Awon & Phoniks return with the first single “Summer Madness” off their upcoming LP ‘Knowledge Of Self’ set to release early autumn 2015. The song focuses on black on black violence in urban communities as well as racially geared violence and mistreatment of youth by law enforcement. Awon speaks lyrically on incidents from his past and appeals to his community to hold themselves accountable for their actions, at the same time cautioning his listeners to the danger of violence at the hands of police. Phoniks sets the backdrop to his testimony with a combination of jazzy rhodes piano and boom-bap drums, while smooth saxophone samples weave themselves in and out of the composition.
Irish rapper Danny Diatribes releases his 2nd album ‘Elevation Illustrations’. Diatribe has teamed up with the prolific UK DJ/Producer Pro. P to bring you this hard hitting Hip Hop LP featuring a whole host of Manchester’s rising stars in the UK Hip Hop scene, such as: D’Lyfa Reilly, Black Josh, Dubbul O, The Bluntskins, Tony Skank, Legion, the legendary Herrotics crew and special guest production from Aver of the Manchester super group TNC.
Diatribe has been representing on the Manchester scene and Pro P who we feature often here at HHLAT has been tipped as one of the top 10 UK hip hop producers to look out for in 2015 by the highly influencial UKHH.COM. The production, subject matter and word play vary through the album from the ‘soulfully hypnotic’ philosophical track ‘Encounter Philosophical’, to rhymes that articulate alcoholism and Manchester life from an Irish immigrants perspective on the tracks ‘Paddys Cure’, ‘South Manchester’ and the Aver produced ‘Ten Green bottles’. There is also a light hearted and highly lyrical theme running through the album on tracks like ‘Magnum Opus’ and ‘The Fractal Mind of Diatribe,’ political distopia in tracks ‘The Void’ featuring Tony Skank and ‘Bun the System’ featuring Black josh (The Mouse Outfit) and The Bluntskins, and an ode to women in ‘Roses’ featuring Irish Rapper Wile Man.
Diatribe and Pro. P will be bringing their ELEVATION ILLUSTRATIONS showcase to the stage in 2015 and have the album available to buy on Bandcamp below, the release is brought to you by prolific Manchester label Room 2 Records who are fast becoming one of the labels to lookout for in the UK.
Check out Delegate Of Rhymes latest collaboration, this time with the talented Birmingham based wordsmith Kinnie Daley. Featuring production from Vice and vocals from Donnie Numeric this heartfelt and poignant track is yet another Collab between the 3 cities (Bristol, Birmingham, London).
Be sure to check the rest of this EP out here too…..
Dope Track from Manchester, UK rapper Plain David featuring the lyrical talents of Skrabl and Portsmouth emcee Spitfire as they lay down the fire on Bristol producer Hozay’s head nodding beat, and finished off with Jabbathakut adding his customary dope cuts. The track is from The Feature EP, due to release on 12 December 2015.
Millennium Jazz Music & HHV.DE presents The Vault – the best of the Jazz Jousters. The good people over at MJM have taken the biggest and most favourite tracks from their Jousters archive and remastered them for both double vinyl and long playing cassette tape.
With over an hour of music made up from 25 of the most sought after Jazz Jousters tracks, we continue to celebrate three years of the collective’s existence since June 2012. The Vault LP is being pressed to vinyl and recorded to tape at this very moment and will be available very soon.
In the meantime you can check out their anniversary album ‘Third Pass’ – Three Years of Jousting, which was released at the end of June here
Third Pass is available on a limited Digipak CD and via various digital stores and stream sites. See info at : https://madmimi.com/s/5e5276 :
The homie Gadget over at Millennium Jazz Music said “We would like to thank our partners at hhv.de, and of course all of you supporters out there who have been patiently waiting for a Millennium Jazz project to be released on a record in general. Our first official vinyl project is also in the works and will follow The Vault LP in the coming months, thanks to the supporters of our international Locations cassette series.”
MJM090 / HHV415: The Vault – the best of the Jazz Jousters
Compiled and digitally mastered by Gadget at the Audio Dojo
Vinyl and Cassette mastering by HHV.DE
All artwork by James Greenway
Teaser video produced and edited by Fred Depaps
Additional visuals (the vault scene) by James Greenway.
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