Category: hip hop
Here it is – getting on the 2009 teary nostalgia tip like a bunch of other Poprounders (thug wife, doc and yari, who covered the whole noughties).
Most of these tracks have been hacked off the blogs I monitor. Definitely veering on the side of taught electronic production, and me like all the other bloggers is [...]
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bestOf2009_kiterae - Listen now |
you know the year has flown by when you have to check the song to make sure it’s the right year…saying that it’s been a great year for good music not to mention decade (ooh that might mean another compilation to follow!!). SXSW 09 really set the tone for the year so much that we [...]
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thug_wife_best_of_2009 - Listen now |
I really don’t spend enough time keeping up with the colorful world of US street culture. When it comes down to it, I’m nowhere near as hip as ex-US president Bill Clinton. According to Justin Bua in this article for Vancouver student radio station CJSF, the erstwhile US pres has a bunch of Bua’s seminal [...]
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tis BUA - Listen now |
In terms of rappers that have been around the block, there are few that have traveled further than Rakim. From the early days with Eric B, The R established himself as one of the true legends behind the mic.
Blentwell feature a great showcase from Elmattic tracing the history of this boy with the golden tonsils [...]
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RakimTheOneTrueGod - Listen now |
This mix owes some gratitude to Tim Everest. Frozen, wandering down Haight, promising myself I won’t hand over any more money to those Amoeba bastards (a previous altercation with a snobby buyer – don’t ask), I’m quite happy to pass a cursory glance, toss up my head and walk on. But oh no, Tim. You [...]
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opround_HarryCovert_mr_wobbletone - Listen now |
A bit of a departure this week from the normal fare of house music and its variants. On a recent visit to the mighty Amoeba Records on Haight Street in SF, I picked up a mix by J. Period.Checking out his bio, this guy has played with everyone from Lauren Hill and Q-Tip to more [...]
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d_JPeriod_SoundclashDancehallVol2 - Listen now |
So said Jimi Polo all the way back in 1989 over the top of one of dance music’s most memorable piano riffs. But then house music in those days was all about gay black kids coming up with funky piano snippets on their Utopian search. Oh, how far we’ve come.
So, here it is, my [...]
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round_Kiterae_better_days_Mixtape - Listen now |
My first exposure to mashup culture goes back to the early heady days of rap when the ganstas and daisy agers achieved notoriety by borrowing freely from old funk and pop classics to create the dance-punk propaganda that I guess now gets labeled ‘Golden Age Hip Hop’. The likes of George Clinton took offense to [...]
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SOLO-Fabricmix-June09 - Listen now |
It’s surprising that in this day and age there are some artists that you just can’t find on the web. Sparkletone is one.
I checked Myspace – nothing there.
Next the personal website – lovely design with a bunch of remixes, and that’s about it.
Coming full circle back to the mix that originally triggered the Sparkletone hunt, [...]
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Egypt - Listen now |
The UK’s BBC Radio 1 has been supporting and promoting emerging dance music since the early days of rave (when the public-funded organ attracted some ire for forging links with a ‘drug-addled’ sub culture). Back in the day, I had no way of getting out into the fields where the raves where happening, so I [...]
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20DJs%2520We%2520Trust_2009_06_19 - Listen now |
