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 …
Future Classic: Michael Kiwanuka “Home Again” EP
I discovered Michael Kiwanuka a couple months ago through my good homie and fellow tastemaker Lefto from Belgium. BBC’s Gilles Peterson was also pushing the sound of this amazing new artist born in London (his parents are from Uganda). Since then a lot of things have been happening for Kiwanuka, …
Future Classic: Robert Glasper “Afro Blue” featuring Erykah Badu
A piece of great news popped up on my twitter feed this morning from two of my favorite sources for good music (BamaLoveSoul & Moovmnt). There is a new track to preview the upcoming Robert Glasper record called “Black Radio” coming out very soon a little jazz label called Blue …
Forgotten Treasure: Jill Scott “He Loves Me” (Chris Lum & Jay J Remix)
Since we are on the Jill Scott remixes subject (I just posted a project called “Still Jill” from BamaLoveSoul) I figured i’d throw at least one of my favorite Jill remixes not included in their collection. This version of “He Loves Me” from Jill first record just reminds me so …
Future Classic: Memorecks “Downtime”
Memorecks is a beatmaker from Toronto with a name reminescent of a company of that certain audio medium not in use anymore (you know those 99c tapes). It’s not to say the self-proclaimed MPC astronaut is oudated. I discovered all this because the man was one of the final four …