Earthrising by Magic Source? Are there any hippies involved in this? Surprisingly, despite the band name, the LP name and track names like Cosmic Awakening and Purple Galaxy, the answer is no. This is neither proggy psychedelia nor – er – proggy electronica, all indications to the contrary. There are only really three main things you need to know about the Magic Source project and the
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Monthly Archives: June 2016
MAGIC SOURCE: Earthrising (2016)
DJ PNUTZ: The Good Wife’s Guide To Beatmaking (2016)
It’s been a minute since the B-Girl Breaks EP on Danny Massure’s Spring Strut label (well over a year, in fact) but here’s DJ Pnutz with her third full-length LP – The Good Wife’s Guide To Beatmaking. Yes, you heard that right – ‘her.’ DJ Pnutz is a woman, not a complimentary snack you sometimes get on your rider and she makes beats that sound – well – very much like those made by
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CUT LA VIS feat. PEPPERY: Festival (2016) Free download
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Hats off to Cut La Vis who ropes in vocalist Peppery and manages, through the medium of this glorious rootsy groove to make one feel well-disposed towards festivals. Between them they conjure images of free love, positive karma and transcendental vibrations. Rather than several days with no sleep, food poisoning, the stench of portaloos and being forced by crowds to stand so
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SADAT X: Freeze (Prod. PETE ROCK)(2016)
Sadat’s back! Whadya mean who’s that? Sadat X of Brand Nubian with new material and a beat from fellow old timer Pete Rock to hand! That’ll be Freeze then – the first single off forthcoming LP Agua on which he professes to talk about subjects that affect the masses’ daily lives like – er, “I’ve been with actresses, did my shit at the shows/ I know a lot of secrets but I would never expose.”
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DEM ATLAS: Grbge Trsh (2016) Free download
Rhymesayers’ secret weapon, Dem Atlas, is all set to drop an LP of original lyrical material over previously released DOOM beats. What to call that though? MF Dem? Yeah, that’ll work. On Grbge Trash, Atlas goes in on an autobiographical tip over a DOOM beat so ancient a version of it opened KMD’s 1993-produced Black Bastards. But then that actually means something funky and upbeat
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JOHNNYPLUSE & THE STORMTROOPERS OF LOVE: Ape Panic (2016)
Prepare for Celtic breakbeat mayhem as Johnnypluse & The Stormtroopers Of Love finally release their debut long player at an appropriately insane time in world history. Guns! Leave! Remain! Bomb third world countries so refugees head your way then blame refugees for everything! Hey – what are those bankers doing? Move along sonny – nothing to see here, Murdoch
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DJ MAARS: ’93 Diamonds (2016)
Rating: No self-respecting producer of reggae-hip-hop should lack for wax output and DJ Maars is making up for lost time by dropping his second slab of niced-up newness on seven inch with an oldie from his extensive back catalogue of epic mash-up collabs. with Tom Showtime on the flip. ’93 Diamonds follows last year’s equally superb red vinyl Summertime/ Jump Around and finds Oakland’s finest, Souls Of Mischief, rocking
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THE MICROPHONE MISFITZ: Soul Rebelz (2016) video
Rating: If you’re short of retro-boom-bap hip-hop, this is the week for you as Chicago’s Microphone Misfitz have a new video out for their super b-boy-friendly cut Soul Rebelz. 80s platform games graphics give way to He-Man-quality animation and finally to the Misfitz themselves intercut with martial-arts flick footage by way of a visual backdrop to the Ironside
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JURASSIC 5: Customer Service (2016) Ltd. pay-what-you-want download
Ahh – customer service – or rather poor customer service – we’ve all been there haven’t we? You paid for it in good faith, it’s not fit for purpose, so you phone up that faceless global megacorps only to find that (as usual) ‘lines are unusually busy’. When you do get through, you speak to a single-celled organism who resorts to repetition when their script cannot cope – oh and their manager is
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IL COMPLESSO DI TADA: Il Complesso Di Tada (2016)
You might not realise it but what you’re in the mood for right now is an LP devoted to mid-1960s Italian TV show music. No, you are. You’re positively ripe for Il Complesso Di Tada a thirteen-track collection of (in no particular order) hammond-led instrumentals, sultry soul jazz, bubblegum garage rock, epic sixties ballads, bossa and boogaloo craziness. In many respects, it’s like
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