Beattape alert! Jose Bee of Mixkings Records is giving away HVW8 CR8 – a free LP of sixteen instrumental hip-hop beats. Yeah I know. Chop, splice, dice, sample, speed-up, slow down, match with acapellas – the possibilities are endless. Expect to find a bit of boom-clap amid a plethora of boom-bap. Personally, I’d be making use of superfunky beats 4, 10 and 15 if I had the time. You should
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Monthly Archives: June 2013
JOSE BEE: HVW8 CR8 (2013) Free download
MF REX: Shimmy Shimmy Samba (2013) Free download
Hot on the heels of last week’s disco-fied K.I.D./ Mos Def booty, Mos Definitely Summertime, Automatic Reaction’s MF Rex drops this ODB/ Ugly Duckling hybrid. I suppose you might think of it as Ugly Bastard. Actually there’s a bit of I Believe In Miracles from funk legends the Jackson Sisters in there too. Miracle Ugly Bastard? It’s got a ring to it. It’s also got a rather large groove. Get
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ULTRAMAGNETIC MCs: Critical Beatdown tour 2013 + ‘Let The Bars Go’ new track (2013)
Did you know it’s been twenty five years since the release of Ultramagnetic MCs‘ classic LP Critical Beatdown? Well it is – and the band (or Kool Keith, Ced Gee and TR Love, at least) will be touring Europe as the Ultramagnetic MCs this summer for the first time since 1988! Can it get any better? Er – well they’ve got some new material on the way as it goes – and the first track from these new
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KABANJAK: Echoes In The Night (2013)
Echoes in the night? I get a few of them around my way. There one is – peaceably enjoying the evening – when suddenly the silence is shattered by something along the lines of “leave it Dave, he’s not worth it!” reverberating along the road. After midnight on weekends, anyway. There’s nothing to harsh your mellow on Kabanjak‘s new full-length effort though
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DEATH JAM: Big Girls (They So Fly) (2013) Free download
South Florida’s Death Jam like ladies with an ‘extra pounds’ figure – or as they put it: Big Girls (They So Fly). Cue an appropriately fat slab of old school Miami bass somewhere between Run DMC’s Its Tricky and Poison Clan’s Shake What. Expect ridiculous bass drops, tinny-as-fuck synth snares, shouty rhymes in praise of big booty and a hook lifted from The Four Season’s Big Girls Don’t Cry
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CAPITOL 1212: Ejectos.com Mix (2013) Free download
Repost alert! Just got hit up by Capitol 1212 who posted a monster mix today of intergalactic boom-bap hip hop, funk and reggae – Cypress Hill, Fu Schnickens, The Honeydrippers, Dusty Springfield, ATCQ, NWA, Dre and reggae/ hip-hop mash-ups galore. Blimey. Sounds like something the monkey would do. I am assuming this is also intended to keep the Capitol 1212 brand in the public’s
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DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. BASS NACHO & BLACKOUT JA: Real Bad Boys (2013)
Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? – asked Inner Circle back in ’87. It’s been a long time coming but the answer is obviously to rework the track in a digi-dancehall, nasty-ass bass stylee, call it Real Bad Boys and send it out the front to deal with ‘them’ while you scarper out the back. Which is basically what Dirty Dubsters have done – as well as
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ITCHY BASTARDS: Take You Higher EP (2013)
Let’s play association. International men of mystery, Itchy Bastards have a new EP which is set to Take You Higher. Sly Stone’s Take You Higher (sampled on opener Make Money) was a song about the uplifting effect of music and nothing at all about Stone’s colossal intake of drugs. Drugs cost money. Money is the topic of another track sampled by Make Money – Double X’s Money Talks. Talking is
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GRINNY GRANDAD: The Car-Bootleg EP (2013) Free download
The Car Bootleg EP sees Grinny Grandad finally follow up 2010’s excellent Good Girl single. Opener Monty finds the location where Led Zeppelin meets the party breaks massive and sets the tone by employing an instantly recognisable filmic fanfare. And I don’t mean Camelot which, after all is a silly place. Swim Fish is up next and abstains from guitar heroics in favour of the sort of crazy ass
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THE GRITS: Make A Sound (Like James Brown)/ Yeah No (2013)
The Grits have a new 45 out and it’s called Make A Sound (Like James Brown). And we all know what that means, right? Owwwwww! Good god! Hah! Let me hear it now! Huh! Do it! Funk-y! Uhh! That’s right – it means gritty, psychedelic funk and vocalist Sophie Adler Mckean is on hand again to give the music invented by the late, great JB a swinging London vibe. Appropriately enough we
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