Hip Hop

Dutch HipHop English Rap // Sagesse & Crookram – »The Escape EP« (Bankrupt Recordings) While Crookram’s album “19/76” on Budabeats sounded dusty, analogue, funky and deep, the productions with his partner Sagesse shine polished...

Nice Flow & Simple Beats // Lo-Fi Scientists – »Lo-Fi Scientists« (Dusted Wax Kingdom) I’m not sure about you, but since the very beginning Dusted Wax Kingdom has always been one of those netlabels...

Glitchy Chipfunk Hipedihop Music // Pixelord – »Lucid Freaks pt. 1« (Error Broadcast Netlabel) OK, let’s get down once again with the Error Broadcast Crew. Open the windows of your hipster car and let...

HipHop // Willbe – »Waxxelerated (10th anniversary remaster)« Willbe is one of those musicians originally coming from the demoscene in France. With his heart pounding for melodies and...

Far-Out Beats // Raleigh Moncrief – »Combed Over Chrome EP« (Obstructive Vibrations) E.T. getting weededed? Starship Enterprise floating above a field of ripely Marihuana shrubs? All this hand drawn and arranged in...

Cracklin Beats & Samples // Mo'Town Junkie – »Cuts and Raw Tapes« (Phonotactics) Mo’Town Junkie is not a newbie in the Scene: he has published several works on different netlabels, ending up on...

A collection of Boom-Bap Hip Hop // Luck & Ripps – »The Catastrophic Connection« (Blocsonic) “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...

Lush Ambient, Crunchy Beats // 2% – »Nowcast« (Archaic Horizon) Hot off the heels of mo.’s Para-review last week, I got to let you know about the latest Archaic Horizon...

Breakbeats for the morning after // Red Box Recorder – »Colour Codes« (Acroplane) For quite a long time, Arcoplane went below my radar. The label is around since 2003, but only due to...

German Rap Excellence // Coehn & Foehrb – »Die Tugend Von Heute« (b.solid) mo. pointed out Coehn & Foehrb to me as these guys are going to perform at the Cologne Commons festival...

Stonewashed Electronica // Orange Crush – »Autumn Reflections« (Archaic Horizon) It’s time to write about Orange Crush. His debut album “The Field” back in 2006 got me already, but somehow...

HipHop Compilation // Various – »Practice Avoiding Mistakes« (Tokyo Dawn Records) Tokyo Dawn is back from the dead. And while they prepare the funk we sent you back in time, when...

Sublime Hip Hop Instrumentals // Various – »Bag Of Nothingness« (Error-Broadcast Netlabel) Whoops, there it is! We told you about this one coming up and finally it’s there. A damn fine Netlabel...

Smooth Hip Hop and R'n'B Grooves // Mishoo The Drumkit – »Born in the Land of a Thousand Hills« Michael Rugamba Negele is a cosmopolit. Together with his buddy producers Comfort Fit, Elaquent and DJ Madsen he presents a...

Mexican Hip Hop Adventures // Menuda Coincidencia – »Ai con Permisito« (Delhotel Records) Oh, this one is fresh! Straight from Mexico Hip Hop-Group Menuda Coincidencia delivers us a delicious package full of jazzy...

Solanaceous Instrumental Hip Hop // Son Of A Bricklayer – »Shades Of Grey« (Ground Floor) I couldn’t find out much about the Copenhagen-based beatjuggler Son Of A Bricklayer. His label Ground Floor is rather tight-liped...

A Fistful of Hip Hop Styles // Tom Caruana – »Welcome Aboard EP« (Budabeats Netlabel) While staring out of the airport window at Barcelona Airport returning home from netaudio.es Tom Caruana grabs me by the...

Way Wild: Something Like Hip Hop // Owl Dudes – »For The Feelers« (La Familia Netlabel) The Netaudio scene is a laboratory for musicians, a place to publish sounds the mainstream isn’t ready for yet. Exactly...

A Quilt Of Experimental Hip Hop // DJ Internet & Kid Kool – »God Likes The Picture Of You« (Hungry Men Records) If Max Ernst would have been a b-boy, his beats would have sounded like this. Right from their junk flats...

Funky and Smoky Downbeats // Suhov – »Sympathy Modul EP« (Budabeats Netlabel) Yeah, Dope Beats ahoi! If you like groovy breakbeats, we have some candy for your ears. With Suhohvs melodic “Symphaty...

A phat Hip Hop Package // Various – »Because Best Things Are Free« (Ideology Netlabel) With “Because Best Things Are Free” Ideology Netlabel delivers a heavy and delicate compilation. Next to amusing german rhymes, laid-back...

Hardboiled Electronic Hip Hop // Niteffect – »Lost Identity« (Kreislauf) Niteffect is back with an 30-minutes length EP for the German Kreislauf Netlabel. While his former “Fragments” EP was more...

Downbeats in Cinemascope // Crookram – »19/76« (Budabeats) In “A Day in the Life (feat. INC)” young Dutch producer Crookram rolls out sweet and melancholic strings to catch...

Dark and Urban Sketches of IDM // Pleq – »Songs of Sens and Nonsens« (Envizagae Records ) Pleq a.k.a. Bartosz Dziadosz is a young producer from Katowice in Poland. “His motives in sound resemble an abandoned ironworks...

Cut'n'Paste-Funk // Various – »52 Weeks – Winter« (Peppermill Records) “52 Weeks” is an extraordinary project coordinated by Peppermill Records. The compilation includes 52 tracks representing each week of the...

Crispy Hip Hop // Apes on Tapes – »You Open« (Homework Records) The Apes on Tapes are a producer-duo from the City of Bologna in the North of Italy. Lagàr and Antani,...

Instrumental Hip Hop // V.A. – »One Year« A Day- The 5inch Files« (Equinox) Rap music is rare in Netaudio, and most of the stuff that runs ashore on my hard disc is bullshit....

Eclectic Remix-Collection // Mickey Eats Plastic – »To Kill the White Glamour – Reworks EP 1« (Sijis Netlabel) I posted a demand-note for the upcoming Bluermutt-album a few days ago. Well, I hope you don’t think myself to...

Beatladen Electronica // Maguett – »Ceramicboy« (ElectroSound) ElectroSound is the slightly more Pop-orientated Musica Excentrica spin-off. Both Netlabels feature challenging (electronic) music from Moscow and Western Russia....

German Rap Miniature // Sichtbeton feat. Tillevision – »Anabelle & Karsten EP« It has been silent around the Kings of the Prenzlauer Berg for quite a while. After a critically acclaimed album...

German HipHop // Various Artists – »Colonius Monk Collective II« (Ideology) Back in 2005, Netlabel Ideology and the Broke Gringos-crew came up with the idea to bring together different Cologne-based MCs...

Melodic HipHop Instrumentals // Willbe – »Zephyr« (Language Lab Netlabel) French producer William Lamy aka Willbe produces excellent hiphop-instrumentals. He gets the pressure into his beats and composes melodic grooves....

Campy Pop Music // Siblings – »Litter EP« (No Type) While most of the elder netlabel disappeared from the surface, some keep up the good work and come up with...

HipHop // Comfort Fit – »Forget and Remember« (Tokyo Dawn) Comfort Fits “Forget and Remember”-LP on Tokyo Dawn is one of the strongest free netaudio-releases to date. With tricky beats,...

Music Genre // Hip Hop