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...
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...
Enter the Wu
Taiwan/South London product Henry Wu is straight trailblazing at the moment, pushing forth a pair of brilliantly soulful and skillfully tightknit releases on Alexander Nut’s Eglo Records related Ho Tep imprint as well as on Berlin-based Odd Socks Records respectively. Both releases feature a fine selection of keys-driven, melodic house gems and beats with a...