New Music // Imperial & K.I.N.E.T.I.K – Adventures In Technicolour

…Fresh featuring James Gardin 11. Softer Than Pampers (Skit)* 12. Hold That featuring Micall Parknsun* 13. Zone Out (Remix) 14. No In-Flight Entertainment (Skit) 15. Travel The Map featuring Oddisee 16. Man Of The House featuring Tone Richardson 17. Golden Crown featuring Elias 18. The National Soul-Search Helpline (Skit) 19. Not For Sale 20. Travel The Map featuring Oddisee (Ess Be Remix)** 21. Travel The Map featuring Oddisee (Jeremy Arey Remix)*…

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GIL SCOTT HERON Rest In Peace

…sed. The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox In 4 parts without commercial interruptions. The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary. The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will not be brought to you by the Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie Woods and Steve McQueen…

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Preview: JEREMIAH JAE // Raw Money Raps {Brainfeeder}

…miah Jae is one of my favorite artists of his generation. This album has a complex dedication and honesty that I search for in myself with my own art. Underrated and understated, Jae is ready to show these muhfuckers what’s really good. Believe in Jeremiah Jae” – Flying Lotus It’s truly apt that Raw Money Raps opens with Jeremiah Jae hazily reminiscing about awakening from an especially chimerical journey. After a kaleidoscopic grip of beat tapes,…

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A Groovement Playlist: Look Up (Early August 2020)

…Driving you towards buying new music from these excellent artists. Search Bandcamp for most. 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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Listen: GROOVEMENT x ORSII

…rsii Tracklist: T Souster – A Short History of the Earth Tangerine Dream – Search Illum Sphere – Titan Delia Derbyshire & Brian Hodgson – The Pattern Emerges Mark Pritchard – ? Delia Derbyshire & Brian Hodgson – Frontier of Knowledge Dimlite – Elbow Flood Daedelus – Fin de Siecle Flying Lotus – Nose Art Oran ‘Juice’ Jones – The Rain Zed Bias Feat. Jay Electronica & Ghost1 – The Cauldron Disrupt – True Creators Steve Parks – Still Thinking Of You J…

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Blog/Video: Wu Tang after party with Will Not Be Televised & In The Loop

…racks from Yeezus. I nodded smugly, then started panicking when the Serato search box yielded no results. ‘Yeezus? I don’t have it, man. It’s on the other computer’. Have you ever had the RZA raise his arms in despair at you and lock you with a dead stare, like ‘what the fuck?’. I did, last night, a good three times or so, and I thought that was my hip hop career ended there and then. I looked towards Bedos for reassurance, but he was pissing hims…

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Preview: GREYMATTER // Only To Fall / Paw to the Floor EP

…Not the cover of the EP, but an excellent Greymatter picture. Out this week, GREYMATTER has a track on this new EP from Wolf Music. Preview/buy below. Lots more due from Greymatter this year, go grab the new podcast from the feed or search him on iTunes. 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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Preview: axion 117 // 4PLING {COLLECTIVE RESONANCE}

…Trip Hop and he claims to be heavily influenced by artists such as Prefuse73, J Dilla, Madlib, Sun Ra, Miles Davis, DJ Krush and Flying Lotus to name just a few. Rebuild and Meditation have seen support from various blogs and BBC radio – grab the EP from Bandcamp below, or search iTuness, Amazon or Google Play. Listen and purchase on Bandcamp (stream below) There’re a whole heap of further releases from Collective Resonance here. Boost the signal…

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On Wax // Mr Thing, Eric Lau, kidkanevil, Tall Black Guy: Nothing Leaves The Archives

…Whenever I try to break down why I love music as much as I do, one element comes back to me again and again: discovery. I have enough records to last a lifetime (literally – I’m not sure if I’d be able to physically listen to all the records I own in whatever time I have left on the planet). My shelves are overflowing, my hard drive is full, and yet I keep listening, keep buying, keep searching. And that feeling of discovering that killer beat, th…

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Win: TEEBS x NOSAJ THING x ESKMO // XOYO London 12 July 2012

