The only bummer about 2004’s mashup masterpiece The Grey Album was the audio quality. Taking sliced up music from The Beatles’ peerless White Album and layering acapellas from Jay-Z’s legendary farewell (yeah right) LP The Black Album, Danger Mouse unknowingly crafted perhaps the best known oeuvre in the mashup genre. While Danger Mouse was at the time only […]
6
Dec
The Beatles' White Album + Jay-Z’s Black Album, reboosted
12
Jun
Revisit your Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth
The Wu- Tang Clan’s the Genius — aka GZA — is reissuing the essential Liquid Swords album in a deluxe double box set. Between Wu’s legendary debut Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and the followup Forever, RZA helmed the first wave of Wu Tang solo albums, each a verifiable classic in its own right. But most […]
6
Feb
Dark, deep head music for the post-hip hop inclined
Young upstart British producer Evian Christ has assembled the various he’s released recently into one mixtape, titled Kings and Them. Released with a high bit rate and remastered, the 8-track EP rides the wave of Nu Hip Hop, post-dubstep sound coming from the likes of Clams Casino, Swarms and others — which is to say, […]
3
Jan
Mike Volpe heads back in the lab for higher quality audio files
Not satisfied with supplying most of the music to one of the biggest mixtapes of 2011, ASAP Rocky’s LiveLoveASAP mixtape (not to mention Lil B’s “I’m God”), producer Clams Casino has gone back in the lab and remastered his Instrumental mixtape. Not only are all the tracks remastered, but the bitrate of the file was […]
