Tag: Hip hop music
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FAYDZ UK Old Skool Britcore Medley
Love this UK Old Skool Hip Hop medley from FAYDZ, classic Britcore from Silver Bullet, DJ Supreme, Hijack, Tim Westwood, Bomb The Bass, First Frontal Assault, Overlord X, Killa Instinct, Blade, MC Duke, DJ Leader One, SL Troopers, The Criminal Minds, Gunshot, Hardnoise, Demon Boyz, Daddy Freddy, Simon Harris, Music Of Life, London Posse, Shut…
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GoldLink & Louie Lastic
Following on from Kaytranada, I was on the trail of rap that was cloudy, chilled and intelligent and stumbled across GoldLink and the productions of Louie Lastic (in fact GoldLink and Kaytra have worked and toured together). This track, Spectrum sampling Missy (she seems to have become a 90’s touchstone to this scene, along with…
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Working In a Coalmine – RIP Allen Toussaint
Meant to post this yesterday, sad to hear the death of Allen Toussaint, whose history from The Meters, Glen Campbell’s best moment ‘Southern Nights’ to the infamous Lee Dorsey track ‘Working In A Coalmine’ pervades music history until today. Hip-hop as Questlove pointed out would be a lot poorer without ‘Get Out Of My Life…
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Final Mashups – DJNoNo – Ballroom album
Planned 10 years ago, the Ballroom EP (now album) has been a long time coming…two of the tracks were released (here in a remastered or better quality form) but the rest laid in the Unfinished folder. Mixing ballroom music – big band, jazz, bossa nova, exotica, swing, easy listening and classical pops – with hip…
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Not The Usual 4 Bar Loop Crap
Brilliant mix from Squarepusher looking back at the criminally ignored Shut Up And Dance / Ragga Twins et al. You can or could get many of these tunes on their website but this FACT mag mix is a lot quicker. Still have lots of love for Lamborghini, Green Man, Spliffhead, Death Is Not The End,…
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Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator 12
Just got the PO-12 from Teenage Engineering – only took 2+ months (!). But as you can hear from my strange hip-hop dub beat I was messing with, with internal bassline, the sounds are ace. I’ve owned a Volca Beats and I sold it because the beats were paper-thin weedy…whoever made this understood that you…