Friday rewind

It was just a matter of time before UGK was going to get on this rewind thing, and what could suit better than to put them out there on the last one of 2011? Three Sixteens is from their 1994 album "Super tight", and you can clearly hear the G-funk influences in the heavy beat. One thing I really liked about the G-funk is that high note you often could hear through out the tracks, e.g. in Ice Cube's "Ghetto Bird" or Above the Law's "Black Superman", and "Three Sixteens".

I'm a big sucker for disco reworks or edits. And this one by Mercury, is fucking nice. Enjoy!

Friday rewind

Visiting MLK in London, so what could be more suitable than to drag out two old London bangers like this? One from London Posse and one from Roots Manuva.

London Posse


Roots Manuva

Spiderdogs and Loop Troop Rockers live at SR Metropol. Listening to Loop Troop always makes me think of summer and festivals. I wish it was summer now...

And...Action!

It's been embarrassingly long since last time, sad but true. So here's a first effort to get back in the game. This week a redbearded albanian from New York has come to my knowledge. Action Bronson is his name and his debut album was released in March and just recently his collaboration with Statik Selektah hit the streets. Here's one track from each!

Snow

This week the snow came to Oslo and I got reminded of how much I'd like to kick off the snowboard season. To calm the desire I watched some snowboard movies, and that is often a good way of finding new music - especially outside rap. I found this great song by The young and the naked on "the art of flight", a movie definently worth checking out if you like big mountain snowboarding.

Friday rewind

Me and Bob have been a quite dynamic duo here on the blog lately - he's giving you new and fresh tunes while I'm treating you with good old classics.

Here's southbound group Nappy Roots using the old trick of having a children's choir joining - a phenomenon used by many great artists across different genres (e.g. Jay-Z, Nas, Pink Floyd, The Smiths and Alice Cooper). "Nappy Roots day" is on their 2003 album Wooden Leather.

It's always nice to stumble upon something new, someone you never heardof before. Jesse Boykins III is new to me, found his song Light to Dark on some blog and was very impressed. Not so strange though, the beat is made by Musicology favorite, Gold Panda. Enjoy

At the moment listening to the Live Love ASAP Mixtabe by ASAP Rocky. Palace is one of several songs produced by Clams Casino, which is not a bad thing...

Friday rewind

Not a big fan of Lil Kim in any way, but she has done at least 2 great songs: Lighters up and Drugs. The latter has Biggie on chorus and carries one of my favourite beats that's just crazy good. Clipse's version is even better, but I'll stick to the original here.

T.I. is back

This track with Pharrell is supposed to be from T.I.'s coming album "Trouble man". Quite nice.