You may know of beatmaker Charlie Mac through his involvement in Ramson Badbonez & Twizzy’s recent album The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (check our review here) and his link to the Abnoxshuz Entertainment label, but whether you do or not, his new instrumental album is definitely worth a listen. Whether you’re an MC [...]
Oxford based Hip Hop producer Freddie Wiltshire, otherwise known under the alias Fredo, has been entertaining my ears through his Soundcloud for a while now with a variety of mellow beats that stand well on their own as instrumentals as well as remixes of tunes such as Juicy and The Delusionists’ Poison. After further demonstrating [...]
Swansea based clothing company ThinkZebra have been releasing free music from a few different hip hop artists this year through their ‘ThinkZebraPresents’ Bandcamp. The latest, an 11 track instrumental album (plus two bonus remixes), is the work of fellow Swansea beat maker Produkt. With something for everyone he covers a range of styles, some of [...]
It’s fairly rare that Broken Culture and Radio 1′s Giles Peterman cross paths, but there’s so much soul and such a heavy hip hop influence in the music of Jesse Futurman, who he’s been plugging, that it’s definitely not to be slept on. A boiling pot of electronic sounds as well as traditional instruments with [...]
Having worked with the likes of Guilty Simpson (who you may note was the first name in his dream collaborations in this Rago Magazine interview way back in 2009), Foreign Beggars, Kyza, Sonnyjim, Syntax and the majority of the High Focus gang, Manchester based Pete Cannon is no longer a small fish in the UK [...]
Canadian countryside composer Raycord uses the elements of nature surrounding to inspire his analog beats, recording his tracks on open reel tapes. Following on from his previous album L’hiver Blanc, his latest creation is a fourteen track experimentation in sound in collaboration with Steve Cloutier entitled Ruban Ruban (‘Reel to Reel’ in English). Released by [...]
The suns been beating down on England today, one of the rare ones where I haven’t yet spotted a single bit of saturated water vapour blowing through the blues, so it feels like the perfect time to introduce you to this chilled out collection of melodies and beats from young Brighton based producer Harvey Gunn. [...]
LA Rapper Intuition‘s go to beat maker, Equalibrum, doesn’t only drop monsters alongside his rap counterpart, providing the majority of beats for Intuition’s 2010 album Girls Like Me for example, but has also just released an incredible free instrumental album, his debut solo project. Rather than take the beat tape route, he’s delicately crafted an [...]
Dephect recently dropped another free download from Simiah’s incredible instrumental hip hop album, Lost in Time. Furthering the chilled vibe of Boxing Rounds, a previously released free teaser, Simiah once again utilises the MPC to perfection with crisp drums and an incredible melody for a contemplative, smoke one out the window, kinda head nodder. Female [...]
“For the first time in my life, to know what it means to be truly alive. Now that’s very frightening, because with that comes an immediate awareness of death” Ghost isn’t just one of the finest hip hop producers to come out of the Uk, but from my limited experience talking to him also seems [...]
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