Guest writer Ashton James Brown (aka Ashtronomic) reviews Jordan James’ Love Waves EP. South London based R&B crooner Jordan James has been making some noise for a while, releasing his début the Cheeky Bastard EP in the spring of 2012. Where as that project was much more of a Hip-Hop focused affair tinged with R&B …
He supports Arsenal and his beats are as big as the Emirates Stadium itself. Meet North London’s own Jake Whyte aka J WHY.
Vancouver, Washington’s Gloam marks a return from duty with new track Alloyed Shuffle. Been a hot minute since I last heard anything from Gloam (he works for the US Army hence the sporadic musical output) so it’s good to see he hasn’t lost anything in the way of quality. Alloyed Shuffle is one of three …
Piñata may not be out until February but Freddie Gibbs and Madlib are keeping us sweet with their EP, Deeper. I won’t pretend I wasn’t disappointed when I heard Freddie Gibbs and Madlib’s collab album Piñata wouldn’t be out until February next year considering how I’ve been waiting for a full length release from these …
Soulection’s IAMNOBODI remixes the hell out of JMSM and Ab-Soul’s “You’re Gone”.
Some Sampleface favourites from the UK – Reppatwa and Motel Eola – joined forces on August 18th and released August 19th the next day, naturally. There’s no mistaking it – we’ve been heavily late on this. We’re sorry. But good music is timeless so it’s not so bad, right? Anyway, we’ve been keeping tabs on …
Oh No’s adventures through the worlds of library music has brought him to another Now-Again compilation. Considering my love of hip hop and any serious considering of music outside of the charts didn’t start until late 2008/early 2009, it doesn’t really surprise me that I missed Oh No’s debut album for Now-Again Records. Egon’s love …
As we inch ever closer to autumn, Yancey Boys drop another Dilla-produced gem in Quicksand.
Darko The Super and Starchild are back with a fresh jam for us entitled “Chances Are”. The very talented Darko The Super is back this time lacing vocals on a sweet backing beat from our editor in chief himself Starchild. The beat was originally released on Starchild’s Meridian Falcon beat tape in February but picked …
RKZ’s latest track, Favourite Song, is free to download and produced by fellow UK producer Handbook. While you prepare for the Notting Hill Carnival festivities today, you might want to consider throwing this track on to keep the vibe going. The multitalented RKZ (who recently became the Head of UK Content here at Sampleface) continued …