Pragmatic Theory are back with another free compilation album, Phonaesthetics, featuring Dudley Perkins and Sampleface favourite Melanin 9. Phonaesthetics – “The study of the inherent pleasantness (euphony) of the sound of certain words, phrases, and sentences. Poetry is considered euphonic, as is well-crafted literary prose. Important phonaesthetic devices of poetry are rhyme, assonance and alliteration.” …
From the depths of the Kilzone, Fresh Kils brings his battle winning routine back to YouTube. Damn those guys at YouTube with their evil copyright muscle flexing. Fresh Kils’ video of his MPC1000 Transformers routine was taken down due to the samples used but now it is back up for your viewing pleasure. If you’ve …
Peep the Electrix Tweaker, a high-performance MIDI controller from Electrix and Livid Instruments.
One man’s discarded beat is another blog’s treasure as Orion uploads an outtake onto Soundcloud. Leftover beats, demos and outtakes can really tell you about an artist because it give an indication as to just how good the released material had to have been to push out the tracks that got left behind. Or perhaps …
Flying Lotus uploads a video featuring himself, Thundercat and Herbie Hancock in the studio. I’m still not ready to deal with this. Yesterday, Flying Lotus tweeted a video entitled “Herbie” showing himself and Thundercat in the studio. That’s pretty awesome on its own but it’s not a surprise; they’ve been working together on Thundercat’s second …
The boys at HBS Music Archaeology are back with Show 45 of their series. Nothing beats a bit of vinyl in the morning (we mean the music kind ahem). If you’ve not seen their series before, HBS Music Archaeology are a couple of guys (Chris and Brad) from North West London who dig out rare …
Today marks the 30th anniversary of “that” moonwalk. RIP Michael Jackson!
UK duo The Fullest give us a Standard Of The Evening with their new video. If you liked Yellow Man, you’ll definitely like these guys. Hailing from South London, The Fullest are an electronic-tinged hip-hop duo comprised of members MyrrhSea (the lady) and Qotaye Nelson (the gentleman). If giving their track Standard Of The Evening …
Brainfeeder producer Daedelus drops some futuristic nourishment with “If We Should” featuring Laura Darlington. It’s been a couple of years since Daedelus’ last album – Bespoke on Ninja Tune – and while he’s touring with Ryan Hemsworth, Samo Sound Boy and co., he’s uploaded a crazy joint onto Soundcloud called “If We Should”. The track …
King Britt takes us on a journey through sound – Afrofuturistic sound – in his free mix.