What do you get when you put Mike Tyson in a backstage room with some of the biggest names in 80s hip hop? Find out in this week’s Throwback Thursday. In the year that he unified the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, Mike Tyson was pretty much untouchable. If there was ever a soundtrack needed …
It’s the last day of Dilla Month and 28 Days Of Dilla. We saved the best for last as we give a Sampleface Salute to Dilla’s most famous album, Donuts.
Our penultimate day of 28 Days Of Dilla is dedicated to Carlos Niño, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and their orchestra’s cover of Fall In Love for Suite For Ma Dukes. As we’re coming close to the end of Dilla month, we thought we’d look at one of the many different Dilla interpretations. Suite for Ma Dukes was …
Day 26 is dedicated to possibly one of the rarest Dilla tracks out there, so much so it only exists in video form. In a Dilla Breaks episode from October, a Slum Village cut called Feelin Good was discussed. The sample used was The Frank Cunimondo Trio’s cover of the classic “Feelin Good”. Probably not …
MED & Blu’s The Burgundy EP is now available for streaming. After the great response for Burgundy Whip, The Burgundy EP is finally available for streaming over at Spotify. The nine-track EP, featuring mainly Madlib beats – half vocal, half instrumental – is also available for pre-order on the Stones Throw website. We’re especially looking forward …
Jun ‘Nujabes’ Seba could be viewed as Japan’s answer to James ‘Jay Dee/J Dilla’ Yancey and the Luv(sic) series he did with the emcee Shing02 is still highly regarded as the best work Nujabes ever released.
We say farewell to Bling47 Breaks Dilla Edition but not before Waajeed discusses the humble beginnings of the label. We’re crying some thug tears over here as Bling47 Breaks Dilla Edition comes to an end. For a year or so, the video series has shed light on Dilla’s life, work and mystery behind the beats. …
In our latest instalment of “How Did I Miss That?”, we have Pharrell and DJ Premier joking around backstage. Yesterday, we discussed what happened when Madlib and J Dilla, two of the best hip hop producers out there, got together and now we’re talking about two more: Pharrell Williams and DJ Premier. This video, which …
The homie Languid takes no days off even on his days off. Fresh off the last collaborative effort with SoulStarr, Languid’s back with a new LP entitled Pheels and it’s all about that love jones in your bones. The Zimbabwean-born British producer continues to showcase his talents on this smoother-than-smooth release, further proving that he …
We love… that raw shit! We take a look at Jaylib’s Champion Sound.