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• Scatabrainz: Moonlight Music LP

  May 16, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  Listen:

  “Zone Out”/ MP3

  “Without You” / MP3
  I’m a little late with this one (better late than never), but I want to share with you an incredible album released by my good friend, the hip-hop producer and sometime-emcee, Scatabrainz, entitled “Moonlight Music”. If you like mellow instrumental hip-hop a la Blockhead and Entroducing-era Shadow, then this collection [...]

  
  



• Surface Emp / Proto Post

  April 30, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 1 Comment
  

  “Left Right” by Surface Emp, taken from Proto / Post
  From the underworld of Glasgow’s hip-hop scene comes this highly unofficial release by Surface Emp, rescued from the broken computer of the group’s main emcee Sum Won. You might recognise some of the instrumental work as that of Warp noodler Hudson Mohawke, and the album also [...]

  
  



• Blueprint Vs Funkadelic

  April 10, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 1 Comment
  

  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDtl4PKEXlw]
  True-school rapper meets 70’s sleaze funkers in modern-day mash-up.
  You couldn’t make that kind of stuff up. On a par with Esoteric Vs Gary Numan.
  Link!:
  Weightless Records

  
  



• Music: Last Braintax LP

  March 21, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 3 Comments
  

  “Real People” by Braintax, produced by Colin Emmanuel; Download MP3
  BRAINTAX, the man behind cult UK hip-hop label Lowlife, is bowing out of the scene he helped flourish, but not before releasing one final record. The release, titled “My Last and Best Album”, will be the last in the label’s vast discography of British hip-hop produce, [...]

  
  



• January Podcast: Dema

  January 24, 2008 · Words: Martin S · 5 Comments
  

  It took us a while but we’re back with another hot mix for our podcast, this time courtesy of Glasgow hip-hop junkie, producer and club-rocker, Dema.
  A regular spinner at the Glasgow Art School, Dema has supported the likes of DJ Premier and Q-Bert, alongside DJ Nice as half of the Freakmenoovers crew.
  He also makes [...]

  
  



• November Podcast: NoFACE

  November 1, 2007 · Words: Martin S · 1 Comment
  

  Each month we’re dropping a different mix from world-class DJs! This month we’re happy to have DJ NoFACE on board for a mighty 44 minutes of dopeness. Enjoy.
  NoFACE
  Scottish-based DJ NoFACE is a rising star of the Glasgow music scene. Since he started dropping needles four years ago NoFACE has played sucessful shows at [...]

  
  



• HYP? Put on A-Track + DJ Medhi

  October 24, 2007 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  By putting on high-grade DJs like Kentaro and Kid 606 on a Thursday night, Hows Your Party? (HYP?) are giving some much needed resuscitation to the Glasgow club scene. Held weekly at the Sub Club in Jamaica Street in the city centre, this Thursday’s HYP? has special guests A-Track and DJ Medhi [...]

  
  



• Mr Scruff @ the QMU, this Sat

  October 19, 2007 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  Need a pick-me-up? Just don’t want to come down? No bother, because Britain’s most funky tea-drinker (and also acclaimed producer and DJ legend) Mr Scruff is in town this weekend! The certified partycore DJ will be rocking a house of full of bevvied students and hipsters at the Queen Margaret Union in Glasgow’s west [...]

  
  



• DJ Vadim Interview

  July 23, 2007 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  The following is an interview conducted with the highly prolific and proficient DJ known as Vadim.
  Known globally for his turntable and production skills, Vadim has also made his name through work with Ninja Tune, One Self, the Scratch Perverts and DJ Krush, to name a few.
  Labels and artists have struggled adapting to the changes [...]

  
  



• Hip-Hop from the Heart & Brain

  July 13, 2007 · Words: Martin S · 0 Comments
  

  We caught some minutes with Tzarism from Floridian production / emcee duo the Heart & Brain, who just released their debut EP ‘MBodiment’, which features eight tracks of soulful boom-bap niceness, and is available for free online. We asked the producer about his and emcee Vis Major’s project, the state of hip-hop, and his work [...]

  
  

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