip hop duo and not only did they approve it – but they offered to go in and record some new vocals for the rework. The strangely named WTF!? comprises of drum n bass veterans Adam F and [...]
Pharoahe Monch – Simon Says (BoomBaptist Remix)
This hit our inbox the other day and pushed all the right buttons. Beat maker Boom Baptist coming out of Austin Texas and has been laying down grooves for 13 years working with mostly Hip Hop acts for the US. He has provided us with a remix of the classic underground hit “Simon says” by [...]
Chi’ Akai – Androidic – free download
Brooklyn hip hop producer Chi’ Akai has inevitably welcomed comparisons to the likes of Ras G and Flying Lotus but his debut release – “The Epoch EP” definitely sees him wandering off on his own path. Hip hop with psychedelic leanings is the order of the day, from the more laid back leanings of “Neel” [...]
Parker vs Fake Blood – Mars Needs Parker – free download
Everyone and their monkey played Parker’s infamous bootleg of TC’s “Where’s My Money” (or Monkey in Parker’s case) and he’s done it again. Fake Blood are the targets this time and he’s turned in a brilliant hip hop bootleg of their massive tune “Mars”. It is big and it is clever and it’s a big [...]
Alex B – Moments LP – free download
Hype has been building for Alex B’s debut LP for a while now and his “Brain Food” mix for Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder imprint gave an early taster of what to expect by mostly comprising of his own unreleased material. The “Moments” album finally lands on Alex’s own Elm & Oak label on April 6th and [...]
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing…..
Another friday, another classic- this time in the shape of DJ Shadow‘s instrumental hip hop masterpiece “Endtroducing…..“. Released to critical acclaim in 1996, on James Lavelle‘s Mo’ Wax label, the album was created solely using samples from other records put together on a Akai MPC60. Whilst nowadays there’s a glut of artists using computers to [...]
Mux Mool – Skulltaste & free download
We’ve love Ghostly’s Mux Mool for some time and covered him on the blog here. So far he has given away singles, album tracks, and even an entire EP’s worth of b-sides. Finally his new LP Skulltaste has arrived. Thanks to our friends at RCRD LBL we can give you the whole album to stream. [...]
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – The Logic of Chance
Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip’s debut album “Angles” was by far my favourite album of 2008 and easily ranks up there in my top 5 of all time, with Le Sac’s epic beats wrapping their way around Pip’s inspiring lyrics and expertly crafted delivery, it’s an album that I constantly go back to. So [...]
Naughty By Nature – O.P.P.
Well the Friday classic from Paul arrived and got me delving through all my old hip hop stuff. So many amazing classic tunes out there. Hopefully this one keeps the day rocking away. Naughty by Nature was formed in New Jersey in 1989 and consisted of Treach, Vin Rock, and the DJ Kay Gee. Their [...]
