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Tag: hip-hop

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Discovery: Rising Star DJ Soul Child AC Drops Eclectic Debut, Douby

27/01/202604/02/2026 Graeme Smith

A star on the rise, DJ Soul Child AC has just dropped his genre-blending new album.

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Discovery: Rapper Cam Ezra blends pessimism and production in new album Dead Internet

15/01/202615/01/2026 Graeme Smith

Dead Internet, a rap/hip hop album by Cam Ezra, also incorporates many features of dance and electronic music.

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Wotts’ new single combines Tame Impala with their hip-hop roots

25/09/2025 Graeme Smith

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.

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Discovery: Jthurston brings a fresh perspective to hip-hop

30/07/2025 Graeme Smith

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.

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9 o’clock Nasty blend Beastie Boys and Kasabian for hypnotic single and video

21/07/202509/10/2026 Graeme Smith

“How can you remain horny yet righteous?” ask 9 o’clock Nasty in their new hip-hop and rock mashup, Love In The Circle.

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Messy Eater mixes it up for textured new track

11/07/202515/07/2025 Graeme Smith

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.

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Sound Liberation pay tribute to those lost in jazzy new album

20/06/202520/06/2025 Graeme Smith

Elegy is the ninth studio album from boundary-pushing collective Sound Liberation.

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Discovery: BobbyBullRun makes a statement with new album

20/06/202520/06/2025 Graeme Smith

An “entrepreneurs soundtrack,” Bank Statements is the upcoming album from BobbyBullRun.

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Discovery: Bad Habbits turns personal turmoil into art with new album

11/06/202513/06/2025 Graeme Smith

Against a backdrop of financial troubles, mental instability, drug addiction, depression, and an uncertainty of which direction he should go next, Bad Habbits wrote and recorded an album. The result is called Sunfire.

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