The UK’s Klimeks gives us some Nibbles, a small collection of music leftover tracks. Hailing from Peterborough is Klimeks, a UK producer with no fixed musical abode. His styles navigate the sounds of hip hop, trap, electronic and all the subgenres that come with it. On Nibbles, a selection of tracks leftover from last year, …
Boom Bap Beatnik kindly puts together a mix of all the samples used on Madvillain’s Madvillainy.
UK producer Handbook gives us that boom bap with his new track, You & I.
Producer/DJ Bonobo talks about “challenging music’s borders” and his new album with NPR Music. Bonobo’s Black Sands was one of the best albums of 2010 so the follow up would have to be pretty spectacular to keep the quality up. Fortunately, he has more than enough to talent to do this and judging by the …
Check out this clip from Scratch featuring Jazzy Jay, Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow, amongst others, going through their crate digging exploits.
Flying Lotus drops his dope Adventure Time track on Soundcloud. Whenever Soundcloud crashes (and let’s face it, this is a fairly regular thing), I can’t help but wonder if Flying Lotus has something to do with it. After all, any time he drops a track on there, shit takes off like a fighter jet. This …
Sampleface’s Big Groove mixes up Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up with Hi-Five’s I Like The Way into a 80s R&B jam. We all remember those damn Rickrolls from the 00s and since then, Rick Astley has become a internet cult icon. But just when you thought there was no more moisture in the …
Imagine a database of every word from every recorded rap song. Ever. Well, it is now a reality thanks to Hip-Hop Word Count. “Who’s the best MC of all time?” Probably the most controversial question in hip hop (depending on who you ask). People can lose friends over questions like that. While there’ll probably never …
Witness Sherman Hemsley performing on Soul Train back in 1992 for this week’s Throwback Thursday.
Egon continues his Funk Archeology series at RBMA, with a look at modal jazz this month. Over at RBMA, they’ve been running a series called Funk Archaeology where former Stones Throw label manager Egon has been digging through the expansive world of music, from Russian funk to obscure vinyl in New York. This time around, …