Tag Archives: Left-Field Hip-Hop

Blessed Adam Momodou Eriksson Taal in Sweden on August 1, 1983, MC Adam Tensta remains to be based in the united states of his delivery, and released his initial record, It’s a Tensta Matter, over the K-Wrek label in past due 2007. The record spawned two Best 20 singles in …

Left-field hip-hop DJ/maker Kutmah (Justin McNulty) was created in Brighton, Britain, but at age 12, he moved — along with his Egyptian mom and Scottish dad — to Hollywood, California. In the first 2000s, he became area of the Los Angeles-based non-profit Internet radio collective Dublab. His abstract productions had …

Hudson Mohawke (true name Ross Birchard), also called Hudson Mo or Hud Mo, is an extremely touted hip-hop-oriented IDM maker/DJ from Glasgow, Scotland, associated with the LuckyMe collective and, more notably, Kanye Western. He was authorized to the long-running U.K. self-employed Warp label despite an extremely limited history of established …

Composer, arranger, manufacturer, and multi-instrumentalist Adrian Younge — also a film editor, business proprietor, and entertainment laws teacher — moved quickly from sampling information with an MPC to using several instruments. Through the past due ’90s, he performed bass and keyboards within a music group but grew disappointed having to …

Acquiring his name from a figure in movie The Goonies, Chicago-based DJ/producer Copperpot, aka Chester Copperpot, found underground rap’s fore strongly affiliating using the developing U.K. hip-hop picture, where his preliminary success started. Citing more information on disparate influences which includes Duran Duran and DJ Leading, the producer items collectively …

Débruit may be the task of self-described Afro-beat surrealist Xavier Thomas, who all mixes dance and hip-hop components with traditional and modern sounds from around the world. Born and elevated in Brittany, Thomas used recording as a little child and used the saxophone at age group nine, eventually growing his …

Lyrically speaking, Canadian hip-hoppers the Red Ants champion the underdog. Versatile but rigid, frontman MC Modulok combines his overconfidence with paranoia, cynicism, and an abstract intellect to progress the group’s complicated, progressive picture. The Crimson Ants had been founded in 2002 on Toronto’s East Aspect by Modulok and fellow aspiring …

Quite simply, you could contact Young Fathers a lo-fi R&B trio; nevertheless, they don’t totally easily fit into that box, using their wide-spanning pass on of substitute rap, indie pop, reggaeton, and digital music. Shaped in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2008 by Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole, and G. Hastings, the group …

Los Angeles maker Nosaj Factor crafts stately, ethereal, synth-based instrumental hip-hop, with influences that range between Planks of Canada and DJ Darkness to Danny Elfman and Erik Satie. An L.A. indigenous, Thing was influenced young from the hip-hop r / c the bus drivers would play on his method to …

Probably one of the most talked-about rappers of 2008, Jay Electronica built his status via the web and person to person, without a lot as an individual commercial launch to his credit. Created Je’Ri Allah in 1976, he was raised in the Magnolia tasks of New Orleans, where he resided …