Dandy Teru is a French producer who recently signed to Ubiquity Records and has just released his debut album “Adventures” on the label. An instrumental hip-hop album with excellent guest vocalists and rappers, this is one of those records that only grows stronger with each listen. This is music that is equally at home on [...]
The underground and much respected instrumental hip-hop artist and producer Clams Casino has teamed up with DOOM for the track Bookfiend which features a stoned-sounding MF Doom doing his thing over a very spacey and reverb-heavy beat. Clammy Clams is best known for his work with A$AP Rocky, but maybe this signals that he has [...]
LISTEN: Day – Boots In The Pool (from YouTube) Every few years an artist seemingly comes out of nowhere – without the months of leaked tracks and mega-hype – and drops a masterpiece of an album on an unsuspecting listening public. That is exactly what the artist now known as Day (formerly DJ Day) has [...]
Leroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner, the frontman for 1970′s funksters Ohio Players, passed away at the end of January and now Karriem Riggins has put out the nice tribute track Chopped Worm. In his own words: My idea was to chop a song that is so important to hip hop and also pay homage to 1 of [...]
In honor of Madlib’s tour of Japan and China, Rappcats is offering up an excellent little compilation of some of the best tracks from the Madlib Medicine Show series. Even if you own volumes 1-12 of the MMS, this is still a cool collection to thrown on a playlist. Stream the album at the Stussy [...]
LISTEN: Trent Everywhere – Summer Nights Late last year we let you know about Trent Everywhere’s killer “Summer Nights” EP and now he has released a fully remastered version with a couple bonus tracks entitled “Summer Dreams”. Always a treat when a great album gets a makeover to sound even better. Check out the remastered [...]
LISTEN: Day – Mama Shelter Day (formerly DJ Day) has a new album “Land of 1000 Chances” coming out February 6th and he is offering up the killer track Mama Shelter as a free download in the meantime. The song is a great blend of many different styles that seamleslly morph into a single cohesive [...]
LISTEN: J Dilla – Lets Pray Together (Instrumental) (from YouTube) The excellent “Dillatroit EP” features twelve new unreleased J Dilla tracks on limited edition vinyl. Many of these beats were used on the “Rebirth of Detroit” album from last year, but this EP features instrumental versions not heard there and which are in many ways [...]