February 19, 2011I don’t know a lot about this hook-up, as the guys behind it have managed to keep it quite hush. From what I understand though, Black Atlantic is the joint force of some of our favourite promoters, though whether as a one off or a permanent move I’m not too sure. I do know RBMA are involved to some degree,…
February 9, 2011Since we first chatted in Melbourne in 2006, I’ve been following Oddisee with a constant look of awe. Or at least trying to follow him. The underground producer / artist / label runner and hip-hop historian remains an important link to the worldwide scene for anyone in to beats, rhymes or digging. If you’re not on his mailing list, drop…
February 2, 2011London may be the most expensive place I’ve ever lived, but damned if it doesn’t pay dividends for the scene it houses (no pun intended). Two big events are happening this Saturday, 5th of February, unfortunately falling on the same night, but luckily both in EC2. I’ve been looking forward to Fudge Fingas debut LP, titled Now About How, dropping…
January 29, 2011Continuing with drawing the lines between jazz and techno, Jimmy Monsta Funk drops part 2 in his series of track selections. Following on from Part 1 which examined Techno After Jazz, he’s just turned in another top 5 that for him sits on the opposite side of the same musical table. via Jimmy Monsta Funk In the world of DJing…
January 25, 2011Dope dope dope! Finally dropping, the first Shook mag of the year has come through for us – appropriately timed and titled The Great British issue. Seriously I get way too over-excited every time a new issue drops, in fact you can read my full rant here, left over from the South Africa themed edition in October. So I might…
January 22, 2011Hands down a major highlight for my 2010 was The Garden Festival, in the world’s top festival location of Petrcane, Croatia. For some reason a lot of the reviews last year ignored the euphoria inducing set by Henrik Schwarz playing live on the final day of the festival (often, unfairly in favor of the phenomenal crappiness of the Phenomenal Hand…
January 18, 2011When it comes to record collecting and my movements from jazz through to hip-hop through to funk to everything else before ending in electronic music, I missed a lot of links along the way. One of them being that of jazz and techno, and the influence and importance of the relationship between the two. Cue Jimmy Monsta Funk, who’s recent…
January 9, 2011I’ve been following the movments of Electrikal since I started speaking to Daojia about his ill productions a few months back. He mentioned at the time he was working on getting the site up and running. I had no idea that the end product would be looking this good. Representing out of Edinburgh, the 20 strong crew that makes up…
January 2, 2011This is too dope. For 200 weeks now regular heads over at the Stones Throw forums have been hosting their own weekly beat battles – the STMB Beat Battles. That’s over 7 years of user run and moderated beat competitions, open to anyone to participate and vote on. via Stones Throw 1/1/11 marks the start of the 200th weekly beat…
December 31, 2010Dropped on the Clone sub-label Jack For Daze, I’ve surprised myself by how much I’ve been rinsing this plate in the few weeks since it’s release. Some proper old-school Chicago tipped jack house from a new artist named Geeeman, who I can’t find anything about. Unfortunately the only complete track on the web is Rubberband2, embedded above, but as dope…