Future Classic: Objekt “Cactus / Porcupine” (Hessle Audio)
Now this is one EP we’ve been waiting for impatiently! OBJEKT is one of the freshest new producers on the block really knocked us out in 2011 with his lean and minimal brand of techno meets dubstep. In fact, we picked “Tinderbox” as one of our favorite tracks of 2011. …
Future Classic: Homeboy Sandman “Subject: Matter” (EP)
One of the labels best ever at picking up underground talent, Stones Throw Records (Madlib, Peanut Butter Wolf, J-Dilla, James Pants, Jonwayne, Dam Funk, Oh No,…) do it again and sign Homeboy Sandman (one of my favorite indie american MC’s). Listening to the homeboy’s third album, The Good Sun, it’s …
Forgotten Treasure: Bran Van 3000 “Drinking In L.A” (Dave One Remix feat. A-Trak)
An all-star, all-Montreal lineup on this hip-hop jam circa 1997. Not a big Bran Van 3000 fan myself, I came across this stunning remix about a year ago, when a record collector friend of mine hooked me up with this one as a part of a “100 vynils for 80$”-type …
Future Classic: Del The Funkee Homosapien “West Coast Avengers”
Oakland-based hip-hop legend Del The Funkee Homosapien returns with “West Coast Avengers” a trippy-ass cover, all P-Funk sample-based, funky-fresh mixtape available for free via Datpiff.com. If you know the man already, you know how Del almost done did it all. From taking the G-Funk gangsta rap’s aesthetic and flip it …
Forgotten Treasure: Buster Williams “Vibrations” featuring Roy Ayers (1976)
For me sundays are all about listening to chilled out music while doing some stuff around the house. This 11 minute track came out on bass player Buster Williams‘ 1976 record called Crystal Reflections but Vibrations has really has Roy Ayers written all over it, he composed it and played …
Future Classic: B.B King “The Thrill Is Gone” (The Reflex Remix)
“The Thrill Is Gone” is a blues song written by Rick Darnell and Roy Hawkins in 1951 and popularized by B.B. King in 1970. It was also covered a bunch of times by people like the Ink Spots, Ella Fitzgerald. One of BB’s signature songs and one of my all-time …
Forgotten Treasure: Leviticus “The Burial” (1995)
An absolute classic from 1994, the glory days of the Jungle scene in the UK, “Burial” was released in 1994 on Philly Blunt (who also released another of my all-time faves Firefox‘s “The Warning”). When I was about 15 this girl gave me a Jungle mix on cassette and let’s …
Future Classic: Shash’u “4 Dilla”
Yeah in February for the past few years it’s been DILLA all day everyday. I think we would probably all get over it if the man didn’t have such a ridiculous catalog of production. Even as a Dilla head, when you think you know everything an unreleased nugget surfaces (like …
Forgotten Treasure: Bobby Konders “House Rhythms” (1990)
Few records can be said to enjoy the same cultic adoration that Bobby Konders‘ legendary “House Rhythms” does. Released in 1990 on the endlessly mythicized Nu Groove label, “House Rhythms” epitomized the early solidification of house culture just a few years after its emergence, an EP born from the central …