Some hip hop warmth coming from the UK and the US in the form of Mecca:83’s Nightshift. It seems criminal that I didn’t mention this track when it came out on Christmas Eve last year, but them’s the breaks. Manchester’s Mecca:83, with electric piano help from Philly’s Buscrates 16-Bit Ensemble and cuts from Dj Ivan6 …
Stones Throw offer a free download of MED & Gangrene’s Run It. Frequent Madlib collaborator and Stones Throw member MED will have a new mixtape series for us all this year called Bang Ya Head IV and it’ll be available for free on Stones Throw (gosh, they’re good to us). While that’s still in the …
UK rapper Tay Devenny collabs with The Distance Ensemble to bring us something Obulous. The closest word to Obulous I could find was “obolos/obolus” which is an Ancient Greek silver coin. Whether this was intentional or not, this new EP from Tay Devenny and The Distance Ensemble probably holds more value than a small silver …
Like clockwork, Cocaine 80s release their new EP, The Flower Of Life EP You’ll remember us talking about Cocaine 80s new track Fly Ass Pisces from Saturday, featuring Jhené Aiko and Common. Well, the EP the track is on has dropped. Quick, huh? It’s called The Flower Of Life and contains some really smooth snythy …
Fauntleroy of Cocaine 80s comes with a superb R&B jam called Fine Ass Pisces, featuring Jhené Aiko and Common. Ever since Chain Glow with Nas last year, I’ve really enjoyed Cocaine 80s and what they’ve come out with. If you’ve never heard of them before, they’re a collective of musicians, singers, and one rapper (Common) …
Apollo Brown and Guilty Simpson give us a “free run” through their bonus track Parkour.
RKZ releases his free mixtape, Words of Adrenaline. After all those videos and teasers from the past few weeks, RKZ’s hotly anticipated mixtape has finally arrived. Describe as having a theme revolving around “waiting/floating”, the release contains fifteen of the smoothest experimental R&B/hip hop cuts you’ll hear out of the UK this year, with production …
Beatmaker Exile releases a free mixtape featuring rare Blu & Aloe Blacc tracks. I do love a good free mixtape (as long as it’s actually good). Rest assured, when I heard Exile had released one, I was on it immediately. Cassette is a collection of unreleased tracks taken straight from his four-track recorder. Amongst the songs, you …
Greek producer mononome finds The Secret Melody in his second EP. Ever since I got my own MPC, I’ve been scouring YouTube and the internet for tips and videos of people using them, to get a feel for it all. I’ve even started searching for “MPC albums”, releases made using the Akai drum machine. One …
Something nasty this way comes, from Apollo Brown & Guilty Simpson.
Our One To Watch, German producer Pawcut, likes to keep things real.
Our One To Watch, German producer Pawcut, likes to keep things real.
Motel Eola brings us his third and final musical lecture. As the man himself says “It’s time to get re-educated; music class has now commenced” and your teacher for this week will be will Motel Eola. Through the final instalment of his three-part EP series Go to School the 3rd, he’ll be discussing the basics of …
Check out the latest album UK producer Exibeo and his beat tape Extrumentals.
If you’re looking for “That Real Live Shit”, DarkoTheSuper and Khryo have it.
Label Love gives us a fifth instalment into their series with a jazz edition. We love jazz here at Sampleface so when we heard about Label Love’s Jazz Edition, we had to get a copy as soon as possible. The fifth in the series, this compilation reaches out to numerous labels including Revive Music Group, Tru …
Potholes Music provides us with some hot Robot Soup.
Motel Eola’s ‘Go To School the 2nd’.
We’re pleased to find Deadpoole released another beat tape, this time in the form of a collaborative EP with fellow Ipswich producer Cellar Door.
Check out the latest track and video from Californian producer and Brainfeeder member Teebs and Yuk.