GROOVEMENT

Following the release of THE RESET INSTRUMENTALS last week, APOLLO BROWN has posted a little beat making to YouTube. Buy THE RESET.

The lads kill it at Broke 'n' £nglish's night, Ballin' On A Budget

Staunch supporters of Groovement-affiliated live hip hop night IN THE LOOP since day ONE, ELLIS MEADE and associated heads including SPARKZ and DUBBLE O are the future of UK hip hop. Making waves across Manchester, the Digital Textures EP is about to drop – preview here.

The EP also features JAM, SIMBA and CHUNKY.

Digital Textures EP by LDiggy

Laura was about to fly back to Denmark when she thrust her album into my hand one Friday whilst I was djing in Manchester. This was a couple of months back and I’ve literally just found it, googled it and located the free download link. It’s just Laura and her MPC-2000XL all the way here, creating moody soundscapes and layered vocals which can be both spooky and soothing at the same time.

Laura Drescher – Hallucinations of a good life by Laura Drescher

Tracklisting:

Lead track from a new mixtape, DIALECT VOL 1, free to download upon e-mail input at the JS site. Love the Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan sound effect (possibly??). Groovement interviewed Jimmy here.

Lovely Bloodflow from BATHS on Vimeo.

From the album CERULEAN out now on ANTICON.

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Erk: “Memoirs Of The Invisible Man is my way of saying I’m here even when you can’t see me; a shot at the people who pretend I’m not in the room until it’s too late.”

Erk’s currently working on Nerd’s Eye View, his first full length.

Warning! Don’t be caught out by all the Limewire ‘download’ links – click the link in the middle of the page under ‘Please wait while your download initialises”

“Imagine an 80-minute music history course talking place in a dusty, hazy studio with wall-to-wall jazz vinyl – records from the past 40 years – jazz, fusion, funky, obscure. This course will not be graded. There will be no lecture. Madlib’s at the turntable. Class is now in session.”

Cover painting: Jazzcats Crossing the Hudson

Just top-drawer beats from Manc maker KUARTZ. Available for listening only as people be jackin’ beats without asking from the downloads. See what you done did, you emcees??!!!

Latest tracks by Kuartz

Over & Over (feat Natalie Gardiner) by The Broken Orchestra

Shibui by The Broken Orchestra

THE BROKEN ORCHESTRA are looking to release their debut 45 in the Autumn, and it’s going to be a jewel. These two tracks, the first material from the outfit, are full to the brim with sweeping, beautiful, mill town melancholia and deserve to be heard with only the finest rolling hills and landscpae stretching out in front of you – for now, make do with the laptop.

Some past work by Pat D of the Broken Orchestra, including contributions from emcee Lady Paradox, can be found here.