Future Classic: TRIBE ft Joan Belgrave “Where Am I?”
What do you do when you’re flipping through 12s at your local record store and you come across a label that reads “Produced & Mixed by Carl Craig”? As if that weren’t enough, what if you flip sides only to realize you’re also holding a Kyle Hall remix? What becomes …
Future Classic: Clear Soul Forces “Get No Better”
Ahhh the joy of sharing good music! This amazing track was brought to my attention by good friend and MIMS collaborator FullRange as a potential “future classic”. Well, I gotta agree on that one! Straight out of Detroit, Clear Soul Forces is made up of Wimpy, J-Roc, & E-Fav and …
Future Classic: Shlohmo “Wen Uuu”
It’s been a very busy and productive week for Shlohmo. He released the single for his new EP Vacation due out February 7th and he also put out an awesome remix of Lianne Havas’ song “Forget”. It’s a beautiful track and what is interesting about him is that he is still evolving …
Future Classic: Chuck English “WRKING” Beat Tape
When The Cool Kids where all the hype back in 08’, they definitely brought something to the table that was different and were co-signed by a lot of big underground acts at that time. Without a doubt, the rhyming skills of the duo was really average but they kept it …
Future Classic: Nameless “16-Bit: Bonus Stages”
I stumbled up Nameless‘ music when I was doing my instrumental radio show back in 2009. He’s a beatmaker from Detroit so expect the rawness typical to the Motor City. He released a lot of beat tapes; some more soul, some more boom bap. And he did one sampling video game …
Future Classic: Grems “Chat Con”
I discovered french rapper (and grapher) GREMS a few years ago when someone gave me a project he worked on called Rouge à Levres which I’ve been playing ever since. Tons of guys who know their shit like Lefto, Onra and my friend Etienne (from the Rhytmologie show in Montreal) …
Future Classic (& Forgotten Treasure): Plug “Feeling So Special”
Wowza! What an unexpected treat from the good folks at Ninja Tune and especially from Luke Vibert one of the under appreciated heroes of the last 15 years of music. The guy has been making so much amazing music under a bunch of different pseudonyms like Kerrier Districkt, Wagon Christ, …
Future Classic: Bajka “The Bellman’s Speech” (2010)
Like so many struggling rapper mooks before and since, I’ve worked all sorts of call center jobs. You know: the ones where you’re basically a peg in the soundboard, that you tolerate because it’s the easiest way to finance your many indulgences and whatnot. In 2007, I was cubicle-hopping when …
Future Classic: Jean Grae “U & ME & Everyone, We Know”
Well well! 2012 is starting off nicely on the soulful side of things! After new jams from Robert Glasper and Michael Kiwanuka here is a great jazzy and soulful track from someone we didn’t hear from in a while… miss Jean Grae! Life for female MC’s in the hip-hop world …