LISTED REVIEWS
Portland’s Jumbo –producer/MC- and Vursatyl – MC and a pretty damn good one- are back with their second release 'Gutterfly: The Original Soundtrack', inspired on a movie by Baraka Feldman, that actually never got finished. A conceptual album that tells the adventures of Bumpy Johnson (Vursatyl), Sleepy Floyd (Jumbo) and Jimmy Slimwater (DJ Rev Shines), roaming through Razorblade City.
POSTED 04|24|2007
Aiming for the title of one of the best instrumental releases of 2007 is Thes One's newest effort 'Lifestyle Marketing'. If not the best, than it’s most definitely one of the most creative ones with an almost cynical approach of turning commercial tunes into underground hip-hop.
POSTED 04|17|2007
With this solid EP, which is really a collabo between rapper Lloyd and producer E Tha Grant, the NY rapper will regain the attention of rap fans, that’s for sure.
POSTED 04|13|2007
With The Snowgoons finally signed to the leading Babygrande, it was only a matter of using the label's roster and extensive contacts to coat the project with such an impressive and elitist line-up.
POSTED 04|01|2007
DT and Amdex grew up in the nineties era and started makin music in the last years of the previous millennium, that tells. Their musical background is hard to not recognize but they still have moulded it into a personal style that holds different influences from all kinds of scenes and artists.
POSTED 02|14|2007
'Work is love made visible', we read on Teodros' Myspace page, a quote (by Khalil Gibran) that emphasizes the underlying idea of the album's concept. An album made with love for music, his African peoples and women.
POSTED 02|14|2007
X-Clan has taken their discography a step forward and adjusted their music well to this day and age. And Brother J…well, he’s still one of the tightest MC’s around and hasn’t lost anything from his revolutionary acts. Vanglorious!
POSTED 01|20|2007
With four albums behind his name already, Busdriver has been able to overwhelm us with a creativity and an open mindness rarely seen in hip-hop, especially the last few albums.
POSTED 01|11|2007
The tracks follow each other rapidly and are blended nicely into a dynamic whole, further uplifting your listening pleasure, ànd completed with high-quality turntable intermissions by Belgium's finest DJ Grazzhoppa, Mixmonster Menno and of course Iron himself.
POSTED 01|04|2007
2006 was quite the year for Lightheaded’s Braille. His brand new label Hiphop IS Music was definitely one of the tastemakers with releases such as Sivion’s 'Spring Of The Songbird' and Surreal & DJ Balance’s 'Future Classic', he moved into a new house ànd welcomed his first-born to the world.
POSTED 01|04|2007from the vaults
