Q&As with the movers and the shakers, and articles on some damn cool topics!
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Sun City - Eric Roberson
New York has an incredible music history of birthing legends. Every borough has its own tales of musicians who performed on humble stages to gracious crowds. Now there is a new fairy tale in lower Manhattan, where independent artists...
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Maya My - Maya Azucena
Who is Maya Azucena? I set out to answer that for all those music addicts who are more concerned with the overall quality of an artist than sticking to genre-specific clichés. Over green tea in NYC's East Village...
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Download This! June 2005
By it's very nature, the internet is the ideal meeting place for every crazy, freak and obsessive you could ever imagine. Music fans are, of course, no exception and there are plenty of sites where even the most obscure devotee...
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Detroit Production Values - Platinum Pied Pipers
Currently in the middle of their European tour promoting their much anticipated debut album, Triple P, Wajeed and Saadiq, otherwise known as the Platinum Pied Pipers are the freshest duo from da D...
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Download This! May 2005
After months of hyperbole and talking up the implications of the internet and music, I have finally put my money where my mouth is. I have invested in the Rane Serato system and am now officially a 'laptop DJ'....
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Beauty and the Beats - Handsome Boy Modelling School
Hip hop is never without humor – especially in the case of Handsome Boy Modeling School. The product of two quite ridiculous imaginations, it’s a concept with a never-ending punch line. When Dan “The Automator” Nakamura and Prince Paul...
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Watts Riot - Reggie Watts
It seems London and its northerly counterparts – Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester – are really becoming a home-from-home for US artists, who seem to like nothing more than jumping on a Boeing 747 and jetting to the UK...
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Rhythm is Law - Steve Reid
Steve Reid, the legendary drummer, has plans to extend his career. He’s going to do it by bridging the generation gap. “Right now, my generation, who bought this music up and along, is near retirement age...
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Download This! March 2005
News that the Italian government have fined a DJ 1.4 million Euros for having pirated MP3s on his laptop has given pause for thought for those of us embracing new DJ technology...
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Download This! February 2005
Last year I picked a twelve which featured bootlegs of a couple of unreleased tracks. The tracks in question contained samples that had been impossible to clear, so despite the buzz around the music they never saw the light of day...
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Jungle Boogie - Plantlife
Originally, KTL was due to interview Plantlife’s flamboyant front man Jack Splash at the end of November 2004, a few days after their first London show. At the concert Jack was a real livewire, all big hair and sunglasses...
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Assume Nothing: Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Let’s do a quick rewind to the early nineties, the ascent of ‘conscious’ rap into the mainstream and the trio that defined that moment, A Tribe Called Quest. What do you remember? Q-Tip’s cool nasal flow? Phife Dawg piping in...
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Secondary Protocol - Mode 2
Mode 2 is simply one of the most influential graffiti artists there has ever been. A founding member of one of Europe's first serious graffiti crews, the Chrome Angelz, whose paintings had pride of place in Henry Chalfant...
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