DJ Quik is a giant of West Coast hip-hop. With his fourth album Rhythm-Al-Ism he created his masterpiece, a perfect hip-hop album. As Quik explains, “the...
Innercity Griots, the second album from Freestyle Fellowship, is perhaps *the* essential West Coast leftfield rap album of the early ’90s.Released in...
Pierre Dutour's infamous Top Fiction is the epitome of a 5-tracker. Coming to light in 1979 on Tele Music, its collection of environmental themes are *all...
The distinctive rolling grooves, growling basslines and blasting horns of Snakehips Etcetera combined to present Nucleus's most energetic record. First...
Swing Family's Music Force is dramatic mid-80s synth-funk. From the maverick mind of Sauveur Mallia, it's a thrilling and uniquely brilliant album from...
"Contemporary synthesizer sounds illustrating wide open space activities, environment and research."
Panoramic proto-techno underwater-electro library...
Cuba: Music and Revolution: Culture Clash in Havana: Experiments in Latin Music 1975-85 Vol. 2 is the new album compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart...
Danish duo Bremer McCoy (Morten McCoy keyboards and loops and Jonathan Bremer acoustic bass) release their second album for Luaka Bop. 'Natten' is a focused,...
'Kpede Do Gbe Houenou’ is a burning piece of Afro-funk from Benin’s finest, the all-conquering Orchestre Poly-Rythmo. With a killer horns line, imploring...
Scrimshire returns with an an album of meditative jazz / electronic deepness with an incredible array of guests such as Cleveland Watkiss, Jessica Lauren,...
**Mind-boggling, deep, psychedelic soul gem!** A product of North Memphis’ segregated Dixie Homes housing complex, The Sweet & Innocent arrived during...