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The 405 meets Bishop Nehru

- Source: The Four Oh Five

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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Grip Grand releases MF Doom remix album

- Source: The Four Oh Five

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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The Knife - Shaking The Habitual

- Source: The Four Oh Five

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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The 50 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2012 (#25-1)

- Source: Passion of the Weiss

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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Rapture & Verse #17

- Source: ClashMusic.com

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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Q+A: FLYING LOTUS

- Source: Mixmag

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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The Herbaliser - There Were Seven

- Source: BBC Music

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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Rapture & Verse #15

- Source: ClashMusic.com

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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