Future Classics

Future Classics: Flying Lotus “Disco Balls”

New weirdo-spacey dopeness from LA’s Flying Lotus. The track is called Disco Balls and is on the new anniversary compilation celebrating Hyperdub’s 5 years in the game. For those who don’t know Hyperdub is one of the most influencial UK labels to come out in recent years. Focusing on dubstep, …

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Future Classic: Folk & Stress “Getting Busy”

Don’t know too much about Folk & Stress to be honest but i’m feeling this track. It brings me back to the mixtape era, and I mean, mix TAPE as in cassette! I keep expecting to hear CLUEEEEE!, NEW SHIT! or heuuum… EVIL DEE is on the mix come on …

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Future Classic: Pangaea “Memories”

Was doing some preparation for my UK Funky gig on saturday with the ESL crew… sorting through piles and piles of records, checking out a few online record stores. The best place to start if you like Dub, 2step, IDM, Garage, Dubstep and that sort of thing is without a …

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Future Classic: Jose James “Lay you down”

Jose James returns to drop a few solo tracks after collabos with Jazzanova, Flying Lotus, Nicola Conte. Seriously, I still consider his “Dreamer” album to be wayyyy slept on. Nothing against Micheal Bubble, Jamie Cullum and others but in terms of Vocal Jazz, this is the real shit real here. …

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Future Classic: Little Dragon “Never Never”

Yesss! Little Dragon is back! Their first record that came out in 2006 was probably my favorite record of that year. I can never get enough of the haunting vocals from Yukimi Nagano… I am just starting to sink my teeth into the new record so I am just putting up …

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Future Classic: Enzyme Black “Oh My Daze”

This is what i’m talking about. This isn’t your generic house music jam. This is that deep, funky, skippy shit. Unreleased jam from Enzyme Black (check the labels’ FB page here). I will be playing the hell outta this one because it fits in with so many things; broken beat, …

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Future Classic: Cooly G “Narst”

Get a load of this UK FUNKY bomb that came out a few weeks ago on pretty much the most important Dubstep label, Hyperdub is home to Kode9, Burial and so on… and when a Dubstep label comes out with a UK FUNKY 12′, its a sign of things to …

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Future Classic: Joker “Do it”

To sum this up quickly, this track is what it would sound like if Zapp & Roger made a dubstep track. I’m already a big fan of JOKER‘s productions; he’s getting lots of support from all the dubstep world but also from people like Gilles Peterson, Benji B and so …

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Future Classic: Fashawn “Life as a Shorty”

The return of the sun after a couple days of shitty weather gave me the inspiration for this pick… Listening to this track from FASHAWN on an EXILE produced beat takes me back… All of a sudden, i’m 13 years old again and all I have to do today is …

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