If you dig 00s-style R&B of the Aaliyah and Brandy variety (you remember – back before Kanye and The Black-Eyed Peas changed, among other things, the drum pattern paradigm for hip-hop and R&B and ruined it), you’re about to fall in love with Irene’s Time 2 Love long player. The nine-tracker is produced by Athenian RSN who more than nods to the R&B sound of, blimey, is it twenty
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IRENE: Time 2 Love LP
DESTRUCT: The Best You Never Heard
The Mind The Wax label’s services to hip-hop go up another notch with the release of West Coast rapper Destruct’s The Best You Never Heard LP. And if you think that album title is an idle boast before you’ve listened to it, a quick check of who the man has worked with should give you cause for pause since the list includes emcees of the calibre of Smif-N-Wessun’s General Steele
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MIND THE WAX: Drop Beats Not Bombs (Music In Solidarity With Ukrainian People)
Whoever you blame for the war in Ukraine, one thing’s for certain – it wasn’t started by the average person on the street who, like in any other country on earth, just wants to get on with their life with the minimum of fuss and never-mind dick-swinging hawk politicians, psychopathic paramilitaries and the kind of international financial and corporate chicanery that threatens
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DJ BOOKER X MC YINKA: Night Lights
‘How would Roc Marciano and MF Doom sound if they were born in Athens to immigrant parents?’ asks the press release for DJ Booker X MC Yinka’s debut LP, Night Lights, before suggesting that these two Athenians are the answer. It’s a big claim but then hip-hop has always thrived on braggadocio and, as it turns out, these two do have the skills to pay the bills even if (unlike
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MR COLLAGE: Layers Remixed
If you were paying attention to music back in March you might have caught Mr Collage’s debut LP, Layers, which displayed no mean production talent in the field of hip-hop and breakbeat music. Mind you, given that it was March you might well have been paying more attention to the still emerging pandemic which meant poor old Mr Collage (like everyone else) was forced to play
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MR COLLAGE: Layers
Mr Collage? Layers? Could we be in the presence of a beat-making sample-junkie? I think we could! Say hello to the little-known (but on the evidence of this soon to be much more widely-known) Greek producer whose long-player debut takes in breakbeat music of multiple shades – boom-bap hip-hop, dancefloor-geared uptempo breaks and downtempo cinematic stuff. Eleven tracks deep
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BILLA QAUSE: Somehow Someway
Here it is then, the new LP from the Mind The Wax stable – Billa Qause’s Somehow Someway – which you could be forgiven thinking was something unearthed from the late nineties. I’m pretty sure when Bristol replaced Seattle as the city on which the music press’s attention was fixated in the mid-nineties that no-one was expecting a largely instrumental, slowed-down ambient form of hip-
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BOUKLAS: The Groove Chronicles
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He might be called Bouklas but this Greek producer is a long way from beatless on the evidence of his twelve-track second solo LP The Groove Chronicles. Actually that much was already clear even in April when the monkey announced said album’s forthcoming release date. Back then, MB previewed the only two tracks available at the time – LP opener Deep, an heavyweight head-nod
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BOUKLAS: ‘The Groove Chronicles’ LP announced
Veteran Greek producer/ MC Bouklas releases his second long player The Groove Chronicles on May 15th and early indications are that it will be very promising indeed. The LP is heavily based around vintage funk and soul samples, chopped and flipped by Bouklas into boom-bap shapes and then teamed with an international cast of emcees, vocalists and djs including U-God’s son INteLL and
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