Jul 30, 2025 | 2025, Mixes |
James Lavelle’s Mo’ Wax record label had a huge impact on me in the ’90s. Similar to Ninja Tune, but a bit grungier, darker and cooler. I’d switched on to them when they released the first Headz compilation, just before DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing dropped. Both records...
Jan 14, 2023 | 2022, Mixes, Toons |
Prefuse 73 mix alert! How did it take so long to get round to this one?! I love Prefuse 73, but have to admit, I do think some of the albums could be edited a little, and some of the guest rappers… lets just say they’re not my cup of Hennessy. But the...
Sep 24, 2022 | 2022, Playlists, Toons |
Only in recent years did I realise how close the relationship between the genres of trip hop, instrumental hip hop, etc, is to the jazz world that (kind of) spawned it. And more and more artists are gleefully straddling that divide, like Makaya McCraven, Sam Gendel,...
Jan 22, 2022 | 2021, Mixes, Toons |
This is a loose jazzy-worldy-beats mix. Plenty of nu jazz, some killer beats from Georgia Anne Muldrow and FSOL, plus some mindbending musicianship from Tangents, Tony Allen, Nubya Garcia and Ezra Collective. Try dancing to Nate Smith’s Skip Step and...
Aug 27, 2020 | Featured, Mixes, Toons |
This was very nearly called Sententious Platitudes in tribute to this Bertrand Russell wisdom that’s even more true now, than when he wrote it in 1943… Instead this has nothing to do with the pictured ‘Beats’ (Kerouac and Burroughs) but is...
