A Tribe Called Quest will be performing in London in July. No, it’s not 1st April and you’re not dreaming. Pretty much lost for words right now. Hip hop legends A Tribe Called Quest wil be performing in the UK for the first time in 20 years when they’ll be on stage at Wireless Festival …
We give our dream list of eight creative directors we’d like to see in 2013.
We interviewed our One To Watch from the UK, Tiago. I have had the distinct pleasure in introducing a young up and coming producer by the name of “Tiago”. This kid is talented – fact. Tiago is a 20 year old producer of Portuguese descent hailing from Crawley. Tiago spends most of his time dotted …
Waajeed discusses hip hop, beats, PPP, the ladies and the Detroit sound while crate digging in this week’s Saturday Matinée. Before Waajeed was shedding light onto the mystery behind Dilla beats, he was (and still is) a hip hop producer and what do hip hop producers like to do best? Crate dig. In 2006, Waajeed …
SoulAndMusic of NugenSoul drops his debut EP, I Introduce Soul, with cuts by Scott Xylo. SoulAndMusic (real name Samuel Chuku) is a rapper from London and his debut EP I Introduce Soul a few hours ago. The four-track EP features SoulAndMusic rapping over two Dilla and Apollo Brown beats and two Scott Xylo beats. Mixing …
Mndsgn. takes us to bed with his new EP. But in a good way. And not in *that* way… LA-based producer Mndsgn. released a new EP via Bandcamp on 25th February. Entitled “bed”, the EP contains some really atmospheric compositions such as the intro track “laps”, the hazy “try this peppermint soap” and the ambient …
Don’t sleep on FreshVibez collaborative mixtape with SupaGroovalistic and BrookLille. Being busy with other Sampleface posts and developments of late, we kinda slept on this mixtape from our partners over in France. We can only apologise profusely for the oversight as the mixtape is fire! FreshVibez got together with fellow French blogs/zines SupaGroovalistic and BrookLille …
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 …