Detroit’s Theo Parrish talks about his love of crate digging in Electronic Beats’ Slices DVD magazine. This is actually from a year ago but it’s new to us so we’ll treat it as such. Electronic Beats is a quarterly-published magazine dedicated to electronic music and as part of their Slices DVD feature, they followed Theo …

MC Hammer’s appearance on Yo! MTV Raps is our Throwback Thursday this week. It was Hammer Time all the time back in the late 80s/early 90s and while the rapper/dancer/entrepreneur/part-time actor/preacher isn’t as famous as he used to be, we’re taking a look back at his appearance on Yo! MTV Raps back in 1990. Ed …

Beatmaster Tuamie delivers a brand new album called Masta Killa. I’ve been a huge fan of Tuamie since I heard his fantastic flip of Sade’s Sweetest Taboo (something I regularly go back to when I want to hear her dulcet tones). On Tuesday, Tuamie finally dropped his new album Masta Killa via Grand Garden Records …

Well, this is awkward. On purpose. Here are K-tel’s Difficult-to-Strip-to Hits Vol. 1. We think the name explains itself. Life will never be the same again when you’ve seen a woman slow grind on you to the sound of Eric Clapton’s Tears In Heaven. Or maybe you have a weird urge to pay a stripper …

Akai add another “element” to their MPC range with the MPC Element, billed “the most affordable MPC ever”. The competition rages on as Akai have introduced a brand new animal into the wild that is the pad controller jungle. The MPC Element comes as part of their new MPC Essentials software and costs just $150 …

Better late than never, Taytula Burke gave RKZ’s SOULar EP a listen. I hold my hands up: I’m a little late with this one. The SOULar EP from RKZ dropped in August and the shock waves are still reverberating through my iPod. The project is a collaboration from the Luton based singer-songwriter /rapper and beat …