Download: CHARLIE WHITE x BOOM BIP // Music For Sleeping Children {Lex Records}

…seum. From there, White and Hollon set out to realize a far more ambitious project conceived by White as the marriage of in-depth teen interviews, discussions, and studio projects with pop, electronica, hip hop and experimental composition. Working in tandem, White and Hollon fashioned the concept of each track around the original studio recordings of teen girls ranging in age from 12 to 16. From eager enthusiasms, to exuberant chants, to adolesce…

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Video || THE KLEENRZ EP || HELLFYRE CLUB ||

…hat you thought you knew. Self Jupiter and Kenny Segal made sure that this project is dark but fun, disturbing yet cool; the record is art-rap noire, Project Blowed meets Fritz Lang. The cast of guests includes Nocando, MURS, Volume 10, Abstract Rude, Subtitle, Alpha MC, Gajah and Shing02. HELLFYRE CLUB SUMMER ALLSTAR LINEUP LINK TO MEDIAFIRE DL IN DESCRIPTION the-kleenrz-altered-states-ft Boost the signal: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new…

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Preview: PROF-LOGIC // Multi-Dimension

…through the form of sounds. Prof.Logik said us about his new album : “This project was a therapeutic journey while I sat down in the lab constructing the tunes heard here on this release. Multi-Dimensions to me is simply a conversation to your ears and mind… Since i’m a man of few words this project is my way of communicating with you all the listeners. Music is vital in Life.” A trip through the musical catalog of Prof.Logik is like an extended t…

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Download: DA DARKEST TEAM // Da Darkest Team

…nchester, Manchester, Manchester… your hip hop never ceases to amaze. This project came out of nowhere recently, starring a plethora of local talent. Spread the word! “Da Darkest Team”, by DDT, a multi-linguistic underground hip-hop project instigated by Dubble O, Dro-P and Too Shugas. Productions by Dro-P, Walton & Cheyenne. >>> Featuring : Dubble, Dro-P, Too Shugas, Legion, Goshin, Cheech the Grim Reefa, 3D, Twisted Roots, LDigz, Sakre, Deepo &…

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Preview: BATIDA // Batida (Soundway)

…ys bringing it back to the party. Being the first of a string of brand new projects, this eponymous first album sees Soundway taking a slightly different direction in 2012 and beyond. Championed mostly for their work in un-earthing and re-releasing classic, rare and vintage tropical recordings, Soundway have started signing new acts that have drawn on and been inspired by the kind of music found on the label’s groundbreaking compilations and re-is…

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Groovement Interview / Charles Edison wakes up to catharsis

…ing Up EP? I’m working on another instrumental album as well as a few side projects with other artists. I’m pretty much just stockpiling beats for now though, my hard drive looks like a zip file version of Extreme Hoarders at the moment! Things will be relatively quiet for me over the next few months so now would be the time for rappers to ask me for beats. You’re rapping on this EP. Which came first in your life, producing or lyrics? Lyrics came…

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Brooklyn Next Gen: Groovement interviews Ceddyjay

…eryone Is Feelin’ My Music . Everyone Is Just Waitin’ For Me To Release My Project ” #CREEP ” .   The reason we all got so excited is the golden era sound of that track, as well as your flow in the same vein. Who produced it and where did you learn to flow like that? You started rapping young, right? Who Produced RECKLESS Was Someone Named K.O.Beatz . But As Far As My Other Tracks & My Song #BEASTCOAST That Was Produced By My Homie KLIPA BEATS . A…

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Stepping forward: Yemi Bolatiwa refocuses her space

…ough to play a lot of the best ones we have. What’s the switch up for your projects in 2018? What’s different? The difference is that I’m putting myself at the forefront of it all, as opposed to… not so much hiding, but sitting as a feature vocalist, or leader of a band. I’m out here now as my name, person and singer, which feels strange and narcissistic to do but I’m kind of ready to tackle it, as well the learning that will come from trying to b…

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Creation Rebel – High Above Harlesden 1978-2023

…he individual members carried on making significant contributions to other projects, with Crucial Tony making a name for himself as a producer in his own right, setting up the Ruff Cutt band, label, studio and production house in his native Harlesden. After reforming to play a Sherwood At The Controls evening at London’s Jazz Cafe in 2017, the band headed back into the studio to start working on the rhythms that would become Hostile Environment. T…

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J-Live: At The Date Of This Writing (Vol. 2)

…Another personal project from the legendary J-Live, a Bandcamp-exclusive project. DOWNLOAD Boost the signal: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)…

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Video / J Chambers: New Levels, New Devils

