It gives me great pleasure to be back posting after a hectic month of work. Expect much more regular content moving forward, starting with today’s post from Los Angeles DJ/Producer Presto. His early 12″ instrumentals were a staple of my older downtempo and hip-hop sets, so it’s fantastic to be able to bring you word [...]

 

 Presto :: "Higher" featuring Mhax Montes: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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The prolific Guillermo Scott Heren, man of many pseudonyms, is back with yet another release under his most noteworthy guise, Prefuse 73. One of the forefathers of the glitch-hop sound — an abstract, mostly instrumental and regularly angular take on hip-hop’s standard 4/4 — Prefuse builds upon an already stellar body of solid experimentalism with [...]

 

 Prefuse 73 :: "Beaten Thursday" : Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Thanks to Bastard Jazz’s head-honcho DJ DRM for this inaugural 2007 Summer jam alert! You may already know about New York via Toronto producer Marco Polo, but for those not yet familiar — and fans of golden-era mid-90s hip-hop — do not miss out on the automatic BBQ bangers on his new LP for Rawkus, [...]

 

 Marco Polo f. Masta Ace :: "Nostalgia": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Big apologies for not posting but the day job is getting the best of me right now. But good shit has been piling up and I have a large stack of some incredible music, first and foremost some new stuff from one of our favorites Joe Beats (aka Joey Beats), of Non-Prophets fame and currently [...]

 

 Joe Beats :: "Me Talk Pretty": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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I’ve read quite a lot about the Thisish crew before this post because I’m always curious how an often myopic hip-hop media approaches eclectic production. The truth is that for all his success, a celebrated producer such as Timbaland for example, who is often showered with deserving albeit hyperbolic compliments, isn’t really that forward-thinking or [...]

 

 Thisish :: : Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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For music lovers, we often can pinpoint a particular person or moment that set off the chain of events leading to obsession. One such point in my life was a semester overseas in ‘96 to London, where I met some equally insane maniacs who also loved weed, beer and music as much as I. Before [...]

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Scissorkick digs in the crates for this gem of a hip-hop tune. Since LCD Soundsystem recently did a Nike-commisioned iPod workout mix (which is actually really good), I figured it may be time to go back to another sick Nike-comissioned record. My friend Matt has been pushing me to post this for years and finally [...]

 

 RZA :: : Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Okay, because of my usual slacker ways, I’ve missed the window to recount my excellent Touch & Go adventures and need to get back to the new music because there is just too much good shit in the queue right now.
Today’s post is at first an odd pairing. The Same Channel teams two unlikely foes [...]

 

 Fat Jon & Styrofoam :: "Acid Rain Robot Repair": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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