This is the part of Hip Hop I love the most: the beats. Its always been about the beats, particularly from the J. Dilla school of sound. I think thats why Ive been falling so hard for the recent tunes from dudes like Flying Lotus, Bullion, Hudson Mohawke and Onra. These particular tracks come from [...]

The Horrors. I dont know. I loved ‘Sheena Was A Parasite’ (and the mind splitting video by Chris Cunningham) but I never really bought into the hype, or admittedly really gave their first album a proper listen. So it was such a surprise when I had a flick through their new offering, Primary Colours, to [...]

I don’t generally listen to hip-hop unless it’s cross-over, genre-bender stuff that breaks the gangsta/pimp/superstar mould of mainstream hip-hop/RnB.
Yo Majesty, christian/lesbian/crunk/electro/rap duo (what?!), are mould-breakers of the best kind (the craaaaay-zee kind) and they just dropped their tasty debut LP ‘Futuristically Speaking… Never Be Afraid‘. I could say it sounds like blah-blah having sex with so-and-so [...]

Busy P and part of his Ed Banger crew (plus Crookers) are back for his new release “Pedrophilia“, featuring rap from Murs (Making Underground Raw Shit) and some nice remixes from our homeboys DJ Mehdi, So Me and legend Mr. Oizo. KBC had a few remixes streamable for a while now so kudos to them, [...]

Well, last night was shit. The Renderers are like 90 years old and boring. Hopefully this will be better tonight. Im heading down to Miss Libertines on Franklin St tonight to catch Flying Lotus, the new-ish addition to the label Warp, home of all good kinds of fucked up electronica. This is all really going [...]