It’s a doubly nice slice of vinyl 7″ from B-Line Recordings next with this new single from Whirlwind D. On A-side Without Music, ‘D and another Brit-hop veteran, Micall Parknsun, go head-to-head on the subject of the redemptive power of – well – music over a soulful midtempo Djar One beat with cuts by Specifik. Flip it over meanwhile and you get a remix of another ‘D
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WHIRLWIND D: Without Music (feat. MICALL PARKNSUN) b/w Labels (SMOOVE Mix)(Vinyl 7″)
WHIRLWIND D: Original Breaks To B-Lines
Someone you can always rely on to ensure his bars are underpinned with b-boy friendly beats is Whirlwind D and new long player Original Breaks To B-Lines is packed full of these and more besides. A career retrospective, the fourteen track album covers the nineties early days to D’s most recent drops on a resurgent 45 format and features ancient demos, new and old favourites
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WHIRLWIND D feat. DJAR ONE & SPECIFIK: ‘Doin It’ video
Here’s another hip-hop 7″ for the b-boys in the form of Whirlwind D’s cautionary tale Doin’ It, over an epic beat from Djar One with cuts by Specifik. A cautionary tale? Yes – and one about addiction. To hip-hop. “I might be old but it doesn’t really matter/ The beat gets fatter my knees are being battered.” Jesus D! Were you never warned what hip-hop could do to a man?
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WHIRLWIND D feat. DJAR ONE & SPECIFIK: ‘Labels’ video
Labels, the first track to emerge from Whirlwind D’s new EP bodes well for the full release as it finds him taking a nostalgic spin through all his old twelve inches and holding forth for anyone who’ll listen about his love for hip-hop and how he got sucked into it. Naturally, if you’re going to do that sort of thing, you’ll need a good beat. Step forward Djar One who provides a mighty funk-
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WHIRLWIND D: Falling EP (2017) + ‘Nothing’s Better’ video
With it being the season for atmospheric disturbances, what better time for Dudley Jaynes, a.k.a. Whirlwind D, to make his return than by brewing up a Brit-hop storm on his new Falling EP. ‘Falling’ D? Something tells me this isn’t going to be all cheery verbals over party drum breaks and it certainly isn’t, for here is a four-tracker that pulls no punches with regard to the current state
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THE BOBBY DEANS BIG BAND/ KRASH SLAUGHTA Oh! Oh! Here He Comes/ Elephants Graveyard (Remix)(2016) + WIN a super ltd. test pressing
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Now then – this is the sort of thing that gives you the shivers – in a good way. A bit like the horns on the opening of the A-side. It goes like this: turntable legend and former UK DMC champion Paul Smith a.k.a. Krash Slaughta goes on one of his regular crate-digging trips in Glasgow and happens across a 1972 LP by one Bobby Deans on a label called THOR and is
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BEATTRIX: Grab The Mic/ Passion Taster (2015)
Stand by for Brit-hop action as Beattrix delivers a funky double-header in the shape of Grab The Mic and Passion Taster. The former features Cardiff-based Dead Residents member Junior Disprol spit smoking syllables over a slab of uptempo old school b-boy bait while the latter features old-timers Dookie Squad delivering vociferous verse over a slower beat that sounds like the drums were
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