Earlier this month famed DJ/producer duo Mount Kimbie announced their weekly September residency on NTS Radio, hosting a new show every Tuesday alongside very special guests. This week’s rendition, featuring the prolific Archy Marshall (better known as King Krule, alias Edgar The Beatmaker), got going with a bunch of top-notch selections, including the previously...
Off to a slow start? Then these two fan favorites should do the trick and have you running laps in no time: Enter two cups of coffee and of course the right beat to ease the daily grind. Back in 2013 UK tagteam supreme, the Jazz Spastiks decided to take things one step further and...
Returning from a recent trip to Cuba, French DJ/Producer/Beat-Digger extraordinaire GUTS serves up a two-hour free download vinyl mixtape of vintage pearls from the island, as part of his “Pura” series. While you’re at it, you might also want to check out his previous mix of 1970’s Colombian grooves and fusion music, a mix of afro...
Ever since hearing St Germain’s “So Flute” track off his groundbreaking Tourist LP released in early 2000 I always loved me some flute in my tunes. That being said, while browsing the Wax Poetics magazine‘s latest picks I stumbled upon this 1-hour mix of funky flute-driven tracks by New York producer, beatmaker, hiphop-connoisseur and avid...
From 1971-1976 the Bay Area’s iconic, independent Black Jazz Records imprint was in full effect, until the untimely death of its founder and A&R, pianist Gene Russell that is. Home to a roster of artists including Russell himself, Doug and Jean Carn, Walter Bishop Jr., Rudolph Johnson, Chester Thompson, Henry Franklin, Calvin Keys, Kellee Patterson...
Last weekend Istanbul’s alternative music magazine Bant hosted Amsterdam’s award-winning Red Light Radio for a 6-hour live broadcast of “Turkish Jams” featuring several local acts including the likes of Farfara, Islandman, Lara Di Lara, Gevende, Ağaçkakan, The Ringo Jets, Kim Ki O, Reverie Falls On All, Pitohui, Ah! Kosmos, Palmiyeler, Can Güngör, Gaye Su Akyol,...
Released back in 2014, this London born and bred, bars and beats-riddled bedroom rhyme session is brought to you by the precociously prolific Archy Marshall, better known as King Krule, featuring under his Edgar The Beatmaker moniker, which sees him team up with the mates Rago Foot, Jadasea and Black Mack to produce the nocturnally-inclined...
Earlier this year, German splash! Festival-affiliated splash! Mag teamed up with the BeatGeeks collective, inviting some of the nation’s finest beat producers to a beatmaking bootcamp. The ten attendees were presented with the cult-worthy “Back To The Future” soundtrack to sample from and produce a beat. Among the selected few for round one of the...
Maine man Phoniks is back with some vintage-90’s hiphop-influenced mash-ups full of street cred, melody and phonk. Fresh off the press is his latest musical feat dubbed “Shaolin Summer”, which sends Staten Island’s iconic Wu-Tang Clan on a funk-filled, easy listening cruise, from the dungeon straight to the playa (that’s the beach in Spanish). The...
When it comes to pushing musical boundaries Delroy Edwards is as real as they come because, quite frankly, he doesn't seem to care about, what you or anyone else thinks. If you can't feel what he's feeding you, then you're free to go eat somewhere else. But if you're willing to try, to listen and...
Already runner-up for band name of the year in my book, Stones Throw’s Mild High Club is set to release its debut LP “Timeline” on September 18th. Alexander Brettin, former singer and guitarist of the Chicago-based Soft Candy unit, having previously recorded/performed with musically like-minded creative artists such as Ariel Pink, “I Like To Stay...
Have you ever wondered how everything seems to be connected? How in life, as long as you keep moving, things around you will move along with you, mirroring your momentum and creating an indelible chain of personal events? It never seizes to amaze me how one thing will lead to the next, how one idea...
