Future Classic: Kings Go forth “The Outsiders Are Back”
Kings Go Forth is a soulful disco-funk 10-piece band from Milwaukee and they took on the whole retro-soul thing the right way. The group was founded by Andy Noble, the founder of the now sadly defunct record store Lotus Land, in 2007. As he explained in his Wax Poetics interview, …
Future Classic: Joe “R.E.J. Bit”
With an alias as unassuming as the producer JOE, you would expect a figure who remains outside of the limelight, and is sparing with their output and live performance. This is true for the most part. What you wouldn’t expect, however, is the absolutely raw and powerful emotion he instills …
Future Classic: LTJ X-Perience “Cry” (LTJ Rework)
A few weeks ago, I was on the hunt for a song I heard on a house mix, and all I had to go on was the artist name, LTJ (and not LTJ Bukem the British Drum n’ Bass artist I used to bump to in grade 9). This was …
Future Classic: Janet Jackson “If” (Kaytranada Remix)
I first took notice of Kaytra Laboom‘s music via youtube, bancamp and soundcloud and was struck by how he managed to travel through genres and stand out; holding his own with his hard yet minimalist beats. Every time I vibed off of his homecooked beatscapes I was in awe at …
Future Classic: Werkha “Le Roitelet”
With the amount of future beats / soul / post-dubstep (or whatever the hell you choose to call it) it’s real easy to get lost in the shuffle and start hating that whole vibe all together. We certainly have phases where tracks like these get on our nerves and we …
Future Classic: Philip Glass “REWORK_”
The remix album honoring Philip Glass‘ 75th birthday might only be released on October 23rd, but NPR is already offering a stream of its entire content through its website. The project, led by Beck, is a collage of remixes undertaken by artists of diverse branches of the music genre tree. …
Future Classic: Bonnie Banane “M U S C L E S”
Our good homie ONRA just tweeted me about this early this week and he simply pasted a youtube link with a !! following the link. I was of course very curious. A couple seconds into the clip I was very intrigued by the whole 90’s VHS nostalgia feeling. But still, …
Future Classic: Robert Glasper “Afro Blue” (9th Wonder Remix feat. Phonte)”
The jazz pianist’s 2011 release “Black Radio” contained an insane amount of highlights, and one of them certainly was “Afro Blue”, the oh-so-soulful collab with Erykah Badu… The album is really good, and I was (half) surprised to hear that he’s been masterminding a remixing project of several tracks from …
Future Classic: Mr Williamz “We Run England”
We only discovered this track and few weeks ago but its already one of our favorites of 2012. You might have heard it in our last MIMS monthly radio show, or in some of Lexis‘ live sets too. Big Big track. “We Run England” is the debut single off the …