With the whole world gone Stranger Things-crazy, it would be rude not to take musical inspiration from the 80s-inspired show – especially if your field is hip-hop. After all, it’s not like the series’ themselves don’t heavily ‘sample’ the 80s cinematic output of Messrs Spielberg and Carpenter. So it’s hardly surprising that rapper Mega Ran and producer Amerigo Gazaway have
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MEGA RAN & AMERIGO GAZAWAY: STRANGERS: Back To The Lab
NAPOLEON DA LEGEND & AMERIGO GAZAWAY: Oda Nobunaga + video
Here’s Oda Nobunaga then. Heavens no, not the actual ‘demon daimyo’ of Sengoku-period Japan but the new single from Napoleon Da Legend & Amerigo Gazaway! Just as well, we don’t want anyone losing their heads, now do we? Having said that, if you’re partial to a bit of orientally-themed hip-hop (and who isn’t?) you might just metaphorically lose your head to this. A boom-bap beat featuring
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NAPOLEON DA LEGEND & AMERIGO GAZAWAY: Peace Or Bombs
‘Peace or bombs’ is the choice discussed by Napoloeon Da Legend & Amerigo Gazaway on the new single lifted from LP The World Changed and any profits gained from the sales of either single or album today (i.e. 4 March) will be donated to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society. It’s a simple choice isn’t it? Peace or bombs? More pertinent today than in decades. On the one hand, most
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NAPOLEON DA LEGEND & AMERIGO GAZAWAY: Everything Fresh
Say hello to yet another musical collab. born during lockdown when MC Napoleon Da Legend connected with producer Amerigo Gazaway at the start of the pandemic. The pair immediately hit it off and a full album, The World Changed (released next week), was the consequence. Before that drops though, they hit you with single Everything Fresh on which Napoleon Da Legend sorts through
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BRANDY: Sitting Up In My Room feat. Billy Stewart (AMERIGO GAZAWAY edit)
Serial mashup don Amerigo Gazaway has just started up his ‘Blendsday Wednesday’ operation again and what better way to do that than by splicing seat-themed cuts from two eras of RnB together – Brandy’s classic 90s number Sitting Up In My Room and Billy Stewart’s classic 60s number, Sitting In The Park. It’s an inspirational pairing that gives Stewart’s lowrider soul a lift
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AMERIGO GAZAWAY: A Common Wonder – Sugar By The Pound + DJ TANNER AV edit (2017) Free download
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Amerigo Gazaway has been displaying mad mash-up skills for time and is the man behind the ‘Soul Mates’ LPs – including Fela Soul and Yaasin Gaye. His latest effort however, unites a certain Stevie with the man known to his mum as Mr Lonnie Rashid Lynn for the fifteen track A Common Wonder – the highlight of which is Sugar By The Pound. This
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