Back once again! It is my great pleasure to present the latest installment of fresh new beats for a fresh new year.
We have another mixed bag of tricks this month, and slightly more dancefloor oriented than normal. There’s another cut from the Waxolutionists, new releases from Mos Def and Boozoo Bajou, and a tasty new remix from DJ Vadim. Get stuck in!
Here’s the last installment for 2008. To finish off the year in fine style I bolted together a tough selection of head-nodding, boom-bap hip-hop.
Brand-new joints from RZA, Austrian crew Waxolutionists (I just discovered their stuff, but will be keeping track of them for sure), and a bangin’ remix from mein Deutsche freund fLako.
Towards the end of the mix I wanted to soften things up and space the beats out a bit. So I wound down to an older track I’ve admired for a long time from Xela. Floaty stuff to round off proceedings nicely.
I’ll be posting again before the end of the year, but musically that’s it till 2009. Have a good festive period folks!
It’s nearing the end of another month so here’s the November dosage.
It’s varied mix of beats this time starting at the down-tempo end of the scale with a recent Flying Lotus remix and a new cut from King Midas Sound on Hyperdub (cheers to J for the tip-off on that one). Steadily cranking up the BPM through the 7 Samurai on German imprint, Poets Club and an older, but timeless jam by Boxcutter.
I decided on a DnB rush for the finish line with a smooth number from top Californian beathead, Tyler Straub (many thanks for that, buddy. Keep up the good work!), an epic from Apex and to wind things up one of my favourite records of 2008 from London Elektricity.
Hope y’all dig it
It’s the end of the month and about time for another episode. I was feeling like a broken-beat, nu-jazz affair this time around so I dug out some more up-tempo beats – some new, some old, all slick.
So here’s the debut mix. To kick things off it’s an early-autumn, hip-hop, nu-jazz mash-up. The end result is a varied mix of tracks – some new, some I’ve had for a while. A laid-back mix and a low-key launch – no fuss, just good beats. Enjoy…