northern comfort

Mr. B (no not that one) brings you a history of 30 years of hip hop in 5 minutes. Whilst playing the banjolele, hes calling it ‘chap-hop’.

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Ey up.
I’ve a really great mix for you here for a Monday, from our local purveyor of fine musical blogging, Widdy on the Web. He’s been kind enough to send one over and it’s a really nice mix of hip-hop, soul and funk, amongst other things; loving the funk workout at ...read more →

We’ve had these lot on here before, they’re ace. Check out this – back to big sampled loops, that’s the way to do hiphop. Nice Baby Huey break.

The Utrecht record fair happens a few times a year, and I’ve wanted to go for ages. So Sad Eagle and I have booked in to go in a couple of weeks time – there are over 500 dealers at this fair, and about 60k+ people visit each year. As Jon Savage says in his ...read more →

Well as the year ends I thought it only prudent and ethically sound to post a mix for anyone to download. 
It has been a good year. I mean if you ignore the wars, diseases,  the collaspe of capitalism and other stuff I have generally tried to pretend didn’t happen, it was a beauty. Right up ...read more →