Our friends at Empiyah have released a dope new mixtape. U·NI·TY [noun] – A whole or totality as combining all its parts into one © Empiyah Now THIS is what we call a mixtape. London clothing label Empiyah Clothing have produced a superb mixtape via the mixing skills of Akil aka Vodou. You’ve got everything from …
Marvin Gaye’s amazing performance of Let’s Get It On in Montreux is our Throwback Thursday this week.
Some hip hop warmth coming from the UK and the US in the form of Mecca:83’s Nightshift. It seems criminal that I didn’t mention this track when it came out on Christmas Eve last year, but them’s the breaks. Manchester’s Mecca:83, with electric piano help from Philly’s Buscrates 16-Bit Ensemble and cuts from Dj Ivan6 …
Mexican funk masters Shiro Schwarz join up with Jose Fernandez on a new track. Meet Shiro Schwarz, a Mexican funk duo comprising of Pammela Rojas and Rafael Marfil. Originally starting out as PRRM, the pair have been together since 2009 with Pammela constructing the visuals and vocal samples and Rafael performing music and audio clips. …
A random discovery while on YouTube produced something pretty cool, involving Flying Lotus and Gene Kelly on roller skates.
Canadian downtempo producer Tor relaxes us with some Drum Therapy. For some reason, this fell right under my radar which is strange considering I was Bandcamp surfing a lot last year and I love a bit of downtempo/trip hop. Released just last month, Tor’s Drum Therapy really does live up to its name with soothing …
Happy birthday to The God Emcee, Rakim! Today is the 45th birthday of William Michael Griffin Jr., better known by his stage name Rakim. Arguably one of the greatest emcees to ever rock the mic, his years with Eric B. gave us classic albums such as their critically acclaimed debut Paid in Full and the follow up Follow The Leader. It would be another …
Stones Throw offer a free download of MED & Gangrene’s Run It. Frequent Madlib collaborator and Stones Throw member MED will have a new mixtape series for us all this year called Bang Ya Head IV and it’ll be available for free on Stones Throw (gosh, they’re good to us). While that’s still in the …
UK rapper Tay Devenny collabs with The Distance Ensemble to bring us something Obulous. The closest word to Obulous I could find was “obolos/obolus” which is an Ancient Greek silver coin. Whether this was intentional or not, this new EP from Tay Devenny and The Distance Ensemble probably holds more value than a small silver …
Our One To Watch is Swedish-based designer, doodler and musician Djablo. Juan Fernando Maguid is a designer, artist, animator and musician from Sweden. He owns his own company, Temperamento, and he has worked with clients as big as Ericsson and EA. But I’m not here to talk about his business today. Under the guise of …