Marvin at Free Albums Galore has taken the time to review another of our excellent hip-hop releases. This time around they've reviewed Formula's release.
The Overcast Project by British hip-hop producer Formula is a moody piece of hip-hop accented by tight rapping by some gifted rappers including Zack S. Byers, Aynzli Jones, and Dabbla…
Marvin over at Free Albums Galore has just graced us with another fine review, the following is a snippet:
This classy album by Luck & Ripps is titled The Catastrophic Connection is good music however you label it. The sound of Luck & Ripps is especially accessible to all music lovers due to their preferences to samples that reminds me of the silky smooth soul styling of the 70s and very smooth jazz.
mo. over at Phlow Magazine graced Luck & Ripps and blocSonic with a terrific review of “The Catastrophic Connection”. Check it out!
“A collection of Boom-Bap Hip Hop | "Turn of that hippe-di-hip-hop-hop-music, son!" Yeah this is some of that raw NYC shit. A style where Hip Hop rhythms roll straight forward without trickery. An MC bragging and rolling out his rhymes. "The Catastrophic Connection" sounds like Hip Hop in the old days. The old days, where Hip Hop was filled up with stolen samples from the disco era. Where 2Live Crew ruled Miami and Wu-Tang the east...”
This is something I've wanted to do for a while though wasn't exactly sure how to approach it. Did I want to extensive reviews of one album at a time or smaller reviews in groups? Well, I decided on bite-size reviews in groups of 3 at a time. I hope you find these useful.
Abstracode "Cocaine Ways" (Electrosound) - Thoroughly enjoyable dark trip-hop with many bits of glitch and dust sprinkled to give the whole release a terrific electro-acoustic feel. One of the best album "outros" I've heard. Rating:
Triplexity "Between Light And Shadow" (Independent/Jamendo) - A terrific mélange of jazz, trip-hop, acid-jazz and electro. From the excellent Read more …