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Bill Kouligas’ PAN will release the debut album of Honour, Àlà áfÃa. Honour is an anonymous act who previously released two mixtapes on PAN which sold out very quickly. They may or may not have grown up in the United States, making beats with a cousin who sang in a church band; they might have toured […]
Manchester, UK label Sferic has released the debut album of Yungwebster, a rapper based in New York who is influenced by the likes of Travis Scott, Future, and Young Thug. The Yungwebster album features eight tracks recorded over the last couple of years, taking mumble rap and dissolving it into pure ambient syrup. Yungwebster is […]
Lee Gamble will release his new album in October. Across the record, Gamble advances theories that he put forward on his 2012 album, Diversions 1994-1996, when he vaporized interludes from his collection of jungle tapes into ghosted echoes. He surveys musical history in much the same way here, but swerves sampling completely and isn’t in […]
Now here’s a brave and fresh take on The Jungle Brothers’ classic ‘I’ll House You’ from MC Lexx Sequoia, who makes her debut on Planet Hum on the ‘Room EP’. As Hip House fever takes grip on a new generation, Lexx’s sassy rendition is primed for the nu school booty shakin’ massive, its fun and […]
Growing up, Kareem Ali—a native of New York who now lives in Tucson, Arizona—wanted to be a rocket scientist and his first musical love was jazz. He found an early hero in Miles Davis, whose seminal Kind of Blue LP prompted Ali to pick up the trumpet back in middle school. More than a decade […]