1/3 of Das Racist drops his second solo mixtape of 2012. Das Racist’s Heems drops his second solo mixtape Wild Water Kingdom this week. Since he’s 1/3 of the uber literary Das Racist camp, expect plenty of polysyllabic flows and intelligent, yet witty, plays on words. Stream and download XXX below.
17-minutes of drum & bass & hip-hop-rinsed Shadow, British producer and remixer Irn Mnky earned DJ Shadow’s attention 3 years ago when he won a remix contest held by Shadow himself. Soon Shadow was playing Irn Mnky’s remix of “Walkie Talkie” on a regular basis, and a mutual relationship was born. Now to celebrate the release of DJ Shadow’s limited edition box set Reconstructed: The Definitive DJ Shadow Irn Minky has assembled a DJ Shadow specific set rinsed with Irn Minky’s drum & bass and hip-hop influenced sound, highlighting …
DJ Muggs hooks up New York lifestyle label Mishka with a 5-track mixtape, Sound Clash Business, which is out today on Mishka Records. The man behind the legendary Soul Assassin clique — including of course Cypress Hill — shows a great variety in his EP, centering from his dark hip hop sound and venturing out into dubstep, trap, ragga and of course plenty of bass. It also features A$AP Rocky and The Cool Kids’ Chuck Inglish rapping over some original Muggs beats.
If you want to know what Diplo would play if he got really baked and got on the turntables at your house, all buzzed out and lazy like, now you know. Wait hold up Wes, stop bogarting the decks — and where in hell did I leave that vaporizer…?
At the end of last year we posted Freddie Gibbs and Madlib’s Thuggin’ EP, and previewed their much anticipated album together. Well now the duo are hitting Europe for a quick “Medicine Show 2012″ Tour sponsored by Carhartt, which started last night in Frankfurt and continues with a show tonight in Berlin (peep the flyer after the Jump for further dates). To promote the tour Madlib has prepared a Carhartt Radio show featuring Gibbs, J Rocc, and himself. The Los Angeles DJ, multi-instrumentalist, rapper and producer blends unreleased, unheard, …
Maestro of bass, original dubstep provocateur, friend of LIAS, political rabblerouser and all around supernatural EDM talent Bassnectar blesses the world with a brand new mixtape today, simply titled the Freestyle mixtape. Mr. Lorin Ashton’s chest-rattling 40-minute set offers remixes, collaborations and guest appearances by the likes of Hudson Mohawke, Ming & FS, Zion I, Mimi Page, rapper Angel Haze, DC Breaks and more, and is yet another example of why the San Francisco artist is one of the best selling touring producer/DJs on the plane…
Ninja Tune producer and head designer DJ Food, who we featured this spring for his album The Search Engine, has just unveiled a project very close to our hearts: a tribute album to the 1989 classic Paul’s Boutique, the Beastie Boys best album and one of the Top 10 Albums Of All Time (yup, no hyperbole there). A watershed moment in hip-hop, and unarguably the most complex sampling album ever, this is a great ode to Paul’s Boutique. “3 years in the making, 3 DJs working with over 150 tracks to recreate one of the seminal sampling albums of all t…