Don’t sleep on FreshVibez collaborative mixtape with SupaGroovalistic and BrookLille. Being busy with other Sampleface posts and developments of late, we kinda slept on this mixtape from our partners over in France. We can only apologise profusely for the oversight as the mixtape is fire! FreshVibez got together with fellow French blogs/zines SupaGroovalistic and BrookLille …
UK producer Orion is our One To Watch today. It’s a small world, isn’t it? While commenting on a Facebook friend’s status from Detroit, one of his friends also commented who happens to go to my university. He invited me to like his Facebook page and now we’re here. Orion (real name Ope Alayande) is …
Who remembers when The Wu-Tang Clan was repping for St. Ides in this 1995 commercial? Welcome to this week’s Throwback Thursday.
Our good friend Decknologist has put together another fantastic Madlib mix for our earlugs and it’s absolutely free. We’ve been fans of Decknologist ever since he dropped his first Madlib mix last year and we’re eternally grateful for him putting together part 2. Being one of our favourite producers, it’s great to hear his material, especially …
DJ Wax On has compiled a free mixtape full of late 70’s/early 80’s fusion and smooth jazz.
Dutch producer BINKBEATS reconstructs “The Healer” from Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part One (4th World War). We’ve seen a few “beat remake” videos over the past year, with things like Marley Marl’s ‘Classic Recipes’, this Flying Lotus reconstruction (both for Dubspot) and that amazing Massive Attack track made from vegetables but this is arguably the best we’ve …
Lady Paradox drops some bars to an acoustic cover of The Broken Orchestra’s Reach The Stars. We showed you the first of The Broken Orchestra’s acoustic sessions: In The Same Way featuring Lauren Jade. Well, they’re back with a second performance, this time by Leicester’s Lady Paradox spitting some bars over Reach The Stars. If …
Missed any of the Red Bull Music HΔSHTAG$ episodes? Stream them all right here. We’ve been loving this Red Bull Music HΔSHTAG$ series, a “six-part web documentary series” discussing the different ways in which Internet music culture has altered the modern musical landscape. With words from cultural proponents Flying Lotus, TNGHT, Miguel and others, it …
How many films do you know that start with a Michael Jackson track? The Meteor Man is definitely one to watch in this week’s Saturday Matinée. Movies depicting black superheroes were quite popular during the 90s. Films such as Spawn, Steel (the infamous Shaq movie), Blade and X-Men (featuring Halle Berry as Storm) were some …
It’s been a while since we heard from Sundrenched, so thankfully he has returned with a brand new EP. Lo-fi pitch bent melodies seem to be all the rage on indie beats at the moment and so far, they’ve been sounding great. Sundrenched has added to the cause with his new Emerald.EP. Following on from …