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Guest Mix: Thijsenterprise – Between Beats & Jazz

byDanny Veekens
Posted on December 5, 2018December 7, 2018

Last month, Dutch producer Thijsenterprise (now residing in Barcelona) impressed us with his Dilla-influenced album Stepbacks & Setbacks: a well-crafted homage to ‘Donuts’, and on the B-side putting personal heartbreak…

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A Jazz Big Band Tribute to Madvillain by Abstract Orchestra (+Free Download)

byDanny Veekens
Posted on October 17, 2018October 17, 2018

Led by saxophonist Rob Mitchell, Abstract Orchestra has been saluting hip-hop since last year’s Dilla album: an orchestral tribute to reflect the diversity of sampling by hip-hop producers, framing the complexity of jazz…

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Grooves & Samples #42: Bernie Worrell – All the Woo in the World (1978)

byMartin Boev
Posted on April 25, 2018April 25, 2018

Grooves & Samples offers a dive into old crates of jazz, funk & soul, to find more music through hip hop. Few keyboardists have been as influential and central to the…

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Grooves & Samples #41: Brenda Russell – If Only For One Night (1979)

byMartin Boev
Posted on January 17, 2018January 17, 2018

Grooves & Samples offers a dive into old crates of jazz, funk, soul and beyond, in order to find more music through hip hop. Brenda Russell was born in Brooklyn,…

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Listen: Medline – Undercover

byDanny Veekens
Posted on January 3, 2018January 3, 2018

Undercover is an on-going project by French producer and multi-instrumentalist Medline, which kicked off last summer: interpretations of jazz, funk, library music and other rare grooves, as sampled by numerous hip hop…

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Grooves & Samples #40: Walter ‘Junie’ Morrison – Suzie Super Groupie (1976)

byMartin Boev
Posted on December 9, 2017December 9, 2017

Grooves & Samples offers a dive into old crates of jazz, funk, soul and beyond, in order to find more music through hip hop. Born in 1954, Walter “Junie” Morrison…

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Listen: MED, Blu & Madlib – The Turn Up EP

byJason
Posted on November 18, 2017November 18, 2017

Yesterday was a good day. New music by Talib Kweli, Evidence, BudaMunk, Lone Catalysts—all gathered here, for your listening pleasure. And then there’s also The Turn Up, a new EP…

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Declaime & Blu are “Internally Yours”

byDanny Veekens
Posted on July 27, 2017August 3, 2017

One of them has given you flowers while you could still smell them, the other one has given you Flowers over a Madlib beat: Blu and Dudley Perkins (a.k.a. Declaime), respectively.…

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Nas & Quasimoto are ‘Nasimoto’, by D. Begun

byDanny Veekens
Posted on May 9, 2017May 9, 2017

Mashup albums are usually more misses rather than hits. But every now and then we find an exception–with the work of Amerigo Gazaway for Gummy Soul being a prime example. Nasimoto by…

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Stay Hungry Vol. 1 (The Find Podcast)

byDanny Veekens
Posted on March 3, 2016November 18, 2017

Yes yes! After bringing you the sounds of Stay Thirsty for over 4 years now (don’t worry, Kamir is still working on new editions in between taking over the world…