The Grouch and Eligh are rap veterans and long time members of the Living Legends crew. I have known of both of them since the late 90’s but have never really listened to them much. I remember downloading some ofRead more…
Sole & DJ Pain 1 – Death Drive: First As Tragedy Then As Remix
Death Drive was the first album I mentioned on this blog. As he did with the original Sole and The Skyrider Band album, Sole has had some of has beat making friends. 6 tracks have been remixed (Don’t Riot hasRead more…
Playlist Monday – Same Sample Part 2
In the original Playlist Monday – Same Sample I played songs with the same sample back to back. In this version I am going to give the original sample and four songs that sampled it.
Hail Mary Mallon – Bestiary
Hail Mary Mallon is Aesop Rock and Rob Sonic. This is their second album as a duo. Their first album Are You Gonna Eat That? was released in 2011. I gave their first album a few listens when it wasRead more…
Red Wall – (Boyles) and Piles EP
This is an odd one track EP from Milo and Alexander Kollman. This is a little different sound to what Milo has done with his solo projects. The production from Alexander Kollman is a little quirkier and at times theRead more…
Craig’s Top 5 of 2014
Following on from 2013, which (for my ears) was a great year for music, 2014 had a lot of early potential with releases from some of my favourite alt rap veterans such as Atmosphere, Sole, Sage Francis and The Roots.Read more…
Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 2
I was not going to mention this album as it seems to have had a huge amount of attention. Music blogs and Twitter have been flooded with positive reviews and Killer Mike and El-P have just toured across North AmericaRead more…
Culprate – Deliverance
I had this album recommended to me with the description of “interesting glitchy goodness”. I did a quick search for Culprate on Spotify and listened to the first EP I found. It was some good but fairly standard dub stepRead more…
Soso – Not For Nothing
Soso is a musician and artist from Saskatoon. His style of music has a very unique and personal sound. The music is hip hop but has a very organic sound. The drums in particular are hand picked samples and notRead more…
Anderson Paak – Venice
Anderson Paak recently released his debut album Venice. I have previously talked about his EP of covers and also mentioned his feature on the latest TOKiMONSTA EP. I like what Anderson Paak offers. He falls some where between Cee LoRead more…