Here is our selection of five music blogs you should be reading.
4hero’s Marc Mac produces the rugged and raw “That Is That” for T.R.A.C., featuring Yahzeed Divine. When thoughts are drawn towards 4hero and, more specifically Marc Mac, his pioneering work in drum & bass and his later fusion with nu jazz instantly come to mind. But his tremendous hip hop production can’t be overlooked and …
Some Sampleface favourites from the UK – Reppatwa and Motel Eola – joined forces on August 18th and released August 19th the next day, naturally. There’s no mistaking it – we’ve been heavily late on this. We’re sorry. But good music is timeless so it’s not so bad, right? Anyway, we’ve been keeping tabs on …
Oh No’s adventures through the worlds of library music has brought him to another Now-Again compilation.
Get some hip hop knowledge from this week’s Saturday Matinée where KRS One discusses philosophy and hip hop’s origins. New listeners to hip hop have the disadvantage of having a culture and its music forced down its throat by the media with little or no links to its past heritage. That’s not to say all …
Akai and their line of MPC’s have ruled the roost for the past couple of decades, with the SP-1200 the only real competition in that department. Now that we have the Maschine, things are a little different but back in 2001, Roland Corporation fused and improved upon the qualities of their Roland MS-1 Digital Sampler …
As we inch ever closer to autumn, Yancey Boys drop another Dilla-produced gem in Quicksand.
In arguably the funniest edition of Rhythm Roulette, El-P makes a beat from scratch out of three records and some broken equipment. Sometimes you just can’t trust your equipment when making a track; you have to make do with what you have – like in life. One such occasion occurred in the latest edition of …
Our Throwback Thursday this week is dedicated to the late great Michael Jackson on his 55th birthday. Here is his Grammy Awards Performance from 1988. First off, happy birthday Michael Jackson! The King Of Pop would have been 55 years old today and while he can’t be with us to celebrate we can sure as …
Kaly’s new track letting us know he “can’t stop and won’t stop” and to be honest we wouldn’t want him to either.