Mos Def, now known as Yasiin Bey, drops a cover of Jay-Z and Kanye West’s ‘N**gas in Paris’. Homage paid to Malcolm X.
Beautiful video from Rrising producer Mmoths. Can’t believe his just 18 years old!
Download ‘Heart’ for free via his facbook page.
Phonte’s video for ‘The Good Fight’, one of the nicest cuts from Charity Starts at Home.
Whitney Houston was one of the most celebrated female singers of all time and we loved her for her voice and her beauty. Her are some retro classics and a special Super Bowl performance.
Blue drops a video to his single ‘Jesus’, off the Jesus EP now available on iTunes. Produced by Madlib.
The Brighton duo present the stunning music video for their new single influenced by their love of 90s rave and UK garage sounds.
Second is the stunning acoustic version of ‘Take You There’ they did for our Beatnik Sessions.
Offical video directed by Visitor at visitorstudio.co.uk
Great video and track from new band Django Django. They release their self-titled debut album on January 30th via Because Music.
More on Django Django
film directed by Dan Brereton and Django member David Maclean.
UK Tour Dates
17/02 – Norwich Arts Centre – Norwich
19/02 – Stereo – Glasgow
20/02 – Deaf Institute – Manchester
21/02 – Shipping Forecast – Liverpool
23/02 – Crawdaddy – Dublin
24/02 – Bodega – Nottingham
25/02 – Cooler – Bristol
27/02 – XOYO – London
Mesmerising video from the people at Outlook festival. An independent festival that has grown to become Europe’s largest bass music and soundsystem culture festival, between Outlook and Soundwave you have your summer covered.
The line-up again is ridiculous this year, and from the memories in this promo we’re already begging for the Croatian sunshine.
Line-up details here
Tickets here
Filmed and produced by The Odyssey Media collective.
Sound design by Toby Davies
The Beautiful video for the dreamy ‘Sanctify’ from up-coming band Troumaca. Take me on holiday please.
More from the Tropical Birmingham misfits here.
Old video now from Michael Kiwanuka back mid last year, but we still can’t watching.
With his new album dropping 26th of February, he’s been picked by everyone as one of the rising stars of 2012.
Oh we full heartily agree too by the way.
Another tight video and track from Huddlesfield’s adopted mayor Asaviour. Featuring Gen Uchiha it’s one of the tracks off his highly anticipated Play Win Vol3 (Adapt or Die) mixtape dropping 25th of February.
We love the visual definition ideas too.
Video by Paul Cockcroft and Sholto Smith.
We can’t get enough of new hip hop grew — Clear Soul Forces.
Representing Detroit, ‘Get Know Better’ is their first single from their debut Detroit Revolution(s) Produced by KanKick and dropping in March.
With a nice hunger for simplicity, a head-jerking beat and dope rhymes, this laid-back beauty draws comparisons to Souls of Mischief and that whole late 90′s flavour.
Check their facebook for more music and watch out for a feature with the crew soon.
For those who still don’t know about Friends and their sensual, provocatively percussive pop you need to know.
They are the coolest thing to come out of Brooklyn since high top fades and back last October dropped ‘I’m His Girl’ and ‘My Boo’.
The opening drum to single ‘I’m His Girl is a dream and the accompanying video is beautifully shot too.
We hope to see a lot more in 2012.
You’re gonna be seeing a lot of Jess Mills in 2012.
The oldskool flavour of her new track ’Pixelated People’, produced by Sam Frank, with hints of jungle and drum n bass, send this tune over the edge.
You can download her other track ‘A Forest’ for free here.
James Blake’s Joni Mithcell-cover, ‘Case of You’, has been matched with a nice video.
Arcade Fire just released pretty visuals to their song ‘Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)’.
The new jack swing-fanatic Krystal Klear drops a new video featuring Olivier Daysoul. Shouts to Eglo Records.
This is the first video from exciting new artist Gabrielle Aplin for her single ‘Home’.
Taken from her first EP of the same name, Gabrielle’s style of folk is both calming and mature beyond her young 19 years, yet it still manages to hold a delightful entrapping innocence.
Red Bull TV Series and Vice have produced a series of films called The Producers, which explores established and rising guest producers conjure magic with guest vocalists.
Episode 4 documents Mike Skinner in session with his new project The D.O.T.