Grooves & Samples #29 : Hiroshi Fukumura & Sadao Watanabe – White Clouds (1978)
Grooves & Samples is a weekly dive into old dusty crates of jazz, funk, soul and beyond. Of all countries in the world, Japan could be called a mecca of music. For many years now, Japanese people have had a deep fascination with music of the world, from jazz and Read more »
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Top 30: Driving Songs
Since the invention of the internal combustion engine, personal human transportation has been altered drastically. For us as music enthusiasts, one of the best developments has been simply the addition of in vehicle sound systems. There is nothing quite like the joy of being behind the wheel with an open Read more »
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Grooves & Samples #28: Jacques Loussier – Pulsion (1979)
Jacques Loussier, the ebony-and-ivoried French pianiste and compositeur, has yet to be justly blazed for one time lighting up the break and hip hop scene with that fire and funkstone. Read more »
Interview: The Last Skeptik
As wonderful as the world that we inhabit and the people within it are, both at times can feel intensely perplexing and hard to navigate. In those moments when humanity confuses you, often there is something much easier to understand about art, specifically music, and the way that it reassuringly Read more »
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Grooves & Samples #27: Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Winter In America (1975)
Grooves & Samples is a weekly dive into old dusty crates of jazz, funk, soul and beyond. The legacy of poet and soul/jazz music visionary Gil Scott-Heron is no secret to the hip hop world. His influence and magnificent artistry surpasses the majority of his peers and he remained musically relevant Read more »
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Interview: Blu
Blu, the emcee/producer with, according to himself, "one of the most colorful catalogues" in hip hop. An interview on how an LP represents his life, on his drive to speak up, and on his upcoming record with Bombay, which will be “presented with the same classic approach as 'Below The Read more »
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Interview: Catching Flies
Catching Flies is an enigmatic UK musician whose empyreal beats have enraptured and intrigued the hearts and minds of many around the world. With The Stars EP release and various remixes, his music has come to occupy a distinct area of the beat movement, floating aimlessly in the spaces between artists Read more »
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Grooves & Samples #26: Bo Hansson – Attic Thoughts (1975)
Grooves & Samples is a weekly dive into old dusty crates of jazz, funk, soul and beyond. The latest episode of Fuse TV's Crate Diggers with Adrian Younge put me on to the work of Swedish multi-instrumentalist and composer Bo Hansson. I became instantly enamoured with his music when I Read more »
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Grooves & Samples #25: Lee Moses – Reach Out, I’ll Be There/Day Tripper (1967)
Grooves & Samples is a weekly dive into old dusty crates of jazz, funk, soul and beyond. Within the community of vinyl record enthusiasts, there is a further subculture of collectors who focus primarily on 7" 45rpm records. Since it was a lot cheaper to press 45s, a lot of Read more »
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Grooves & Samples #24: Manfred Hübler & Siegfried Schwab – Necronomania (1971)
Grooves & Samples is a weekly dive into old dusty crates of jazz, funk, soul and beyond. A great source of sample fodder, and groovy music in general, is the realm of film soundtracks. Throughout the 60s and 70s in particular many films were scored by experimenting musicians who combined Read more »
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Top 30: Songs To Make Love To
Essentially the entire purpose of life is to procreate. In addition to being necessary for species proliferation, our form of sexual reproduction is also quite pleasurable. As such, many musicians have made music that is either directly related to the act of sexual intercourse, or can serve to enhance the experience Read more »
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Article: Hip Hop Cinema – Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap (2012)
‘Hip Hop Cinema’ is a series of columns delving into the history of hip hop culture in cinema and television. “This film isn’t about the money, the cars, the jewelry, the girls; this film is about the craft. What it takes to write a rap, what goes on inside the Read more »
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Article: Hip Hop Cinema – Soundtrack For A Revolution (2009)
One would not call Soundtrack for a Revolution a hip hop documentary. As a matter of fact, it contains no beats or breaks, rhymes or licks, or anything reminiscent of modern hip hop music. Yet, one could boldly state that this film examines a part of American history that is Read more »
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Article: Participatory Culture for Producers
Instead of holding onto ideas and conceptions that once were effective before this box called the internet, maybe we should find solutions to help. On numerous occasions I’ve seen beatmakers whose work I admire get into an argument with someone for rapping on their beat. Read more »
Interview: LeftO
Foolishly thinking that it was all mainstream, and that my personal selections would always be infinitely better, I never really used to listen to the radio. That was before I had my ears opened to the world of radio curated by genuine music-heads like LeftO. Read more »
Interview: Georgia Anne Muldrow
Other-worldly in the most natural and organic way – the eccentricity and magnetic energy of Georgia Anne Muldrow is disarmingly real. A true original, Muldrow seems to be navigating on an entirely elevated plane of awareness, and, to be amongst the very few individuals Read more »
Article: L’Orange (Defending Instrumental Hip Hop)
Producer L’Orange has developed an idiosyncratic style far away from regular hip hop and even veering wide of most instrumental releases. His albums are composed of jazz samples, instrumental and vocal, and New School drum sounds. Read more »
Article: The making of ‘Pale Blue Dot’
I think "Pale Blue Dot" has some of that loose, statement based, "flow" that comes specifically with writing without paper near by... However, I did completely destroy my desire to ever hear the actual beat I wrote to again Read more »
News: Record Store Day 2012
April 21st, 2012 is Record Store Day! A chance to head to your local record store and grab some exclusive goodies! But which stores are taking part? Which bands and emcees are putting out exclusives? What is it for? Well hold on there fella, let The Find walk you through Read more »
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After School Special #2: Lord Finesse
On the eve of his “Re-Awakening”, don’t underestimate the Under Boss. Lord Finesse is widely considered one of New York’s most powerful emcees and producers, whose influence resonates within the pulse of countless lyrical masterpieces, helping to shape the sound of a generation. Read more »
Article: Hip Hop Cinema – ‘Urban’ Dance Movies (2001-2012)
Throw a rock in a dvd store and you’ll probably hit an ‘urban’ dance movie. With films like ‘Step Up’ and ‘You Got Served’, break-dancing saw a second popular resurgence in mainstream film. But how should we really feel about this mutated sub-genre which sullies the good name of hip Read more »
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Article: Bittersweet sample usage
As a producer I’m inspired by quite a few notable sample-based albums. But these days there are two big problems in particular facing independent producers that work with many samples. Read more »
Article: Beauty by beatmakers
"Instrumental hip hop sucks. Ban it forever." SF Weekly editor Philip Mlynar doesn’t fear the use of hyperbole to express why his eardrums shiver when he listens to instrumental hip hop. It’s “the banal meandering stepchild of hip hop”; “sample-based Chinese water-torture”. Read more »
Happy Birthday Jun Seba
Today, February 7th, 2012, would be the 38th birthday of Japanese producer Jun Seba a.k.a. Nujabes if he had not tragically passed away in a car accident two years ago. His death was mourned around the world by legions of jazz hop heads who recognize his art as the pinnacle Read more »
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