
CLAUDE COOPER: Friendly Sounds Vol. 1
He may not have known it at the time but Edan, with his epic 2005 LP Beauty & The Beat, seems to have laid the

He may not have known it at the time but Edan, with his epic 2005 LP Beauty & The Beat, seems to have laid the

Rarely has a track been so aptly named but the dancefloor action resulting from any DJ dropping Shake is likely to be fairly monumental. The

Some early reggae-style action for you here in the shape of new Slackers single My Last Star and a very poignant story behind its genesis

By way of a taster for Volume 4 of Big Crown Records’ occasional series Big Crown Vaults, which this time around focuses on Bacao Rhythm

Holy shit! The new single from St Louis emcee Daemon will hit you like – well – like a Megalodon. Wait – did I say

Not content with having already had two 45s out (the Wack 25 vinyl 7″ and his remix of Betty Black’s Sweet Dreams) before the first

Say hello to new single Hypocrite from Brooklyn emcee Gregg Green and UK-based producer Pimpernel Jones. ‘Hypocrite’ eh? Looks like someone’s in the firing line

The Allergies take time out from being big-time party monsters, with new single So Real – a more laid-back, soulful affair. What gives? Maybe it’s

Hip-hop meets dub? Where did I hear that before? Oh yeah – the mid-nineties when hip-hop fragmented and trip-hop was born. In the further reaches

Of course, the original version of Air featured DOOM over a Dabrye beat – a sparse, Vangelis-like affair with ethereal synths and minimal 808 drums.