Tag: Kano
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RC 347: Hoodies All Summer
Patterns fit like pixels in my blueprintAnd I found hope in the brushstroke of a masterpieceHanging in plain view This lonely tightrope is hard enoughDon’t pull me downJust like they sayEvery moth needs a flame Lanterns on the Lake – Realist We’ve gone out of time as this is either a delayed spring or early…
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RC 334: Windmills of Mercury
A long episode of Radio Clash for reasons explained within, this has taken over a week to finish and started out being an uptempo celebration of Windmills of Your Mind, the Mercury Awards and Eddie Van Halen during the first Kitchen Disco Hour…and became rather more downbeat after I learned that Radio Clash has been…
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Kano – Trouble
The godfather of grime is back, with a new album out at the end of the month ‘Hoodies All Summer’ – and to hear his tones on the radio is very welcome! And here he is in a hard-hitting film featuring two of the tracks – Trouble and Class of Deja with D Double E…
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Don’t Get Captured
Loving Chris Hopewell’s work (Burn The Witch) and the new video for Run The Jewel’s storming ‘Don’t Get Captured’ brings the politics of gentrification, an uncaring justice system and the military industrial complex to claymation (not a sentence I thought I’d write). This song was a highlight of their Glastonbury set, which pointedly kicked the…
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Lady Leshurr & 367 crew
I admit I only really came across Lady Leshurr via the guest spot on Orbital’s recent album, and she was the best thing on it! A friend posted this great video with her and the rest of the 367 crew (Lioness and Amplify Dot, who are equally worth checking out and should be big) guesting…
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RC 179: Is he a Yankee? Naw I’m a Londoner – UK Hip Hop with Ian Fondue
Original image by Tim Cayne – used under Creative Commons – cheers Tim 🙂 Keeping it real with a strictly UK thang, myself and Ian Fondue explore the world of UK hiphop, which despite being dissed at various times by the music industry is currently on fire like a bad boy. BRAP! BRAP! BRAP! Just…