UE.45: Strange New Generation

Hailing from Katlehong, a small neighbourhood on the eastern side of Johannesburg, are Strange New Generation. A three-strong collective of exuberant producers and rappers, SNG are a new voice on the alternative rap scene, as much influenced by LA beats … Read More

Win tickets to DJ Krush’s first London performance in two years

On Saturday March 19th, Electric Brixton will play host to an extra special performance from Japanese hip hop legend DJ Krush. A formidable turntablist and prolific producer, Krush has been flying the flag for suave instrumental breaks and cosmic trip … Read More

Review: Future Brown @ Phonox

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Much like Plan B before it, Phonox is a fairly non-descript looking venue from the outside looking in. With the club sandwiched between a chicken shop and 99p store, it certainly doesn’t give much away. So on discovering its rather … Read More

Digging Deep: Rich Medina

Rich Medina is one of those truly unique individuals in the world of music. A cooler than cool, deep and softly spoken man from New Jersey, he’s the kind of guy you’d probably have hated at school for being notably … Read More

A Final Farewell: In Conversation with Southport Weekender’s Alex Lowes

We received the news of Southport Weekender‘s retirement with great sadness – a British institution with a decidedly worldly musical aesthetic and an even bigger heart that prides itself on living up to and surpassing its reputation as the ‘world’s … Read More

UE.26: Cottam

This week, it’s our great pleasure to present a guest mix from chugging house specialist, Cottam.

Paul Cottam burst onto the scene in 2009 behind a veil of anonymity, with a trio of untitled EPs showcasing groovy, bass-heavy tendencies that sauntered … Read More

South London’s Henry Wu delivers a quintet of outstanding modern-day soul in the Negotiate EP

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Negotiate, the latest release from Peckham-based beatsmith Henry Wu, is a sophisticated collection of grooves designed to indulge your ears.

As we touched on in last month’s State of Play, the five-track EP on Alex Nut’s new HoTep imprint is … Read More

Reliving Nas’ seminal hip hop album in ‘Time Is Illmatic’

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Nasir “Nas” Jones of Queensbridge, NYC has a reputation as one of the fiercest lyricists throughout the East Coast. So it’s for good reason that Time Is Illmatic, the latest biopic on one of hip hop’s foremost and most formative … Read More

Digging Deep: Tall Black Guy

Detroit is the home of musical legend: a once fertile city that even when bulldozed to the ground, can yield the most inspiring and exciting sapling of musical ingenuity. Terrel Wallace, aka Tall Black Guy, is one of those artists … Read More

Digging Deep: ENA

Lurking in the far-flung Oriental corner of the Minimal-170 genre is Tokyo based producer, ENA.  Producing under several different monikers, including Yu Aseda and other apparently more ‘secret’ aliases, ENA’s releases have been sporadic since 2008 and have often gone … Read More