ClashMusic DJ Mix Podcast - The Herbaliser
Hip hop and funk giants The Herbaliser serve up an epic, career-spanning selection of beats and rhymes for the latest Clash DJ podcast.
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Hip hop and funk giants The Herbaliser serve up an epic, career-spanning selection of beats and rhymes for the latest Clash DJ podcast.
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Age can be a deceiving thing, particularly in hip-hop. 16-year-old New York rapper Bishop Nehru is part of a new wave of young East Coast rappers who are rejected the ultra aggressive maximalist style of contemporary rap sounds like trap in favour of something sweeter, more soulful and old school.
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This brings me back to my teen years, scary how time flys by so quickly and yet we are still listening to the same tunes and trying to find ways to give them a little modern flavor without destroying the magic taste that it already possesses.
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Ever-provocative hip-hop producer and frequently shapeshifting electronic musician, MF DOOM is set to re-release a classic album under his King Geedorah moniker.
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Continuing in the time honoured tradition of combining a capellas from famous rappers over either original or concept beats (I like to call these projects 'reverse mixtapes') - think The Grey Album , Nastradoomus , Vinyl Fantasy VII or Eminelton - Grip Grand , whom Allmusic describe as "a West Coast underground rapper/producer with a self-deprecating sense of humor" gives us a mash up of DOOM vocals over some smooth, originally produced Stones Throw-esq instrumentals on his new seven track EP GG Doom!
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His ascent was one of the most annoying things to happen to rap music in recent years, but the goonish Pittsburgh weed-rapper Mac Miller has lately been threatening to become interesting.
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This month's edition features Suhnraw, Bill Ding, Ghost Noises, A/V, Felly and Chance The Rapper.
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In the mystery-o-meter rankings, with well over a decade of experimental and provocative electronica to their name, The Knife have long since occupied a spot alongside enigmatic and unconventional musicians and producers such as MF Doom, Daft Punk and Aphex Twin. Summarising the Swedish duo's output beyond that description is a little tougher.
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Bishop Nehru has posted his new track 'Elder Blossoms' online.
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Lilacs & Champagne , the hip-hop influenced project featuring members of Om/Grails/Holy Sons, have released another commercial for Danish & Blue , the band's new album due via Mexican Summer on April 23.
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International neo-soul freaknik The Child of Lov is brining out some big names for his debut album.
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If you didn't notice already, hip hop has gotten weird.
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Off all Wu Tang Clan's splinters, Ghostface Killah perhaps retains the most bite.
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If the six years since Donuts was released has taught us anything, it's that a great album can be a sort of open-ended puzzle that can be solved from multiple angles.
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This week, we've got new tracks from Marcus Intalex's alter-ego, a Jean Michel Jarre-curated comp, and some old(er)-school hip-hop from the metal-faced legend in On Rotation, which compiles our expert team of merchandisers' and editors' favorite picks of the week.
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Lurking in the black hole of the Internet, behind the thousands of legitimate label releases dominating the charts, are the mixtapes.
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It seems Christmas has come a few days early as a new MF DOOM track has popped out of nowhere*.
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Yes, "Hot Cheetos & Takis" is a real song by children about two different spicy snacks that aren't available in all markets.
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As much as Azealia Banks's Twitter is the worst thing on the internet and the blogosphere's obsession with her Twitter is the second worst thing on the internet, the inconvenient truth is that Banks made some of the most compelling music of 2012.
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For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2012, leading up to our 2012 Top Album Countdown , as voted on by our listeners!
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Last year in the U.K., Carol Morley released Dreams Of A Life , a documentary about a woman who died in her North London apartment and was not found for three years.
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Several metric tons of great music passed through my ears but somehow I managed to remember almost none of it.
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Dark Time Sunshine, comprising of Onry Ozzborn and producer Zavala, definitely released one of the most surprising hip-hop albums of the year in ANX.
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It's time again for us to look back over a year's worth of music - meaning, for me, it's time to think of some way to make sense of a year's worth of rap records.
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On my way to meet DELS on Bethnal Green Road, I stumble upon a shop selling beds called 'Happy Nightmares'.
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During the late 90s and early 00s, common sense and chart placement led you to believe that DMX, Ja Rule, Jay-Z and Eminem would eventually spawn a thousand rappers mimicking their vocal quirks and rhyme schemes.
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As 2012 preps its best of the year runners and riders, it's been all eyes on Kendrick Lamar's 'Good Kid M.A.A.D. City' since we last spoke.
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With a musical history deeply rooted in jazz, hip hop and electronica, Flying Lotus, real name Steven Ellison, is widely considered to be one of the most forward thinking producers in electronic music today.
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Since its formation in 1996, Stones Throw Records has exposed the world to a left-of-center form of hip-hop with records from MF Doom, Madvillain, J. Dilla, and Mayer Hawthorne.
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More than 17 years after The Herbaliser's debut long player, Remedies, was unleashed, Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba return with their seventh (the clue's in the title) studio album.
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September's collection of mixtapes and videos confirm that the new kids have been digging through 20-year-old records and are being blown away by the distinctive early 90s sounds of hip hop.
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The following collection of videos recorded in December of 1990 at an Elektra Records showcase is absolutely indispensable for any fan of classic hip-hop.
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Most things in hip-hop can be taken care of in the studio, but true credibility is something that must be earned over time.
Read MoreThe monotonous ravaging of heavy machinery, looping dizzyingly over and over, engages Alex Hungtai's muffled shouts in dance as Dirty Beaches' Badlands begins.
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It's been a month that's seen the shocking death of Chris Lighty , LL Cool J doing what's known as a Duncan Ferguson and beating seven bells out of would-be burglars to his property, and MF Doom doing what's known as a Mark Morrison and sending in a stunt double to do his masked villainy for him.
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To me, Madvillain (MF DOOM and Madlib) is one of the best pairings in hip-hop history, almost up there with Jay and 'Ye. And America's Most Blunted from their classic 2004 album, Madvillainy, crystallizes everything the two represent: musically unpredictable, ganja-fueled lunacy.
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Musicians seem to line themselves up to support President Obama these days ( we're looking at you, the National ), but this is a democracy, so everybody isn't required to.
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Key to the Kuffs is the debut album from JJ DOOM , the collaborative project from producer Jneiro Jarel and masked rapper DOOM (formerly MF DOOM).
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