Big cover version of The Specials’ Ghost Town by Hot 8 Brass Band. Fits in well with the haunting shots of Post Katrina New Orleans.
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Archive for the ‘Outside the Box’ Category
Hot 8 Brass Band – Ghost Town
October 17, 2012Nova Rockafeller – The Town [@NovaRockafeller]
May 1, 2012
New video from the sassy Canadian born NY based rapper. This track’s a little more rock tinged than some of her other recent tracks, but don’t let that put you off. The girl’s doing good.
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Need For Mirrors ft/ DRS (@MCDRS) – DFTF
March 2, 2012
Only just stumbled on this track featuring Broke N’ English’s DRS. Its a pretty good example of how Hip Hop emceeing on Drum n Bass beats can work if its done right. Most of the time it sounds awkward, but on this, the lyrics sit perfectly.
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Kings of the City – Make Me Worse
January 15, 2012
Something a little bit different now, with another track from Kings of the City and their slightly rock inspired offerings. The video contains a little cameo from Lock Stock’s Vas Blackwood.
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2 Bit Thugs (@2BitThugs) ft/ Koaste & Farrah (@TheFarrahShow) – Get Next To You
October 11, 2011
At long last, my collaboration track with Brighton production duo 2-Bit Thugs and my good friend and incredible singer Farrah has dropped. This is something slightly different to my usual stuff, with a slightly more bass driven beat and a couple of remixes that wouldn’t sound out of place in some messy night down the Volks.
I’m pretty damn proud of it though, and with any luck we can push it on to getting a little bit of radio play in the coming months. I still want to shoot a video for it too if we can.
Anyway, check it out, buy the track, and let me know what you think…
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Mr Muthafuckin eXquire – Lost In Translation [MIXTAPE]
September 14, 2011
It was either Gizmo or Kong from Rum Com that put me onto this dude, and it wasn’t long before Huzzah was on repeat play up here in Illwood Heights. Now it turns out his new mixtape is out on a free download ting via Mishka NYC.
I haven’t had a chance to check it yet, but I’ve DL’d it on the strength of that last track, and the fact he’s got a bunch of tracks produced by El-P, Esoteric and Jake One, and thats a strong trio right there.
Anyway, I’m gonna give this a whirl tomorrow, but let me know what you think.
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His music, one part complex rhymes, one part cuss words and two parts drunken nights, it’s difficult to put Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire in a box. But, to paraphrase one of his live show chants, he can just rap really
good.
Blakroc 2 [TRAILER]
September 2, 2011
Very much looking forward to checking this out when it drops. The first one was pretty good, and the line up of emcees on this one looks even better…
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Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra – Gabriel Prokofiev ft/ DJ Switch
August 16, 2011A little outside the box – this video is taken from the BBC Proms last Saturday. DJ Switch joins the National Youth Orchestra to perform Gabriel (grandson of Sergei) Prokofiev’s Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra.
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Suburban Dark ft/ Jeswon (of @Thundamentals) – Straight Edge [VIDEO]
June 25, 2011Hung out with Jeswon a few times while I was living out in Sydney a while back, and him and Tuka have dropped some ill jawnts as Thundamentals. This one is slightly different to his normal stuff, but if I can record with 2 Bit Thugs, then I can plug some different flex fresh like this.
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Baba Brinkman – Performance, Feedback, Revision [VIDEO]
May 24, 2011Some newness from Menagerie affiliate Baba Brinkman taken from his Rap Guide to Evolution show. Reminds me of a better researched evolutionary version of Rass Kass’ Nature of the Threat… The video is pretty nicely put together too. New Menagerie LP Hopeful Monsters featuring Baba, myself, Elemental, Dizraeli, Dr Syntax, Tom Caruana and more coming very soon…
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PS – Posts have been a little scarce recently. Never fear, I’ll be back with a vengeance soon enough. If you’ve got any new music you want me to take a listen to, then hit me up at 2wo7even3hree@gmail.com…
In The Crates:
• Baba Brinkman x Professor Elemental – What’s Your English?
