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My virgin attendance at a Public Enemy gig and I probably picked the best possible one to open my account with. PE performing one of my first and favourite rap albums It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.. in its entirey as part of the Don’t Look Back concert series, well I [...]
Cork! Galway! Saul is coming to your town tonight and tomorrow night. Don’t miss. A review of last night’s show will be up on State in a bit.
Photos by Dolan.
This week is a non-stop gig gauntlet. Tonight, I will see Duchess Says in the Sugar Club and Yeasayer in Whelans, tomorrow night, The National in [...]
If you were at the rather brilliant Brasilintime show in the Tivoli on Friday night, you may have heard J. Rocc drop this tune after the main event. Taken from an unreleased J Dilla album which was made for MCA Records, Pay Jay features rhymes by Dilla and production by the likes of Kanye [...]
Lyrics in post - Madvillian (MF Doom) - Accordion
I’m dumbfounded how good these mixes are. Brooklyn’s The Rub have compiled 21 volumes of hip-hop, one for each year from 1979 to 1999. It serves as an in-depth aural history of the genre. I’ve already heard about 4 tunes from 1992 I’d heard before, loved and [...]
My favourite musical interlude from possibly my favourite film of all-time, Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine. MP3 below.
The DJ is Cut Killer and the samples are:
- KRS-One - Sound Of Da Police
- Edith Piaf - Non , Je Ne Regrette Rien
- NTM - Nique la Police
Cut Killer - Nique la Police
I’ve had this mixtape from Noble Society -Live from the Frontline for ages but I only got around to mentioning it in State this month. It was released in August last year but it’s so good, it’s worth a tardy mention here.
Noble Society are from Brooklyn and blend the products of their various musical [...]
Guilty Simpson has been featured on Stone Throw productions for the last five years and has been a regular on Detroit’s hip-hop circuit for longer than that. After appearances on cuts from J Dilla, Dabrye, Madlib and Percee P, he has finally released a debut entitled Ode to the Ghetto, his showcase album. Guilty is [...]
This remix is packaged as part of some Scion A/V compilation which has a lot of diverse artists featured in the series. You can get the whole Charlie Brown remixes as a zip, but my favourite tune is this nice and funky DJ Mehdi remix which also features a verse from Mapei (Check out the [...]
A moving and truly apt tribute to our gracious leader is called for as he resigned today. Step forward Captain Moonlight to offer a fitting elegy.
Captain Moonlight - Dirty Cunts
Moonlight is in Dublin tomorrow night in the Sugar Club. Image fom this excellent thread on Curry Chips.
Check out this megamix (I normally run screaming from that term, but this is good) of Del the Funkee Homosapien’s tunes - old and new. New cuts from the Eleventh Hour album and classic Del rhymes - collabs with El-P and Gorillaz, ‘Mistadobalina’ . It was mixed by El-P’s DJ Mr Dibbs.
Bonus Eleventh Hour [...]
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