New album due in May

Blockhead (or Tony Simon, as he is sometimes known) released his debut album last year to immense critical acclaim. Now he returns with his second offering, Downtown Science, twelve instrumental hip hop tracks dedicated to downtown Manhattan, where he has lived his entire life.
Comparisons to DJ Shadow are easy to make but, despite working in […]

Carlos Niño is one busy guy; not only does this mini-album come just six months after the release of Ammoncontact’s One In An Infinity Of Ways album but it comes out on the same day as the first single from another of his projects Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio And his partner […]

The Line-up Mathias Eick (trumpet, upright bass, keyboards & vibraphone), Harald Frøland (guitars & effects), Even Ormestad (bass & keyboards), Andreas Mjøs (vibraphone, guitars, drums & electronics), Line Horntveth (tuba & percussion), Martin Horntveth (drums & drum-machines), Lars Horntveth (tenor sax, bass-clarinet, guitars & keyboards), Andreas Schei (keyboards), Ketil Einarsen (flutes, wind controller, percussion & […]

The latest album from Busdriver is packed full of future classic hip hop tracks. This is aided by the production skills of Daedelus, Danger Mouse, Thavius Beck, Omid and Paris Zax but is mostly down to the awesome skills of Busdriver himself as a lyricist and rapper.
The stand out tracks are […]

As the video games industry grows (and grows), more money becomes available and the consumer starts to demand something more sophisticated. The Splinter Cell series already boasts stories written by the author Tom Clancy (who wrote, amongst others, The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and The Sum of All Fears, […]

In it’s original form Black Mamba Serums had a clear direction and target. It was all about how Bigg Jus, former member of Company Flow, hates hip hop. Or rather, the kind of hip hop that is pushed in our faces day in day out. The kind that is devoid of message, creativity or soul. […]