Something old and unique on this week’s Saturday Matineé in the form of Oskar Fischinger’s 1938 avant garde film, Optical Poem. To most of us music suggests definite mental images of form and colour. The picture you are about to see is a novel scientific experiment- it’s object is to convey these mental images in visual …
New York trio Stray Phrases perform J Dilla’s Donuts live in its entirety on this week’s Saturday Matinée. Covers of hip hop tracks are commonplace in music and jazz covers of hip hop are getting more popular but this one may have a special place in the hearts of Dilla fans (maybe even alongside Suite …
A great documentary on the shortlived TB-303 that spawned some influential basslines after its “death”. If you’re a musician, producer or just a music tech head, you’ll almost certainly possess a piece of Roland equipment. The most well-known machine, of course, is the TR-808, taking up about 95% of trap and mainstream hip hop music’s …
The reggae DJ legend David Rodigan talks about dubplates and soundclash culture with the RBMA in today’s Saturday Matinée. When you talk about Jamaican music (and specifically reggae), you hear the usual names of people like Bob Marley, Gregory Isaacs, Toots and the Maytals, Buju Banton, Beenie Man and the like. But in terms of …
A short Saturday Matinée featuring J Dilla, Common and Frank-N-Dank. Something a little shorter for your Saturday Matinée but by no means poor. Filmed a few years before his unfortunate death, this five and a half minute piece of footage shows J Dilla in his basement studio, working with rapper Common and hip hop duo …
Watch the supervillain DOOM give a lecture for the RBMA in Madrid back in 2011.
Beat Street takes us back to 1984 for today’s Saturday Matinée.
Our Saturday Matinée takes us to South Bronx to look at the early days of the hip hop movement. We’ve journeyed back in time to bring you an experimental documentary about the early days of the hip hop movement in South Bronx, New York. Produced by Henry Chalfant (who also cocreated the well known hip …
Waajeed, the man behind PPP, talks about growing up in Slum Village and getting militant on Dilla’s beat machine.
Sun Ra’s Space Is The Place is our Saturday Matinée feature presentation this week.