Stay+ are something of an enigma, and by all accounts they’re very keen to keep it that way, adopting a meme like course of action to do so…
Here’s what little we do know about the collective; this summer they were forced to change their name from the ludicrously funny Christian AIDS after the charity name-sake issued them with a rather uncharitable ‘trademark infringement notice’, they come from Manchester and released only their second physical release this week, the bewitching Fever, via a 12″ on Ramp. …Read More.
Drum roll… Bonafide magazine’s first proper foray into world of video promos. Produced by the crazily talented Jim Hill (with able assistance from Ricky Kershaw), we think this vid captures perfectly the energy, excitement and ethos of issue 05, and hopefully helps sum up what a printed publication that’s all about the love for concrete culture should be about. Now go make a brew, sit back and be entertained. And if you ain’t checked a copy yet, what are you waiting for?
Blu’s Doinnothin‘ is already a hypnotic beast of a track but David M. Helman and RUFFMERCY, with their graphic freshness (think Blue Note for the beat generation), have only gone and made the track even more of a cranium wrecker. Like a nekkid Alexa Chung rocking just a pair of Nike Vandals, this is some freaky sheeet!
Love this new skit by the Modern Toss team for Channel 4′s Comedy Blaps series. A genetically enhanced, bastard child of Danger Mouse and Lord Alan Sugar that’s received a blood transfusion from Bob Hoskins (in The Long Good Friday mode) and Scarface, Business Mouse is not interested in type of cheese most mice get excited about and has business skills best described as lacking (m)nouse. “Show me the money!”
I’ve been itching to listen find out more about MED’s Classic LP ever since it surfaced on Stones Throw and I caught sight of Eric Colman’s and Jeff Jank’s Blue Note riffing cover. As MED puts it when asked about the album’s moniker:
“I called the LP Classic because thats the approach I took: create music that has the potential to be played by every generation. This album deals with current issues, personal and within the community. Good-feeling music will always last and allow hip-hop to grow.”
With contributions from Aloe Blacc, Talib Kweli, Oh No and Kurupt, Madlib on production duties and beats by Oh No, Georgia Anne Muldrow and The Alchemist, it seems like it the LP may well live up to its name.
Complementing the Top Boy posts comes Lowkey’s open letter to government and it’s failure to connect to the voice and needs of disenfranchised and underprivileged. Sombre and powerful stuff.
Massive Attack and Burial: two UK acts that have been the soundtrack of choice for many discerning late night zoning out sessions, present Massive Attack Vs. Burial Limited Edition 12″.
Burial takes Four Walls/Paradise Circus and drenches them with his own signature style. The resulting tracks each stretch out into 12 minutes of digital deepness, capturing the essence of the original tracks whilst being wholly original in their own right.
The release is limited to 1000 copies. Pressed on 180g heavyweight vinyl and and housed in a gold glitter screen-printed art and design fans will also recognise the cover image, a human shape abstracted in typical 3D (Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja) fashion.
Hell yeah. A clique of underground (including Bonafide magazine issue 05 star El-P) talent brings The Last Huzzah whilst painting yoghurt on the bum cheeks of some girls ass. Nice.
The Last Huzzah remix treatment featuring Despot reminded me of this old-but-gold YouTube footage of the anthemic Get Rich or Try Dying. Despot goes all guerilla/DIY X-Factor in deepest NYC.
