Crucial Material – February 23rd, 2021
Another bumper edition of Crucial Material with some killer releases across the board. Here are our favorite EP’s, Albums and Reissues of the past week. As always we encourage you to buy digital or physical releases if you discover a release you love. Support artists and labels! JAZZ Archie Shepp …
Exclusive Premiere: Mista Monk & Inkswel “This is for…”
MIMS is delighted to premiere one of our favourite cuts from the forthcoming ‘Muti’ album on Inner Tribe Records by MC Mista Monk and producer Inkswel. Best know for his performances with Afro-Jazzers and Mulatu Astatke collaborators, Black Jesus Experience, Liam Monkhouse aka Mista Monk is half Zimbabwean, but was …
Exclusive Premiere: IntrObeatz “Word”
From the deep catalogue of over 300 unfinished tracks, Intr0beatz managed to finish off 4 tracks over the holidays for the second release on his own label, Cosmic Angles. Once again he hits us with dusty grooves, deep subs, sample chops and the expected side-chained 909 rides that will take …
Exclusive Premiere: Duke Hugh “Nighthawks” (Forthcoming on Dance Regular)
Out this Feb 2021, seriously Hot 12″ vinyl & Digital EP from Duke Hugh. Common Ground is a bonafide slice of Broken Beat, Jazz, House & Soul primed for the dance floor! Every track’s a winner and set for some serious body movement! It’s no secret that we’ve been fans …
Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen “Solution Black (live)”
At MIMS we are big fans of free jazz, improv, experimentation and live music. So it is an absolute pleasure to premiere an exclusive taster from tenor saxophonist Timo Lassy and drummer Teppo Mäkynen’s forthcoming double LP of live recordings captured in 2019 and 2020. ‘Live Recordings 2019-2020’ follows the …
Crucial Material – February 2nd, 2021
We’re back on track with our weekly record rundown. Starting 2021 in fine style! Here are our favorite EP’s, Albums and Reissues of the past week. As always we encourage you to buy digital or physical releases if you discover a release you love. Support artists and labels! SOUL William …
Exclusive Premiere: Lapgan “Where Am I”
Following up on last year’s collaborative EP ‘Spheres’, Chicago-based artist; Lapgan is back with 21-track Beat-Tape ‘Duniya Kya Hai’ for the 4th release of electrocaïne’s X-Series, exploring hip-hop and beats while staying true to the label’s colour. Duniya Kya Hai is a collection of beats composed almost exclusively with sounds …
Tribute to PHIL ASHER — Part 2 (Selected & Mixed by The Rawsoul)
This is a very emotional tribute to one of my absolute favorite producers and DJs, Phil Asher. He truly had his own unique signature sound and he perfectly joined the dots between the US and UK scenes. Championing the NYC and New Jersey sounds from the earliest days as a …
Tribute to PHIL ASHER — Part 1 (Selected & Mixed by The Rawsoul)
This is a very emotional tribute to one of my absolute favorite producers and DJs, Phil Asher. He truly had his own unique signature sound and he perfectly joined the dots between the US and UK scenes. Championing the NYC and New Jersey sounds from the earliest days as a …
WheelUp announces ‘Good Love’ album with Afronaut collab
If only the weather could match the sunny vibes on this fresh bruk jam. Today Tru Thoughts are releasing a collaboration between two generations of broken beat, pioneer of the West London Sound and founder of Bugz in the Attic – Afronaut links up with bruk revivalist WheelUP on the …
BALANCE – Best of 2020 (Hosted by Spacewalker)
It’s the last day of 2020, and it’s about that time for the annual recap of some of the best albums, EPs and singles of the last 365 days (technically 366 this year)! It’s been a hectic, stressful, abnormal, put any adjective in and it’ll work type of year. Luckily …