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Podcast: Scatabrainz Exclusive Mix
Glasgow-based hip-hop and dubstep producer Bryan McFarland, a.k.a Scatabrainz, has hooked us up with this exclusive mix of forward thinking electronic music, which comes just after the release of his new EP, Ellipsis, on Olde Boy Records. (Listen to EP in full and buy digital copies over here.) Scatabrainz has been honing his craft in [...]
Resin Dogs have been kicking around for quite a while now. The Australian collective boasts DJ Katch, Dave Atkins and The Nextmen’s Brad Baloo at its helm, but is famously expanded to involve a multitude of transnational coconspirators when it comes to making a record. In this case that includes emcees and vocalists like Yungun, [...]
MP3: Jay Bharadia - Un Beau Jour (Lone Remix)
♫ Listen / Download: Jay Bharadia - Un Beau Jour (Lone Remix)
Regular readers of this blog and fans of eclectic, instrumental hip-hop, will have heard the names Lone and Jay Bharadia before. They are both England-based producers with totally unique styles, and it’s great to hear them come together on this remix of Bharadia’s track, [...]
DJ Vadim on new album, “U Can’t Learn Imaginashun”
After overcoming ocular cancer last year, Russian-born producer and DJ, Vadim, is making his musical comeback with a new album of heat, “U Can’t Learn Imaginashun“.
XLR8R.tv interviewed Vadim about the events of the past year and what the future holds for him musically. There’s some interesting talk in there about experimenting with new business models, [...]
Music Interview: All City Records
MP3 DOWNLOAD: Dimlite - Quiz Tears (All City Records, 2009)
All City Records has been a staple in Dublin’s hip-hop scene since 2001 when they opened up a store selling records and graffiti supplies in the city’s fashionable Temple Bar area. The label came in 2003, releasing vinyl sporadically until a series of 12″s by Irish-Scottish [...]
Podcast: The Garden Party / Compunctio Records
It was 2008 when we last did a podcast for Earz Mag, so there’s a lot to catch up on in this episode! Look out for exclusive mini mixes of music by some of the artists playing the Garden Party which takes place at Kelburn Castle this weekend, and a selection of tracks from Compunctio [...]
Preview: Ballers Social Club @ Stereo, 24.07.09
Ballers Social Club is renowned for bringing the party heat to Glasgow’s night life, with an endless stream of vanguard DJs including Kode9, Flying Lotus and Pursuit Grooves sitting pretty on their roster of past shows. July’s installment of the post-hiphop club night looks equally promising, as Ballers bring Stones Throw’s Californian funk cosmonaut and [...]
Video: Yppah - Gumball Machine Weekend
I’m liking the new video for Gumball Machine Weekend, the lead track from a same-titled EP by Houston-based electronica artist Yppah, which is out now on Ninja Tune.
“Gumball Machine Weekend” itself sounds like southern-fried Go! Team with more soul, “The Drag” is a feedback-driven, fuzz-bassed epic, “Shutter Speed” is psychedelic teen nostalgia while album title [...]
Edinburgh’s hip-hop scene has always delivered the goods when it comes to producers and DJs, with artists like Nasty P, Scotland Yard, Richie Rufftone and Plus One flying the capital’s flag at home and abroad. Two relative newcomers making noise on the city’s beatmaking scene are Jaisu and S-Type. Although not new artists per se [...]
Review: Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
Scott Herren a.k.a Prefuse 73 (the name stands for pre-fusion jazz from 1973 — his favourite musical era apparently) is globally renowned for producing the kind of horizontal post-hiphop beats that marked his 2001 debut, Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives. Now on his fifth full-length record under the Prefuse monicker (other projects include Savath & [...]
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