Shlohmo – Just Us (Official Video)
First official video from Shlohmo‘s “Bad Vibes” LP (Check out our review here). Directed by Arthur Chance.
Future Classic: BUG “Mechanical Soul EP”
24 year-old Londoner, BUG, is a keyboard player, songwriter and producer. He creates an experimental, instrumentally grounded style of music with a compositional approach. The BUG sound encompasses the finer elements of hip-hop and neo-soul, yet the real beauty is in the delivery – “Think the smooth richness of the …
Future Classic: Abjo – Sankofa
What I like about beats, is the fact that the beatmaker can transport you in his spaceship into outtaspace and make me feel like Princess Lea for a moment. You can hop on this spaceship and go to a walk to go to work or in the metro. Abjo knows …
2011 West Coast Championship Controller Battle
Via CreateDigitalMusic.com In a competitive show of virtuosity, artists at an event in San Francisco over the summer battled to show that live electronic and laptop performance can be physical. It’s dance music that makes the artist sweat, and not just the audience. Hosted by the new Controllerism.com blog with …
Future Classic: Shlohmo “Bad Vibes” LP
While the rest of the world was waiting for that certain “Watch The Throne” release aka # WTT on twitter, I was, as a “beats” fan waiting for Shlohmo‘s LP. I can’t ignore the fact that he’s an awesome producer and his remix of Waka Flocka is pretty insane as …
Damu the Fudgemunk – Beats in the park (video)
Just a quick little video to remind you to keep an ear out for DAMU the Fudgemunk. He’s one of my favorite producers of recent years on the more boom bap side of things. In a time where beats have sometimes gone overly weird for the sake of weirdness it’s …
Teebs “Moments” (video by Paul Trillo)
Video for Teebs “Moments” of the album Ardour (brainfeedersite.com/2010/10/19/teebs-ardour/). Almost 200 smokes bombs were used to create this seemingly never ending transition. Teebs “Moments” from Paul Trillo on Vimeo.
Future Classic: Knxwledge “Old. Klouds”
It’s really not an easy thing these days with the insane amount of “beat tapes” and instrumental projects coming to distinguish the awesome from the ordinary. Well, actually no. It is actually very easy to spot when something this good passes you by, it’s just that let’s say there has …
TEEBS mix on Mary Anne Hobbs’ XFM Show
Another flawless incursion into the beautiful world of the audio/visual artist known as TEEBS. Hailing from L.A, he is definitely one of the most interesting out of the absolutely insane talent coming out of Cali in the last couple of years. The mix was featured on miss Mary Anne Hobbs …
Future Classic: Demeraera “Through A Glass Darkly”
I’m always looking for music that will reach me on an emotional level. Sometimes I spend hours looking for new artists who will give me that feeling. One night – on a very early morning – I found Demeraera. I fell in love and I think it had been a …
Future Classic: Label Love vol.3 (Free Download)
Third in the outstanding series of compilations called LABEL LOVE. Like the two previous volumes, it is a Free Download but in 2011, is that even really a selling point? No, not really. The whole thing that is exciting about this is that it is a sampler of some of …
DIBIA$E – Live Set in Montreal (July 2011)
We’ve got a real treat for you today. This is the live set that DIBIA$E performed last week in Montreal at the ArtBeat & Music Is My Sanctuary joint event. Everyone who was there walked away with such a positive feeling. The kind that you rarely get walking away from …