Here’s how the High Focus Christmas Party / Jam Baxter ‘… so we at them whole’ album lauch at Brixton Jamm in London went down! The next big event is the High Focus 5th Birthday party at Electric Brixton! This is set to be one of the UK’s biggest Hip Hop nights, don’t miss out and get your tickets at the link below!!
GET TICKETS FOR THE HIGH FOCUS 5TH BIRTHDAY HERE: http://bit.ly/1FCWlK3 (5th May 2015 @ Electric Brixton, London)
These Handz aka Sparkii Ski & DJ Grazzhoppa add the remix touch to the joint ‘Proceed With Caution’ featuring Rev, Truth Clipsy and Gatsby. The Original version produced by Ronin Beats was released by Cloud City Projects also available below
DJ Premier visits the Kremlin during his recent trip to Moscow for a Boiler Room performance. Preem also speaks on all the places hip-hop has brought him and the rest of the Gang Starr Foundation; Guru, Group Home, Jeru the Damaja, and Big Shug.
DJ Supreme was the legendary DJ/Producer behind the sick UK Hip Hop crew Hijack from back in the day, the Brixton native is back from sabbatical leave, talking on his upcoming Supreme Legacy EPs version 1.0 and 2.0.
As an ageing old skool head, slightly disappointed that there’ll be no Hijack reunion but man I’m HYPED for these projects coming from DJ Supreme
Pete Rock was raised in Mount Vernon, but his face belongs on Mount Rushmore. The Chocolate Boy Wonder perfected an art form, inspired millions, and sound tracked a generation. By contrast, Teddy Roosevelt seems like a chump.
This is the man who Dilla told, “I wanted to be like you.” Kanye once called himself the “new Pete Rock.” But the original Pete Rock remains permanently vital. The evidence bangs in his latest opus, ‘Petestrumentals 2’, the sequel to the 2001 classic that helped define the hip-hop instrumental record. It marks the legend’s first album on Mello Music Group, a fitting union between the author of the boom-bap blueprint and the label that’s expanded upon his legacy.
Describing Pete Rock’s productions do them little justice. They resonate in your gut, heart, and brain. The title of one of these beats says it all: “Makes Me Feel Like.” You fill in the blanks based on your personal experience and current mood.
‘Petestrumentals 2’ conjures memories of BBQ cookouts and 70s Blaxploitation scores, rattling summer jeep cruises and blunted Jamaican vacations. There’s a gorgeous requiem to Dilla (“Dilla Bounce (R.I.P),” where the originator pays tribute to the prodigy. You see the full range of Rock’s gifts on display: the meticulously chopped horns, unquantized drums, and air raid sirens. It contains the emotion of a thousand eulogies.
No record can’t be resurrected. There’s no sub-genre or era that can’t be converted into Rock’s singular brand of soul. His music is the closest thing we’ll ever get to a time-traveling DeLorean, effortlessly shifting between past, present, and future.
For the last 20 years, hip-hop heads have argued over the best Pete Rock original productions and remixes. Is it “They Reminisce Over You” or the “Shut ‘Em Down Remix?” Do you prefer Soul Survivor or the first Petestrumentals, his work with INI or the UN? His catalogue can’t be compressed into a bio; you need a book.
This is the latest chapter—an even 20 slaps and rhythmic levitations. It’s Pete Rock at his best, accelerating and kicking cosmic slop, extending wishes, hope, love, gritty drums and eternal wonder.
From the upcoming album “Petestrumentals 2″coming on Mello Music Group June 23, 2015. Video Directed by Jay Brown & Zack Kashkett
Northampton, UK rapper Tony Ceaser has released his latest EP ‘The Overture’, a 6 track release with no guest features just Tony displaying his craft.
Stream and download ‘The Overture’ EP here
Track 1. Produced by Tony Ceasar
Track 2. Produced by Zeph Da Heatmaker
Track 3. Produced by Sevn Thomas
Track 4. Produced by Unkown
Track 5. Produced by CriticalHitz
Track 6. Produced by Big L’z
All tracks mixed by Big L’z
All lyrics written by Tony Ceasar
Artwork by Marvin Haggler
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