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Showing posts with label Hieroglyphics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hieroglyphics. Show all posts
Friday, 9 October 2009
Tuesday, 30 December 2008
Chops and Mountain Brothers
This holiday I checked out 'Triple Crown' by Mountain Brothers. It's a pretty good album from a group considered to be "cultural pioneers, being one of the first Asian American hip-hop groups, and also for the lack of sampling of other music in construction of their own." Since 2003 the producer of the group, Chops, has gone on to make a name for himself in the Hip Hop scene. He produced three tracks on ODB's posthumous release 'Osirus' and has produced for Hiero, Grand Agent, Princess Superstar (!), Panda One, Bun B (which featured Lil' Wayne), Young Jeezy, Chamillionaire and Keak Da Sneak. Forthcoming production work will feature E-40 and Paul Wall.
Those who have been keeping up with the British Hip Hop scene (ie those who buy CDs and read the liner notes) will have noticed that Chops also produced 'Stereo', a track on Sway's 'The Signature LP'. His current sound is that typical dirty south sound whereas the Mountain Brothers stuff is more straight up Hip Hop.
Check these Chops productions out:
And if you want more (as opposed to war), check back soon, I'll up some more Chops productions.
Thursday, 28 August 2008
Opio Video
Cool video and track from Opio, 'Some Superfly Sh!t', taken from his new album 'Vulture Wisdom Vol. 1'. Remember this is the man behind Hieroglyphics and Souls of Mischief!
Tuesday, 2 October 2007
Collected and Collated
I haven’t done post like this in a while and there are some tunes I just want to put on here for your evaluation; you never know, you might find a new favourite song.
Download the collected and collated collection here
First up; some Chali 2na related stuff: I found this remix yesterday of Z-Trip’s ‘Mass Hysteria’ featuring Chali on sideload yesterday, it’s pretty cool so have a listen. Also Aceyalone’s (pronounced A C alone) latest ‘Eazy’ also features 2na and that’s cool too.
The other week I went to see ‘Superbad’ and although I didn’t think it was that amazing, it did have some very funny parts. It also featured The Coup’s ‘My Favourite Mutiny’ which is a favourite of mine and is available for free download at their website along with ‘We are the Ones’, both off their ‘Pick a Bigger Weapon’ album…some legally free music for you.
Whilst we’re on the subject of free and legal music Kid Acne from Sheffield, Yorkshire has made his ‘South Yorks’ track free to download when you join his mailing list. And check this out: In the highly esteemed HHC Richard Watson wrote this: “A self-explanatory Boogie Down Productions classic takes a Lancashire detour on ‘South Yorks’”. NO! It doesn’t take a Lancashire detour, South Yorks means South YORKSHIRE, dumbo, two entirely different counties. How stupid can you be?
That tune by Kid Acne is almost a cover song and on my astral wanderings through the blogosphere I found this Klaxons cover of No Diggity. It’s brilliant but I wish they had sung the rap too.
Jay-Z is apparently bringing us a new album; his first concept album entitled ‘American Gangster’. It sounds entirely original and is something to do with a film. Has he not got enough money and enough pies for his fingers? Anyway the track ‘Blue Magic’ is worth a listen. Thanks to whoever blogged this in the first place.
Have you heard of Hieroglyphics? No…not that ancient writing from Egypt but the Hip Hop crew. They’ve been around for a while and make some classic boom to the bap Hip Hop with samples and everything. Their track ‘Classic’ samples a well known classical piece of music (although I don’t know what it is but I do recognise it) and you need to listen to the end of the track that comes before it on the album ‘Full Circle’, you’ll know why when you do.
Here’s a bit of a classic track; the track that really made people sit up and take notice of 50 Cent. ‘How to Rob’ basically goes through all the big rappers and how 50 would rob them, good eh?! This is a bit of a taster of something I think I’m going to do to follow up the hugely popular Top 100 Rap Singles. It could possibly be called something like modern classics and will include all those Wu-Tang joints and big tracks from the 90’s, ya know the sort.
My man over at Eclectic Hermit did a bare funny post about the Mysterons so you should go there after listening to this to read it and to download some more goodies. Here’s ‘Moving Coils’ to whet your appetite for instrumental Hip Hop in the vein of RJD2 and Aim.
Last one: (and thanks to ‘Put Ya Boots On’ for this) Demon Boys’ ‘Glimity Glamity’ is a classic piece of UK Hip Hop, I prefer this track to the Hijack and Hardnoise stuff and it’s got that classic Hip Hop dance-ability about it.
First up; some Chali 2na related stuff: I found this remix yesterday of Z-Trip’s ‘Mass Hysteria’ featuring Chali on sideload yesterday, it’s pretty cool so have a listen. Also Aceyalone’s (pronounced A C alone) latest ‘Eazy’ also features 2na and that’s cool too.
The other week I went to see ‘Superbad’ and although I didn’t think it was that amazing, it did have some very funny parts. It also featured The Coup’s ‘My Favourite Mutiny’ which is a favourite of mine and is available for free download at their website along with ‘We are the Ones’, both off their ‘Pick a Bigger Weapon’ album…some legally free music for you.
Whilst we’re on the subject of free and legal music Kid Acne from Sheffield, Yorkshire has made his ‘South Yorks’ track free to download when you join his mailing list. And check this out: In the highly esteemed HHC Richard Watson wrote this: “A self-explanatory Boogie Down Productions classic takes a Lancashire detour on ‘South Yorks’”. NO! It doesn’t take a Lancashire detour, South Yorks means South YORKSHIRE, dumbo, two entirely different counties. How stupid can you be?
That tune by Kid Acne is almost a cover song and on my astral wanderings through the blogosphere I found this Klaxons cover of No Diggity. It’s brilliant but I wish they had sung the rap too.
Jay-Z is apparently bringing us a new album; his first concept album entitled ‘American Gangster’. It sounds entirely original and is something to do with a film. Has he not got enough money and enough pies for his fingers? Anyway the track ‘Blue Magic’ is worth a listen. Thanks to whoever blogged this in the first place.
Have you heard of Hieroglyphics? No…not that ancient writing from Egypt but the Hip Hop crew. They’ve been around for a while and make some classic boom to the bap Hip Hop with samples and everything. Their track ‘Classic’ samples a well known classical piece of music (although I don’t know what it is but I do recognise it) and you need to listen to the end of the track that comes before it on the album ‘Full Circle’, you’ll know why when you do.
Here’s a bit of a classic track; the track that really made people sit up and take notice of 50 Cent. ‘How to Rob’ basically goes through all the big rappers and how 50 would rob them, good eh?! This is a bit of a taster of something I think I’m going to do to follow up the hugely popular Top 100 Rap Singles. It could possibly be called something like modern classics and will include all those Wu-Tang joints and big tracks from the 90’s, ya know the sort.
My man over at Eclectic Hermit did a bare funny post about the Mysterons so you should go there after listening to this to read it and to download some more goodies. Here’s ‘Moving Coils’ to whet your appetite for instrumental Hip Hop in the vein of RJD2 and Aim.
Last one: (and thanks to ‘Put Ya Boots On’ for this) Demon Boys’ ‘Glimity Glamity’ is a classic piece of UK Hip Hop, I prefer this track to the Hijack and Hardnoise stuff and it’s got that classic Hip Hop dance-ability about it.
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