Dilated Peoples are now on Atmosphere’s Rhymesayers label and will be joined by labelmate Brother Ali for their forthcoming European tour in November. The tour seems to be this year’s contribution to the annual promotional flurry about the release of Dilated Peoples’ first LP since 2006 – Directors Of Photography – which seems to have been about to come out since – well 2006. If I was
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Monthly Archives: September 2013
BROTHER ALI: Added to DILATED PEOPLES’ European tour (2013) + ‘Left In The Deck’ video
DJ SHEPDOG: Dub Factor (We Are Roots) (2013) Free download
It must be reggae booty season or something. First DJ Maars, then Titan Sound, now this, as Nice Up! don Shepdog comes through with his Dub Factor (We Are Roots) mashup of the instro from Blend Mishkin‘s We Are Roots collab with MC Jamalski from back in May with rapper Mad Skillz’ rhymes from The Nod Factor. I say ‘now this’ – in truth Shepdog’s blend is actually one of ten that Mishkin
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TITAN SOUND: Watch That Riddim Killa (2013) Free download
If DJ Maars’ Summer Soundbowy EP staged a ‘raid on JStar territory’ last week with its marriage of hip-hop vocals and dubbier reggae beats (as opposed to ska ones), Titan Sound (a.k.a Selecta Demo and Pappa Demus) have practically invaded and occupied JStar territory. Why? Because they’ve delivered a reggae booty broadside that actually uses a JStar original riddim in the shape of
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THE EXCITEMENTS: Sometimes Too Much Ain’t Enough (2013)
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The 2011 release of The Excitements‘ self-titled debut LP was pretty much the retro-soul equivalent of a new gang rocking up in town and telling the competition, “Get lost. We run shit here now.” And they weren’t fronting. The album delivered twelve stank covers of early-to-mid-sixties rnb, recorded analogue style and played tightly enough to have Daptone looking nervous
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AD ‘N’ KUTS (ADITUP & DASTARDLY KUTS): Free downloads (2013)
Fuck Marvel Team-Ups (again), Brisbane bad boys Aditup and Dastardly Kuts have joined forces for some double-action, breakbootybass-hop earhole-penetration as Ad ‘N’ Kuts. They humbly describe themselves as, “two pundits of bodaciously bad bootlegs and coma-inducing dj sets…set to take the world by a shit storm of played out samples and wack as fuck production techniques” before
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LONE NINJA (prod. 5 ELEMENT NINJA): ‘Warpath’ video leak (2013)
Leak alert! Shady stateside rap shinobi, Lone Ninja, will be dropping his next LP (and sequel to last year’s Rogue Agent) Trapdoors And Secret Passageways – in just under two months. Somewhere between DOOM and the Wu-Tang Clan, rocking a drawling delivery over lo-fi, kung fu flick-inspired beats, the album promises to be a rare treat – if this leak and past efforts are anything to go by
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GHETTO FUNK presents: SAMMY SENIOR (GFPD17)(2013) Free download
Currently residing in France, according to his soundcloud, Sammy Senior must be lapping up the attention as the exotic Kiwi transplant whose handle translates as ‘Sammy Superieur’. All ribbed for her Gallic comfort no doubt. Still, should he be called upon to demonstrate his musical prowess all he has to do is whip out this rather large collection of breakbeat party starters (including numbers with
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B.VISIBLE: Light Shapes EP (2013) Free download
Is the audio file corrupt or is this some of that newfangled music? It’s the latter of course! B.Visible‘s back – the glitch-king of Austria – in all his skip, click and bleep glory. The Light Shapes EP sees our man exploring similar territory to his Para Batic EP from back in May – which is to say chunky, breakbeat powered glitch-tronica that manages to be both pensive and relatively upbeat
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CUT LA VIS feat. MYSTRO & MR MELODY: Little Way Different (2013)
Cut La Vis covers Erroll Dunkley’s reggae classic Little Way Different on the latest Irish Moss drop and like all good covers he changes it a bit because – well – every man do his thing a little way different right? Out goes Dunkley’s skipping reggae drums and any sense of the track being a stoned late night swayer and in comes a punchy 88 bpm break and rapper Mystro with a rhyme
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DJ MAARS: Summer Soundbwoy EP Vol. 1 (2013)
Rating: DJ Maars attacks again with four more of his trademark reggae/hip-hop booty bullets. This time he sidesteps the ska and goes deep staging a raid on JStar territory with a dubbier choice of reggae beats to stitch rapapellas to. The Summer Soundbwoy EP Vol. 1 features four floor-rockers consisting of Jurassic-flavoured reggae, Wu-flavoured reggae, Alkaholiks-flavoured reggae and a
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