…November, but J Chambers returns in the lead up to the release of his new project, New Levels, New Devils. His latest single takes the project title for its own, featuring impassioned exasperation from J and a beautiful segue into an angelic refrain from Soul Blu. J launches NLND at The Deaf Institute on 25 January, with support from Anamelia, Dane, E-thrilla, Roots Raddix and Miasma. BUY TICKETS Grab the single on APPLE MUSIC / SPOTIFY J CHAMBER…

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On Wax / Daniel Crawford: Revolution

…am, Osunlade and Jimetta Rose. Intensifying the heart Daniel throws in the project are Daniel’s two brother and father, Damon, Demont and Chris Crawford. The track 13 is a tribute to their grandfather/step father Willie Moore and cousin/nephew Terrell “T-Rex” Bickhem who both passed away last year. The track features an interpolation of Chasing Goosebumps from last year’s PLAYList project. DANIEL CRAWFORD TWITTER FB INSTA BANDCAMP VINYL HERE Boost…

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Groovement Premiere: El Tipo Este & Al Quetz join forces for La Revancha De La Manana

…started following Quetzal’s work back in 2006 when he released the Tribute project with Onra (also the first work I’d heard from that particularly excellent beat maker too), his extremely warm production sound meaning tracks like Give Something still haven’t left my DJ sets. When Onra visited Manchester in 2009 (courtesy of Mind On Fire) and we met up, I quizzed him enthusiastically about that track and he said: That one was all Quetz. The produce…

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On Wax / Marc Mac presents Fourth Kind

A new project from the 4hero producer. The project finds Luke Parkhouse on drums, Pascal Strauss aka Luman Child on bass guitar – the rest is Marc on Moogs, Arps and Solina strings… check the warm, warm results on the first drop from the album, Audition. RELEASE 17 SEPTEMBER 2018 PRE-ORDER 180g VINYL / DIGITAL Boost the signal: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Whats…

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Groovement Premiere / Hazy synth-fuelled hip hop from Imperial: Transit

…  Imperial shares, “Transit is the final single from my debut instrumental project, Layers. It’s a chilled hip hop head nodder perfect for an evening under the stars letting your mind take you on a journey to far off lands.” Pre-order Transit here. Pre-order the album Layers on Bandcamp here! If you never checked Imperial’s old school flavoured project with K.I.N.E.T.I.K, Pencils Not Pistols, grab that here. Connect with Imperial FB / SOUNDCLOUD /…

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Mecca:83 announces Life Sketches Vol 3, download The Cusp ft Octavio Santos

…d volume in his phenomenal Life Sketches series. The first single from the project sees him teaming up with Slum Village and G-Unit veteran Octavio Santos on horns, plus Matt Davies on drums and Jesus Bachiller Bachi on bass. I’m still waiting for an invitation to come and play triangle on something soon, Mecca. Read an interview about the project over at the excellent Passion Of The Weiss. Download The Cusp on Bandcamp. Boost the signal: Click to…

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Out House respond to criticism of Akse Breaking Bad art

…er than some colourful marks on a wall? Speaking on behalf of the Outhouse Project, I see it as our goal to try to put these places to some use, to help turn disregarded walls and buildings into canvasses to display the creative skills and ideas of the people of Manchester, rather than they be used as criminal hotspots or schemes to line the pockets of people who have no interest in the area or the community. People who will let the area fall into…

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Mothership Connection / This Train Goes To Junkleberry Junction & Kydro Interview

…ut out a lot of music over music over the last few years, either with solo projects or releases with crews The Bluntskins and Voodoo Black respectively. The Mothership Connection plays on a lot of the strengths of the MCs involved, bringing that boom bap goodness with a strong shot of the funky and future-psychedelic but delivered with that Manchester flavour. What’s your role with this EP? On ‘This Train…’ I mixed the vocals and mastered the fina…

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Download // Oz aka ZigSixteen: Beautiful {Futuristica Music}

…ing untimely passing. Oz was excited, inspired and extremely proud of this project, looking forward to its release with Futuristica and so we are now carrying out his wishes in the hope that we honour his memory and spirit in so doing. Personally, this project has been one of my musical highlights as a producer for many reasons – the main being the opportunity to work so closely with Oz, a remarkable human being who was deeply loved by everyone wh…

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Download // Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura Band: Havana Cool Out (Reginald Omas Mamode IV)

…differing styles has become an important part of the wider Havana Cultura project’s exploration of rumba. Peterson worked with the esteemed rumberos to record versions of the three styles now set to be reworked by a number of producers working in electronic music in the UK and beyond. Where the film depicts the lineage descending from the working class communities of Havana and Matanzas to modern-day dancefloors, this other arm of the project all…

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