kind of a mash-up this one, kept on a mellow sunday afternoon tip (okay, with a bit of time travel to friday night). the house is a collection from emusic and the netlabels and the grooves are from all over the web. check out the first installment of the popularmusicfront collection now.
les tracks:
Skin Deep [...]
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breezy, poignant, street-smart, pretty out there, but damn difficult to track down on the web. that’s ‘the hat’ for you.
first saw the hat without one of it’s best components – a drummer that can compliment the spoken word raps with… spoken word scratching. quite a feat to behold, but i’d recommend seeing them soon, [...]
over a year ago, a mix by dataman opened me up to a fair portion of the netlabel catalogue which at that time i had just started to explore. since then i have continued to follow the netlabels, building my own netlabel mixes and dipping into this rich source of electronic music whenever i felt [...]
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ok, how’s this for a convoluted story:
i was trying to find a black grass track featured on ’south coast’, a movie about brighton hip hop. the track is a cheeky little number that samples from the jam’s "start". anyway, struggled tracking it down on the black grass website or on brighton’s finest catskills.
finally i [...]
if you’re in brighton away from the downs facing seawards, occasionally you can discover a rare gem floating across the channel airwaves – the wonderful world of fip.
like getting trapped in your local music emporium (think virgin, fnac), sticking well clear of the chart sleaze fodder of daytime radio and digging into just about everything [...]
just when your getting disillusioned about how pigeon-holed everything sounds these days along comes something that floors you.
the US arthouse duo of matmos have been getting coverage here on the electronic scene in the likes of trax mag and given their high-fallutin roots and penchant for dropping references to wittgenstein i thought i could be [...]
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once in a while something comes along that makes you feel like you have really been looking in all the wrong places.
taking all the best bits of african (infectious basslines, energy), stripping off the noodles that oft bogged down afrobase, applying the latest urban/house production techniques and then wiring this up to the celestial ever-shaking [...]
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