Hip Hop

BYSON - konbini

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Orlando’s BYSON takes us shopping in Japan with konbini. We featured BYSON a few months ago with his album, refresh, and now he is back with something new. “konbini” is a collection of Japanese-themed beats. The tape opens with sounds of supermarket shuffling and meanders into a piano-drum loop. The rest is a journey through …

Hip Hop

Yung K - Ghost Dog Assassin

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Urbvn Architects is a hip-hop collective from Queens and Long Island, New York. After dropping their debut album, Mutual Understandings, and gaining a small following on social media, the trio is getting ready for something new. TRIPLE THREAT EP will be their next release and we have a single. Yung K’s Ghost Dog Assassin is …

Hip Hop Sampling

The Etymology of Sampling #2 - The Loop

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In our next edition of The Etymology of Sampling, we will be looking at the word “loop”. The term has many meanings outside of sampling and music but we’ll see where we can go with it. The history behind “loop” is one of mystery. It derives from the late 14th century meaning “a fold or …