UK producer Orion is our One To Watch today. It’s a small world, isn’t it? While commenting on a Facebook friend’s status from Detroit, one of his friends also commented who happens to go to my university. He invited me to like his Facebook page and now we’re here. Orion (real name Ope Alayande) is …
Who remembers when The Wu-Tang Clan was repping for St. Ides in this 1995 commercial? Welcome to this week’s Throwback Thursday.
Our good friend Decknologist has put together another fantastic Madlib mix for our earlugs and it’s absolutely free. We’ve been fans of Decknologist ever since he dropped his first Madlib mix last year and we’re eternally grateful for him putting together part 2. Being one of our favourite producers, it’s great to hear his material, especially …
DJ Wax On has compiled a free mixtape full of late 70’s/early 80’s fusion and smooth jazz.
Dutch producer BINKBEATS reconstructs “The Healer” from Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part One (4th World War). We’ve seen a few “beat remake” videos over the past year, with things like Marley Marl’s ‘Classic Recipes’, this Flying Lotus reconstruction (both for Dubspot) and that amazing Massive Attack track made from vegetables but this is arguably the best we’ve …
Lady Paradox drops some bars to an acoustic cover of The Broken Orchestra’s Reach The Stars. We showed you the first of The Broken Orchestra’s acoustic sessions: In The Same Way featuring Lauren Jade. Well, they’re back with a second performance, this time by Leicester’s Lady Paradox spitting some bars over Reach The Stars. If …
Craig M. Riding is back with another guest post, this time talking about an early 90s UK hip hop classic from Manchester. Manchester and its adjoining conurbation was a strange place to be a teenager in 1990, It seemed everyone wanted to be from there. Madchester fever had gripped the nation, and the acid house …
Missed any of the Red Bull Music HΔSHTAG$ episodes? Stream them all right here. We’ve been loving this Red Bull Music HΔSHTAG$ series, a “six-part web documentary series” discussing the different ways in which Internet music culture has altered the modern musical landscape. With words from cultural proponents Flying Lotus, TNGHT, Miguel and others, it …
How many films do you know that start with a Michael Jackson track? The Meteor Man is definitely one to watch in this week’s Saturday Matinée. Movies depicting black superheroes were quite popular during the 90s. Films such as Spawn, Steel (the infamous Shaq movie), Blade and X-Men (featuring Halle Berry as Storm) were some …
With a love for hip hop, reggae and house, jungle music was a natural progression.