HOME CONTACT US DISCLAIMER: Music hosted on this site is for preview purposes only. If you like what you hear please buy the artist's work. You can find much of it here:

People In Glass Houses The good folks at Stones Throw Records are nothing if not generous. Even though their regular podcasts already provide listeners with a monthly fix of hip hop and funk goodness, they've now decided to go one better and just give away whole albums. For the first week of 2007 Talib Kweli and Madlib's nine-track album Liberation was tossed out as a free download and now they're at it again. Chrome Children 2, the follow-up to last year's acclaimed label showcasing compilation is available, for nada, right here. Two of the tracks - Guilty Simpson's Money Motivated Movement and Aloe Blacc's Happy Now?- are produced by FOP and very busy boy Four Tet and there's a great track from our favourite synth-pummeling crackpot Gary Wilson. Incidentally, Stones Throw will be releasing a special edition of J Dilla's Ruff Draft EP on 20/03/07. It's a seminal work made even more essential by the addition of a couple of unreleased tracks. Chief among them is the incredible Wild, a hip-hop song that samples a child singing Slade's Cum On Feel The Noize has no right to sound this good. Listen to it on Dilla's MySpace page. While we're talking Dilla, here is one last thing. The beautiful Adult Swim produced video for another Ruff Draft track, the new-wave thunk that is Nothing Like This: Posted by: Scott 31/01/07