June 2011
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Apollo Brown - Clouds →
It is not only thanks to Damu The Fudgemunk, Kan Kick or the Hi-Hat-Club-Sequel that Instrumental-albums have reached high popularity. Due to the high number of albums or tapes of the kind, though, only a few get the attention they seek while still producing high-quality sounds. Apollo Brown did just that with Clouds and continues what he started with Gas Mask and The Reset. No big...
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Pete Rock and Smif-N-Wessun – Monumental →
Pete Rock & Smif-N-Wessun have joined forces for a MONUMENTAL album. Pete Rock has provided the entire production on the album, as well as vocals on several key tracks including the title track, “MONUMENTAL.” The album features Bun B, Raekwon, Styles P, Sean Price, Pharoahe Monch, Buckshot, Black Rob, Freeway, Memphis Bleek, Rock of Heltah Skeltah, Hurricane G, Top Dog of Boot Camp Clik,...
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David Axelrod – Songs Of Experience [1969] [FLAC] →
Song of Innocence is a 1968 album by David Axelrod. The album was inspired by Songs of Innocence, a collection of poems by English poet William Blake. An Allmusic review describes the album as a “suite that blended pop, rock, jazz, theater music, and R&B” and has “withstood the test of time”. Axelrod’s integration of funk breakbeats, orchestral arrangements, and...
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Marlena Shaw – The Spice Of Life [1969] →
The Spice of Life is the second album by Marlena Shaw. It was her last studio album with Cadet Records and contains her famous version of the Ashford & Simpson song: California Soul.
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Random Axe - Random Axe (2011) [FLAC] →
Random Axe doesn’t give a f**k about branding, synergy and stylists. (I know, I know, I’ve dropped two f-bombs in the last two sentences. What the f**k do you expect? I’ve been listening to a lot of Random Axe.) Formed way back in ’08 for seemingly no other reason than it’d be ill if they all made music together, Random Axe is comprised of producer/rapper Black Milk, whose stellar Album of the...
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Insane Warrior - We Are the Doorways [RJD2]... →
The Insane Warrior’s name became prominent in early 2011, when it was announced that the act was signed to RJD2’s imprint, RJ’s Electrical Connections. And for its first offering, the Insane Warrior, who is actually just an alias of RJD2, put together a 10-track, solely instrumental affair called We Are The Doorways. The album is described as a soundtrack to a film that...
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Spor - Pacifica EP →
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Hudson Mohawke - Thunder Bay →
Hud Mo comes correct on this bashy number for Warp, heralding the forthcoming ‘Satin Pathers’ EP. If ‘Thunder Bay’ is anything to go by, that record could be a potential killer, this is your boy in full-on dancefloor mode, riding crackishly addictive chord changes, spartan hollers and crunked-out claps before letting the chain off on a zoomin’ mentasm to bring...
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Nelver - Touching Soul →
Another incredible release from Russian superproducer - Nelver!
Four sparkling tracks on this E.P. for your auditory pleasures…
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The Midnight Eez - The Midnight Eez [1995-1996] →
After taking two steps forward with their ace LA series, All City step back to ‘95/’96 with an unearthed beat tape from the Bronx accredited to The Midnight EEz. As the story goes, All City co-founder Splyce was given a mix tape outside New York’s legendary Fat Beats store by two aspiring producers who were keen to spread word of their production work outside their homeland....
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The Brookes Brothers - The Brookes Brothers [2011] →
The Brookes Brothers debut album is as suburban as chips. Essentially the kind of very familiar up front drum and bass that turns dancefloors into scenes of sweaty, non-violent carnage, it’s manufactured specifically for chiselled, impossibly pretty tattooed working class boys and girls to grapple with each other in states of hedonistic abandon. Without any aspirations to either...
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Silkie - City Limits 1.4 & 1.6-1.8 →
[1.4] Dubbed-out gangsta-boogie badness from original ‘step auteur, Silkie. The latest in his City Limits series presents ‘Slo Jam’ on the A-side, keeping it cold skanking and swagger for the first half before cracking the facade and warming into a lushed-out swinger from the second drop. ‘Wonder’ is the techier but merrier mover on the flip, rubbing heavyweight...
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VA - Deep Medi Releases Volume 3 →
Third Deep Medi round-up, featuring tracks by Clouds, Goth-Trad, Skream, Truth, Silkie, and Quest. Volume. 3 roughly covers their best of 12” releases from late 2008-2010. Clouds’ anomalous but lovely ‘Protecting Hands’ parts bookend the collection with a filigree blend of delicate folk guitars and sonorous subbass, whereas Goth-Trad ramps the dread factor with...
