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REVIEW: IV The Polymath

.:ALBUM REVIEW: IV The Polymath - New Vs. Old

In the past few years, instrumental hip-hop albums have started to garner widespread attention. Previously, MCs used to seek out beat tapes to practice their rhymes or find producers for their albums. Nowadays, producers can release entire projects that don’t sound out of place without a rapper spitting over the tracks. This tradition of showcasing beats without rappers started back in the mid 90s with the help of artists such as DJ Shadow and his album “Endtroducing.” The latest release to come across my desk in this genre is IV the Polymath’s “New Vs Old.”

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INTERVIEW: Moka&Chief

.:INTERVIEW: Moka Only & Chief -- Word Is Bond Exclusive Interview

We told you about Moka Only and Chief's show at East Village in London for Doctor's Order previously with our review and we posted some great pictures courtesy of Ruben Cruz of Kraken photography, but it is now time to present our exclusive interview with the duo, recorded a few hours before the show, where they tell us about London, Crickets and more.

Big shout out to Spin Doctor for providing a place for us to conduct the interview and of course to Moka Only and Chief, who took some time to chill with us and answer our questions despite jet lag and tiredness.

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MIX: DJ FYO – Beats To The Vibes 2

.:MIX: DJ FYO - Beats To The Vibes 2 -another side- (WIB EXCLUSIVE)

Japanese DJ and Word Is Bond affiliate DJ FYO has once again blessed us with an exclusive mix. You should know the deal by now from his previous mixes; 40 tracks blended with some additional gems showcasing the sounds of WIB and DJ FYO's own musical palette.

Previous Beats To The Vibes mixtapes have now become available for download, you can find them via the link...

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EVENT: Idle Warship

.:EVENT REVIEW: Idle Warship at the Key Club (Los Angeles)

In the City Of Angels, no matter what day of the week it is.. if you're a fan of any particular artist, chances are you'll be coming out to see them. In this case, this past Wednesday night was no different, as the Key Club became a fully packed house, waiting for Idle Warship artists Talib Kweli & Res (w/their band) to come out and jam for their fans. You can even see the anticipation on the audience's faces that once they got started, it was definitely going to be a good night, brought to you by Move Forward Music & Fusicology.

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14Nov/110

FREENESS: Hey!Zeus – Dopamine Doppelgangerz feat. Radimo (UK)

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Our good man Hey!Zeus taking a pause from the forthcoming Obba Supa project here with a bunch of flute riddled instrumentals for the lovers of all things obscure. Joint Sichtexot/Chakra Sounds release.

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Spreading from London, unstoppable and unquantized sound layers infiltrate the neocortex of the zeitgeist with pure and unfiltrated wave forms and coerce its cells into an unrestrained dopamine expression.
Coated in firsttakes from Radimo (saxophone and flutes) and Anthony Drawn(saxophone), Obba Supa‘s beat creator Hey!Zeus is starting out in new uneven terrain to combine fusion jazz and hip hop under a unique rain of endorphines.
What was started by creating the instrumental for the song, from which the „Seelenquantisierung“ album (Tufu & Anthony Drawn, January 2011) derived its name, is hereby seized again and will be continued in an even abstruser way with even freer drum constructions in album length.
As being the first Obba Supa free release on Sichtexot, Dopamine Doppelgangerz provides a decisive hint concerning how the further cooperation between Sichtexot and Chakra Sound in the future is likely to be.

The Obba Supa album „for.am“ is coming out at the beginning of 2012 on vinyl, brought to you by Sichtexot and Chakra Sounds.

Previous posts on Hey!Zeus 

~peacelove

17Sep/110

VIDEO: Ray Vendetta – Warpspeed Ahead (UK)

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You may have heard the name Ray Vendetta about if you follow the murkier side of London's underground hip-hop. Part of the new face of Triple Darkness plus affiliations with a slew of the illest minds in and around the british capital to his name, the North London emcee is set to drop his EP (entirely produced by Obba Supa's Hey!Zeus) Guess Who's Coming To Dinner within the next few weeks on Chakra Sounds.

This track Warpspeed Ahead  features chords by iconic electronica producer Floating Points on the intro, our friend Hey!Zeus on the boards and Ray's lyrical dexterity, all types of ill!

~peacelove

8Aug/110

VIDEO/AUDIO: Obba Supa – V.A.L.I.S (UK)

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Obba Supa's follow up to TO:AM - FREE:AM to be titled FOR:AM, is poised to drop in a partnership between the group's home label Chakra Sounds and German label Sichtexot. This here is the first taste V.A.L.I.S, to ease us back into the depth of sound we come to expect from the London duo. Download this track FREE here.

Previous posts on Obba Supa.

Obba Supa: Chakra Sounds . MySpace

~peacelove

2Sep/100

NEWS: The Vinyl Exchange (London)

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A dope vinyl venue for crate diggers and vinyl lovers a like...unfortunately I can't make it this time. Thanks to Martin for sending this through.

About:

"If your unaware of the Vinyl exchange, the idea behind it is a couple djs, a couple producers and a record shop bring down a crate of records they are up for swapping and get set-up with a little table and people can come in with their own records they would like to swap/sell have a chat with said dj or producer go through what's in their crates and swap/sell records with the dj/producer and also with other people who came to the event to do the same and so on.

Gonna have Evil ED and Sensei.FM djs spinning throughout the day and performances from Tranquill (One handed music) Fae Simons (Good Girls rarely make history) and Madame Peppa (Spredluv / Chakra sound) to wrap things up."

Contact details can be found on the flyer image above.

•J•

25Aug/100

AUDIO: Obba Supa – Audio Alchemy Snippet

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Snippet from Obba Supa's forthcoming album "Audio Alchemy", released September 10th on Project Mooncircle. This is one release you won't want to miss.

Also, check out their current killer, "Too Far Gone/Beaks On Faces", released under the group's own label Chakra Sounds..

~peacelove

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