The animation category was pretty balanced this year - not just full of the usual suspects (Dreamworks, Pixar, Ghibli). Flow is one of only a few from the Oscars that are on my to-watch list.

I hope she got paid in full off the back of The Fugees.  It's a beautiful tune.

be back here. Looks like the internet might come full circle. Thank you Raj for keeping the lights on! Amazing!

be back here. Looks like the internet might come full circle. Thank you Raj for keeping the lights on! Amazing!

absolute favorite beats on one of my favorite albums. As always in this forum, an exciting discussion began. Many sources were thrown into the ring. And then there was a discussion.

Yo! has anyone else been following this channel on youtube? the algorithm pushed it my way not long after he started it and its been full of dope info, so many track breakdowns and other cool shit (ex

yeah man, that track is fire also, i got my copy in that Stax 45 boxset(LITA) that was available during some RSD, that boxset was full of gems. so glad i got it.

I haven't given each one a listen, but that's in part due to the lack of enthusiasm I had for the early albums. 

soon was) the first Ultimate Beats and Breaks albums. Plus midtown’s funky for a kid being in the valley between skyscrapers with people fast walking, eyes straight forward, to their office jobs. The

Man that Two Man Sound sounds like a Dimitri From Paris production if he'd been around in 1975. His album was one of a small handful of sort of sample-based-breakbeat-exotica-lounge albums that I thin

The dialogue samples were used in some early 90s drum and bass tune and they are the best thing about it.  It is at times comical.

With me, music wise I spent last night checking in on RXKNephew. He has 62 albums listed on Wikipedia since 2019. I came across a hilarious track where he does an E40 impression that is kinda spot on.

desert mining town fight over a suitcase full of cash. The character dynamic of "I wanted to kill this guy, but I had a change of heart" to "let's work together and kill this guy" and back again is r

desert mining town fight over a suitcase full of cash. The character dynamic of "I wanted to kill this guy, but I had a change of heart" to "let's work together and kill this guy" and back again is r

Been a looooong time since I've been on the strut, but I wanted to share a few albums I've produced (as Glenn Echo) over the last few years that seem like some Real Heads Know the Deal material. Hope

the fastest internet connection ever and I had full access.  So I could pull like 100Mb mix in literally 1 second back in 2001.  It was so fast, you thought it had failed to start.  But there it was,

For several years, the Chicago strut fam would have irregular lunch meetups at Gaylord’s, a now defunct Indian buffet restaurant in the Loop. Over heaping plates of tandoori chicken and endless amount

One of my favorite Gang Start albums. I remember the first time I heard the infamous interlude of Premo calling out the “break records cats snitchin” as oppose to other interludes on other rappers alb

He poured a teaspoon-full out and before I could stop him, he'd necked it.  He ruminated on it for a few seconds, then replied, calmly, "Yes.. yes it is hot.  But not really spicy."  He went back to w

In terms of a full-length album, Sade — composed of Sade Adu (vocalist), Stuart Matthewman (saxophonist), Andrew Hale (keyboardist) and Paul Spencer Denman (bass guitarist) — have been missing in acti