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...
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...
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....
Weltuntergäng Crew
“We’re just another bunch of apes, locked ourselves in a cage, settled in and let it flow.” Munich & Mainz-based Weltuntergäng-Crew deliver this basement-styled, boombap-flavored rhyme session on Tieftonkultur, to show that German rap is very much alive. Grasime + Kram aus der Ecke push this two-track EP (plus instrumentals) that could be mistaken for...
Rebels On Tape
“Tapes, tapes we love dem tapes! I remember, before the downloading days, we used to go get the CD, dub it on cassette, return it, do it again and again and again and it don’t stop. Tapes, tapes we love dem tapes! Listenin’ to undergroud tapes, whether they be four-track the 16 or the 8.”...
Brussels Hustles
If Belgium had a coast, this would likely be its score. Wait a minute, Belgium does have a coast, though I’m not sure those dolphins belong there. Whatever the story behind this flavor-laden 4-track stew, GOULASH sure puts the hustle in Brussels. In a light-hearted endeavor Belgian beatmakers NOZA and Barok, DJ Kwistax and MC...
Uncharted Territory
This, my friends, is a whole new monster. Lo and behold, Magdeburg product, DJ, producer and beatsmith Q-Cut literally unleashes the kaiju on his most recent KEATS offering. Curiously entitled “Kaiju Dugu”, Q serves up an abstract arsenal of free-spirited, eerily melodic instrumentals set to your wreak havoc on your inner eye.
Reverberation Radio
Don’t judge a book by its cover, or so they say. I’m not sure if the same applies to records, but I dare say the artwork is exactly what drew me to Allah-Las and their self-entitled 2012 debut album in the first place. Sometimes you just have to trust the voice in your head going...