Yo Madlib is the king of hermits and musical cubby holes. I’ve been blessed to see him spin live and perform as The Lootpack with Wildchild and DJ Romes at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, but homie remains a bright shinning shadow figure. The Beat Conductor laces Benji B’s BBC Radio 1 show. It’s deep soul, head banging instrumentals and sautéed spittles. He even threw in some skits just to keep true to his trippy textures. 56 minutes and 43 seconds …
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What kind of music does a kid make from Chicago, born in 1993, and the first CD purchased for him was Kanye West’s The College Dropout (2004)? That kid would be Chance The Rapper, a 20 year old psychonaut navigating life in the inner-city of Chicago, self reflecting, making observations of his inner and outer environments. His style of rapping is a mixture of spoken word, stream of consciousness, soulful singing, jazzy scatting, choppy, and tongue twisting rap cadences. With the release of two official mixtapes 10 …
Legendary genre bending musician PJ Harvey guest edits BBC 4 Radio. Today’s edition features Julian Assange, Ralph Fiennes, former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams and Shaker Aamer, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Harvey said that she’d only get involved under the condition that her contributors would not be edited without their consent. Toward the beginning of the broadcast she said, “I saw it as an opportunity to try and do something unusual with the format and the content of the …
Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower: ‘I do not expect to see home again’ “Whenever we had a debate in the office on how to handle crimes, they do not defend due process – they defend decisive action. They say it is better to kick someone out of a plane than let these people have a day in court. It is an authoritarian mindset in general.” …
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