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Hello To The Moon, Hello To The Sun

Hello To The Moon, Hello To The Sun

“Okay, everybody’s stupid, everybody’s dumb, shout out to the moon, shout out to the sun!” – Kool A.D. “Hickory” Wow, let’s blow the dust off this keyboard…It’s been a while since I last had the time and energy to post something on this blog, but you know what LL said: “Don’t call it a comeback!”...
Khruangbin

Khruangbin

Inspired by the obscure 1960s and 70s Thai funk recordings found on Monrakplengthai as well as Tarantino soundtracks, surf-rock sessions and groundbreaking space jazz explorations, the trio composed of Laura Lee on bass, Mark Speer on guitar and Donald "DJ" Johnson on drums set out to find and define its own spiritual soundscapes in a...
Whoop

Whoop

Releasing today under his solo alias CLAUDE, French producer extraordinaire Fulgeance follows up his already banging “Solid” EP on Musique Large with another crisp 5-piece hors d’oeuvre of modern bass music, containing just the right amount of funky pizazz to make you go “Whoop”! The eponymous title-track is a progressive, rolling house overture with sliced-up...
Dice Pool

Dice Pool

  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...
Hip Hop Coffee

Hip Hop Coffee

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...
Diggin' In Cuba

Diggin’ In Cuba

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...
Flute Funk

Flute Funk

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...
All That Jazz

All That Jazz

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...
Turkish Jams

Turkish Jams

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,...
Sub Luna City

Sub Luna City

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...
WORKINONIT

WORKINONIT

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...
Shaolin Summer

Shaolin Summer

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...