Q&As with the movers and the shakers, and articles on some damn cool topics!
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Heavy Metal - Youngblood Brass Band
Sometimes Ledging It means living life in the fast lane! At 8:26 on a Sunday night in early May I called my friend Pablo N from the traffic lights at the junction of the Harrow Road with the Great Western Road...
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Movin' On Up - Ty
Ty has been a successful MC for over a decade but his most recent album, Upwards,
has seen him truly spreading his wings to create an unmistakably individual and mature
sound. We talked to him before his recent show...
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Future Philly Funk - Vikter Duplaix
The evolution of Vikter Duplaix’s music creativity has gained him a wider
following than even he envisioned. And, at last, all his amazing future sounds
that had us clamouring for the dancefloors are tracklisted on one album:
Singles...
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Soulmates - Lizz Fields and Eric Roberson
Lizz Fields began selling CDRs of her bydaybynight album from her day job in a Brooklyn
furniture store and, before she knew it, was filling out orders for distributors all over
the world. Eric Roberson is an established songwriter whose past...
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Supa/Nova - Simone Serritella
Italian DJ/Producer Simone Serritella (Big Bang, Cuica) has been immersed in London’s
underground jazz-fusion scene for longer than he cares to remember. He runs the
excellente Arision label...
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Reflection Eternal - Kendra Ross
A firm part of the NYC soul underground, Kendra not only owns a soft and
mellifluous set of vocals but also writes high quality material and is in constant
demand for her songwriting skills. A longtime collaborator of NYC hip hop artist
Talib Kweli...
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Sao Paulo Sorcery - Drumagick
Drumagick have been keeping up a steady and very strong stream of
releases over the past couple of years, including last year's smash Jorge
Ben cover Easyboom, and the quality is sure to continue with their
upcoming album Checkmate!...
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Real Love - Deal Real Record Store
The Deal Real Record Store is a hip hop cultural epicentre, emitting serious art-form frequencies from London's West End. We hooked up with
three of the four owners to chat about intimate in-store performances from the likes of Mos Def...
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Universal Chromatic - John Beltran
Lancing, Michigan native John Beltran is set to release his sixth album in February, and
it'll be his second on the Ubiquity label. First coming to prominence on Carl Craig's
Retroactive imprint, his earlier works...
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Blacq Gold Of The Sun - the music of Xantoné Blacq
Twenty-nine year old Xan Blacq has but one solo release to his name, Search For The
Sun, out on Vinyl Junkies and also available on the Be Arisionable
compilation. It's a lush piece of downtempo soul-jazz that soars and lifts you...
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