Electronic

Flying Lotus – Flotus

Fresh off the heels of his album release last week, Flying Lotus allowed Diplo to premiere one of his many unreleased tracks on Radio 1 during one of his mixes.

Hip Hop Sampling

Knxwledge – Wraptaypes.Prt4

I don’t know about you, but I’m losing count of all these new Knxwledge releases. The next instalment in his ever-growing is Wraptaypes.Prt4 which features another set of new instrumentals with added remixes done the Knxwledge way. Now, go ahead and stream it below and give it a download because I know you guys search …

Reviews

Review: Blue Sky Black Death - NOIR + VIOLET

I’ll just get straight to it: Seattle, Washington’s own Blue Sky Black Death – the hip-hop production duo featuring Kingston and Young God – make the most beautiful beats in the world today.  No contest. As I’m sure many a-reviewer have [correctly] pointed out, so many producers aim for the cinematic, grandiose, emotive sound in …

Hip Hop

I Reminisce Over You - How I Fell In Love With Music & Hip Hop

A lot has happened to me in the past three years. I dropped out of university, rejected a graphic design scholarship, worked full time for a year, got rejected from a university and eventually went back to university (the same one that rejected me, but for a different course). Oh, and three different girlfriends as …

Reviews

Review: Languid - EarFood

We reviewed Languid’s EarFood. When you follow the yellow brick URL to Zimbabwean hip-hop producer and self-proclaimed ninja Languid’s BandCamp page for the album EarFood, a couple of things strike you almost immediately: The album art makes you feel like you’re in an art gallery, very much fixated on a certain piece that is as …