Nitsua - Lost In Translation
Nitsua is his name. Japan is the setting. Superb beats is the game. Lost In Translation is the track… and you’ve got to hear this.
Author: Joseph Guthrie
The man who claims to have made more Transatlantic flights than Charles Lindbergh is a music-loving, video-game hoarding, literary-composing freak. When he's not fulfilling his duties as the frontman of the band Ships Down, he produces his own hip-hop beats and actively contributes to the Sampleface blog. Some say The Auracle is not of this universe... assuming London is in a parallel dimension somewhere. You can find him on Google+ .
Ceiling Demons - Even If
North Yorkshire, stand up. The hip-hop trio known as Ceiling Demons have dropped a properly beautiful track entitled ‘Even If’ and you should listen to it. Not now but right now.
REVIEW: Public Enemy, Blue Daisy & Knytro at Electric Brixton
The Public Enemy, Knytro, and Blue Daisy gig at Electric Brixton was off the meter. Our very own The Auracle was there and he can confirm you missed a banging show.
FREE DL: tiromancy - Knee Deep In Adele (Rumour Has It)
A rework of Adele has tiromancy “knee deep” in his latest free track. Rumour has it… There’s nothing quite like a good frickin’ remix especially when the original tune is already brilliant. Case in point: Adele’s Rumour Has It. That’s where Cincinnati’s Geoff Adams (AKA tiromancy) comes in to drop some serious house grooves and …
FREE DL: Flying Lotus - ideas+drafts+loops
A spur-of-the-moment decision from Flying Lotus to thank fans for getting him 300,000 Twitter followers has manifested itself as an impromptu compilation entitled ideas+drafts+loops.
How Did I Miss That: Knxwledge - karma.loops.prt3
Clearly we either had too much good music to partake in June 2012 because we somehow managed to miss this positively awesome album from Philly’s own Glen Booth aka Knxwledge. The Auracle reporting for euphoric overload. You never really know just how good a particular artist is until you start going through their back catalogue …
REVIEW: DarkoTheSuper - Thank You Jim Cunningham
The 19-year-old Pennsylvania-based human hip-hop experiment Evan Souza AKA DarkoTheSuper invites you on follow him on a bold and warped quest through aural space with Thank You Jim Cunningham. ‘Challenge accepted,’ says our reviewer (The Auracle). There’s something about this dude DarkoTheSuper that is so strange and flipped out, yet at the same time, it’s …
J WHY - StaWitch
He supports Arsenal and his beats are as big as the Emirates Stadium itself. Meet North London’s own Jake Whyte aka J WHY.
SATURDAY MATINÉE: Sampling Soul w/ 9th Wonder, James Peterson and Mark Anthony Neal
Grammy award-winning super producer 9th Wonder steps out of the studio and into the classroom with James Peterson and Professor Mark Anthony Neal to talk about one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, the impact it made, and much more in this week’s edition of Saturday Matinée. If you’re talking about hip-hop these …
Review: Jonwayne - Cassette 3: The Marion Morrison Mixtape
Jonwayne recently released a new mixtape and The Auracle enjoyed it so much, he almost forgot to submit the review we asked him to write. Let’s not beat around the bush here, folks: Jonwayne’s latest tape is all killer, no filler. I’ve seen his name bandied about on Twitter and whatnot but never thought to …