Kista – Pushin’ Buttons EP
Kick off your weekend with a dope debut collaboration between legendary UK producer Kista and Dusty Platter. This twelve song EP, with that late 80’s, early 90’s mindset throw well […]
Category Archives: Beats
Chopping It Up With Skills
Close to 20 years ago, this cat walks into my business, gets behind my turntables (while talking graffiti writing and crate digging), and proceeded to kill it with my own […]
Jake Bowman – 2107
While Hercules! Hercules! has brought NYC to a standstill today, and temperatures are dangerously cold, I thought I’d bring in some warmth from California here to the East Coast. I […]
Beat Box: A Drum Machine Obsession – Special Edition
As if the dope book by Joe Mansfield, Beat Box: A Drum Machine Obsession wasn’t enough on its own, the good people from Get on Down in Boston have sweetened […]
Klim – Soul Buttons
It’s often said that the language of Hip Hop is universal, and it’s readily apparent in today’s offering, Soul Buttons by Klim. Hailing from Kiev, Ukraine, this producer has got […]
14KT – Nickel and Dimed LP
Ann Arbor’s favorite producer is back representing Michigan strong with his new Nickel and Dimed Lp. Dropping 14 inspired instrumentals + 1 with his signature boom bap sound, 14KT enlists […]
Uoh! – ¡PA!
Always on the hunt for something new and funky, today we travel to Montevideo, Uruguay for experimental band Uho!. Their latest release ¡PA! on El Octavo Records follows Manuales Ilustrados […]
Eclectic Styles: CRuNCH 22
A bunch of years ago I reviewed a unique record out of Israel by The Apples. They took Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name Of” and funked it […]
Revisiting The Clutchy Hopkins Mystery
It’s funny how when you do a bit of cleaning you come up with stuff you haven’t seen in years. Case in point: a burned, hand written recording of The […]
DJ Shadow Live On Diplo & Friends Show
On July 21, 2013 DJ Shadow manned the decks on the BBC 1’s Diplo and Friends Show. You may remember a while back, Shadow was kicked out of a Miami […]
Flea Market Funk 