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Echo Party
Five Day Weekend | 2009
What happens when Edan (The Deejay) gets the chance to mess around with Traffic Entertainment’s back catalogue, consisting of long-gone but treasured labels such as Magic Records, Chocolate Star and P&P? Cheer madness occurs. Super-ecstatically mixed together, breaks collide with bleeps, and kazoos clinch with cuts while a flinch of familiar party ... [ READ
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posted by: cpf | 12-12-2009 | rated: mighty phat
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 DJ Spinna
Sonic Smash
High Water | 2009
No Eminem (featured on Spinna’s ‘Heavy Beats vol. 1’) this time, but make sure to buckle up, get ready for DJ Spinna’s newest ‘Sonic Smash’. It’s a showcase of hungry young lions, rapping like every rhyme will feed them an antelope, and household stagers, whose verse delivery is more advanced than an experienced midwife’s, combined with a productio... [ READ
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posted by: cpf | 10-07-2009 | rated: topnotch
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 D.Black
Ali'Yah
MYX Music | 2009
A dedication to moving on in the best way, to grow up, to deal with responisbilities, D.Black’s newest album seemed like a complicated task for a lyricist of that young age (22), but amazingly the Seattle rapper really did an admirable job. Without one time getting too preachery, 'Ali'Yah' (Hebrew for 'to ascend') is a testimony of life expercience... [ READ
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posted by: cpf | 10-07-2009 | rated: mightyphat
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 Breakestra
Dusk Till Dawn
Strut | 2009
Break fiends, 70’s funk afficionados beware, because Breakestra is back after a five years’ break. With the first listening we had some problems with our time orientation, as the music totally pulls you back thirty years earlier. At the same time, we were very surprised with the group's ability to even be able to reproduce some of that era’s best f... [ READ
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posted by: engelbert humperfunk | 10-06-2009 | rated: phat
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 Aarophat & Illastrate
The Black Noise LP
IllSevenz/Working Class | 2009
How long does it take for an emcee and a producer to click and build chemistry? Aarophat, an MC reppin Youngstown, Ohio, and Illastrate, a producer holding it down for Atlanta, only needed 14 hours. In 14 tracks, the MC’s raw, waterproof flow and Illastrate’s dirty drums with dusty soul sampling match seamlessly.
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posted by: cpf | 09-15-2009 | rated: mighty phat
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 Us3
Run.stop.think
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Over fifteen years ago, Us3’s 'Cantaloop' became a smash hit single and made 'Hand On The Torch', the album it appeared on, Blue Note’s first platinum selling album in the US. The single still remains essential regarding the impact the album had on hip-hop. A hip-hop record went platinum on an essential jazz label and for the first time, there was ... [ READ
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posted by: cpf | 06-25-2009 | rated: mighty phat
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 Moka Only
Lowdown Suite 2 - The Box
Feelin Music | 2009
When it comes down to Moka Only and releases one could easily loose track (better say 'album'). When one is announced another album comes along already. Later this year, the self-proclaimed 'hungry hippo' will release a full length album together with Pharcyde's Bootie Brown and (hopefully) the Mister Mister project with Mr. Brady. Now it's time fo... [ READ
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posted by: cpf | 06-06-2009 | rated: mighty phat
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 Ivan Ives
Newspeak
No Treshold | 2009
In George Orwell’s novel '1984', 'Newspeak' is a greatly reduced and simplified language with little vocabulary and almost no grammar. When you know that Ivan Ives, Russian-born (in 1984) but raised in Brooklyn and currently residing in L.A., was already a great fan of Shakespeare in his teenager years, then the contrast between the album title and... [ READ
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posted by: cpf | 06-05-2009 | rated: phat
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 The Grouch & Eligh (G&E)
Say G&E!
Legendary Music | 2009
Say whut? Say G&E! Living Legends The Grouch and Eligh are back with a new episode of the G&E series. 'G’s for the good, E for Elevation, we gon’ touch the world, this is celebration', it goes in the title track’s chorus. 'Follow the way back to the Bay, let’s smart', man-of-the-moment The... [ READ
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posted by: cpf | 03-31-2009 | rated: topnotch
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 Verbal Kent & Kaze One
Brave New Rap
Gravel Hiphop | 2009
After meeting in 2001 at an MC battle, Chicagoans Verbal Kent, master of ceremonies, and Kaz One, beat creator, have been on a mission. 'The rapper should make me wanna make a beat so hard it could knock a man down', Kaz 1 said to Verbal Kent and that was that. The rapper interpreted it as an invitation, the producer jumped on the train. Since Verb... [ READ
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posted by: cpf | 03-30-2009 | rated: mighty phat
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 Finale
A Pipe Dream And A Promise
Interdependent Media | 2009
A pamphlet of blue-collar heroism, a story that has never been more relevant than in today’s economic slump. Get out of the dirt and follow your dreams, an adagio where ninety percent of the Motor Citizens can relate to, that’s what 'A Pipe Dream and A Promise' really is. Besides that, it’s the introduction of Finale to a wider audience, after bein... [ READ
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posted by: cpf | 03-06-2009 | rated: mighty phat
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 Braille & S1
Cloud Nineteen
Hiphop IS Music | 2009
After having each track produced by a different producer on his previous release 'The IV Edition', HiphopIsMusic founder Braille Brizzy took only one producer under his wings for his latest album 'Cloud Nineteen'. And that’s what Symbolic One, sound provider of the Strange Fruit Project, does: giving the Lightheaded front man wings, as the collabor... [ READ
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posted by: cpf | 03-06-2009 | rated: phat
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 Madlib
Beat Konducta vol 5 + 6
Stones Throw | 2009
Three years after Dilla’s passing, we’ve been able to witness a lot of dedications and homages. Artists that stood close to him, artists that felt connected with him, they all wanted to pay tribute. But actually it was really waiting for Madlib’s eulogy, as the two most prolific underground producers grew towards each other a lot in Dilla’s last da... [ READ
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posted by: cpf | 02-17-2009 | rated: mighty phat
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 Aquil
Blues People
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Although issued as a mixtape, the CD listens more like an album. With used beats as well as self-made productions, Aquil showcases in the first place his lyrical skills. Reminiscent of Nas, he flows with ease whether it's a Madlib, heavily jazz- (Fela Kuti) and funk- (The Sylvers) infested, old school ('86 Demotape') or boombap (the Nas homage 'Wor... [ READ
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posted by: cpf | 02-04-2009 | rated: phat
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 Metermaids
Nightlife
27Sound Ent | 2008
In an attempt to paint the town red, Metermaids duo Swell and Sentence cross the boundaries of hip-hop and add some electronica and guitar riffs to the traditional beats and rhymes. Not that hip-hop is strictly limited to beat machines and rhymes these days, but the amount of live instrumentated rap records is still rather scarce.
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posted by: cpf | 02-04-2009 | rated: nice
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