Dilla’s boy and legendary DJ and producer House Shoes released his The Time EP today and this is a stand-out, thanks in no small part to the brilliant Danny Brown.
Completely pointless but somehow listenable, YouTube user QuintonSung decides to make two classic Radiohead albums sound like Atari game music.
Supergroup Cocaine 80s, made up of Common, No I.D, James Fauntleroy, Kevin Randolph and more, have been busy releasing new tracks in the last few days.
You can listen and download all, courtesy of PinBoardBlog, above.
From the UK’s reflection on the Chicago sound to one of the genre’s masters, this just popped up from the mighty Traxman. The man is a digger.
It may only be a 60 second teaser, but this new material from Glasgow’s Tax Buckfaster is set to blow. More juke/footwork mutations from the UK is no bad thing.
More London bass experiments from the Visionist, last seen on his New British mix.
A new EP from Ben Thomas sees him reveal a new alias in the Singing Statues project. A tantalising prospect considering the quality of his material as BNJMN, the No Disguises EP sees songwriting prowess, electronic detail and pop sensibility merge to create 4 tracks placed somewhere between the likes of Gruff Rhys and Barbara Morgenstern.
Available as a free download from Astro:Dynamics here.
The star of Bashmore continues to shine and shine, as he announces the arrival of his own Boardwalk Records label with a standardly good house bubbler. Released on 2nd July.
Lovely performance, at the 25th Annual JazzReggae Festival at UCLA.
Following last months fantastic first chapter, One Handed Music call upon Optimo man JD Twitch to pick a single artists music to work uo into a dedicated mix, and the Glaswegian legend goes for none other than former Tackhead front man and one of the UK’s finest dub organisers, Adrian Sherwood. An hour and 39 minutes of sheer quality.
Some great melodic work courtesy of Manchester’s Fantastic Mr Fox ahead of his latest for Black Acre, the San’En EP, available on 4th June.
This is frankly, the best thing we’ve heard all week. Bruk-house master and general one-of-a-kind producer Altered Natives does some master sampling of the one and only Nina Simone ahead of the hugely anticipated Tenement Yard Volume 3 - expected later this year on his own Eye4Eye imprint.
Over the course of the past two years or so the BICEP crew have settled amongst our passions as some of the most solid house producers out there. Last time we caught up they were soundtracking our bank holiday, and this time around they do the damage once again.
Released via Tusk Wax this week, and available here.
We’ve been loving everything Guy Andrews has been involved with ever since we heard his rugged mix for Truants last year.
Continuing his take on polyrhythmic bass inflections, the UK producer settles on Scuba’s ever-expanding Hot Flush label for his sophomore release. Unsettlingly good, and released on 28th May.
Undoubtbly one of the keenest new talents on the UK house/bass scene - relative newcomer Hodge drops some weighty science here. Keep your ears pinned for big things from this Bristol producer over the rest of the year.