In March 2026, we featured the track All Black Everything by Chicago, USA-based outfit DA-MOVEMENT. As well as garnering praise from myself, the single has reached an international audience and has recently been selected as an Official Finalist for the 2026 InterContinental Music Awards.
Continue reading “24s by DA-MOVEMENT Preserves Chicago’s Hip-Hop Legacy”
Long-time collaborators Mat Lazenby and Ed Heaton return with a new instrumental hip hop album that captures nearly four decades of shared musical obsession.
Continue reading “Mat Lazenby and Ed Heaton Capture Lifelong Friendship on New Vinyl‑Only Hip Hop Release”
We live in a world where we’re expecting AI programmes to behave like humans, but what if they fully embrace their artificiality?
Continue reading “Discovery: ai12die Blends AI Satire and Sharp Hip-Hop on His New Album”
Torrio’s new single Snakes is a mesmerising, magnetic take on hip-hop. It’s coiling tension and dark, smoky soundscape is gripping, eerie, and dynamic.
Continue reading “Discovery: Torrio’s Dark, Dynamic and Rhythm‑Driven New Single Snakes Bites Hard”
A star on the rise, DJ Soul Child AC has just dropped his genre-blending new album.
Continue reading “Discovery: Rising Star DJ Soul Child AC Drops Eclectic Debut, Douby”
Dead Internet, a rap/hip hop album by Cam Ezra, also incorporates many features of dance and electronic music.
Continue reading “Discovery: Rapper Cam Ezra blends pessimism and production in new album Dead Internet”
Wotts are a band who never come off the boil. Hot on the heels of their EP FLANK! they have another on the way, and terminal is our first Tame Impala-inspired taste of it.
Continue reading “Wotts’ new single combines Tame Impala with their hip-hop roots”
Hip-hop is a genre that loves a good metaphor. We’ve had ballers, prize fighters and more, but I don’t think I’ve heard an album in the genre that uses the concept of a camera to explore an introspective journey.
Continue reading “Discovery: Jthurston brings a fresh perspective to hip-hop”
A Dust Brothers and Avalanches-inspired poke at self-help culture, I Think I’m Headed For A Breakdown, is the new single from York’s own Pete Bott aka Messy Eater.
Continue reading “Messy Eater mixes it up for textured new track”
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