My good friend Dj Khalil is kindly offering his newest mixtape out for free.
For those of you that copped his exclusive Hip Hop Connection Mixtape for THTC will know this one is worth a download, however don’t expect straight Hip Hop… this mixtape blends “something a little different”, expect beats, electronic, house, garage, touch of dubstep… nice.
Check out the full Droppin’ Science dj crew (Matman, Daredevil & Nickname) holding it down in the Skanks! room at this huge event alongside DJ Food, Rennie Pilgrem, Boywonder & more!
This is all taking place at the newly beefed up JAMM in Brixton, now with heavyweight Funktion One soundsystems in both rooms!! Expect two rooms of the best in breaks and beats, nufunk, hip hop, bass and other assorted shizzle.
50 earlybird tickets now on sale at www.ticketweb.co.uk at just £6. Get ‘em quick!
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=376090
Supatronix room: (Breaks and bass)
FAR TOO LOUD (Funkatech)
HIGH RANKIN (Cheap Thrills, Sub Slayers)
Gella (Sub Slayers)
Jurassik (Sound of Habib)
Country Cockney
Sai
Amp and Funked
Skanks! room: (Funky eclectic shizzle)
DJ FOOD (Ninja Tunes)
RENNIE PILGREM (Exclusive nu funk set)
DJ Matman b2b DJ Daredevil b2b DJ Nickname (Two DMC Champs)
Boy Wonder (Skanks!)
Anna B (Skanks!)
Skinny and Clarkie (SNC Audio)
9pm to 6am!
Entry: Free guestlist before 10pm: Email names and emails to jurassik@supatronix.org/£6 concessions before 11/£8 after/£10 after midnight
The first single from the new and final Little Brother Album.
Official blurb:
Critically acclaimed rap duo Little Brother are back and ready to takeover speakers for the final time together with their new album, LeftBack. Dropping on April 20th via Hall of Justus, LeftBack will mark the end of an illustrious career by partners in rhyme Phonte and Rapper Big Pooh. The album features production from the likes of Khyrsis, Denaun Porter, J.Bizness and guest vocals from Torae, Truck North, Jozeemo, Chaundon, Median, and more. The send-off for the North Carolina hip-hop heavyweights begins with the release of “Curtain Call,” the poetically titled first single from LeftBack. Rapper Big Pooh sets the tone for the album by declaring that “this is it, the last monologue / last act in the play, you could say the epilogue.” A booming synth line, driving bass and staccato drum pattern intertwine to provide the backdrop for the occasion, while Phonte drives home the album’s message by rapping “You know we don’t quit / but when it’s curtain call then that’s all you gonna get.” The song “basically sums up the history of our career as Little Brother,” says the duo. “This is the last first single you will hear from Little Brother.”
Download: Little_Brother-Curtain_Call
Droppin’ Science have been invited to play at this year’s Soundwave Festival in Croatia.
Whilst Daredevil holds the fort back here in London, myself (DJ Nickname) and DJ Matman will be taking the Droppin’ Science sound to Petrcane in July where you will also be able to check out the likes of DaM-FunK, Zero 7, The Cinematic Orchestra and a shed load more!
Tickets are dead cheap for a festival, and they’re selling fast so don’t sleep!
Full details and tickets at www.soundwavecroatia.com.
Add yourself to the DS X Soundwave Facbeook Event here.
Acclaimed producer Oddisee, one third of Diamond District, sits down for an interview with The Stand. Oddisee’s latest album – the exceptionally dope instrumental venture ‘Travelling Man’, is now available digitally, preview and purchase here.
Download his recent ‘Odd Winter’ album for free here.
As we’re sure you know by now, we teamed up with King Underground, Wax Poetics, Dephect Clothing and a few other good friends, to bring Termanology to the UK and play dates in Leeds and London.
Droppin’ Science are offering the Twitterers amongst us, the chance to win 2 tickets to the London show at the Rhythm Factory.
All you need to do is ReTweet this Tweet and you’ll be entered into the draw.
The winner will be announced next Wednesday March 10.
Good luck!
Here’s the newest single off Reflection Eternal’s upcoming album ’Revolutions Per Minute’ which is said to release on April 6th. The track is a lot slower than what we’re used to from Hi-Tek, but it’s a good track and could mark a return to form for Kweli & Hi-tek.
Download: Reflection Eternal – In this World
24 year-old Londoner BUG is a keyboard player, songwriter and producer. His debut single Cosmic Lab b/w 20 Winks, is out now on the newly formed Jus Like Music Records & has already received accolades from artists such as Ty (see our preview of his upcoming album), Ohmegga Watts & Eric Lau (see our previous post on his ‘Kilowatt V2′). Listen to both tracks on the widget below.
Download: BUG - Cosmic Lab / 20 Winks
Here is the new 5 track EP from Freddie Joachim. This EP shows him moving towards a more funky style of beat whilst using amazing motown-esque samples. Listen to the whole EP on the widget below.
Download: Freddie Joachim – Dust
Jay Electronica swept onto the hip hop scene in a wave of enigma late last decade. The effect of his quirky, emotional sound was compounded by the erratic methods of their release, drifting out unannounced via the internet – the Myspace leak of Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge), a fifteen minute opus laced with movie samples and beatless film soundtracks, represented the beginning of an astounding surge of interest in both the man and his music, back in 2007. Since then, the New Orleans-born MC and producer has garnered heavy support from everybody from Nas to Gilles Peterson, and has worked heavily with soulslinger Just Blaze, dropping two instant neo-backpack classics, Exhibit A and Exhibit C. Only recently he partnered with New York-based “idea studio” Decon, working on his debut album as well as a video project with label founder Jason Goldwatch. With more anticipation around his Act II track than the rest of hip hop’s class of ‘10 combined, and another project with fellow supa emcees Mos Def and Curren$y in the making, the future couldn’t look brighter for Jay. To paraphrase his recent collaboration with Talib Kweli und Hi-Tek: he’s only just begun.
