MOTENKO: On Your Level (Audio premiere)

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FOLD vs MOTORMOUF: Stronger Than The Evils – audio premiere

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TY feat. SEANIE T & MILES BONNY: Baby Love (2016)

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DJ FORMAT: New LP ‘Statement Of Intent’ due March (2012) + promo video

DJ FORMAT: New LP ‘Statement Of Intent’ due March (2012) + promo video
DJ Format’s back hurrah! And it doesn’t look like he’s going to be taking any prisoners with his first full length LP since 2005’s If You Can’t Join ‘Em…Beat ‘Em. How long!? Yeah, I know - tell me about it. Statement Of Intent is due for a March release and looks all set to feature the usual fat-funky boom-bap business (plus a bit of breaks and electro) with guest turns from underground fire-spitter Sureshot La Rock (who appeared on Format’s Mr DJ EP last year, ‘core Bostonian emcee Mr Lif, and a brace of legendary rappers nearly as famous for their absences from the scene as they are for their actual output: newly-defrosted-from-cryogenic-storage-in-the-eighties Phill Most Chill and professional ‘difficult’-third-album-dodger Edan. Plus…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

THE BEEKEEPERS: ‘Apiculture’ preview + audio snippets - 2011

THE BEEKEEPERS: ‘Apiculture’ preview + audio snippets - 2011
RATING: 5/5
Bristol beat luminaries Boca 45 and Parker finally make good on their promise to deliver a full length album, Apiculture, in the wake of this year’s moody Ascending Change EP and their debut party-banger effort the Bee Funk EP from the end of the year before. As you might expect the LP is packed to the gills with offerings of both kinds (i.e. moodiness and party-bangers) …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

BEASTIE BOYS: Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 – Album review + Audio – 2011

BEASTIE BOYS: Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 – 2011
It's a couple of years late but the Beasties are finally back. Is there anyone else who's been in the hip-hop game as long as they have who still garners this much hype on the eve of a release? To date they haven’t released a single duff hip-hop album and their last hip-hop release (2005’s To The 5 Boroughs) was a superb effort. On the other hand