ONE TO WATCH: Little Simz
Little Simz is our One To Watch.
Author: Joseph Guthrie
The man who claims to have made more Transatlantic flights than Charles Lindbergh is a music-loving, video-game hoarding, literary-composing freak. When he's not fulfilling his duties as the frontman of the band Ships Down, he produces his own hip-hop beats and actively contributes to the Sampleface blog. Some say The Auracle is not of this universe... assuming London is in a parallel dimension somewhere. You can find him on Google+ .
Radiohead - Weird Fishes (GO Yama Remix)
To remix a Radiohead track is one thing but to remix it and bust out your own magnificent jazz guitar solo on top of that? That’s just stellar. Meet San Diego’s own Scooter Oyama, better known as GO Yama. Frankly, I love Radiohead and I love a good Radiohead remix just as much. When the homie …
Review: Lovebox Festival 2013
Lovebox isn’t just a music festival. It’s much more than that.
Wodoo Wolcan - Keep Your Eyes Open
The place is Zurich, Switzerland. The person in question is beatsmith Wodoo Wolcan. What you are about to witness is an education in how to teach an old dog a brand new trick. Wodoo Wolcan is a brilliant producer but he might actually be a sorcerer, for all we know. How else can you explain …
Lord RAJA - Nuh (Guliver)
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 …
Ohbliv x the art of rəuse - SUNDAY
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.
Constrobuz - beats vol.6
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 …
Review: Kanye West - Yeezus
Apparently, Kanye West’s Yeezus is less Louis Vuitton Don and more Don Quixote… minus the whole chivalrous revival bit, of course. Sampleface is on the case and The Auracle is at the helm to discover what’s what.
Bugseed - Thinking Of You
About a week ago, the Japanese beat-making dynamo Bugseed gave the world a little sumthin’ sumthin’ on the day of his birth. It’s not considered customary for anyone to give a gift on their birthday but Japanese producer Bugseed was clearly feeling generous and is all about that defying expectations kind of life. Bugseed has …
ONE TO WATCH - Aperture
Down in city of Brighton, two chaps collectively known as Aperture are preparing to electrify the electronic music scene while simultaneously reminding people what it means to feel the music they listen to.