hip-hop rap
See: Sampa the Great releases Final Form, along with new video
Sydney based MC Sampa the Great has released her new single, Final Form, and along with she’s also produced a new accompanying video to go with the track. Produced by longtime collaborator Silentjay (Rhythm Section) – and mixed by rising Stones Throw rhymer Jonwayne, Final Form is this hard hitting, and funk filled, sounding like something Adrian Younge …
See: Pinty reveals new video for ‘City Lights’
Peckham MC & DJ Pinty recently released his debut EP ‘City Limits’ on acclaimed Rhythm Section International records, and he’s just released an accompanying video for the track. City Lights is this jazz infused breakbeat bubbler, with hints of garage in the background as it kicks in, with Pinty’s flow assured and full of description …
Live: Best Kept Secret Festival, NETHERLANDS – 31 May – 2 June 2019
The Best Kept Secret festival in Hilvarenbeek is an absolute pearler, and believe me I’ve been to a few. From the life-affirming, (Glastonbury in the ’80s) to the life-threatening, (Treworgy Tree Fayre ’89 – two dead, two hundred arrested and a dead sheep in the water supply). Constructed around a lake in a forest, the …
Track: Rebel ACA & French Monkey Wrench – John Wayne
After meeting 15 years ago, as one managed and the other produced a funk reggae band, Rebel ACA (the ACA being Anti-Clockwise Attitude) and French Monkey Wrench (him being a) french and b) an inspired fixer of things, sometimes with the aforementioned Wrench) have been the ying to the others yang, and they’ve finally come …
Album Review: Hacktivist – Outside The Box
Innovation is the first word that comes to mind when thinking about Hacktivist. After a few years waiting for the group to finally release their debut full length record it’s extremely pleasing to hear that Outside the Box was well worth the wait. With the initial Djent craze recently dying down bands really have to find …
Live: Ghostpoet / Typesun, Queens Social Club
Ghostpoet arrived in Sheffield last week, on his tour in support of second album ‘Some say I so I say light’, which following on from his debut the 2011 debut ‘Peanut butter blues and melancholy jam’ which earned him some sort of fame as well as a mercury nomination. Certainly a large crowd had gathered …