Beatnik Recommends

A night of warm, disco-ish house.

Don’t miss Brooklyn genre bending masters, Metro Area Live at the Oval Space this weekend.

The brainchild of veteran producers Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani, Metro Area was born out of the duo’s dichotomous love of both the old moods of R&B, disco and boogie and the more cutting-edge sound of innovative house and techno

Get tickets.

Stick the kettle on, sit back and brew to Boxbeats Vol. 2— a super chilled instrumental hip hop project put together by the beat collective Phonophanatic out of The Netherlands.

The 2nd installment in the Phonophanatic Boxbeats series and just like Vol. 1, expect a broad variety of exclusive, instrumental hip-hop beats crafted by a group of young but deadly-talented producers from around the world.

It’s free to download via the player and for more info on each artist and on the series visit the bandcamp.

First Impressions is the debut album from The Robert Digweed Collective.

It offers some fresh new ideas to Jazz from a generation of new blood.

These arrangements of distinctly recognisable Jazz standards have been removed from their creative origins and stylised with a Jazz-Funk Fusion aesthetic.

Check out the remix project Second Chances with the likes of Herma Puma, Handbook and Debian Blak to name a few.

Low riding with Whiz Khalifa.

Taken from Krush & Orange Juice.

Beatnik’s Creative Director Ali Raymond drops his midweek mix.

This week it’s an extra special mix in conjunction with good friend and rising print creative Lisa King as she celebrates the launch of her latest collection ‘Street Flora’ which features the ‘Screwprint’ and her pop-up shop in London’s Boxpark Shoreditch.

Lisa King has worked with an array of designers, from Boudicca and Diane Von Furstenberg, to Calvin Klein and Armani and was even been commissioned to work on the centre piece dress for the Victoria and Albert’s exhibition Kylie Minogue: Image of a pop star in 2007. This spring she also launch a super cool printed shoe collaboration with Clarks Originals.

Her pop-up shop opens from 23-30 May. Find more info on facebook.

Other Screwprint Sessions include Ghostpoet, Django Django, Debian Blak to name a few.

More info on Lisa King and the Screwprint collection.

DOWNLOAD mix.

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Tracklist
Shy Girls – Under Attack (The Drum Remix)
The xx – Together
Oppaa – Nquestia
Koreless – Sun
Pále feat. Joshua Idehen – Playing Truant
Hiatus feat. Shura – We Can Be Ghosts Now
Basement Jaxx – Being With U
Daughter – Youth
Tropics feat. Gavin Turek – Courage
Ghostpoet – Meltdown
Noisses – Burning Star
Pedestrian – Hoyle Road
Anushka – I Have Love 4 You
Debian Blak – Hawks & Spies (Real Remix)