Festival Alert: Golden Down
Golden Down is a three-day boutique festival launching this year with an absolutely stella line-up including Four Tet, Ghostpoet, Mount Kimbie, Lee Scratch Perry and Roots Manuva. Tickets just £90 + bf. See inside for more details.
Tracks You Might’ve Missed: Wiley – Energy Bubbling (Nirobi Re-Edit)
Robert Luis has been co-running Brighton's brilliant Tru Thoughts label for over ten years. He might have a good eye for talent, but judging by this re-edit of a Wiley track we came across recently, he's also a pretty mean producer, as Nirobi.
New Release: Booda French – 61 Grace (Prod. j57)
East Anglian rapper Booda French (a.k.a. Don't Flop battle rapper Truth) has recently released this video to accompany the audio for his track '61 Grace', off his upcoming E.P. 'Ventolin'. Set on his home turf of Ipswich, the video follows Mr French round as he raps (and sings) about his rainy hometown. The beat is...
New Release: Eric Lau – What I’d Rather (feat. Oddisee)
Eric Lau has worked with a range of range of respected and up-and-coming names in Hip-Hop, RnB and Electronic (Guilty Simpson, Fatima, Floating Points, Szjerdene), making him one of the go-to producers at the minute. This one is a pretty special release made for Record Store Day last Saturday...
StampTV: Reeps One Freestyle
After the interview and freestyle sneak peek comes the whole shebang. Take a look at two-time UK Beatbox Champion, Reeps One doing an exclusive, spontaneous and completely dope freestyle for us at Motion, Bristol.
Top Five: UK Hip-Hop Newcomers
Although in the last 5 years UK Hip-Hop has been commercially superseded by its distant relative Grime, the genre remains a hotbed of fresh young talent. With the late 90's/early 00's typified somewhat as a golden era for UKHH (heads like Rodney P, Roots Manuva, Blak Twang, Mud Family, Task Force, Phi Life Cypher and...
Mini-Documentary: Schoolboy Q – A Day In The Life
We haven't heard much from L.A. hustler Schoolboy Q since the release of his second album Habits and Contradictions at the start of this year - so it makes for perfect timing having Vate Magazine put out this mini-documentary a couple of days ago, following the young hip-hop artist and his crew through New York...
New Release: Tall Black Guy – What’s Good (James Brown I Feel Good Flip-Up)
This is a mean old rework of a James Brown classic from one of our favourite Hip-Hop producers, Tall Black Guy
