Bronx Slang’s by now heavily anticipated second LP is out this August but before then, here’s the next single Jane featuring singer SA Martinez of 311 and a minimal organ-laced boom-bap beat from Jadell. Once again Jerry Beeks and Ollie Miggs deliver reportage from the frontline of American social inequality with a cautionary tale about prostitute Jane – or rather (and especially
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BRONX SLANG feat. SA MARTINEZ: Jane
BRONX SLANG: Copy That
New lyrics of fury from Bronx Slang as they take up their debut LP’s anti-establishment baton to battle American corruption and racism for new single, Copy That, the first off their forthcoming LP. What’s that boys? You’re under attack? Ah well, you know the drill, first they mock you, and if they doesn’t work they try to buy you and if that doesn’t work, they try to kill you – it’s all
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JIMMY PLATES & ENDEVERS: Tree Gods
Jimmy Plates & Endevers’ transatlantic hip-hop collaboration follows last single Vinyl Comeback with the next to be released from the forthcoming No Delay… LP – Tree Gods. Tree gods? Oh what – like the Green Man? Well, not exactly, though the PR has it that the London DJ/Producer and the Philly hip-hop collective have, “gone from smoking trees to saving them”. That said, it’s not
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PYROGENIC: Hard Like Steel
After numerous Cut Beetlez drops, here are yet more Finnish frolics from Fabyl Recordings in the shape of Pyrogenic’s latest single Hard Like Steel. The downtempo duo are veterans of making atmospheric instro beats since the early 90s when, armed with computer, sound card and tracker software, they pretty much had to make their own material given the apparent dearth of
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JIMMY PLATES & ENDEVERS: Vinyl Comeback
90s hip-hop headz pay attention as some unreleased gold from Jimmy Plates & Endevers is shortly to see the light of day in the form of Vinyl Comeback. Plates first met Philly (also of Fabyl outfit El-Jay Burner) hip-hop collective Endevers during a London crate digging trip in 2002 and what followed was a more or less spontaneous recording session in Plates’ garage which became
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TRACKS HAVEN: Dangervibez
Lockdown too tame for you? Unphazed at the prospect of being sucked into a terrifying black hole located somewhere in the Cummings nebula along with morality and the truth? Don’t sweat it! Tracks Haven provide sonic shelter from boredom with new single Dangervibez. Unlike a Scummings press conference, the boys begin with no delay whatsoever blasting straight into clattery drum
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CUT BEETLEZ: Graveyard Gravitas
New heat arrives from Cut Beetlez in the form of Graveyard Gravitas. This time the Finnish duo have invoked the sounds of a delta blues lament as their backdrop. The cut opens with a soaring theatrical sample that for twenty seconds or so belies the sombreness of what follows – and what follows is sombre indeed. Enter a super-subby bass, a mournful piano and a melancholy female
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CUT BEETLEZ vs NICE GUYS: Cut Ya Ass Up
Looks like it’s joint single time as Finland’s Cut Beetlez production team team-up with Philly emcee duo Dirty Winters and Lynx 196.9 for Cut Ya Ass Up. And if that sounds nasty – it’s because it is. “What you fucking looking at? I’ll throw dry wall at your eyeballs because I’m a nice guy,” goes the intro over epic horns and double time hi-hats which belie the lumbering 87 bpm Tiger tank
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BRONX SLANG: More Grief
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Bronx Slang’s Jerry Beeks and Ollie Miggs finally do the decent thing and release one of the highlights of their excellent self-titled LP – More Grief – and if you’re sick of Trump’s shit this is definitely the track for you. Full of righteous fury, the track finds Beeks take the vocal lead and throw down more dope rhymes than the average emcee manages in a whole LP over a
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EL-JAY BURNER: My Thing (Vinyl 7″)
Combining hip-hop scratches, beats and boom with soulful reggae vocals, El-Jay Burner’s My Thing is the latest 45 to be unleashed in a string of quality drops from Fabyl Records over the last year. This marks the first seven inch release from the duo (consisting of producer Jimmy Plates and vocalist Leroy Smokes) and should ensure heavy rotation in the smoochy part of anyone’s bashment
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