I guess when you get some classic hip-hop dropped on you in a day, you should balance it off with some brand new school shit to keep the palate fresh. Here’s Thunderbird Gerard‘s T.R.O.U.B.L.E. EP made available for free download. New on the world stage, Gerard has distinguished himself via his lyrical flows and EDM-leaning [...]

We’ve covered the work of Montreal producer Lunice a couple times, most notably with TNGHT — his partnership with Hudson Mohawke (peep their Mission Statement Mix For BBC as well as their the original eponymous TNGHT EP here). His latest set is a 1-hour mix distilled down from a 6-hour set of when Lunice’s LuckyMe [...]

Shot and directed by photographer and film-maker Jamie-James Medina (who also happens to be the founder of XL’s sub-label Hot Charity), this 3-part documentary follows The xx on the three major cycles of their creative process. Time in the recording studio, in rehearsals and then finally performing live is documented, ending in the last episode [...]

Diplo takes some time off of smoking weed and playing old records to lay down a solid two hour mix for his friends over at the BBC. The massive set features a litany of Diplo-endorsed players layered on top of a heaping roster of blog-beloved cutting edge artists: Danny Brown (get his mixtape HERE), Crookers, [...]

Remember the bass filled, heavily screwed head-thumping EP we previewed of TNGHT just a few weeks back? A week before the self-titled release, duo Hudson Mohawke and Lunice put together their Mission Statement Mix which aired on BBC, but now you can listen to it in its entirety, uncensored by the British man. “This mix [...]

The most excellently named UK producer and DJ Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (with the even more excellent birth name of Orlando Higginbottom), better known as T.E.E.D., pieced together an qualitatively awesome two-hour mix for a BBC Radio 1 show for August 18th. Today he put the mix up on his SoundCloud so we thought it’d [...]

Whenever I visit a new city for the first time I’m always armed with my trusty Lonely Planet travel book. Come the second visit, having gotten all the classic sightseeing locations stricken off my must-see-in-my-lifetime list, I dump the guide books and make sure to Facebook people residing in that same city and get the [...]

The latest video from SBTRKT is the Sam Pilling directed clip for “Hold On”, with usual collaborator Sampha on vocals. Otherwise known as Aaron Jerome, the London artist is among the top crop of post-dubstep producers in the game. If you don’t have SBTRKT’s BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, you’re sleeping my friend… SBTRKT Get More: SBTRKT, [...]