Hip Hop

Namebe Soul - Souvenirs

Leicester’s Namebe Soul brings us back some Souvenirs on his new EP. It’s been a while since we’ve heard Namebe Soul and yesterday, he dropped his latest EP. Souvenirs is a collection of seven tracks with no deep underlying connection other than the words that Namebe Soul weaves. Each track tells its own story, with …

Hip Hop

Sik Sense - Don’t Talk to Strangers Vol.2

Leicester’s Sik Sense drops the second volume of his Don’t Talk to Strangers series. We don’t champion UK music enough here so we love when UK artists get in touch and they come with dope music. Sik Sense is a producer from Leicester (home to our very own Scott Xylo) and a couple of weeks …

Hip Hop

Richie Saps & Scott Xylo – Infinite

East London based wordsmith Richie Saps joins forces with Leicester based producer Scott Xylo to deftly regale us with a tale of his immortality… The relationship between producer and emcee has been an integral part of hip hop since its nascent days. On rare occasions, the artistic understanding between these two individuals can be exceptionally …

Interviews

Interview: Scott Xylo

Ashton James Brown caught up with intrepid beatsmith Scott Xylo and discussed his love of all things animated, his ideal music tech purchases and his latest project “2003 // HeERO Scott”.

Hip Hop

Scott Xylo - PINEapple

Scott Xylo gets juicy with his latest Soundcloud offering, PINEapple. It seems our favourite producers often leave us audible treats on SoundCloud (to quote the great Posdnuos) and Scott Xylo is no exception. This time around, the Leicester-based musician provides us with “PINEapple”, a blend of dissonant eerie snyths and a smooth rhythm section. Xylo …

Video

VIDEO: NuGenSoul - Live and Direct

NuGenSoul come Live and Direct with their new video. “You know what live and direct means?” © Phife Dawg. Phife asked it and years later, it looks like NuGenSoul answered it with their brand new video for Live and Direct. Filmed around various parts of Leicester in the UK, Samuel spits some quick fire bars …

Jazz Video

The Broken Orchestra - Reach The Stars feat. Lady Paradox (Acoustic)

Lady Paradox drops some bars to an acoustic cover of The Broken Orchestra’s Reach The Stars. We showed you the first of The Broken Orchestra’s acoustic sessions: In The Same Way featuring Lauren Jade. Well, they’re back with a second performance, this time by Leicester’s Lady Paradox spitting some bars over Reach The Stars. If …