For those of you who are fans of the esteemable DJ Shadow, he’s just released a new EP, titled I gotta Rokk. It’s available from his website. It’s only three tracks (plus a few remixes of them), and I can’t say that I love two of the three tracks all that much. That being said, the track I’m Trying is a nice little change for DJ Shadow. It reminds me a bit of RJD2’s The Third Hand album, which was a little more laid back and way less hip hop.
The 20th anniversary of Black on Both Sides has been getting a lot of attention on social media. And it’s clear why: the album is a legit classic. When it dropped in 1999, Black on Both Sides was heralded as a rallying cry for intelligent hip-hop, a strike back against the genre’s capitulation to profit […]
Medhane and Deem Spencer complement each other nicely on this new track, “Voyager,” which is built on fuzzy, reverberating synths and thumping kicks, the whole effect dream-like and meditative. You can listen on Youtube but there’s a higher quality version on Spotify. Photo credit: Ade Sayeed
It’s been a minute since I’ve contributed to this site, so it seems fitting that my first post in over year is about the new Gang Starr track, “Family and Loyalty,” featuring J. Cole. The group’s first new music since 2003’s The Ownerz, the song was dropped as a surprise after DJ Premier teased the […]
agreed – the video for I Gotta Rokk is kind of cool, but I’m definitely not digging the song. This track, though, is nice. I love the laid back vibe