Hip Hop

Klimeks - Nibbles

The UK’s Klimeks gives us some Nibbles, a small collection of music leftover tracks. Hailing from Peterborough is Klimeks, a UK producer with no fixed musical abode. His styles navigate the sounds of hip hop, trap, electronic and all the subgenres that come with it. On Nibbles, a selection of tracks leftover from last year, …

Electronic

Bonobo Discusses His New Album With NPR Music

Producer/DJ Bonobo talks about “challenging music’s borders” and his new album with NPR Music. Bonobo’s Black Sands was one of the best albums of 2010 so the follow up would have to be pretty spectacular to keep the quality up. Fortunately, he has more than enough to talent to do this and judging by the …

Music

SATURDAY MATINÉE: Scratch DVD - Digging In The Crates

Check out this clip from Scratch featuring Jazzy Jay, Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow, amongst others, going through their crate digging exploits. This is only 9 minutes long, but it should entice you to get the whole documentary. In 2002, a documentary called Scratch was released all about DJing, vinyl and digging, some of the …

Electronic

Flying Lotus - About that time//A glitch is a glitch

Flying Lotus drops his dope Adventure Time track on Soundcloud. Whenever Soundcloud crashes (and let’s face it, this is a fairly regular thing), I can’t help but wonder if Flying Lotus has something to do with it. After all, any time he drops a track on there, shit takes off like a fighter jet. This …

Hip Hop

Hip-Hop Word Count - A Database Of Every Word In Every Rap Song Ever

Imagine a database of every word from every recorded rap song. Ever. Well, it is now a reality thanks to Hip-Hop Word Count. “Who’s the best MC of all time?” Probably the most controversial question in hip hop (depending on who you ask). People can lose friends over questions like that. While there’ll probably never …