With it’s closest neighbours being Grimsby and Scunthorpe, you’d be forgiven for not pegging the north east coastal town of Cleethorpes as a hub of Hip Hop. But this Estuary Heads track, Weight Gain, that just dropped into my inbox is a testament to just how much hip hop is hidden in the murky depths [...]
King Underground just released a new single from up and coming producer Simiah, a Bristol based vinylist with a penchant for MPC’s and chilled out jazzy beats. It’s got that nice classic Akai sound with a lovely sax sample intertwined with keys, hypnotic hats and shuffling drums for a perfect beat to just sit back [...]
Brighton young gun Frankie Stew’s not only one third of the hip hop crew Concept of Thought, but has also just dropped some solo tracks that stake his claim as a really talented MC that’s gonna be one to contend with in the future. His styles laid back, abstract and ridiculously eloquent and has me [...]
Not many hip hop artists have passed through Bournemouth in the last year without gracing Broken Culture in some way, and with Roast Beatz once again providing a firing lineup for his night ‘What’cha Want?’ at the Winchester, I was obviously gonna be on hand with the camera. After a night with an incredible turn [...]
I got an email absolutely ram jam with beats from a young hip hop producer called called Floyd Cheung a few weeks ago and I’ve been diggin them ever since. Based at the London School of Sound, he produces with that soul and funk influenced sound we love so much here at Broken Culture. I’ve [...]
A friend put me onto this up and coming Hip Hop producer a while ago and I’ve been really impressed by the free mixtapes he’s been putting out (check his Bandcamp for those). His sounds are chilled out, melodic and moody but still pack some punch and work really well with MC’s too. I spoke [...]
“If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts” Youtube based instrumental Hip Hop connoisseur Bob42jh not only regularly uploads aural gold to his Youtube channel, but also releases free compilation albums featuring some of the greatest tracks to grace his web space. The most recent of these, Films About Ghosts, recently dropped [...]
We hooked up with the self proclaimed sexiest fat man in showbizz, Stig of the Dump, outside the Winchester in Bournemouth after What’cha Want, a new night put on by Roast Beatz. Check round 2 out on the 13th January featuring Dr. Syntax! Check Stig on Facebook Roast Beatz on Facebook What’cha Want on Facebook
High Focus comes through with the goods once again, a new single and video from the upcoming Four Owls album, Nature’s Greatest Mystery. The albums being released not only on CD but also as a limited run of 300 vinyl copies including a download card that features instrumentals, accapellas and more goodies. It’s dope to [...]
One of the nineties most influential rappers, Heavy D, passed away earlier today (November 8th) at the age of 44. Saying losses to the Hip Hop game like this are tragic is an understatement, and there seems to have been far too many of them recently. Jamaican born Dwight Arrington Myers formed Heavy D & [...]
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