It’s no secret I’m a pretty massive Jehst fan, I think you’d be hard pressed to find a UK Hip Hop head that isn’t, so the approach of his new album ‘Dragon of an Ordinary Family’, being released on his own YNR label, is enough to stop me sleeping. As a build up to it, [...]
Ok so this weeks tune of the week isn’t a tune as such, but this needs to be seen! The Soul Jam in Brixton, where boom bap live Hip Hop band ‘The Illersapiens’ have a residency is known as one of the best Hip Hop nights in the big smoke, combining good vibes with healthy [...]
After the absolute caning this tune recieved at the mighty Drumfunk last night (massive ups to Judda and all the Bournemouth lot), it definitely deserves a bit of a feature. Gusto’s vocals make the dance absolutely go off and when you put the bass heavy neuro beats of EBK, Octane & DLR, who are all [...]
Our tune of the week this week’s just been uploaded to the internet by Octane & DLR, and is a techy monster of a d&b track. Leeds based Octane & DLR have been on fire recently, storming to the forefront of d&b along side a whole load of artists Dispatch are pushing forward with an [...]
Last Tuesday brought with it the awful news that, one of the most distinct voices in rap, Nate Dogg had passed at age 41, reportedly by health issues that his two previous strokes created. I’m not gonna lie, I wasn’t truly aware of just how many tunes Nate had featured on, but looking back at [...]
This is one of the highest played bits in my Itunes so definitely deserves a Tune of the Week mention. It’s is actually a Ghost remix of the original Jehst tune with DJ IQ on the beats, which was released on IQs ‘Brainfood’ album in 2006. In my opinion, Ghost really stepped an already amazing [...]
While Belfast’s long time liquid don Calibre’s had both amazing quality and incredibly prolific output recently, including the incredible Even If album, I was reminded today of one of my all time favourite Calibre tunes, from back in 2007. It was a recording of Spectrasoul’s set from Shogun at the Lightbox (essential set!) that jolted [...]
I stumbled across this one on Soundcloud the other day and it instantly hit me. As a lover of both Hip Hop and D&B, I’m a fan of these techy tunes with dark Hip Hop vocals (think ‘The Cut Deepens‘, ‘Greazy‘, ‘Dark Days‘ and ‘Dreadnaught‘). Relatively unknown d&b producer ‘Cliffhanger‘ comes with absolutely filthy beats, [...]
Ok so it’s been a pretty mellow sunday with the rain an all, so tunes like this become the narrative for a night in. Released in 2007, Finding Forever shows Common with a really nice relaxed flow over Kanye West beats, which honour Dilla and his style of sample chopping, as well as one from [...]
Another weekly feature, Tune of the Week is our opportunity to highlight one tune we’re really feeling, in any genre. This week Spearhead‘s ‘LSB- All My Love’, a tune just late of securing a place on our ‘New In the Bag‘ feature, came up trumps. Following releases on Deep Soul Music and Zinc’s Bingo imprint, [...]
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