We’re in for more treats from J Dilla and Busta Rhymes with the release of Dillagence. The genius producer left a whole array of beats behind which were given personally to Busta and now he’s teamed up with DJ Mick Boogie to put this mixtape together in J Dilla’s honour.
“Mick is a real underground hip-hop [...]
New J-Dilla Busta Rhymes mixtape out today
Talking your way to the top
Who thought the South Bank centre would be ones to get down with it? It being the freestyle oral workouts of modern one man bands, beatboxing. They’ve hired beatboxer meister Shlomo as their new artist in residence, after seeing the multi-talented motormouth combine beatboxing through a loop sampler, beatboxing and drumming simultaneously. He’s set to [...]
Sunday Service
I wouldn’t have thought this was so great, had I not, a couple of Sundays ago been trying to find a late night drink (read about midnight) on Sunday in London town, the city that never sleeps…we went to Kings Cross, Soho, East London…before giving in and going home. Rubbish, London you should be [...]
The Land of Tunage
This is pretty swish. Gracenote – those lovely people who make the track names pop up when you put a CD in your drive (assuming you’re online at the time) have done a lovely map of the world where you can click on each individual country and find out what top ten artists they’re into. [...]
Piste Off
So the world’s officially largest, and unofficially messiest snowboarding festival has set out the perimeters for next year’s carnage. Happening in Mayrhofen, Austria between 31 March – 6 April. Snowbombing is the only snowboarding event where you possibly have to pack a larger suitcase for the fancy dress than you do the warm snow gear. [...]
Thriller Goes Killer
So Jacko’s after a comeback. Having fled Bahrain after wussing out of a record deal with the Prince of Bahrain and failing to record two contractual albums, he’s done a lot of thinking, dug deep into the crates and got in a load of shit hot remixers to put a 21st century spin on 4 [...]
WTF?!? P Diddy to get 50/50 share of Ciroc Vodka profits?
My head is spinning even though I’m pretty sure there’s is no way in hell this is right but according to Yahoo! News Ciroc Vodka’s parent company Diageo, has not only given the green light to endorsing this joker – they’re actually giving him half the profits! The Alan Partridge of hip hop (albeit with [...]
Music industry continues to do stupid shit
Due to upcoming changes in the UK chart rules, the 29th of October will see the widespread selling of singles on USB keys. This move according to Brian Rose (Commercial Director at Universal UK) is aimed at “12 to 24 year olds, who no longer believe that the CD is as cool as it used [...]
HMV finally begins to get a clue with games zone
HMV is launching its new gamin center at one of its flagship stores in Edinburgh. It will turn itself into an old fashioned arcade where you can hang out with your mates, smoke round the corner and get the older lads to buy cider for you.
In all seriousness this decision makes perfect commercial sense - [...]
