DJ Finesse presents a mixtape of Biggie acapellas over Premo beats. The age old question “would Biggie have been as popular were he alive today” will continue to rage on until we’re all worm food but one thing’s for sure, he sounds incredibly dope over DJ Premier beats. DJ Finesse put the whole collection together …
Prince and his band 3rd Eye Girl offer up a stonking cover of Let’s Go Crazy. Not many artists can cover their own track and change it up into something so different and so awesome. But Prince isn’t like (m)any artists. After announcing a mini tour of the West Coast, Prince has thrown up a …
Ukraine’s KLIM beats takes us to The Lost World with his latest beat tape. A while back, I wrote a piece on Ukrainian hip hop for another blog and came across KLIM beats. He was arguably the best guy I found during my research and I’m glad he’s released another album of dope beats. This …
Enjoy the wonders of dance in this video of Michael Jackson’s Origins Of The Moonwalk for our Satuday Matinée this week. It was the 30th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s Motown 25 performance this week and after watching it back (oh, the goosebumps!), I found a video of all the origins of the move and plenty …
Herbie Hancock jams with Quincy Jones and his Fairlight CMI for this week’s Throwback Thursday.
Pragmatic Theory are back with another free compilation album, Phonaesthetics, featuring Dudley Perkins and Sampleface favourite Melanin 9. Phonaesthetics – “The study of the inherent pleasantness (euphony) of the sound of certain words, phrases, and sentences. Poetry is considered euphonic, as is well-crafted literary prose. Important phonaesthetic devices of poetry are rhyme, assonance and alliteration.” …
From the depths of the Kilzone, Fresh Kils brings his battle winning routine back to YouTube. Damn those guys at YouTube with their evil copyright muscle flexing. Fresh Kils’ video of his MPC1000 Transformers routine was taken down due to the samples used but now it is back up for your viewing pleasure. If you’ve …
Peep the Electrix Tweaker, a high-performance MIDI controller from Electrix and Livid Instruments.
One man’s discarded beat is another blog’s treasure as Orion uploads an outtake onto Soundcloud. Leftover beats, demos and outtakes can really tell you about an artist because it give an indication as to just how good the released material had to have been to push out the tracks that got left behind. Or perhaps …
