Now here’s an internationally-flavoured vinyl 7″ that can only be described as a raucous celebration of hip-hop culture. On the A-side – All Stars – a.k.a. DJ DSK, Whirlwind D, Chrome, Specifik and Mr Wonderful combine talents for a heavy dancefloor-flavoured celebration of Shanghai b-boy outfit Juice Crew whilst very much paying homage to MC Shan’s original ’88 classic Juice Crew Law. Over on the flip, DJ DSK (again –
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ALL STARS: Juice Crew Law b/w DJ DSK feat. AKIL & MYSTRO: Check Out The Technique (Vinyl 7″)
PROFIT feat. SEROCEE, MYSTRO & ZOE EVANGELINE: Electric Smile (2015)
Electric Smile, the new one from Profit (who is joined in grin-some action by Serocee, Mystro and vocalist Zoe Evangeline) might be reason to reveal the pearly whites for those who dig brit-hop (the original mix) or those who dig brit raps on skanking synth-led breaks on B-Side’s remix. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the lyrical action ironically considers a multitude of non-amusing things which
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DJ DSK feat. AKIL & MYSTRO: Check Out The Technique (2015) Free download
It’s amazing what you find kicking around backstage after a gig: half-naked groupies, a bowl of M&Ms with all the blue ones taken out, Akil the MC from Jurassic 5 and Mystro. Mind you it kind of helps if you have a slot supporting the artists in question. Which DJ DSK did whilst on tour in China. Still, having managed to locate yourself in the same vicinity as such quality emcees what is
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CUT LA VIS feat. MYSTRO & MR MELODY: Little Way Different (2013)
Cut La Vis covers Erroll Dunkley’s reggae classic Little Way Different on the latest Irish Moss drop and like all good covers he changes it a bit because – well – every man do his thing a little way different right? Out goes Dunkley’s skipping reggae drums and any sense of the track being a stoned late night swayer and in comes a punchy 88 bpm break and rapper Mystro with a rhyme
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Feature Breaks Vol. 4: CMC & SILENTA Remixed 2 (2013)
It’s a game of two halves for Roca Records label owners CMC & Silenta on this fourth volume of Feature Breaks where they first soften you up with three cuts off last October’s album Get It On Now and then go in for the kill with three album track guest remixes. Things kick off with moody dancefloor botherer Yeah That’s Right, the skankin Ragga Twins-featuring This Is How We’re Rollin’ and
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DIRTY DUBSTERS: ‘Fire It Up’ album (2013)
Please don’t adjust your seismographs – all that intense activity is just the Dirty Dubsters‘ debut album. Fire It Up finds the boys who put the ‘dub’ into Dublin lighting up the bottom end bong to finally make (split infinitive intentional) their first full-length journey into outer bass. Production crew are the Dubsters themselves of course while vocal crew are guests: Mystro, Leiko Tola, YT, Clinton
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DJ ROAST BEATZ feat. MYS DIGGI: Pour Me (2013) Video
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Pour Me is Roast Beatz’ latest joint and contrives to be both an anthem for partying hard and a plea for sympathy for partying too hard. The first of these aims is achieved effortlessly, by making excellent use of a sample I last heard on Speech Defect’s Superfuture and putting UK rapper Mys Diggi a.k.a. Mystro in charge of rhymes. According to the PR, “We made sure it wasn’t just about getting pissed.” Which is
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DIRTY DUBSTERS feat. MYSTRO: Fire It Up (2012) Video
In Fire It Up Mystro (that’s ‘maestro’ not ‘mist-ro’) a.k.a. Mysdiggi (doesn’t rhyme with Miss Piggy) proposes a radical solution to violence on broken Britain’s streets. Legalise weed! Yep – let everyone smoke a bit of green. Even the pigs. Chilled vibes all round, and giggly queues for munchies at your local community-business-undermining Tesco which would give a much needed boost to a tanking
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CMC & SILENTA: Get It On Now (2012)
The trickle becomes a stream and the stream is shortly to become a flood. I’m on about albums that broadly (let’s not get bogged down in genre politics) fall under the ‘ghetto funk’ heading. The proto ghetto funk LPs were arguably Badboe’s bass wobble free Break The Funk from 2009 and Basement Freaks’ second LP Something Freaky from early 2011. Then young upstarts Morlack and
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THE BEEKEEPERS: Queen Bee – Single (2011) + Video
Queen Bee is the latest single from the recently released Beekeepers LP Apiculture and a bit of a banger. Musically coming off like a collision of The Freestylers and The Heavy, it finds rapper Mystro exploring the growing distance between him and the missus (“Oh I should have put a ring on it?/ Well, you’re lucky if I even put a fake bit of bling on it”) and one of the album’s highlights
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