Before reading and listening here’s a warning: this post is going to be all over the place, music-wise at least. The one thing in this list that is supposed to give order, the fact that it’s all bands, isn’t even…
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Just before the holidays, Julius Myth returns with a mixtape titled ‘TV Dinners’. It’s the fourth mixtape for the New Yorkian super-linguist. After being pleasantly surprised by his last mixtape ‘Day Of The Deadbeats’, I think this new mixtape deserves…
While in 2009 only a happy few were listening to it, 2010 saw a definite international breakthrough of Dubstep as a full grown music genre. 2011 must be the year that Dubstep manifested itself as mainstream EDM. The journey started…
Waves One of the most remarkable new names of 2011 we haven’t posted about yet is the Oakland born Jhameel. In a nutshell: This young UC Berkely graduate served in the U.S. Army, Speaks over five languages, creates fantastic music…
Read the PostJhameel, Zero 7, The Apple Scruffs, Clipse, Pharrell, Mystery Skulls, G.L.U.B.
Right, so we’ve been through some pretty random lists now. Most of those songs were quite up tempo, and these difficult days between Christmas and new years beg for something warm, deep, fuzzy and fireplace like. So , for round…
2011 (like 2010) was all about the internet viral: confrontational, over the top, shocking. Even horrifying by times or just plain odd. Everything was done to become visible in a bizarre jungle of available music. The motto of the year:…
99 Problems On My Mind Dj White Lotus mashes what might be the biggest hip-hop breakthrough of 2011 with what might be the biggest hip-hop anthem of all time. And both go together quite nicely. It’s the ’99 Problems’ acapella…
Read the PostJay-Z, Pusha T, Tyler The Creator, White Lotus, Empire Of The Sun, Cosmonauts
Episode three of the daily top 5 charts in the countdown to 2012. Genre of the today, as promised: College Hip Hop. If 2010 was the year of the rise of college hip hop (let’s just call it that, since…
Read the Post2011 Roundup Charts: It’s bigger than Hip Hop II.