northern comfort

This is quite cute. Could be a little bit tighter, but hey. I saw this book ages ago too and now I want it even more. From here.
ABC 3D - Marion Bataille from Curtis James on Vimeo.

Have a listen to this Japanese group mama!milk. Really beautiful, soundtrack-y, jazz-y, experimental accordion playing loveliness; the best new thing I’ve heard in a while I think. You can buy their LP directly from them, it’s not available yet outside Japan. I’d recommend you do so, immediately.

Hey yo.
The brand spanking new Mr Scruff LP was released yesterday, though if you weren’t paying attention it may have sneaked past you like a sneaky thing on a sneaky day.
Six years after the release of Trouser Jazz, NINJA TUNA, featuring Roots Manuva, Quantic, Alice Russell and others has been kept a secret from nearly [...]

Video from the Scruff urchin - fruit take over Stockport!

Here’s the new video from one of the best voices in rap.

The return if DOOM on Jake-one’s forthcoming LP on Rhymesayers.

I like that shit.

I have just got back from NYC. Tired mother. So very tired.
This music is helping.

Fuck this is a good tune. Bass line!

Great post from musicthinktank on the futility of flogging music. So many good quotes, but here’s one from the end.
Yes, your music might conceivably have been stolen, but there are no police. So get used to it. And now you’re freed of this burden, pursue all the other things that you want from being in [...]

I love Madlib, like a small child who’s my own age and brilliant and in a different country. Not sure how that works.
When you’re making music, it’s tempting to buy the illest, smoothest, most hi-tech machinery; have the best studio, the fattest monitors, etc, etc. And if you don’t have them, you use that [...]

Here’s a preview of 88 keys’ new album out on Decon records.
“The album forms a narrative outlinging (sic) one man’s struggle with relationships, the most universal of all themes”
Though with tracks like ‘Viagra’ (where Kanye manages to rhyme Viagra with niagara and Jaguar) a track bemoaning a women complaining about her man not being able [...]

The 45 King cuts it up with some classic breaks 45s and 2 portable decks.