Stamp Mix #7: Loscobeats
Belgium beatmakers Loscobeats serve us a 30 minutes extravaganza for Stamp Mix #7…
Tracks You Might’ve Missed: JoLeon Davenue – The Mantra
Music x Vibes = JoLeon Davenue. So reads his Facebook page, so if you add a bit of Jazz and Hip-Hop into the mix it should give you a pretty good idea of what to expect.
Live Review: Dot To Do Festival 2012
Wet and dreary weather blessed the first day of the Jubilee Weekend and second of Summer in Bristol, but thankfully Dot To Dot’s nationally-touring festival provided a suitable ailment. Bristol played first host (followed by Nottingham and Manchester on Sunday and Monday) to a line-up of internationally-recognised and local acts across seven of the city’s venues. Click for the full review…
Artist Spotlight: Romare
Regular readers will know how much we dig cross-genre experiments with African sounds…
New Artist: Lulu James
Geordie songstress Lulu James is single-handedly leading a Future-Soul revolution in the North-East armed with a powerful voice and the dark, Post-Dubstep productions of Domzilla. We were lucky enough to catch her at the Great Escape Festival earlier this month where she lit up a rather drab afternoon in Brighton with her extravagant wardrobe.
Track’s You Might’ve Missed: Mabanua – Mystery (Feat. Nicholas Ryan Gant)
Japanese beatmaker Mabanua has his fingers dipped into a number of projects (including Green Butter and Ovall) but on his own his work is just as fine. On Mystery, the jazzy piano beat and sweet tones of Nicholas Ryan Grant go really nicely together, prefect for this fine weather (in the UK anyway) on a Sunday afternoon.
New Release: Alt-J (∆) – An Awseome Wave
We’ve been waiting for some time to find a reason to write about Alt-J and the recent streaming of their quite brilliant debut album has provided such an opportunity. We’d even go so far as to say it’s one of our favourite guitar albums of the year so far.
New Artist: Pheo
Californian MC Pheo has been on the scene since the 2009 release of Word to Your Blogger, but he first caught our eye with his outstanding collaberation with Soulection Radio and UTB Life$tyle.
Artist Spotlight: The Busy Twist
At just 21, Gabriel Benn (a.k.a Tuesday Born) and Ollie Williams (a.k.a Ollie Twist) are making some impressive African/Electronic fusion and self-releasing it off their own label, The People’s Ear. Although they’re based in London, much of the creative work goes on in Ghana where the inspiration for their music first came about.
New Release: Four Tet – Jupiters / Ocarus
Four Tet’s new track Ocarus was aired by Gilles Peterson on Saturday and today sees an official release from the man. It turns out Ocarus is the B-Side for Jupiters, which will be the 15th release on Hebden’s Text label…