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...
Dec 17, 2022 | 2022, Mixes, Toons |
Listen to Interstellar Dance Machine byAble Baker Charlie on hearthis.at Intelligent Dance Music (IDM) gets a bad rep because it sounds pretentious and twatty. From memory, the term comes from an early Warp records compilation (Artificial Intelligence) being reviewed...
Dec 7, 2022 | 2022, Mixes, Toons |
Listen to Intergalactic Disco Music byAble Baker Charlie on hearthis.at Another day, another (banging) IDM mix. This is actually the second of a pair of mixes, with this one being a little wilder around the edges – think glitchy beats, etc. IDM is music for...
Nov 11, 2022 | 2022, Mixes, Toons |
Listen to Music For Howie B-B-Babies byGeecologist on hearthis.at Part 2 of the Howie B hagiography… Part 1 is here. I don’t know what it is about albums from folks who are primarily producers, but goddamn they’re good. And that’s not a genre...
Nov 4, 2022 | 2022, Mixes, Toons |
Since bagging a copy of Music For Babies back in the 1990s, I’ve been a big fan of Howie B’s exploits. Hot on the heels of that abstract wonder, came Turn The Dark Off, a simpler instrumental hip hop record, but still with tons going on and some...
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,...