Chances are you never heard about the Viennese Producer and beatmaster Brenk Sinatra. That’s probably because you haven’t done your homework. Luckily lot’s of international producers and rappers aren’t that lazy. DJ Premier and MC Eight – to name just two – used his beats in some of their latest productions, which is pretty amazing – more
Berlin based Robot Koch – machines man in Jahcoozi and all round Jedi beat master is going to release his third full length album in November. Called the Other Side, on first impressions the album seems to be inflected with cinematic flourishes, dank atmospheres and twitchy, nervous rhythms that still have the fibres of pop – more
We’ve been on White Horse‘s latest stuff all summer; his recent album The Revenant Gospels Vol. III blends the voices of long-dead musicians with heavy, pulsing beats. His mixtape Revelations & Trash was a thugged-out, drugged-out concoction mashing up the underground sounds of groups like Gatekeeper and Death In June with stuff from Waka Flocka – more
Room for a bit more Omar Souleyman in your life? Of course there is. The Syrian wedding singer turned international hipster firebrand has a new album Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts, and if you head over to Altered Zones you can download the frankly bonkers ‘Haram’ for nowt. If you hadn’t guessed by the title – more
The Mole is just about to release a new EP called ‘Extended Hugs’ through Fur Trade Recordings. For someone who has been at times a prolific producer, this is actually his first release of 2011, barring an appearance on Wagon Repair’s All Star compilation. In typicaly Mole fashion, the press release talks about egg dropping – more
What happens when an avant-garde Belgian designer like Walter Van Beirendonck teams up with the renowned fashion-video producers at SHOWstudio? Hypercolor magic, naturally. The London company has taken a selection of Beirendonck’s clothing and created something at once both mindblowingly original and completely timeless. There’s nothing more to say other than ‘you need to see – more
