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Exploring Hip-Hop’s Golden Age: The Birth of Boom Bap If you are too young to remember 9/11, it might be hard to comprehend how controversial
Jacob spins a music history lesson, establishing the early roots and foundations of hip-hop.
Here’s a little funky live-loop set I recorded recently, enjoy: What’s Live Looping? Live looping is the process of building a song in real time
We untangle the complex and sometimes seemingly contradictory messages regarding religion, the occult and the supernatural that came from Tropicália in Part 2 of our Feature Series on Tropicália.
A second installment of recently found Boom Bap and Underground Rap 12″ Vinyls while digging around Phoenix, AZ.
The first of several Boom Bap, Conscious Rap, Underground, Gangsta 12″ vinyl sets.
Image created by Stanley Donwood
Meditative jam with Ravi Shankar and Funky Rob samples by honeybear.
The anticipation surrounding The Smile’s highly awaited album, “Wall of Eyes,” reached a fever pitch when news broke that the album had been leaked a
Digitization of a rare find: the unofficial release of the “Lost Demos” from The Ummah Recordings featuring A Tribe Called Quest and Jay Dee of Slum Village (J Dilla)
Madlib, MF Doom, J Dilla, L’Orange, Kool Keith, Ghostface Killah, A Tribe Called Quest, and more…
Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Os Mutantes, Os Brazões, Beck, CAN, Madlib, The Doors, and more.
Coffee and a Psychedelic Sampler ranging from Captain Beefheart and the Kinks, to Gene Harris and Herbie Hancock, to Deerhoof, Shel Silverstein and a lot more.
For their 50th Anniversary of the album, Wings releases an “Underdubbed” version that helps tell the story of their unsettling time recording much of the album in Lagos, Nigeria.
In our first of four parts covering the music of Tropicália (1967-1969), we look first at the songs that epitomize the spirit of the movement which birthed a new uniquely Brazilian cultural identity (clockwise starting top left: Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Rita Lee, Gilberto Gil and Tom Zé center)
Inspectah Deck wants you to know: “I can feel you, feeling me, feeling you, feeling this. If you know what I mean.” –“Gatecrasher” from Czartificial Intelligence. (Pictured Above: Joseph Campbell, who brought us the theory of the monomyth, with Czarface’s latest release.)
Sharon Jones, The Upsetters, Wheelchair Sports Camp, El Michels Affair, Etta James, Yesterday’s New Quintet and a lot more for Thanksgiving.
5-set series in a neat youtube playlist for you, Jazz, Funk, Soul, Hip-Hop, Afrobeat, and more.
Also known as Tropicalismo, Tropicália was an art and music movement in Brazil that created some of the country’s most important and creative works in the short span of a few years (~1967-1969).
Full vinyl digitization of Eddie Harris’s album ‘Sculpture’ also known as “For Bird and Bags”.
Listen to the whole album which was recorded live in Ed Rodriguez’s basement
Lee Oskar’s subtle and light-hearted disco-funk jam is turning 45 this year.
Herbie Hancock’s career is impressive, to say the least. Spanning nearly 6 decades, Hancock’s career is not only prolific, it is boundary-pushing, progressive, eclectic, and nearly unparalleled.
The Story of Herbie Hancock Box Set was announced September 2023 and will be shipped in a 4-week period.
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