“Ya should be glad I pushed my mixtape back,” is a line from Mykki Blanco’s “Join My Militia” and it’s the truth – we are. Mykki is the feminine alter ego of Michael David Quattlebaum, the New York based poet, lyricist, and rapper. It’s been a hectic year for her full of collaborations and studio […]
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Three-Peat is our feature spanning genres and labels to bring you three select releases from the past – whether the past month or the past year – that still deserve your attention. 1. MCMLXXXVII – Work EP Two years ago MCMLXXXVII pressed up their “Work EP” and disappeared into the ether. It left quite the impression, as it is […]
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We can forgive Soulja Boy for taking a while to figure out his sound. He has been famous since he was seventeen, and has spent much of his career swaggerjacking everyone from Gucci Mane to Lil B. He teamed up with some of the rappers in the Chicago drill scene for his Juice II mixtape […]
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French duo Chateau Flight doesn’t release music on any particular schedule and is not tied to a specific sound. The duo consists of Gilbert Cohen and Nicholas Chaix, two men that are veterans not only in the studio but also in the music industry as a whole. Cohen is the man behind the French label […]
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Formed in 2011 as an American sister label to Night Slugs just as the previous year’s hype was starting to dissipate, one could be forgiven for thinking Fade To Mind might end up an unfortunate casualty of fashion trends. Just over a year later and its clear just how wrong this prediction was, with Fade […]
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“The Vault” is a mysterious place, reserved for random collections of Ashanti songs, the imprisonment of princesses between Disney marketing waves, and apparently the space is shared with an assortment of Rush Hour records as well. Through the label’s 13 years, they’ve accumulated enough material to merit the start of a new series called “Tracks […]
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The low profile house conjuror Cottam first appeared through a string of self-released 12-inches that came out during the autumn of 2009 and the beginning of the following year. In Cottam’s own words, these releases that came in limited copies were incidental as he had no intention of putting them out until a friend told him […]
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It’s been a good year for Don’t Be Afraid, Semtek’s London-based label. In February they unleashed the “Love Sceptre” EP from Photonz, a month before Mr Beatnick’s glorious “Sun Goddess” EP surfaced. Then they dropped some seasonal heat in the shape of two asparagus-inspired 12″s for Record Store Day, before gifting us a free EP […]
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It seems to have taken a while, but Breach aka Ben Westbeech and Midland’s collaborative 12-inch has escaped the pressing plant and is finally in our hands. With a handful of releases to their names, both artists have been doing rounds on the house circuit for the last two years. The pairing might seem slightly […]
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Last month UK producer Mella Dee, one half of Mista Men, dropped his second solo EP of the year, the “Ruff Cuts” EP on Forefront Recordings. After the relentless fury of the “CTRL” EP and his hyper-energetic work with Woozee, not to mention their recent collaborations with Irishman Detboi and Mella Dee’s work with Squarehead, “Ruff […]
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S-Type’s been in the game since the mid noughties, expertly crafting high-octane beats on par with his contemporaries and label mates on LuckyMe. The Glasgow based producer is one of the many seemingly fresh-faced beatmakers poised to hit critical mass with their eyes set on the US hip-hop community. The title track off his “Billboard EP” […]
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“Let’s talk about slow shit, y’know, let’s talk about slow things” slurs a bizarre vocal on Parisian newcomer Low Jack’s debut EP: and so we shall. Its been well documented that there’s been a movement downwards in BPM in some house music circles. Some have been inspired by happy-go-lucky groove trains from the Wolf & […]
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