Future Classic: Capitaine Soldat – Mon amie la bouteille
Written by: Max Robin Finding and sampling rare breaks isn’t the biggest trend in music productions right now. Cool findings (and funny and unusual in this case) are often overlooked. That’s why I was captivated by this recommendation from Franny of Random Recipe (catch their hybrid of hiphop, rock and …
Future Classic: Gramatik – Beatz & Pieces Vol.1
Written by: Max Robin Dope new release on Pretty Light Music this month. It’s the first full record from Gramatik that I knew from a previous compilation by Pretty Light. Like the title say “beats and pieces”. Because of the title, I thought about Coldcut and the Ninja Tune sound …
Future Clasic: Mister Bibal “Losange Jaures”
Mister Bibal has nothing to envy. He is one of the most recognized producers in the thriving France Beats Scene, such as Onra, Hazel and others. The producer was first known in Paris from the semi-final of Juste Debout – one the largest urban dance competitions in the world – …
Future Classic: High-Klassified X Musoni “90’s Babies”
Dauuumn! Montreal is really stepping up big time. I’ve been discovering Musoni over these past couple of months and I have to say i’m very impressed. This offering is an 11 track beat tape of split production between fellow super talented MTL beat kid High-Klassified. The title is “90’s Babies” …
Future Classic: Apollo Brown & Hassan Mackey “Daily Bread”
Ascending production star Apollo Brown started making waves in 2009 after winning the Detroit Red Bull Big Tune Championship. The next year he signed to Mello Music Group and released a series of critically acclaimed albums: The Reset, Brown Study (selected by iTunes as one of the Top 10 Hip-Hop …
Future Classic: Blazin’ “Night Career”
I get about 30-40 music submissions every week and to be honest I really don’t give all of them I try. I know I should but let’s just stay I start by eliminating the emails that sound like they were sent to 150 other websites and go from there. I’m …
Future Classic: Cliché “3 Quarters For A Dollar” (Volume 2)
Written by: Max Robin Cliché is a beatmaker from Trois-Rivières. His “3 Quarters For A Dollar” serie is very interesting and affordable. It’s more a challenge to himself than the format to release his music we prefer. A new EP of instrumental beats each few months. The first one was …
DIBIA$E Interview
Great interview with Californian beatmaker DIBIASE live from the Music Is My Sanctuary studio with great journalist and fellow music head Aïsha. It was recorded the morning after our Montreal gig so props to DIBIASE for being a real road warrior! Dibia$e from Aisha C. Vertus on Vimeo.
Future Classic: Ras G “Crenshaw Bus”
I’ve been sitting on the promo of this one for a little while now but seeing as I saw it posted on Youtube I guess it’s now “public domain”. In case you missed it I played it on my last MIMS Show #47. The track is off RAS G‘s new …
Future Classic: Max Tannone – Ghostfunk
Written by: Max Robin Mashups are funny. Combining awkardly two completely different music makes interesting results that you listen to one time like a youtube video and never listen to it a second time. The exception is the mashup artist known as Max Tannone. Each of his well combine two …
DIBIASE in Montreal – Video
For anyone who was in Montreal last week and got stopped by a little thing called rain, let me tell you one thing. You seriously missed out! Our guest DIBIASE straight from California was in Montreal for the first time and let’s just say he left a lasting impression to …
Future Classic: FLAKO “The Mesketet”
Extensive collection of low-sprung electro-downbeats by baked beat maker, fLako. All these 25 tracks are previously unreleased or only available digitally and span a rich body of post-Dilla style slump bea’Enter Off Color ts and baroque soul experiments. As you might expect with so many track over two plates, they …