Through years of blatant and excessive music digging, a side effect is your ears become thirsty for more and more exclusivity. Yet, amongst the pack, there are those tunes employing old rules to glitter, and are always unbelievable and most appetising. When it regards rap, especially, despite having to move fast with words, silence and…
Category: hip hop
Remembering Ty, the Hailing Legend from UK’s Rap Scene
Remembering Benedict Okwuchukwu Godwin Chijioke, also known by the stage name TY.
Influences and Interpretations of hip-hop and other genres, into a unique flow, blessed by Ghostly’s Lord Raja
With music out on Adult Swim and Ghostly International, crafty and beat-deity Lord Raja blesses with sound-waves coming from East Atlanta Village and New York. From the places and labels’ base where resides artists such as Shigeto, Deku, Tycho, Fort Romeau and extensively more; Lord Raja proposes a perspective in music of his very own,…
Always-A-Pleasure_ The Ultimate Digging Spree from DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing
Always-A-Pleasure features Classic Reviews; of albums that never fail to amaze. Released in 1996, dedicated crate digger Joshua Davis, or DJ Shadow, debuts with the revolutionary and wide-impacting album Endtroducing. Record store digging, as pictured by William and Barney Bankhead for the album artwork, has been the process adopted and embraced by Davis to generate…
Event x Culture_ The Sound of LeftO
The Sound of. hits the scene with full force this month with tastemakers from Brussels, the mighty LeftO [Brownswood Recordings] along with the vigorous Fatoosan [Supafly Collective], and brace up as their sole intention is to blow up your mind and leave you amazed.. To widen the LeftO and Fatoosan experience, a first chapter will be…
Yarah Bravo : Love Is The Movement
Love Is The Movement are words from the heart brought out in rhythms by the Swedish-born Chilean/Brazilian Yarah Bravo. This album is all written and vocalised by her and features several contributing wizards, so be prepared for anything. Freedom Fighters is about not giving up and struggle no matter what. Dj Vadim enveloped those words through his beats…
Chief & Deheb : Leaf
Leaf is the story of two dynamic producers who combined their forces into creating an instrumental hip hop haven based on Brazillian music samples from their collection. We’re talking about Sébastien Arni a.k.a Chief and the france based, producer and dj, Deheb. The signature of the Brazillian music, i.e the rhythm engaged by the drums,…
milo : so the flies don’t come
So the Flies don’t Come is the latest album by the talented rapper, poet and wordsmith Rory Ferreira a.k.a Milo. This album is one quirky listening experience as humour and contemplation is what you’re going into. On top of that, the unique flow from the first track to the last will surely leave you thirsty for…
MC PINTY : Midnight Moods
Midnight Moods is the first album release of the london based rap artist MC Pinty. This album has everything a hip hop/rap digger is looking for. A great electronic built up along with a perfect british-accented vocal work, is what gets you to leave these songs on repeat. MC Pinty is another rising artist from the south-east…
Toonorth : Melancholy
Melancholy is the first collaboration of Dominic Martin, known as Toonorth, along Urban Wave records. Urban Waves, who is known to host remarkable artist and to offer something different on each release, held their word and brought this tremendous instrumental bag of tunes. Melancholy is a story in itself. From the first track to the last, you…
Al Dobson Jr : Rye Lane Volume II & III
Dropping soon on the 18th of March, Rye Lane Vol II & III appearing on the Rythm Section record label is the third album by the promising and enigmatic british artist Al Dobson Jr. After having given to the world Sounds from the Village Vol.1 out on Kutmah’s experimental IZWID imprint and the dashing Rye Lane Vol I ,…
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