Thursday, April 28, 2011
Audio: Red Eye Society - Back In The Day
another treat off the absolute epoch album. album in stores monday, share this shit!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Video: Tourettes In Australian Poetry Slam
Tourettes is also known as Dominic Hoey (he's 2/3rds famous. They spelt slam as salm which is pretty fitting if you've ever seen dominic try to spell anything.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Audio: Alphabethead - Wamp Wamp
Brothers Pusha T and Malice of Clipse are right up there with Slim Thug and MF Doom as rappers I love first and foremost for their vocal tone and vernacular. Clipse’s shared bloodline mean their voices are almost indistinguishable from one another and mesh beautifully on tracks. In fact, for all the Hip Hop examples that spring to mind it seems that family ties do equate to dope collabs; Rza, Gza and Ol’ Dirty are cousins, Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg (RIP) are cousins, Ill Bill and Necro are brothers etc.
To my ears older brother Malice (second verse) has the ‘colder’ monotone flow whilst Pusha T (first verse) is slighty smoother and flowly! It’s a sublte and fascinating difference especially when they double lines. Despite their fiery subject matter they always remain calm and nonchalant to the point where I actually find their songs soothing. In addition to their courageous beat choice Clipse also have a gift for clunky but catchy choruses (possibly due to The Neptunes influence). Slim Thug is on chorus duties here and it’s his prehistoric ‘Wamp Wamp’ that steals the show. My beat was built entirely around a sample of that one word! I wanted to slow the rapping right down and accentuate the simultaneously exciting and lethargic feel I get from their music. Please give it a listen and play loud!
DOWNLOAD: Clipse X Alphabethead “Wamp Wamp”
xAlphabethead