Future Classic: Koen “Outputs 2”
Browsing around on some of my favorite sites and I stumbled upon this nugget on the always reliable site called Moovmnt.com from Amsterdam. I love instrumental hiphop and abstract beats but in the last 2-3 years there have been sooo many releases and new artists that it brings the overall …
Kenlo Craqnuques “Jeudi / Picots Cheapos”
It’s the return one of the 2 kings of the “piu piu” wave (the other being VLooper). Kenlo Craqnuques is one of our best and most original beatmakers in Quebec and Canada. He gets love from heads from Japan to LA. In fact, whenever I bring artists over for Montreal …
Future Classic: Thundercat “The Golden Age of Apocalypse” LP
Stephen Burner aka Thundercat is such an impressive musician and also to my surprise, he was in the live band of Erykah Badu at Rock The Bells which I had the chance to catch last week. I’m so small I couldn’t see anything during their soundcheck. I had to jump …
Future Classic: Hazel & Slakah the Beatchild “This”
During a short visit to Paris, Canadian producer Slakah the Beatchild (signed to BBE Records) who has worked with Drake, Nelly Furtado, Dj Jazzy Jeff hooked up with French producer Häzel who is also one of our favorites here. They collaborated on this 6 track EP full of jazzy boom …
Alexander Nut “FACT Mix #44”
The 44th FACT podcast comes courtesy of the man behind Rinse FM’s Mixed Nuts show, the curator of the station’s latest CD release and the boss of Eglo records, Wolverhampton’s Alexander Nut. If you’ve listened to Nut’s recent shows or checked him playing out you’ll know what to expect – …
Future Classic: Ghostpoet “Liiiines” (Lando Kal & XXXY Remixes)
Digital drop next Monday (5th September) on Brownswood Recordings featuring two of our favourite producers who have persistently expanded the boundaries of bass music in recent times. xxxy’s releases on Orca, Fabric and Ten Thousand Yen pushed all the right buttons for us – rooted in UK Funky but always …
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 …