Paul White goes full Humbert Humbert in name only. No clue why the Nabokov novel gets the title of this track, considering the feel is more astral funk than pervert dance music. I imagine he either read the book or watched the movie or listened to too much Kellz during its conception. This is another […]

What’s it about? Everything. Nothing’s for certain. Questions and negations offered by Paul White, who first attracted attention from the greater rap world by working with Danny Brown, but has been creating psychedelic sample collages since the later years of the last decade. Start with Sounds From The Skylight if you do not even know. […]

Adam Wray wrote this inside the Viper Room bathroom, circa 1993. There’s no rapper working today that’s earned his hype as much as Danny Brown. Since XXX blew up he’s been getting it like he’s lived, crushing each and every track he’s hopped on and leaving a trail of smoked mics, blunts, and groupies in […]

In sleep, Evan Nabavian gets to be a viking. I think all men indulge in fantasies of being rock stars, superheroes, star athletes, firemen, hard-boiled cops, war heroes, Mossad agents, billionaires, samurai masters, professional wrestlers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and movie stars. But the terrible price of glory has been well-covered by Hollywood. An odd […]

Chris Daly brings the Rocky Road while others bring vanilla. There are those of us of a certain age who recall with fond clarity the early heyday of rap, waaaaay back in the 80s. Pull up a chair, kids, because I’m about to give a lecture. In some of its earliest incarnations, hip hop had […]

Maybe its little surprise that “To Love” wended its way into Wednesday night’s FlyYorke extravaganza. After all,  the Turkish vocalist/DJ, Ahu appeared on Lotus’ “RobertaFlack,” while “To Love’s” producer Paul White might be the most kindred spirit to the Low End outside of Lincoln Heights. Dropping records on both the lionization-worthy London imprint One-Handed Music […]

Somehow, Paul White freaks Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “Relax (Don’t Do It)” into one of the funkiest pieces of music you’ll hear all year and the Internet overlooks it. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Dilla’s influence has long been a contagion in LA and Detroit, but it’s been fascinating and rewarding to watch […]

For the purposes of equipoise, Side B of Paul White’s Sounds from the Skylight. See also: Sach O’s post on Side A.  Download: ZIP: Paul White-Sounds From the Skylight Part B (Left-Click)

Not that I’ve had to choose, but I’ve generally preferred Dubstep’s half-speed syncopation and violent bass drops to Future/instrumental Hip-Hop’s 3-minute stoner grooves this year. That said, I’ll gladly make an exception for Paul White’s Sounds from the Skylight, whose ever-so-brief first side dropped last week, threatening to wreck havoc on my end of the […]