Is it me or has the RPM Challenge changed the entry criterion this year? Where once it was, “Write and record ten songs or 35 minutes of music in February,” this year it seemed to be the rather simpler, “Make a record in February; any length, any style.” Producer Pimpernel Jones of Herma Puma is a man who’s always been up for the challenge of knocking out albums of a
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PIMPERNEL JONES: RPM 23
HERMA PUMA: The Dope EP Vol. 1 (Vinyl 7″)
As far as the monkey can recall, that mysterious individual they call Pimpernel Jones hasn’t travelled under the moniker Herma Puma in some time. He makes up for that this year however with two releases using the name, the second of which is this – The Dope EP Vol.1 which is – well – dope. Available in both digital and vinyl 7″ format, what you get on both is a six track EP. Wait, what?! Six
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HERMA PUMA: Busta Lockdown (Free download)
Can’t get enough of that Herma Puma production eh? Welcome to Part Two of today’s Herma Puma news with mash-up Busta Lockdown – a.k.a. the zeitgeist-capturing lyrics of Anderson Paak’s Lockdown ‘pella spliced with the slinky Buddah/ Shamello-produced beat for Busta Rhymes’ Put Your Hands Where My Eyes could see. Since Paak sounds vaguely
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GREGG GREEN: Propaganda (Prod. HERMA PUMA)
In Part 1 of today’s Herma Puma news we find the UK production outfit team up again with Brooklyn MC Gregg Green (following Green’s turn on The Bob Ross EP in 2016) for new single Propaganda. For this one, HP (essentially now just a one man show consisting of Pimpernel Jones), has created a 94 bpm boom-bap beat featuring excerpts of a wistful female vocal. Meanwhile, Green spends the
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HERMA PUMA: The Bob Ross EP (2016)
Smokers of happy trees and fans of Herma Puma rejoice, for here is a brand new helping of HP-type sauce in the form of The Bob Ross EP – or seven slices of chilled vocal and instrumental boom-bap to you. Donnie Numeric helps out with a few bars on dreamy, soul-drenched opener Yesterday while most of the rest of the EP consists of multifarious flavours of downtempo beat sketches
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HERMA PUMA feat. QnC: Killing Me (2015)
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Herma Puma come more correct than box fresh – er – Puma suedes with fat laces and a furry Kangol bucket hat by enlisting the prodigious skills of legendary J.V.C. F.O.R.C.E. mic manipulators Q Ball & Curt Cazal on new single Killing Me b/w I Did It For Hip-Hop. You’d pretty much have to be clasping a couple of kilos of cannabis resin to have something more dope than
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SLIMKID3 & NU-MARK: No Pity Party (PIMPERNEL JONES remix) (2014) Free download
The word on the street is that super-chilled boom-bap production outfit Herma Puma have a collab in the offing featuring the legendary QnC (legendary lyricists Q-Ball and Curt Cazal to you). In order that you don’t forget about them in the meantime however, Pimpernel Jones of said crew delivers an ice-cold, pina colada-smooth remix of the latin-soul-jazz-tinged No Pity Party off the
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FRAMEWORKS & BLURUM 13: Moonlighting (2013)
Reliable transatlantic hip-hop duo Frameworks & Blurum 13 release a new single off the rather solid Brickbuilders LP and it’s latin-tinged slab of musical masonry Moonlighting. Blurum’s lyrical focus is less his post-dayjob work in the studio however, than what happens when he pops into a bar en route. One glass of blackberry lemonade down and he’s all spun out by the hypnotic eyes of a woman on a
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COCOA: Get Down On It EP (2013)
Sticking with the boom bap theme, here’s the Get Down On It EP. Nothing to do with Kool & The Gang of course, this is strickly in the name of hip-hop – courtesy of French production team CocoA whose debut drop this is. Fat breaks, fat as fuck production, scratchy old samples, scratching with scratchy old samples, big old horn and flute loops – it’s all there. No rapping though. Oh wait –
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RENEGADES OF JAZZ: Hip To The Remix (2012)
On which Renegades Of Jazz continues his mission to reclaim use of the word ‘hip’ to mean ‘rather well-informed about and appreciative of’ from its association with a certain eighties yuppie pop anthem. But that’s enough about Huey Lewis – let’s skip to the news which is that Renegades Of Jazz’s superb Hip To The Jive album has been remixed as Hip To The Remix. Yep, all twelve
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