Well, the monkey told you a while back the classic hip-hop was coming thick and fast this autumn and here’s a particularly heavyweight broadside from
Man, it seems like forever since Tramp Records dropped the last volume of their long-running series curating classic funk, soul, jazz and rnb rarities from
It’s not immediately clear why European producers (especially these from the UK and France) should fly the flag of boom-bap hip-hop more than stateside ones
You might not have heard from Newcastle’s finest for a while and it is perhaps for that very reason that Smoove & Turrell have had
And now for something Extra Ordinary. That’ll be the new LP from MC Andy Cooper (sometime of Long Beach underground hip-hop crew Ugly Duckling, not
Has Jonnypluse really been making beats for two whole decades? It seems so! And to celebrate, our man has just dropped a retrospective ‘best of’
The arrival of The Originals 5 marks the fact that Leipzig’s Golden Rules label is now half a decade into its worthy mission to present
Given that Kista’s latest long player dropped in the middle of last month, you might have thought the monkey had gone to outer space to
Night Owls (you know – the funky reggae supergroup side hustle of various members of L.A.’s The Lions and Roger Rivas of The Aggrolites) have
To (mis)quote Quannum Projects’ Lateef & The Chief – ‘They didn’t tell you about Golden Rules? Write this one down!’ Why? Because German label Golden