High Elders are an international duo comprising of underground emcee Gentle Jones, from Delaware, USA and Auxiliary Phoenix, an experimental hip-hop produce from Carlow, Ireland. This album is the first full taste of what this duo can do and remains highly varied, with everything from speaker shaking hip-hop to rapping over progressive rock beats.
The artwork for the album was made by Lou Beach, an artist who’s done album art for many major artists such as Weather Report, Madonna, Carpenters, Godley & Creme, Blink 182, etc.
“Forest of Pencils” was also made Album of the Week by DJ Dan Hegarty on Ireland’s biggest radio station RTE 2FM & 2XM!
BBE/Yoruba Records producer Git (also known as Git Beats) & artist 1Mt (One Man Terra) both from Staten Island, New York. Return with there 2nd single off their new Keep It Movin’ album out Dec. 20th 2014 featuring Inspectah Deck (Of Wu-Tang Clan) & Ransom – ‘Lyrical Warfare’.
The album also features: Sean Price & Rockness Monsta (Of Heltah Skeltah), Chris Rivers (Baby Pun), Jaz-O, King Just, Hubbs, Bob Banner (Of Cloud City), Labba, Rim (Of Davillins, B.White (Of The 58s), Dax (Of Mpire) & Sham.
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“I’m an artist, producer plus an engineer, been grinding with this music way more than a couple years” says Fokis on his new single “Produced By Dr. Dre”. Produced by Fokeezy, (Fokis’ name as a producer) the single is off his upcoming project “Underground With Commercial Appeal” slated for release 03/02/15.
In case you’re not familiar with Fokis, let’s bring you up to speed. Fokis is an emcee / producer who has collaborated with artists such as Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Mistah F.A.B., Olu Dara (Nas’ father) & more. He’s worked with producers such as Ty Fyffe, Focus…, Fantom Of The Beat and Jake One.
Fokis released various projects including the “20/20” EP (produced entirely by Focus…), “The Appetizer” LP with Punchline (formerly of eMC) & “A Vintage State Of Mind” mixtape. He runs an indie label, Loyalty Digital Corp., which executive produced projects such as “An Ode To Reasonable Doubt” by Skyzoo & Antman Wonder, “Barrel Brothers” by Skyzoo & Torae and Sadat X’ upcoming album “Never Left”. He’s also an engineer who has recorded & mixed for Slaughterhouse, Fat Joe, N.O.R.E, Pharoahe Monch, Bun B, Kool G Rap, to name a few.
While it may have seemed that Fokis took a hiatus from the rap world, he’s actually spent the last few years hard at work. “I took some time away from the creating of music so that I could focus on building my company as well as engineer for other artists. I kind of lost the passion for creating music so instead of trying to force things, I just stepped back to help others. I used to want to make music to be rich and famous, now I do it because I am inspired and it feels fun again” – Fokis.
The new single is also available for streaming on Spotify or purchase on iTunes, Google Play, Amazon and all other digital retailers.
Lilou (France) is the The UK BBoy Championships 2014 Solo BBoy World Champion and will represent his crew Pockemon at the UNDISPUTED World B-Boy Masters of World BBoy Series
Tabanacle brings together some of the finest underground rappers from the UK scene for this monster collaboration! The track features Tony D, Harry Shotta, Reveal, Bilzar, Cee Major, Slickzz, Jigsaw, Locksmyth, Josiah Matrix and Vapour!
W.A.W is a track taken from Tabanacle’s latest mixtape offering “The Red & Blue Pill” which you can download exclusively from the SBTV Bandcamp page.
As the Snowgoons, Grim Reaperz, Soulbrotha, Morlockko Plus, Crazeology, White Shadow, ScarcityBP, Kyo Itachi, Soulslicers… have proven, it’s become common practice for European beat makers to produce their tracks with well respected international MCs. The internet, social networks and it`s new forms of communication made the worldwide musical exchange much easier, and a globally connected scene, became reality.
German executive producer ApRock is joining forces with over a dozen beatmakers from the old continent to exchange tracks and remix them vice versa. The feature list manages to assemble a cast of veritable North-American-All-Stars with names including Masta Ace, Large Professor, Kool G. Rap, El Da Sensei, AG, Army Of The Pharaohs, Rasco, Akrobatik, Edo G., Ruste Juxx, Blaq Poet…
The Snowgoons DJs have selected 17 tracks and incorporated them into a mix. ApRock Joining Forces With The Snowgoons DJs – The ReMixTape is available for free download via the Snowgoons bandcamp page
Koss & AG – Where It All Began (Joining Forces Remix By DJ SoulClap)
Soulbrotha “Beats by The Pound” ft. Large Pro x Nutso (Joining Forces Remix By Crown)