With lunatics running the asylum on both sides of the pond, escaping Babylon has never seemed less likely or more desirable – just as well the Windy City’s Microphone Misfitz continue to fight the good fight with the recently-released Escape From Babylon Vol. 4. Like its two most immediate predecessors, the album features an intro from the one and only Darryl ‘D.M.C.’ Daniels – a credential
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MICROPHONE MISFITZ: Escape From Babylon Vol. 4 + ‘Keep Watching’ video
KID ACNE: ‘Bubblegoose Empire’ and ‘Council House Boys’ videos
Fresh from releasing superb long player Have A Word, Kid Acne drops two more videos for LP tracks Bubblegoose Empire and Council House Boys. If you’ve checked the album you’ll know it crackles with K.A.’s wry lyrics as he, “cascades cadence, unique…[turns].. of phrase over fresh beat arrangements,” the latter being psych-tinged boom-bap production from Chicago’s Spectacular
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LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS: ‘Wake Up’ video
The new video to Lee Fields’ funky lament Wake Up couldn’t have come at a more apposite time, could it? On the track, soul-man Fields delivers a funky look at the state of the nation and is exasperated by what he sees, exhorting people to ‘speak out’ about ‘all these lies’ against a backdrop of animated artwork courtesy of El Oms. A message you have to hope gets through given
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WHIRLWIND D feat. DJAR ONE & SPECIFIK: ‘Still Doin It’ video
Here’s another hip-hop 7″ for the b-boys in the form of Whirlwind D’s cautionary tale Still Doin’ It, over an epic beat from Djar One with cuts by Specifik. A cautionary tale? Yes – and one about addiction. To hip-hop. “I might be old but it doesn’t really matter/ The beat gets fatter my knees are being battered.” Jesus D! Were you never warned what hip-hop could do to a man?
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TANIKA CHARLES: Love Overdue b/w Remember To Remember (Vinyl 7″) + video
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It’s turning out to be a vintage year for lovers of retro soul music and with this new 45, Record Kicks signing, Toronto-based soul sister, Tanika Charles unleashes her own double broadside by way of a lead single off her forthcoming second LP, The Gumption. On the A-side for example, we have Love Overdue a club mover with added clap-along appeal that harks back to classic early/ mid sixties Sugar Pie
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LEE FIELDS: You’re What’s Needed In My Life (Video)
It rains love on 5 April this year with the release of Lee Fields’ next album and before that comes the fairly intense shower of affection that is his video for new soul slowie You’re What’s Needed In My Life. He’s on about his woman of course though I can’t imagine her taking any of that sass – she’s her own person – it is the twenty-first century! Oohh – he’s calling her ‘girl’ now too – she’ll have
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LEE FIELDS: Will I Get Off Easy (Vinyl 7″) + video + 2019 tour dates
Soul survivor Lee Fields celebrated fifty years in the business this year and, with absolutely no signs of slowing down whatsoever, drops the video to Will I Get Off Easy, the flip to the title track, from forthcoming long-player, It Rains Love. Will he get off easy!? What have you been up to now Lee, you sly old dog? The lyrics are conveniently nebulous – he’s been stopping out late again
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KELLY FINNIGAN: I Don’t Wanna Wait + ‘Catch Me I’m Falling’ video
Those who haven’t had enough smouldering soul of the Lee Fields variety lately will be champing at the bit when they hear opener and lead single, I Don’t Wanna Wait, from forthcoming album The Tales People Tell by Monophonics lead singer Kelly Finnigan which employs a similar sonic aesthetic to Field’s work on Big Crown. As if that’s not enough, there’s also a new video for Catch Me I’m Falling which is also on
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TRDMRK: Hands Up (Vinyl 7″) + video
Rating: Anyone for a quick Q&A? Hands up who used to dj and produce for Jurassic 5 aside from Cut Chemist? Well done, yes, it was DJ Nu-Mark. Now, hands up who can name the person missing from this list of original Pharcyde members: Fatlip, Booty Brown and Imani. That’s right – Slimkid3. And a slightly harder one – hands up if you know the name of that guy who got the
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FREEDUST feat. SARINA LEAH: ‘Jump Up And Down’ video
If you were paying attention last year, you may well have caught Freedust’s Jump Up And Down EP from last year an uncharacteristically upbeat-sounding affair in these dark times with shades of both Skeewiff and St Etienne about it. The title track, you may remember, was a lively bossa-breaks affair with added surf guitar and featured the vocal talents of Sarina Leah. And what
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