This one’s got the OMGV staff split right down the middle. Mitch hates it, I love it. Depending how you feel about it, you may or may not want to get a pre-order in for the double LP edition from Parlaphone. That’ll run you about $20 at either amazon.com or auralexploits.com. [Audio clip: view full post [...]

You can count me among the last people to have gotten excited about a new album from The Roots. It pretty much fell apart for me after Things Fall Apart (see what I did there?). But goddamn if How I Got Over isn’t one of the best hip-hop albums I have heard for a few [...]

I know, I know – Big Boi just isn’t the same without André, right? I don’t know, though. This album is chock full of genuine dirty south bangers, and not an André verse in sight. There will never be another album like Aquemini, but goddamn if this new one from Lucious Left Foot doesn’t deserve [...]

Chicagoan and friend-of-a-friend DJ Limbs sent over his new 7″ which turned out to be a hot little piece of vinyl.  “Mad Jazz Noodle” throws back to a bunch of stuff I used to listen to in the 90′s, effortlessly switching between familiar cues of old hip-hop, downtempo stuff like Thievery Corporation, and even some [...]

Paul White makes his Now-Again debut (it’s a co-release with his usual One-Handed Music) with his sophomore album, Paul White & The Purple Brain.  As if the idea of three records full of White’s beats isn’t lustful enough, how about the fact that it was inspired by Swedish psych-rock mastermind S.T. Mikael?  Even more diverse [...]

Does what it says on the tin. Insound has tons of records, you have lots of empty shelf space. If you don’t, then you need to buy some new shelves and place an order at Insound where the entire store is 15% off for an entire week using coupon code “swjune15″ – insound.com.

A wise man once said “fucking oooof… sounds like the background for some awful lil wayne song or some shit” about some dubstep releases we wrote up, and he wasn’t far off – some of our favorite dubstep producers (i.e. James Blake as Harmonimix) love remixing shitty American rap music. The newest from one of [...]

Some absolutely wampin’ new tracks from LA beatsmith Samiyam on this new 10″ split with Ras G. Ras manages to hold his own with some skewed spaceship funk but the B-side of this split is just bananas. Samiyam is one to watch out for – the man’s skills are impeccable and each new release just [...]

Continuing their insane series of monthly Madlib Medicine Shows, Stones Throw went extra deluxe with the vinyl release of #5, The History of the Loop Digga.  This anthology collects Madlib’s beat tape material from 1990-2000.  It is presented as a 3xLP with a unique screenprinted jacket.  You can grab yourself three records of head-nod for [...]

The always-exciting Daedelus just dropped a new record on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label, a definite recipe for success.  “Righteous Fists of Harmony” is actually a concept album, soundtracking China’s Boxer Rebellion that happened about a century ago.  It’d be best for you to just seek this out and listen to it, because it seriously sounds [...]

Well, I sure didn’t even know who this person was, but luckily a reader did.  S.Maharba seems to be some kind of British beat genius.  Shades of Madlib, Dilla, MF Doom, and the wonky LA Brainfeeder dudes can be heard in Maharba’s music.  He’s had some obscure CD and tape releases in the past, but [...]

Looks like Stones Throw has even more tasty vinyl up for grabs.  The first is a new record on Now-Again.  Dimlite’s newest album “Prismic Tops” is a progression of the Swiss producer’s avant-garde, left of center beats and vocals.  Consider this a less psychedelic, more straightforward Gonjasufi or Gaslamp Killer.  The LP is $17.98 at [...]

Don’t let the brutal cover art fool you, King Rhythm’s “Hardships & Head Trips” is no ordinary rap release.  The Baltimore native pairs his above-average rhymes with production that has perfect little injections of guitar fuzz and off-kilter percussion.  He cites his influences as Sonic Youth and TV On The Radio, exploring the outer limits [...]

Seriously, Stones Throw has vinyl fever lately.  This new “J Dilla Donut Shop” package is a team-up with Serato, “the leading vinyl emulation software”.  You get two LP’s, each with a side of Dilla beats and a side of Serato tones.  Six unreleased beats in total, plus two fancy donut slipmats.  This whole package was [...]

Holy shit, Madlib just may be the most prolific musician on earth.  The third installment in his MONTHLY series of Medicine Show albums is “Beat Konducta in Africa”.  This one was inspired and fueled by the afro-beat, funk, psych-rock, garage-rock & soul records of Africa.  In addition to the two songs posted below, you can [...]