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!”...
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
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
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
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...
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
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...
Slowed Down Paranoid Funk
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...
The Genevan Heathen Presents: G-Funk Anthology
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...
Know About It
Time to kick off the summer season in style, head outside and spread those good vibes, letting people know, what there is to know about it. Now if you didn’t know, Manchester has a blossoming Hiphop scene, headlined by class acts such as The Mouse Outfit as well as high-octane wordsmiths the likes of Mad...
Blameful Isles
While preparing a recent post on Heidelberg’s Radio Juicy imprint and browsing through their superb selections, I came upon “The Soft Weed Factor” mix by Blameful Isles, which struck me quite simply as different: distinct yet familiar, rooted in a jazz-drenched souliverse of crisp rhythms and melodic bliss, here were sounds most definitely worth exploring....
The Juice Bar
Straight from the juicy green hills of Heidelberg comes this fruitful imprint, peddling the freshest produce from Germany’s burgeoning underground Hiphop scene. Officially clouding the airwaves since 2012 Radio Juicy was initially launched as a weekly radio show, but with the support of like-minded Urban Waves Records, quickly evolved into a top-notch record label, releasing...