…I interviewed with Teebs upon his visit to the UK last year (HINT: use the search box above!). Winners will be picked at random and announced 10 JULY 2012 and will be notified via email. Winners’ names will be on the door at the event.   On July 12th Soundcrash presents three first-class beatsmiths live and direct from the USA. After selling out the Village Underground earlier this year Brainfeeder’s Teebs returns to London. Joining him as co-head…

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Groovement Interview / Brothers gonna work it out: Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

…and is shown every day when people listen to the music. We have people who come from different walks of life, people who come from different backgrounds and they like and respect HBE for different reasons. The beautiful thing about HBE is we give you something that you’ll never get from anybody else. Is there an overarching plan to your journey? Cid: We create our opportunities. If we didn’t we would not even be able to perform right now. A lot of…

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DEMDIKE STARE // Osmosis

Reduced to a paltry £2.99 over at online musos Boomkat, Osmosis is a 60 minute mix CD lovingly crafted by Sean and Miles aka DEMDIKE STARE … I last saw the guys at the RAYMOND SCOTT night that local don JON K put together (still working on the interviews from the event, to be here soon!); this mix contains a massive collection of unknown… genius. Snap it up quick. Boost the signal: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on…

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Hip Hop in Syria: LaTlaTeh

…eport and below but I’m still looking for more of their stuff to listen to online. LaTlaTeh – One Two Three They consist of: LaLa(HIba) “Vocalist” Watar (Khairy Eibesh) “Guitarist- composer- MC” Al Sayyed Darwish (Hani Al Sawah) “MC” Bu Kolthoum (Mouneer Quziack) “MC” Facebook Reverbnation Twitter Hear some more Syrian hip hop below… El Rass   Boost the signal: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in ne…

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Interview and ticket/CD comp // Dr Syntax & Pete Cannon album launch @ Antwerp Mansion Friday 11 April

…ust email me – [email protected] – with the subject heading SYNTAX CANNON COMP and your full name. Comp closes Thursday midnight so get sharing… (Winners will be chosen by the Groovement random name selector robot). LINK TO SHARE: https://groovement.co.uk/2014/04/interview-and-ticketcd-comp-dr-syntax-pete-cannon-album-launch-antwerp-mansion-friday-11-april/ Killer Combo is available now on Bandcamp. Afternoon, Syntax. What are you up to this fine…

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Buy: DOM SUM (LUCKY ME / THE BLESSINGS) selects

…Great little musings from DOM SUM over at Bleep today, pop picking five choons/LPs for the online store. Reach. Dom and Eclair Fifi of Lucky Me featured on last weeks radio show, which will be podcast possibly today. Peeled. 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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Clear Soul Forces return with They Shootin’

…CSF member Ilajide produced the track, and his bars open it too: “The inspiration came from the stigma that when it gets hot the murder rate goes up. Couple that with the fact that they always shootin’ in Detroit, it was perfect to spin it like a respawn in an online match on multiplayer video games.” Stream and buy the track via Bandcamp, where you can keep an eye out for the album drop too. Boost the signal: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in…

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DJ A-UP Rejuvenates The Greats

…Greats by Dj A-Up [The Nougold Podcast] on Mixcloud   Manchester’s DJ A-UP compiled this mix for the well-respected Phoenix-based hip hop station Radio Supa recently (specifically DJ DN3‘s Lunchbox mix), and has made it available for your perusal online. As you can surmise from the title, it’s a mix dedicated to new flips of classic, something that A-UP is a connoisseur at. Find more mixes from A-UP over at his Mixcloud, and let him know your thou…

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Reach: MALIK {MD7} x BLACK THE RIPPER x BABY J // UK TOUR

…racism. Despite being signed to his own label and not being playlisted on commercial radio, Black The Ripper has an impressive vast online reach with over 41,000 Twitter followers. He has just recently released a new mixtape called Black Is Beautiful 2. Well known UK music producer Baby J will be the DJ and compare for this national tour. Since being discovered in 1995 by a Wu-Tang Records A&R in New York, Baby J has worked internationally for th…

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