Video / Apollo Brown & Joell Ortiz: Cocaine Fingertips
You’ll know Groovement is a long time follower of Apollo Brown’s work, a modern legend of a hip hop producer. For his newest album he’s hooked up with Brooklyn rapper
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On Wax / Vinyl release for Yussef Dayes, Alfa Mist and Mansur Brown’s Love Is The Message
Love Is The Message is a track I’ve come back to again and again over the past few months. An epic track you can lose yourself completely to, taken to
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Live / The Mouse Outfit @ O2 Academy Sheffield, 21 Mar 2019
A triumphant headline show for the Manchester-born Mouse Outfit, live hip hop of the highest calibre. MCs for this show will include three of the city’s finest: Berry
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On Wax / Sunda Arc present debut EP on Gondwana Records
Sunda Arc consist of two thirds of Mammal Hands, brothers Nick and Jordan Smart. This project takes their musicality into more experimental electronic realms. Listen to the first drop from
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Ibibio Sound Machine announce new single Basquiat and tour dates
The frankly unstoppable Ibibio Sound Machine today share new single Basquiat and announce tour dates, including a whole weekend at new Manchester venue YES. Listen to the single below and
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Video / Savvy: The Hour Of The Wolf
The Hour Of The Wolf is the latest single from Savvy, and here’s the video. Grab the single on Spotify, iTunes, Bandcamp and Amazon. The album, The Battle For Hearts And
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On Tour / Jarreau Vandal hits Manchester and London
Underground self-made and now well on his way into the mainstream, Soulection veteran Jarraeu Vandal hits Manchester this week for fireworks on Thursday 8th November, before heading to Village Underground
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On Wax / Malik Ameer x thatmanmonkz are Madison Washington: ((((FACTS)))))
Proper rap and proper beats: years in the making, producer thatmanmonkz (Sheffield, UK) and Malik Ameer (emcee, poet, Oakland CA via NY and now Paris) release their long player ‘concerned
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Out Now / Chairman Maf announces retirement with Ginger
With a hefty discography not to be sniffed at, producer Chairman Maf announces his retirement with his sixth LP, Ginger. Perhaps the strongest of all his releases, Ginger showcases the
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On Wax / Eric Lau: Examples Vol 2
A blue twilight of sound to Volume One’s sandy yellow landscape, Eric Lau drops his new collection of instrumental jewels today. Beats range from hip hop and jazz to funk,
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Interview / AVER preps Dressed For CCTV on Village Live Records
It’s all a bit soft in places if you ask me. -Aver Anyone with a passing familiarity with Manchester hip hop knows Aver’s sound is integrated into the pavements of
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Video / J Chambers: New Levels, New Devils
He’s been lying low for a couple of months following the double whammy of D’Evils and Gone ‘Til November, but J Chambers returns in the lead up to the release
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Groovement Podcast / ATiké: Terra Incognita
As the name suggests, the minds behind Terra Incognita seek to take punters on a journey to unchartered realms and cosmic lands via the dancefloor… Ahead of their second night
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Groovement Podcast: Pan Amsterdam in conversation with Agent J
The elusive Pan Amsterdam landed in Manchester a couple of days back for what was only his second gig – but not his first rodeo. Leron Thomas, the real
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Video / Hot 8 Brass Band: Love Will Tear Us Apart
Ian Curtis’ crew may not be the most obvious to get the New Orleans jazz treatment from Hot 8, but anyone who knows a little about the band will understand
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Groovement Premiere / Ishmael Ensemble: Tunnels
This session is filmed in what was the back room of “The Croft”, home to Pinch’s legendary Wednesday night dance “Dubloaded”. It was in this room I first heard
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New Music / Echo Park: Yesterday’s Tomorrow
Further electro-influenced synth hip hop from the future from the Echo Park camp, last seen with their eponymous debut LP in 2012. This one sees release on Santiago de Chile’s
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On Wax / Jam Baxter: Saliva
ORDER 7″ VINYL / STREAM & DOWNLOAD Jam Baxter presents the first taste of new album Touching Scenes, out 16 November 2018. Saliva is produced by GhostTown, while b-side Vultures
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On Wax / Mammal Hands: Becoming EP
Unbelievably, it’s been a year since the landmark third LP from Mammal Hands, Shadow Work, saw release on Matt Halsall’s Gondwana Records. Boreal Forest and Black Sails always get people
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New Music / Deft: Bellyboy EP
Two years after his previous EP Blackest, ever-shifting producer Deft drops his second release for Ivy Lab’s 20/20 LDN label. Release: 2 Nov / PRE-ORDER 01. Bellyboy (Ft. Buchannan) 02.
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