Nov
09

Sach O: Slowly spinning in his grave

Dear Music Journos, I know it’s tempting to use the 10th anniversary of DJ Screw’s death to write puff pieces about Witch-House/Drag/whatever music. Please resist the urge.  If you’re going to big up Screw, by all means, go ahead and do so: find the rappers he worked with, examine his releases, hell postulate on his… Continue reading »

Nov
09

The Odd Future Drinking Game

Three months ago, no one had ever heard of Odd Future. Two months ago, the Internet proposed. One month ago, they played a show at the Low End Theory: the earth’s orbit stopped, unicorns skateboarded out of the inside of the clouds, and the hills were alive with the sound of swag and the taste… Continue reading »

Nov
08

Wascals and Rascals

Wilcox Sessions – Hanni El Khatib (You Rascal You) from Wilcox Sessions on Vimeo. Humor the link to the outside writing. Hanni El Khatib is legitimate enough to warrant the double jeopardy. I’ve been riding for the garage-punk blues-inflected skateboarder since before his first hyphenate — or at least since April. A long enough period… Continue reading »

Nov
08

Sach O: The Many Faces of Machinedrum

Sach O drums mechanical In adition to showcasing a (metric) fuckton of new producers to the public, one of the unexpected benefits of the bass music explosion has been the increased attention given to formerly orphaned artists. From Daedleus to Shadow to RSD, a large swath of producers working outside of the critical spotlight are… Continue reading »

Nov
08

Floodwatch: “Every Good Boy Deserves Bacon”

Floodwatch is applewood-smoked and nitrate-free. For the mid-‘90s electronic music enthusiast, a release from Yorkshire-based Pork Recordings was guaranteed to have the following two characteristics: a dependably high level of quality and a frustrating inability to be acquired easily and cheaply–at least here in the States. For the unfamiliar, Pork issued slightly over a hundred… Continue reading »

Nov
07

Curren$y-”Michael Knight” Video

MICHAEL KNIGHT from Creative Control on Vimeo. Race cars and weed jars. The moral of the story is that renting a Knight Rider corvette is infinitely more cost effective than renting a Maybach or a Bentley. This means more money for blunts. Clearly, Spitta picked up some fiscal savvy from his years with Percy Miller… Continue reading »

Nov
05

Sach O: N-Type goes nuts on the radio, plays oldies.

Sach O can’t go on together…with suspicious minds! Ignore the mugshot/album cover, N-Type is one funny dude. How funny? Funny enough to use a week’s hour and half of Rinse FM airtime to play nothing but 70′s and 80′s pop tunes back in October. From “Red Red Wine” to more obscure boogie funk, dude goes… Continue reading »

Nov
04

Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Purling Hiss and the Renewed Coolness of Classic Rock

With this being his second featured artist from the label in as many days, Douglas Martin is clearly trying to be put on the Woodsist payroll. Long removed from the heyday of the various hip-hop crews roaming the dark streets of Philadelphia (the almost-phenomenal State Property, the almost-laughable Major Figgas) and even farther from that… Continue reading »

Nov
04

Blu Shampoo

There’s a mild hypocrisy in championing Blu’s sporadic output while crowning Jay Electronica with this year’s Chuck Norris: Missing in Action Award for Absentee Rapping (a prestigious throne alternately held by Dr. Dre, Andre 3000, Del the Funkee Homosapien, and Slick Rick).  Via their occasional appearances and withdrawals from the LED limelight, both MC’s have… Continue reading »

Nov
04

Hip-Hop Tweets: Basketball has always been my thing

Abe Beame has taken his talents at rounding up the best Tweets in and around the Hip Hop Community, to PotW. The slightly tardy nature of the post is attributable to a certain editor who is mired in a drunken post-electoral haze somewhere close to downtown Orlando. This week the Hip Hop Community celebrated one… Continue reading »

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