Shed’s has been responsible for some of the most interesting berlin & detroit influenced house/techno and dubstep over the past few years, his output never seems to fault always bringing out top quality product. For those of you who didn’t manage to grab hold of all of his Equalized project on wax, today’s your lucky day, as it’s being released on convenient CD compilation called Equalized #111. Only the bestd deep detroit style 909 grooves and delay and reverb soaked analogue synth stabs to sooth you into your late night dancing schedule.
 
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Maybe its the lack of ego, the realism or the melancholy stripped down electronic beats it’s hard to resist of the charms of Ghost Poet’s debut album Peanut Butter Blue and Melancholy Jam. As we enter the world of your modern day twenty something year old striving for the simple life, Ghost Poet reflects many of the woes of the post recession climate and the urban struggle that confronts anyone with dreams of living their artist dreams in a big city. Relocated from Coventry to London Obaro Ejimiwe is simply a man with some stories to tell, and that he does, lost loves, blurred life direction, overdrafts and post hangover self loathing, these are real the worries expressed in an honest down to earth way that is seldom found in the hip hop world.
…continue reading My united K of whatever

 
In a world of crystal clear digital sound, remastering, re-edits and HD visuals its easy to get carried away … Often I find it’s the imperfections in the detail that make something special, in the words of some french disco freaks we are human after all, aren’t we? We all make mistakes, nothing is perfect and even if you think it is, it doesn’t take long to have a closer look and realize everything and everyone is flawed in there own little way, but that’s what makes us special. Right?
…continue reading Lofi chaotic melodramatics

Now I know this blog is dedicated to experimental electronic beats, but with this in mind I think there’s always a bit of room for a bit of decent hip hop here since it all stems from hip hop, loops and beats in the purest sense.
 
Now while American commercial club rap has been taking a machete to Hip Hop for a good while now, UK and Aussie Hip Hoppers and producers seem to have always kept the soul and spirit of Hip Hop alive since the early 90s. Which is where this amazing new album I stumbled across on the book of face comes into it. It’s not that often I hear hip hop these days that knocks me back, but a duo from the small isolated city of Perth, Australia Coin & Taku have brought back the soul, funk and word play that got me into hip hop from the beginning, pure simple and beautiful. Be warned you’ll be thinking summer couldn’t be here sooner after listening to this bad boy. On the Free DL, enjoy.
 

 
From the people that brought Skream’s latest work “Outside the box” to Japan, up and coming label Hydra Records are making Godzilla style waves from the far east in the world of Dubstep, Techno and Experimental Hip Hop. Azzxsss (pronounced Azzuks) is a collaboration between two well grounded Japanese artists Azzurro and Solid State Soul. Taking heavy influence from the world of dub and dub techno Azzxsss’s latest release “Deepsketch” is a satisfyingly sophisticated album. …continue reading Hydra Dub

Just when you thought the lazy streets and bars of Berlin were only home to the worlds best Techno there are forward thinking producers like Robot Koch bluring the boundaries of Dubstep, Hip Hop, and Electronica, walking the same streets and rocking the same squat parties. Songs for Trees and Cyborgs is in my mind one of the best albums of 2010, a perfect snap shot of where the constantly merging bass music generation is heading. …continue reading Bleeding basslines and cosmic kick drums

 
In a time where the music industry has changed drastically, where little emphasis is placed on the concept and arrangement of an album (both by the artist and listener) its great when little glimmers of light shine through the the metaphoric clouds. Gold Panda’s Lucky Shiner is one such light, an amazing album I stumbled across a bout a month ago. With such emotion pouring from his work and track titles like “Parents”, “I’m with you but I’m lonely” and “After we talked” it’s hard to not acknowledge that this debut from Gold Panda isn’t a deeply personal piece of work. Layered with various samples, live instruments and hypnotic beats Lucky Shiner breaks down the constructs of hip hop, organic neo house and funky broken tribal beats to bring us something unique with an often oriental vibe and a some what amateur charm that brings it all together.
…continue reading The Golden Days

This thursday at Cargo sees the long awaited launch party for UK hip hop’s new up and coming star Mowgli. With the often quick and choppy flow we’ve come to expect from the UK hip hop heavyweights, Mowgli’s debut album “93″ covers 76 minutes in total with something on there for anyone with a taste for hip hoppin’. …continue reading Mow… Mow…

Much like yourselves I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of the latest Flying Lotus album Cosmogramma, and it has been a well worth the wait. Just from opening the LP sleeves of Cosmogramma I can immediately tell a heck of a lot of love and time has gone into this release. The exceptional multilayered compositions and loosely swung cracks and claps of the signature Flylo drums are back again only this time it seems his music has matured ten fold. Unlike the fuzzed out cyber hip hop of his last work Los Angeles, the depth of influences on this work is what makes it such a diverse and beautiful album. Expect a journey through psychedelic cosmic disco, avant jazz, electro funk and soul. …continue reading Sensual cosmic ear fondle

As preludes to spring and summer shine through the clouds of London I can’t help but get a little bit excited. So it seems as good a time as any to share with you a couple of the summery releases I’ve been mulling over the last month.

Bonobo is a UK musician/producer currently signed to Ninja Tune who has been doing Downtempo, Trip Hop-esk beats for the last ten years. He’s a multi instrumentalist and producer and is one of the only downtempo artists to succesfully transfer his music to the live arena in an interesting and exciting way. …continue reading Preludes to sweaty streets