You’re gonna wanna peep this J Dilla interview from 2003 for Day 3 of 28 Days Of Dilla.
For The Auracle’s second instalment of his “Into The Land Of Ooo…” beat series, he gets his trap on. Anyone who knows me will know I HATE trap music. That means it’s gonna take something special to shake my dislike. That’s where The Auracle storms in, with Tough & Buff, Baby. The inner ratchet child …
Netherlands based MC/producer Dave Redi gives us some Monologic. Monologic. The title says it all, a monologue of a single speaker dwelling on personal experience – Dave Redi Off the back of two successful beat tapes, The Ear Infection Sessions and Insomniac Music, Dave Redi has returned this time with a full album of beats …
On Day 2 of 28 Days Of Dilla, we look at his early beat album, Vol. 2: Vintage.
To commemorate the month of Dilla’s birth and death, we’re bringing you 28 Days of Dilla. Day 1 is about Donuts cut, Workinonit.
Our friends at Empiyah have released a dope new mixtape.
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.