It shouldn’t have taken us this long to get you some of Lord RAJA’s brand of epic sauce into your life but better late than never, as they say. If you don’t know who Lord RAJA is, peep Nuh (Guliver) right now and sleep no more. Little is known about the beat-making supremo called Lord …
Month: June 2013
What happens when the art of rəuse calls up Richmond, Virginia’s Ohbliv to do a mix for them? Magical things like pots of gold, rainbows, and unicorns. Yep. It’s like that.
Back again, back again, that man Constrobuz is back again with another instalment into his beats discography. The new tape beats vol.6 is doper than dope itself. We’ve featured North Carolina’s Constrobuz on a couple of occasions now and each time we do, he just gets better and better. Long story short, Constrobuz dropped beats …
Sir CRKS blesses us again with another mix inspired by those chilled Sunday afternoons.
London MC/producer Wize spits some lyrical fire over a dusty groove called Session 1. Wize has done it again. Taken from “The Guide To Summer ’13” (out 1st July) is “Session 1”, a fantastic dusty track with all the character of an early 90s jam with its crackling drum beat and lo-fi Rhodes piano sample. …
Roc-A-Fella’s Young Guru talks about his vinyl collection and why he doesn’t have time to count his records. Young Guru is more than just a producer with close ties to Jay-Z. His time as an engineer, A&R man and something of an educator has put him above many in his field. His record collection was …
T.N.T. Jackson is our feature presentation this week, starring former Playboy model Jean Bell as TNT, a black woman who wages war with Hong Kong gangs to find her missing brother. Blaxploitation movies don’t get much better/worse than this, plotwise. T.N.T. Jackson tells the tale of TNT (played by former Playmate Of The Month Jean …
In his first post for Sampleface, RKZ reviews Ghostpoet’s Some Say I So I Say Light. So I Say, right… where to begin? I’ve never been one for birthday wish lists. That was, up until this year. 2013 saw the release of a new Ghostpoet record, “Some Say I So I Say Light”. As far …
New Jersey’s Jaw Jam takes us back to the days of old school garage and adds his own unusual musical smatterings with The Truth EP.
Tokimonsta remixed Astrud Gilberto’s Corcovado into an intergalactic electronic masterpiece. Both Tokimonsta and Astrud Gilberto have the ability to make you float away with their effortlessly elegant music. So when I was told that Tokimonsta had remixed Gilberto’s Corcovado, I had to check it out. My previous assumptions were confirmed within a few seconds as …