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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Fellow Native Tongue and all out fresh producer Prince Paul just dropped a gem from his 2005 XM Radio show. It was called Prince Paul’s World Famous Illout Show and it was unjustly short lived. In this episode, Paul kicks it with his friends, cracks jokes, plays a lot of classic material and runs down his incredible career of making dope music. Upon posting it he wrote, “This is The brief run of Prince Paul’s world famous Illout show that appeared on …
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 …
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