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 …
Flying Lotus uploads a video featuring himself, Thundercat and Herbie Hancock in the studio. I’m still not ready to deal with this. Yesterday, Flying Lotus tweeted a video entitled “Herbie” showing himself and Thundercat in the studio. That’s pretty awesome on its own but it’s not a surprise; they’ve been working together on Thundercat’s second …
The boys at HBS Music Archaeology are back with Show 45 of their series. Nothing beats a bit of vinyl in the morning (we mean the music kind ahem). If you’ve not seen their series before, HBS Music Archaeology are a couple of guys (Chris and Brad) from North West London who dig out rare …
