Pete Rock & Smif-N-Wessun
August 5, 2011 Leave a comment
Pete Rock on the beats and raps from Bun-B, Raekwon, Sean Price and Boot Camp Click. Need I say more.
Booka Shade
August 3, 2011 Leave a comment
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I bring you Booka Shade, a German tech-house duo. House music with song structure, by which I mean real intros and breaks that are more than just fading out the low or high ends. Although they use basic techno sounds there is rhythm and melody to their music. The use of vocal samples is better than any house artist I can think of. The influences of classical, jazz and rock combined with house creates music with emotional content. I saw them in their hometown Berlin, never sleep on a chance to see them, with live drums and production they had an ass packed warehouse moving all night. They will be touring the US as part of the Identity Festival this summer, for more check out BookaShade.
New Hudson Mohawke
August 1, 2011 Leave a comment
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Today Hudson Mohawk released his new EP Satin Panthers on Wrap records. The opening song sounds like the start-up to a video game, and from there you stay in game mode throughout the 5 tracks. He starts to get into his glitchy, high-pitched synth, hip-hop style pretty quick though. With lots more bass and chops Thunder Bay and Cbat would be the battle stages. The ending track All of your Love is a vocal, piano layered dance track, on some ending credits shit, congrats you recused the princess, beat the game but don’t worry it gets better every time. Also check out Polyfolk Dance EP.
DJ Ezasscul – Fine Hip Hop Instrumentals
July 29, 2011 Leave a comment
Yes, they are indeed. Compiled and mixed by our boy, DJ Ezasscul, this mix features some of my personal favorites. This is the perfect way to start the weekend.
Juicy (Pete Rock Remix – instrumental)
Nujabes – Blessing it Remix
More on that Ez tip, our interview with him will be up very soon. So excited to hear what he has to say.
Savath & Savalas
July 29, 2011 Leave a comment
From electronic hip-hop and lo-fi producer Guillermo Scott Herren, better known as Prefuse 73, comes his side project Savath & Savalas. Downtempo, atmospheric and ambient. It sounds like waking up next to a beautiful woman on a Sunday morning, in Spain and then having her sing to you for a week. This is some of the most relaxing, soothing headphone music I own, and since most of the lyrics are in Spanish you can really zone out. Herren makes use of natural samples like waves, and people walking around the kitchen to create soundscapes and some tight tracks.
Moby – Remixes
July 28, 2011 Leave a comment
Here are some banging house remixes of Moby’s “Lie Down in Darkness.”
Does anyone know who made this beat tape?
July 28, 2011 Leave a comment
Seriously. No one knows who made it. A record buyer was recently moving out of his apartment and found a tape lying around from the 90′s. After he listened to it and realized it was dope as fuck, he wanted to contact the producers. The tape was labeled ‘Midnight Eez’ and had a beeper number. Dude calls the number but it’s out of service. True story.
If the members of Midnight Eez are out there reading this, let me holler at you for a second. This beat tape is on some classic hip-hop shit. It’s a time machine, taking me back to the BK, chilling on a corner in my G.U.E.S.S. Jeans and Oshkosh, puffin’ on some live. Even the sound quality puts a smile on my face, that faint static buzz in the background that reminds you this was originally recorded on cassette. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww wwwwwweeeeeeeeeeee.
Hip-hop heads – download this hot shit
The Heavy
July 27, 2011 Leave a comment
Hiding in the UK is the new age James Brown. Not really, but if he formed a rock band in the 21st century he might play in The Heavy. With gritty guitar fulled rock, dope horns and a huge vocal range they bring some much needed funk to the scene. At times they are soulful, others bluesy and on Cause for Alarm it is a straight reggae track, they got all the bases covered. Bands like this really give me hope for rock music. In 2009 they released this CD on Ninja Tune.
Download – The House That Dirt Built
Charlie Parker & Chet Baker – Live at The Trade Winds
July 26, 2011 Leave a comment
I’m not going to come at you like some smug jazz aficionado. Since writing more than a few sentences on this CD would make me sound like just that, I’m going to keep this short and sweet. Out of my very limited collection of Jazz albums, this is my favorite. SHIT IS MAD CRAZY, YO!
The Hi-Hat Club
July 25, 2011 Leave a comment
For the past few years Melting Pot Music has teamed up with photographer Robert Winter to bring you the freshest installment of European hip-hop producers. Each LP release in the Hi-Hat Club series includes a book of photos and an accompanying showcase usually in Berlin, Germany. The Hi-Hat Club is made up of beat makers from around western Europe, showing their take on downtempo hip-hop. A great compilation by some very talented producers.
Vol. 1 Testiculo Y Uno – Download
This first volume of the Hi-Hat series features producers Hulk Hodn and Twit One, two of the biggest names in the burgeoning Cologne, Germany hip-hop scene.
Vol. 2 Suff Daddy – Suff Draft Download
With samples from B.I.G. to the Isley brothers, you can tell Suff daddy has his American music down. Nice drum driven beats over some melodic synths. Suff means “drinking heavy” in German, now based in Berlin, he grew up listening to 90s American rap and his music shows the influence.
Vol. 3 Dexter – The Jazz Files Download
With volume 3 German producer Dexter shows his love for jazzstrumentals. Using old jazz records and samples from the NBC program “The subject is jazz” with new drums, he creates a timeless beattape.
Vol. 4 Brenk & Fid Mella – Chop Shop Download
Starting off with a Trey the Truth sample Brenk and Fid Mella bring a new style of production to the series. The Chop Shop is soulful and banging with elements of glitch and electronica that the other LPs lack. Fid Mella is originally from Meran, Italy but now lives in Vienna with Brenk. They are doing work with a ton of MCs look for more to come.
Contributors
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miles kennefick
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Rusty Shackleford
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john2hite
