Adding to their ever-heavy and ever-weird collection of Soundcloud downloads, Cali duo 5kinAndBone5 have dropped ‘JPNZ GRLZ’, featuring them rapping in Japanese (watch out for the Shabba Ranks tribute bit) over a serious beat, all in the name of showing their respect for Japanese GRLZ. Get it below, and remember they have a remix out on Jubilee’s Pop It! EP, dropping tomorrow.
Jubilee’s Pop It! EP drops on Mixpak on Tuesday, and you can hear her guest mix for Shox on Rinse FM broadcasting on Monday. The show airs from 11am-2pm GMT, be sure to lock in (online, or on 106.8fm for UK listeners) or listen back.
Mixpak fam Nadastrom were in Miami for Ultra Music Festival last month, and thankfully had their live set recorded. This is one of those mixes where you may wish you were there and you won’t be able to find out what hardly any of the tracks are, but it’s worth it, packed full of tracks from the duo themselves, Schlachthofbronx and Munchi.
As the title suggests, Earl’s new EP has an expansive approach to the Juke sound that’s more melodic and nuanced than what you’d expect from a Tek House record. Above and Beyond is musical and almost introspective but still hinges on jittering chopped samples, sixteenth note pulses, glassy high-hat snaps and Earl’s penchant for textured synth melody. The LP also samples a wide selection of sounds not usually native to Juke tracks, “C’mon Back” being a highlight with its use of a sampled live jazz drum mix.
Mixpak FM 032 is brought to you by London’s Tomb Crew. The trio, made up of Jamie, Nick and their MC, Illaman, have released their bass heavy sounds on Trouble & Bass, T&A, Black Butter and recently on Top Billin. Alongside their own releases, they’ve also added their distinctive UK sound to remixes for Crookers, Drop The Lime and TEED to name but a few.
Their Mixpak FM runs through new big bass sounds, from house to UK funky, past jacked-out versions of Bill Biv Devoe and Whitney, with their own refixes thrown in.
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Melé has been steadily previewing some of his new material, and in the spirit of his usual giveaways, he’s now dropped ‘Talkin’ featuring Slick Don for free over at his Facebook page.
This is a fresh visual from Iamsu!, a Bay Area emcee starting make some waves in the rap world with his crew HBK Gang. Su! has a laid back, Berkeley, semi-conscious flow and has been cosigned by West Coast giants E-40 (who’s recently dropped the massive The Block Brochure) and YG on the super-duper hyphy cut “Function” which is a must cop.
