We all love free music, but isn’t it great when that music is brilliant enough to make you want to spend your bitterly-earned cash money on it? Scottish producer and DJ DFRNT‘s Cut Records started out this time last year with the admirable objective of releasing high quality music without insisting on pecuniary compensation. Even […]
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It occurred to me while sitting in my parents’ kitchen that there are probably more people out there like me – home for the holidays, tractors & tumbleweeds rolling by, away from our supercool fantastic lives full of friends and parties and music and, uh, civilization. Some of you might live in those remote kinds […]
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Another cheeky cut from the world of dancehall remixes, Brackles‘ Serani edit gets a 320 release ahead of the Rinse Boxing Day party. With the same appreciation for an excellent vocal as MA1’s brilliant Suges bootleg, Brackles speeds up Serani’s romantic yearnings and lets them bounce over a persuasively cheeky bassline and some hectic drum […]
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With Southern hip-hop mixtapes, albums and releases in general being excessively present and apparent in the past few years, at the end of the day there are really only a handful that yearn for repeat-listens over a long timespan. Fortunately, artists like the Alabama duo G-side have found this formula, and most importantly are consistent in […]
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“It cannot be understood, only experienced.” These words are spoken in “The Ballad Of Martyn Bootyspoon”, which features on #blessed Sinjin Hawke’s “The Lights EP” on Pelican Fly. It’s an awesome EP, eight tracks of booming bass and ethereal horns. These same words can be said of the three collaborations that Sinjin has kindly given […]
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Young Dro Carey has been making quite a name for himself this year. Following a release for Templar Sound and then one for Hum + Buzz, not to mention the hot-off-the-presses (and decidedly chirpy, by his standards) remix for patten, the Sydney producer has returned to Templar Sound for the “Night Raid EP”. Opener “Scanline […]
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Sinjin Hawke is a #blessed individual with an ear for binding emotions within hip-hop and R&B. With an extensive output through the waves of his Soundcloud he’s a producer that is versatile to say the least, drawing his inspiration from a range of mixed sounds from mainly R&B, rap and hip-hop to the further likes of […]
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Ever since its formation earlier this year, Fade to Mind, the Los Angeles-based collective/label founded by Kingdom and Prince William, have been enshrouded by an extreme tight-lippedness that has made it somewhat difficult to follow, if not outright frustrating. It’s very much a take-what-you-can-get label, considering the scarcity of information about forthcoming releases, events, and […]
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Earlier today, the cable television network Adult Swim (who have been running the Single Series in the past where they gave away unreleased cuts by people from Brooklyn rapper El-P to the metal outfit Mastodon) and the more logical dance music platform Scion A/V teamed up to give away a compilation of “eighteen rare or unreleased” tracks for free. By no […]
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Photography: Georgina Cook. Chances are you’ve seen West Norwood Cassette Library’s name springing up all over the place, including a recent interview in Dummy Mag and a visionary mix for Modifier. A remarkably gifted DJ/producer, as well as the founder of WNCL Recordings, WNCL (born Bob Bhamra) recently gave away a new track entitled “Drop.” […]
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Chronicles is a returning item that delves into rap/hip-hop mixtapes from the past and pulls out some forgotten treasures that still remain relevant. Released back in 2008, “Bigger Than The Mayor” was originally supposed to generate hype to lead into Rich Boy’s sophomore album. Three years later and that album is still nowhere in sight. This […]
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All the way back in March of this year a little known Belgian label by the name of Pelican Fly announced their sonic intentions with their first and acclaimed release ‘Richelle – Mascotte’, and consolidated the ethos that big is better. Interest though is starting to peak again as the countdown begins towards their 4th release, […]
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