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Despite the pink giraffe that adorns all their releases, the beats that come out of the Diffrnt records camp are anything but cute and rep a hard, dark and punchy sound. Arkaik’s recent Cutting Edge EP, his second on the label, is no exception, taking you through four tracks of stripped back warfare where serrated [...]
Brother Ali’s most recent album, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Colour dropped recently and, even after the controversy surrounding previous tunes such as Uncle Sam Goddamn, is probably his most ambitions and bold to date. Created during a self imposed two month exile in Seattle, it acts as a critique of America, but also [...]
D&B duo State of Mind have been doing their thing for a few years now, touring all over the world from their New Zealand home and producing tracks with some of the genres biggest artists and for some of it’s biggest labels. There sound is based around the dancefloor, with tech and electro elements combining [...]
LA artist Kofie is one of my favourite artists to come through a graff background, using the eye developed there to explore shape, form and colour in a more abstract manner. His pieces are striking not only in their bold form and deep black lines but also for the composition that drags you through them [...]
Fliptrix is a name that needs no introduction to anyone who’s been reading anything I’ve been saying for the past year or so, or anyone into their Hip Hop in general. The founder of High Focus, one quarter of recent super crew The Four Owls and with two solo albums under his belt already, the [...]
James Ellaway, a 21 year old producer from Cardiff who goes by the name Lung, has blown up recently. Carving a melodic d&b sound like no other,he also adds a variety of other tempos to an already impressive cv. He’s seen his incredibly successful track Relapse feature on New Blood 011, a compilation by Hospital’s [...]
After a digital only solo release on Uncertified Music back in 2010, Villem really blew onto the d&b scene in 2011 when break picked up his dance floor banger Do You? I Wanna was picked up by Break for Symmetry recordings. Since then, the last years been a good one with releases on Samurai, Utopia [...]
I’ve been a fan of Akala for a long time now. Although I’m not feeling a lot of heavy, rock influenced beats he uses, his wordplay’s incredible and the guy speaks a massive amount of truth and brings an element of wisdom the Uk scene’s in dire need of. Here, he drops knowledge on a [...]
LA King Saber, of MSK/AWR, just released this really dope interview as a lead up to the upcoming collaboration between The Hundreds and The Seventh Letter. He’s got some really interesting views on graff, and it’s nicely filmed and put together with some nice beats. Check it out below.
Andy Skopes started his foray into the d&b industry as a DJ based in Croydon and has since made his name across a wide variety of d&b styles, releasing on labels such as Inperspective and Utopia as well as running his own night. Off the back of a killer 12″ on Utopia, Reading From the [...]
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