When I tell people I listen to hip hop they sometimes ask me what’s the difference between hip hop and rap, my answer is simple, there is no such thing as instrumental rap. When I was younger I would say I listened to rap but in the mid 90’s I bought a Mo Wax compilation featuring the likes of DJ Shadow and DJ Krush that broadened my musical tastes. At the time it was being branded as trip-hop and future jazz but these days it seem to be generally accepted as instrumental hip hop. I have put together a collection of some instrumental beats, it includes the DJ Shadow and DJ Krush tracks from the Mo Wax compilation as well as some more recent stuff in the same vein.