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Five for the Funk – Guru
It’s a sad week for Boston. Whilst the city is reeling in shock from the marathon bombings it’s also the anniversary of one of their strongest musical exponents death this week, and more precisely...
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Samu.l ‘Restless Dreams’– review on Pulse
“The original is built round a dreamy vocal sample of a gloriously famous pop duo, set atop a blissed out backing that gives it that haunting jack which is oh so on the money right now.” Review of the...
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Action Bronson –“Strictly 4 My Jeeps” (Official Video)
Action Bronson hits hard again. Killer video to boot.
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Nice slab of atmospheric deep house from Prompt here in the shape of ‘Senja’, which has some stirring chords, infectious percussion and an ever evolving soundscape. There’s only a dub and instrumental...
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Jay-Z album – Magna Carta Holy Grail (Darren’s thoughts)
The above Photo speaks volumes about what in my opinion Jay-Z has brought to Hip-Hop… corporate thinking that has taken the focus away from the struggles of ordinary African-Americans. I’ve seen...
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youngTEE – Can’t Stop Young
TUNE ALERT! This is a decent enough EP from London producer youngTEE but it is all about this track ‘Can’t Stop Young’, which is an amazingly well produced beast of a track. Check the rest but this...
View ArticleRob Shields – Shards / Silhouetted (Psyth Records)
Like glistening techno and house? Then brand new label Pysth Records could be for you, if their first release form Rob Shields is anything to go by. His grooves have picked up support from Maya Jane...
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El Nino Andres – Infatuacion (Hija de Colombia)
Some decent disco infused house here all the way from Columbia, with four simply titled tracks raiding funk soul and of course disco for the house thud. B1 is a decent bit of melody driven melancholy...
View ArticleRucks forthcoming on SoSure Music
Got sent the promo to the next EP on SoSure Music from Rucks recently, and it’s lovely emotive deep house. You can see a preview of it up above, with a voiceover that if I’m being honest, does grate a...
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Gorgon City ‘Sirens’ (Review on Skiddle)
“Their slick infusion of pop, house and garage has been an ever present in 2014, whether you’ve partied at a festival, club or just had a boogie to the radio” I don’t get to write many album reviews...
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Still the illest – GIT feature on ‘Ready to Die.
“New York’s first overtly mainstream gangster rapper with some of the most ludicrously enjoyable wordplay to boot” It’s 20 years to the day since the Notorious BIG drop kicked the world with one of...
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Album Review: Caribou ‘Our Love’
“You can always tell the quality of an album by the ideas that are used for the interludes and skits, and the confidence in allowing these two to develop fleetingly only intensifies the feeling this...
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Top 10 Wu Tang Songs over on GIT
“Ghostface does all but ball his eyes out over one long, heartfelt rant about the bleakness of his upbringing – sharing clothes with his siblings, finding overgrown insects in his cereal box and...
View ArticleKendrick Lamar ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’
Wow, just wow. King Kendrick’s third album has had me more excited than any other release I can think of in recent years, and the best part is the anticipation wasn’t even half the fun. The end result...
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Kendrick Lamar ‘King Kunta’ (Video)
Kendrick Lamar is the best rapper alive right now, end of. His brilliant third album To Pimp a Butterfly (more here) has been the biggest and best thing in hip hop in ages and the first video to drop...
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Kendrick Lamar and Rapsody ’27 bars of Genius’ (Getintothis article)
To Pimp a Butterly is rapidly becoming the most discussed album of the year, Kendrick Lamar’s mammoth opus igniting the literary love from all corners. I’ve absolutely loved it to death (you can vist...
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New reviews on DMC
Here’s a round up of some of the reviews I’ve done on DMC in the past few weeks Maurice Aymard & Sasse Backwards EP Dave Seaman – ‘Justified Replacement of Lulu’ – (Remixes)
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BIGGIE SMALLS: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
A fantastic kickstarter campaign has just started to publish some unseen photos of Biggie Smalls as part of an exhibition. The photos were took by a then aspiring photographer David Mcintyre for...
View ArticleCraig David’s Born to Do it
For #throwbackthursday #tbt we’ve gone back to the debut album from #craigdavid #borntodoit Read the article on skiddle.com/news #ukg #interselllllecta A photo posted by Skiddle (@skiddleuk) on Sep...
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Saying Goodbye to Nation
“We’ll never see a club quite like this again, and in the interests of evolution and progress we probably don’t need one. But for one more time Nation was again the hot ticket, the ultimate Saturday...
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