Jesse Boykins III “Way Of A Wayfarer EP”
2011 was a great year for quality soulful music and so far the new year is shaping up very nicely with people like Michael Kiwanuka, Robert Glasper and Jesse Boykins. I’ve been loving what he’s been doing since I heard the Machine Drum produced “B4 The Night is Thru” a …
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 (& 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: 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 …
Ta-Ku “50 Days for Dilla”
There have been a lot of projects from beatmakers with the “one-a-day” concept. I’ve seen a lot of producer friends attempt only to stop halfway. As a an avid listener of music, I can only admire the effort. God knows there has also been enough DILLA-inspired projects and I think …
Future Classic: Lorn & Dolor “Drugs”
This EP by american electronic musician (via Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Lorn and Dolor is really mysterious. Lorn had been signed to Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder imprint but now is on Ninja Tune. Kind of a change of pace but then again not really because Brainfeeder is distributed by Ninja Tune now… If you know about the impressive …
Free Download: Onra “Keep On Loving Me”
Our good homie ONRA is in the holiday mood and giving away one of his tracks that was released earlier this year on a Japanese project. I’ve been playing both the tracks from the vinyl at pretty much all of my gigs so here’s your chance to get in on …
Docteur MaD “Circuit Emotionnel” (Album Preview)
Another upfront treat for you peoples. It’s the holidays and we’re feeling generous! Dr. MaD is the evil member of a Montreal beatmaking crew called Alaiz who are quickly becoming some of my favorite dudes. There is really something special coming out of the Alaiz crew (High-Klassified, Celestics, Musoni, Kaytradamus, …
Future Classic: Morti Viventear “Tweaked Pins”
You may have read my love for Twin Peaks on my personal blog and it’s no secret that I love beats too. So beats made with the sounds and samples from Twin Peaks sounds like a really interesting project to me! I’m only sad that I didn’t have the idea …
Solar System “Ʌ EP”
At the end of the year, I made beautiful collaboration with my friend and fashion photographer, Bianca Des Jardins. We created our own witchy world and in which we call ourselves Thug Witches. And while we were shooting, we always had some pretty weird music on the background. If you …
Feyorz “Rendez-Vous EP”
These days, I’m locked inside my room all day long. Homework and studying is killing me slowly and this beautiful mini four track EP is saving my soul a little. Very smooth and lovely production from the Russian producer Feyorz from the Ritmo Sportivo camp. For those who like the …
Future Classic: Ta-Ku “Late NYC”
Australian beatmaker Ta-Ku is closing off 2011 in style with another stellar project called “Late NYC”. One of the things there were too much of in 2011 was weak beat tapes from beat makers who should spend a little bit more time on their craft before putting it out into …