January 22, 2018If your interests somewhat align with ours – skating, graffiti and Beastie Boys – then likely you’ve already come across the artwork of Damien Van der Meer. In fact, we wouldn’t be surprised if @damovdm is your favourite cat on Instagram. The Sydney based artist has carved a specialty out for himself by drawing hip-hop heroes on to skate decks, occasionally…
January 15, 2018Some friends recently put me on to the work of London based director Yoni Lappin, best known currently for the music videos he’s supplied for UK producer Mura Masa. Most likely you’ve seen his film making through the video for ‘Love$ick’ featuring A$AP Rocky, which you can check out below. Lappin, as you can see, is perfectly on point with the unfiltered…
November 28, 2017Man by the name of Monkey Marc throws up proper heat here for the second in the recently minted ‘floppy disk’ series of 7″ drops from Jahtari. Peter King was the first to come to us on the Diskettes series, going over the top of ‘Honeybadger Rididm’ from Art & Naram, complete with B-side version to light you up, recorded straight…
October 11, 2017Twelve years after he dropped the seminal Behind The Beat comes the follow up from Raph Rashid – Back To The Lab: Hip Hop Home Studios. In the early ’00s social media was just starting, youtube wasn’t yet a thing, and features in Scratch Mag and Wax Poetics were the only real ways for most of us to gain insight in…
July 3, 2017While we’re in LA I thought it’d be worth putting up these portraits of some of the city’s top producers and DJs that first appeared in our inbox in 2009. Los Angeles was getting it’s proper hype at last, Daddy Kev’s Low End Theory was in full flight and Gaslamp Killer was known as an out there DJ, though yet to…
June 13, 2017Sad news here. Purveyors of the much-touted ‘Sir White’, ‘Bomukun’ and ‘AstroSugar’ constructions of late – Pocket Designs – are closing their doors after a decade of business. Pocket Designs has held it down as the local go-to place for t-shirts for some time now based on quality, and added to it by keeping their costs reasonable where other boutiques didn’t. Not…
June 1, 2017Came across this shot of A Tribe Called Quest, which is ripe for over analysing. Every time I see images of Phife Dawg and Q-Tip together on stage I can’t help but clock the clashes in personal style that seem to resonate from their unique makeups and, most importantly, in parallel with their differing lyrical deliveries. You could talk for hours on…
January 3, 2017Lists of things to buy and check out are always good provided they come from the right people, and Jimmy Monsta Funk is still top of that list. He’s dropped some proper heat on us this year and we’re still sitting on about six hour of mixes comprising of wax from 2015 that’ll be up shortly. A lot of good…
December 31, 2016Looking back at the records and tapes I shouted at last year and it’s pretty spooky how many artists and labels came back again. Maybe I’m getting old, not playing out as much and listening at home instead, or maybe it’s just the couple of big boxsets breaking the record budget, but the most noticeable shift was towards albums over…
December 16, 2016For those who might not be tuned in to Mt. Druitt News on Facebook you may’ve missed them posting this battle between a graffiti writer and the council worker responsible for this particular patch of building maintenance. Start on the top left hand corner then scroll along the gallery. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]