Posts Tagged ‘ Bloom Bap ’
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]