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Posts Tagged ‘ Bloom Bap ’

Itchie’s Pick of the Week: Two new 7″ releases from Chicago’s own Tall Black Guy

  • November 9th, 2011
  • Posted in New . REVIEWS
  • By itch13

I first started hearing about Tall Black Guy when All Natural Inc. was throwing the Dance To the Drummer’s DB beat battles at Sonotheque in the middle 00′s. I’d heard he was a beast, but it wasn’t until he dropped off his group The Eighties Babies (with D. Jackson) debut full length at Gramaphone that [ READ MORE ]

Just In! Glaswegian beatsmith Rustie’s long awaited full length “Glass Swords” on Warp

  • October 5th, 2011
  • Posted in New . REVIEWS
  • By itch13

Rustie is small.  Very, very small.  His sound is huge, though.  Deep bass, frantic drum programming, huge sliding synth lines, disembodied R&B vocal samples.  Check out some of his other work like “Cafe de Phresh”, an EP he did with the US’s 215 The Freshest Kids (comprised of Cerebral Vortex & Buddy Leezle).  He’s remixed [ READ MORE ]

Fieldwerk delivers fresh, limited, avant-garde boom bap instrumentals on limited colored vinyl

  • October 5th, 2011
  • Posted in New . REVIEWS
  • By itch13

It’s taken a bit of work, but we finally got the two newest releases from Chicago’s forward thinking instrumental hip-hop label Fieldwerk. Maker (who’s done extensive work with Qwel on Chicago’s Galapagos 4 label) & Joe Beats ( of Non-Prophets, with Sage Francis) team up for the split LP “Falcon by Design”, each submitting 4 [ READ MORE ]

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