Remember the time when Bahamadia made a track on her phone using nothing but an app and her rhymes? No? Get familiar. Times have moved on from the exclusivity of a hardware drum machine as a form of hip hop technology. There are a bunch of apps on the market now, some of which we …
Sweden’s JHAS threw some “unfinished” beats together into a gritty 8-track EP called Random Selection. Having a bunch of beats on your computer just sitting there with no real purpose is something I can identify with. They could have been made for a scrapped project or just for the sake of it. JHAS from Stockholm …
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 …
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 …
Kinetic_beats is our One To Watch today. Hailing from the Hip-Hop Mecca that is Detroit this soulful MPC lover provides us some audio delights… Live and direct from motor city Kinetic_beats sure maintains those soulful vibes with well chosen samples and classic grooves with his own signature style. Found Kinetic_beats while I was going through …
ESTA.’s tremendous Sade flip, Skyscrape($ade), has been on heavy rotation for a while and it’ll have you bugging out too.
DJ Jay Smooth made a special funk mix for Prince’s birthday this year and we’re JUST getting round to hearing it.
Who’s William Hall? Only one of many Michael Jackson impersonators. and our Throwback Thursday shows part of his performance back in the 80s on a Hispanophonic TV show. During his life and after death, Michael Jackson has had more impersonators than Rick Ross has had hot wings. The job meant appearance changes, and for some …
9th Wonder catches us off guard with a mammoth 73-track beat tape, Bladey Mae, named after his grandma. There was me getting ready to listen to some of the latest releases from this week (The Foreign Exchange, Tanya Morgan, Drake) and out of the blue, 9th Wonder dropped a 73-track beat tape (yep, seventy-three) named …
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