“Fuck what ya heard” – the last twenty years never happened. Jeans are phat, sneaks are low, beats are phat and dope is the flow. Say hi to Texas and Tennessee emcees Mello Soul Black who deliver the goods over vintage dusty, jazzy boom-bap amply provided for them by Jazz Spastiks all the way from – er – Scotland. Well, it is summer and the sun is finally out for once
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MELLO SOUL BLACK: What Ya’ Heard (Prod. JAZZ SPASTIKS)(2016)
JAE SUPREME: Life Work/ TRAGEDY: Black Rage Demos Part 2 EP (2015)
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Not one but two almighty golden era drops here courtesy of the tireless Diggers With Gratitude crew and celebrating the work of a legendary Queensbridge producer and a legendary Queensbridge emcee. The first drop Life Work provides a selection of six heavyweight cuts from producer Jae Supreme featuring the likes of Nas, CNN amd Cormega on the mic of which surely the heaviest is funky Nas vehicle Villain which turns on
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DJ FORMAT & PHILL MOST CHILL: Angry Birds remix/ The Shape Of Things To Come remix (2015)
“Angry Birds! What y’all mad about?” Possibly the fact that two cuts (including Angry Birds) off last year’s super fresh DJ Format/ Phill Most Chill Foremost LP get the remix treatment for a wax appearance but it’s only on hipster-friendly seven inch rather than the OG twelve. Still let that not detract from a respectable rerub of the aforementioned cut (which nevertheless
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JORUN BOMBAY: Remixes Volume 2 (2015)
Diggers raise your arms in gratitude, for Canuck producer Jorun Bombay drops another volume of remixes at the end of the month. On side A, you’ll find the man delivering a reworked pair of his own cuts with an extended remake of Phill Most Chill, Oxygen, Ghettosocks and Paten Locke-featuring Smash and a slight extension of Rampagers-featuring Never Heard It Like This Before. On side
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EASY MO BEE & EMSKEE: Two For One (2015)
Two For One finds 80s and 90s production legend Easy Mo Bee (a man with a CV that includes credits for work with Big Daddy Kane, a pre-Wu Tang RZA and GZA, Miles Davis, Biggie and 2Pac!) hook up with underground emcee Emskee of The Good People for a whole LP of quality boom bap. It’ll be out on black wax and white wax and if you’re really quick you might get your hands on a
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