Showing posts with label Z-trip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Z-trip. Show all posts

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.

Thursday, 13 September 2007

What Come Around (Go Around, Kid) #2

At number 10 we branched and the first option for the tenth track was N.O.R.E and Kanye West with ‘Ima Get You’. In 10 tracks we’ll cross the pond to London, take the seacat to the land of frogs legs and snails and then hop right back to Rodney P.

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11. Kanye West had a big hit with the Shirley Bassey sampling ‘Diamonds (from Sierra
Leone)’, a bigger hit for me is the remix with Jay-Z…”Yup, I got it it from here
‘Ye”.

12. On what was supposedly Jay-Z’s departing album a different producer was
drafted in for each track. One of these was the most reliable 9th Wonder who
produced the excellent ‘Threat’.

13. 9th Wonder got together with Murs to make the underground smash – Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition. Pick of the bunch is title track ‘3:16’.

14. Murs, who seems to tirelessly put out music, featured on the Z-Trip produced ode to cartoons and cereal ‘Breakfast Club’ with Supernatural.

15. Z-Trip gave us ‘Something Different’ by getting Chali 2na, Keno-1 and The Hermit to guest on the same track.

16. Chali 2na, who seems to have his fingers liberally dipped in a few pies at the moment, features alongside Roots Manuva on the lyrically awesome ‘Join the Dots’.

17. Roots Manuva took a trip to France to join Saian Supa Crew on their international version of ‘X-Raisons’, this genius manoeuvre (sorry) resulted in ‘Hey Yo My Man’.

18. Saian Supa Crew featured on a remix of Mark B & Blade’s ‘The Unknown’.

19. Mark B & Blade did alright for themselves and UK Hip Hop in general when they released the album ‘The Unknown’, guess who featured on ‘We Stay Rough’? Yup, Rodney P.

20. Finally, the 20th track, from Rodney’s ‘The Future’ full length is ‘I Believe’ featuring Olivia Chaney.

Whadya think ‘o that then? I reckon you could do that with most semi known artists, have a go yourself.

Thursday, 5 April 2007

Mass Hysteria


Z trip - Mass Hysteria

OK Tom, here's the track.
Chali 2na on Lateef the truth speaker and Z trips 'Mass Hysteria'. A dark dark beat, ominous in fact; with the most unfitting but haunting female vocal on the chorus. How do these MC's ride this beat so cooly? Wow!

TTC - Dans le club

Have this too whilst I'm at it. French electro mentalists TTC are in the club and it's big and dirty and quite french.

Macromantics - Madlymantics

Macromantics brings it heavy with this stuttered string sample, plein de scratching and a female rapper (I think from Oz), listen to that bass drop, lovely for your sub woofer. Check her out on www.macromantics.com

Booka Shade - In white rooms (neo mix)

And finally something more along the lines of Eclectic Hermit is this lovely slice of constantly building electro music. That vocal threatens throughout and never blossoms but the bleepy harmonies suffice and you might find yourself doing a little dance with your hands.
Thanks to Bec for the photo of the John Peel 'memurial' in Brighton.