fighting the good fight....

I mean, it wouldn’t be right if I didn’t throw this up. New Beastie Boys Fight for your right slash Make some noise. I haven’t even watched the whole 22 min thing — but here it...

i grew up on tapes!!!...

Wow. “Auto Reverse” by Paten Locke is a pretty good candidate for “theme song for this blog.” This one is staying on repeat…

80 blocks from tiffany’s...

When you get into a discussion of “greatest producer of all time” — somewhere Pete Rock has to be mentioned. I’m going to say the same about groups and Camp Lo (perhaps a contentious thesis–fear not! I shall defend it in a future post) But for now, enjoy this ridiculously great mixtape from these...

a recording from wu note records...

Wu Tang record covers, re-imagined Blue Note Style. Most excellent.

box it up

Not exactly golden, and more trip-hop than hip-hop — but I’ll allow it. Female acapella/beatboxing group tears it up. I kind of love how they don’t shy away AT ALL on what it takes to create the “bass synthesizer”...