The Christmas spirit strikes Canadian artists Zeds Dead, who in their mistletoe generosity are making their Holiday 2013 mixtape available for free download.  The excellently mixed set includes 35 tracks in just under one hour, throwing in a virtual bouillabaisse of bass-oriented tracks — from trap, grime and drum & bass to future garage, nu disco […]

In the early millennium the UK Garage scene sprung from its murky depths one Dylan Mills, musically acclaimed as Dizzee Rascal and a former member of the Roll Deep crew. This New Years the grime artist released a new free mixtape titled Dirtee TV: Vol. 2 and it features the likes of Newham Generals, P Money, Merky […]

The Grime Writer allows you to clean up and defile streets at the same time. Sure it might sound contradictory in a logical sense but that doesn’t make it impossible. Just fill this oversized felt-tip marker with soapy water instead of ink, and you’ve got yourself a crime-less mechanism for disrupting the peace and cleaning […]

Los Angeles native Henry Laufer has been on tour for the past few months in promotion of his latest release, the Vacation EP, said to be “night time backyard noises”. Now he’s released the official music video for “The Way You Do”, edited by Miguel Bidarra. The video features a young woman dressed as a […]

There are few, if any, labels that can match the roster of the immaculately curated Ninja Tune Records. One of the newer names in the label’s their stellar bullpen (which includes heavyweights like Cold Cut, DJ Food, Kid Koala, Amon Tobin, The Herbaliser, et al) is Philadelphia’s own Starkey (ak PJ Geissinger), who brings his […]

Credited with elevating the art of the DJ to new levels, Oneman (aka Steve Bishop), is allegedly the only artist to appear on Mary Anne Hobbs’ Radio One show without ever releasing a produced record of his own. While that might imply weak production ability, it certainly underscores the UK DJ’s record selection talents and blending […]

British culture magazine i-D offers up an interesting selection of tracks for their August mixtape. The longest mixtape they’ve ever assembled, the August edition treads from bass, grime and trip-pop to acoustic, folktronica and alt ambient, including tracks from an army of artists such as Afrikan Boy (who rapped on DJ Shadow’s “I’m Excited” video), Joe […]

Last year’s Free Gucci mixtape from Diplo gets the remix treatment from Mad Decent labelmate Sinden. All y’alls gotta do is head HERE, enter your email addy, and they’ll deliver the grime-rinsed Gucci flows to your inbox. Tinchy Stryder, Wiley, Hudson Hawk, Nicki Minaj, Swizz Beatz…  mouth fulla gold! Thx Skeezy!