Posted by: mx on: December 18, 2009
Onra is a French producer making mainly instrumental hip-hop. Chinoseries is an extraordinary album featuring samples of old Chinese and Vietnamese music mixed with fat beats. Pretty awesome stuff.
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Posted by: mx on: March 22, 2009
From the smokes of a fictional large scale urban protest rises this loud hip-hop album. The tone set with words at the intro, protesting against the wars USA has initiated in the recent history, is kept throughout, almost constantly backed by layers of machine noise. It’s as if somebody has blended hip-hop and the aggressive [...]
Posted by: mx on: January 12, 2009
There’s a very cool limited edition release from DJ Shadow out there that’s slowly been appearing on the torrent scene. It’s 4 volume set of his early mixes that he originally made on his, you guessed it, 4-track recorder.
My favourite here is the first volume prepared in 1991 for a Bay Area radio station, which [...]
Posted by: mx on: January 3, 2009
Same as it never was begins as if it’s an instrumental hip-hop album. And hip-hop really is the root of Herbaliser’s music, played by a mini orchestra around Londoners Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba. But only a couple of seconds later it reveals its true kaleidoscopic face, made of glaring elements of funk, jazz, soul [...]
Posted by: mx on: December 26, 2008
I first heard the late Jay Dee (or J Dilla) while listening to instrumental hip-hop radio on last.fm. He’s a masterful producer, worked with people like Flying Lotus and ?uestlove. His tracks really do stand with out when you listen to a stream. Here’s a full discography.
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Posted by: mx on: September 4, 2008
No matter how hard you try… Yeah so we now have Zach De La Rocha’s solo album where he’s in a duo with an ex-Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore. I don’t know, maybe we don’t need a RATM reunion after all?
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Posted by: mx on: September 3, 2008
Hey everybody! It’s been a long journey and now this blog is alive again.
A few textures deep hazy mix, perfect soundtrack to walking around a modern city in the night, when psychedelic is the escape and the means. He goes a lot further in experimentation than Massive Attack for instance. Largely instrumental, but there are [...]
Posted by: mx on: May 30, 2008
The Roots are one of the few hip-hop acts that I listen to, so I checked this new album out with interest. I like how most of the songs are politically provocative and heavy: Rising Down, 75 Bars, Criminal… I think that it can speak to many people of all musical tastes and makes a [...]
