“The music of our heart is roots music, music which recalls history because without the knowledge of history you can’t determine your own destiny” is a little fragment of the words that are spoken over Mala’s “New Life Baby Paris”, sampled from the introduction to the 1978 debut of Misty In Roots. Looking back on […]
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Rockie Fresh, we like this Rockie Fresh. Sweet, ha ha ha! The Chi-town native Rockie Fresh, born Donald Pullen, has been doing a great deal of things right over the past three years. The young rapper, who now rightfully deserves the underground king prefix, runs with a calm flow, often evened out by heavy instrumentals, […]
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We love to blame music platforms for enthusing a dangerously fast-spinning carousel of hype and short-lived careers by the use of the cyberspace and its social networks. One thing we shouldn’t forget is that we’re part of a special era as the music industry is changing right in front of our eyes. We live in […]
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Although Joe Cowton’s alias Kowton might seem like an arbitrary name at first, the name of his own label Pale Fire borrows the title of a Nabokov novel which in turn looks to Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. “The moon’s an arrant thief / And her pale fire she snatches from the sun” is a line […]
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Rivet stands on the inside looking out. Adam Rivet’s debut release, “Inside Looking Out”, was published by Naked Index, a sub-label of London label Frozen Border a label known for their high levels of obscurity. Naked Index, like Frozen Border, follows in the course of its predecessors obscurity. We ourselves might not have found the link […]
Read moreWe’re in very high spirits about our newest Truancy Volume as this is the first mix that is curated by a fellow music journalist: installment number fourty-five is a journey through gangster and a little bit of French rap put together by one of our favourite writers Nicolas P., alias Pellion Purp, the man behind […]
Read moreChhavi Nanda alias Chippy Nonstop is the Queen of the Internet. We first got to know of her a few years ago when she was making moves with the Trap House collective, mainly as a designer and writer. A little bit over a year ago Chippy stepped up as a vocalist with her first single being […]
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The area the Malphurs brothers grew up in must’ve undoubtedly been the loudest hamlet around Queens – the triune of brothers who are based in Riverdale nowadays, consists of rector Waka Flocka Flame, Wooh Da Kid and the flame-haired little brother KayO Redd, short for KayO Redd Dread, who now and again goes by the name […]
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Since we last spoke to Alex Sushon alias Bok Bok one year ago he’s been an uninterrupted force, maintaining a busy tour schedule and putting out collaborative records as well as an EP of his own, the remarkable Southside EP that was released last Spring. It was put out through his own imprint Night Slugs (airhorn.wav), which is going strong as […]
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Stream: Doc Daneeka & Benjamin Damage – Creeper (50Weapons) When we last spoke to Mial Watkins, also known as Doc Daneeka, he announced a new release on his imprint Ten Thousand Yen by the Dutch electronic mason Presk, who offered us up a Truancy Volume a couple of days later. Needless to say we were excited about this […]
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There’s a big chance you have stumbled upon “Fuck It Y’All Don’t Rap” or one of the other tracks from the same series of astral juke-y songs accompanied by rotating geographic shapes over the last few weeks: since these tracks were launched into cyberspace, the fairly anonymous producer behind the tracks Evian Christ revealed his real […]
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If you ain’t H.O.M.E., you’re homeless. The internet has supplied us with a constant stream of new artists for years. It has given burgeoning MCs a place near side of estabilished acts as a most significant advancement within music, the lines between eminence and priority being blurred and especially over the last three years, a lot of […]
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