The boys over at Fat Lace Magazine have started recording a semi-regular show that is available from their Soundcloud page or their own very fine blog. Check the first two shows below, stream or download.
Now I'm so late on this it's almost silly. This is a free mix for download from the man who put out one of my favourite albums of last year. Fashawn put this out before his debut album "Boy Meets World" and I clearly just missed it at the time.
If you were paying attention you would have seen Lady Chann on the Ladies Night on Westwood vid I posted a while ago. Everything I hear from her is more and more impressive, and now you've got a chance to have her next mixtape just fall into your lap.
If I have to explain who the Beatnuts are then you clearly don't like hip hop that much, and in a similar way you should be well up on who DJ MK is. This is a Beatnuts mix that MK put together for a HHC cover CD from years ago, and it is still the best thing they ever gave away.
At the moment I'm really enjoying this but I'm not sure if it'll get annoying after a while. Either way you might as well check it out because it's free of course. Chilly Gonzalez has put together a mix of mostly commercial bangers and tinkled his ivories all over the top of it all. Since I wrote the first sentence I'm actually warming to it quite a lot, so check it out right HERE. A Clipse verse will do wonders for someone sitting on the fence.
These are a couple of mixes done by Konny Kon of Broke'N'English with a specific time of year and feeling in mind. In his own words:Its the wintertime,tie up your tims,put your champion hoody and starter hat on,zip up, put this in your walkman, turn it to 11 and stand outside some shops like your invincible..either that or just listen to my mix in your nice warm house,tracks from-the u.n,pete rock,sadat x,mobb deep,12 jewelz,biggie,wu tang,p brothers,onyx,scaramanga,jay z,black moon,smif n wessun,odb,bravehearts,capone n noreaga,imam thug,m.o.p,redman,prodigy and more.He put them both up on the Broke'N'English blog which is right here. It's well worth checking for mixes like this, old tracks and general niceness from the Manc lads.
I've been downloading free mixes from DJ Cable for sometime now, and now it seems he's getting a bit of recognition on a wider scale. He put together this guest mix for Mista Jam on 1Xtra.
OK, hopefully some of you people (who am I kidding? Nobody reads this shite, holla at me or comment if you're a real person!) remember my post about the crazy Marvin Gaye mix by the man like Jimbo Jones. The good news is that he's been putting in work again and this time has crafted a masterpiece entirely out of Beasties material.
Cappo (seen above with Styly Cee and Disorda of Suspect Packages) is a lyrical monster from Notts. To be honest it's not often I use a phrase like that because it's so often applied incorrectly, but in this case I think it's true.
Not much info on this but it's a killer tracklisting. Go here to find the mix including a link to a free download, and see below for the tracklisting:
If you're a fan of hip hop from the UK you have probably heard of Skuff and Inja, two of the members of Cambridge based crew Delegates of Culture. What you might not realise is that they've just released an album that I reckon will be up there with my favourites of the year.
eLZhi should need no introduction, from his participation in some classic Slum Village albums through to his collaborations with more recent stars of the Detroit scene like Guilty Simpson and Black Milk.The Leftovers UnMixedtape is exactly what it sounds like: A compilation of one of the game's most talented Emcee's unreleased and featured works. Whether it's a promo joint from a few months back (eLZhi and Black Milk - Deep), a feature from another artist's project (Danny Brown - Contra feat. eLZhi), or just a rare gem from years past (eLZhi and DJ Dez - Living), these Leftovers would have passed for a fresh cooked meal if you didn't know better. It's raw, uncut, unmastered, fresh from the studio and ready for your ears. No DJs, just eLZhi and his comrades, your speakers and you. Without the Leftovers UnMixedtape, most of these songs would never have seen the light of day, so consider this a gift, and come get your grub on!
These "theme" projects can vary wildly from pretty shoddy to working well, and I'm pleased to be able to say that this one is definitely near the top end of that scale. Put together by Tom Caruana who runs his own label/site Tea Sea Records, anyone who has more than a passing interest in the UK scene will have heard one or more of the heavy beats he puts out.
Basically, I got tired of hearing a lot of people say stuff like, "there's nothing new out" or "hip hop is wack now". Upon hearing this I usually run down a list of names of new artists and even old artists with new albums and ask if they've heard of'em. Nope! These people have no idea. There's a lot of good new hip hop. You just have to do the knowledge and keep your ears open. These are some of my favorites from 2009 alone. Enjoy!
South Rakkas Crew are a couple of danehall/electro producers from Florida. They recently remixed a whole Tricky album to great effect, and right now they are giving away their latest offering for free on Mad Decent.
Nocando came up through Project Blowed and is a member of a crew called Customer Service. A respected battle/freestyle rapper as well as a solo artist in his own right. His next solo project will be entitled "Jimmy the Lock" and will be released on Alpha Pup Records on January 26th (digitally) and a few weeks later (physical format).
