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20 Beat Makers to Keep Your Head Noddin
Sep 26th
These midi maestros are at the forefront of this beat revolution bringing the old into the new and making new out of the technologically modern. There ain’t much need to say too much about the repertoire within each of these prolific artists profiles because we’re too busy listening and nodding our heads that the music speaks for itself. Sampling, producing and remixing 8bit sounds, soul classics, spoken word, old school beats and everything in between and unheard this is our list of 20 headnodic beat makers we’re listening to right now.
1. Mike Slott [http://www.myspace.com/mikeslottbeats]
2. Flying Lotus [http://youtu.be/2uCyv05SG1g]
3. Hudson Mohawke [http://soundcloud.com/hudsonmohawke]
4. Onra [http://soundcloud.com/onra]
5. GB (Gifted & Blessed) [http://youtu.be/Fad9Z3N59DM] [http://giftedandblessed.com/home.html]
6. Nosaj Thing [http://nosajthing.com/]
7. Gas Lamp Killer [http://www.myspace.com/thegaslampkiller]
8. Dorian Concept [http://soundcloud.com/dorian-concept]
9. Paul White [http://www.myspace.com/paulmw]
10. Homework [http://youtu.be/_X3XVLiSbhY] [http://www.beatport.com/release/detail/331585]
11. Moodymann [http://www.myspace.com/moodymann313]
12. DÅM FunK [http://twitter.com/#!/damfunk] [http://stonesthrow.com/damfunk]
13. TOKiMONSTA [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y1X9c4Bo3s] [http://youtu.be/sn4kVtuEmMU]
14. Dimlite [http://youtu.be/F_ZD9dQjXLw] [http://dimlite.bandcamp.com/]
15. Samiyam [http://www.myspace.com/samiyambeats]
16. Thundercat [http://thundercattheamazing.tumblr.com/] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8nuH6SKtNU]
17. Lunice [http://youtu.be/JX_sx9Rr710] [http://www.myspace.com/lunice] [http://youtu.be/mI6tx_QdVx0]
18. Daedelus [http://daedelusmusic.com/]
19. Ras G [http://www.poobah.com/rasg]
20. Exile [http://www.thedirtyscience.com/videos/4trk-mind-commercial-1%E2%80%8F/]
buy banksy’s identity… on ebay (where else)
Jan 18th
eBay has been known to sell some crayyyyzy shit. Jesus toast. Brad Pitt’s garbage. Some poor bastard’s actual life.
And now – Banksy’s identity.
You read right.
eBay user ”jaybuysthings” is currently auctioning off the opportunity to discover the illusive British graff artist’s true identity
It’s currently bidding for only a measly $US999,999 clams.
Is there acrtually someone out there that would fork over that kind of dough?
Or is this Banksy just cashing in?
Beastman, Numskull, Phibs and Yok
Dec 11th
At the Ambush Gallery from the 10th to the 20th December 2009. Check the flyer for the details.
neue logo
Aug 17th
Cha-ching! We win!
As avid readers of many other writers in the blogosphere we’re always excited by news and changes that happen with likeminded bretheren. And as it goes the crew at Moovmnt (a hip hop news blog) held a logo competition to redesign their logo to go with their new (yet to launch) website. Me being a designer in my daytime guise, decided to enter and ah yesh yesh ya’ll won the comp! Check the comments. We’re eager to see the new logo design on their new site which as yet is coming soon.
News like this gives us reason to celebrate so we’re toasting our drinks every night ’til the site launches 
what the hellz?
Aug 12th
This one’s for the ladies and dirty perves out there. What the Hellz? is the blog of our good friends Hellz Bellz founded by Lanie & Bam.
Feed the inspiration, get behind the scenes, connect with the Hellz Bellz label and get privvy to the latest in sample sales, news, thoughts and all round shenanigans. What’s that? You missed the sample sale last week? Don’t blame us for the late notify buddy and buddette.
Get your perve on at What the hellz?
scrabble
Apr 24th
Dang! Kevin Nottingham, one of our favourite blogs, has his website (we hope) temporarily and NOT permanently taken down. Check his message:
“KevinNottingham.com is offline permanently until further notice. After being threatened by my hosting company to take the site down for overloading server resources, I found a new host. Spent the last 24 hours moving everything over to the new server. After moving it to the new server, it crashed their server within an hour and they have suspended the site. Not sure when it’ll be back online”
As frequent downloaders to his website for ever fresh mixes, mixtapes and sample albums we’re poo’d for the meantime so we’ve resorted to twiddling thumbs and playing scrabble
Doom + Hip Hop Connection’s Digital Magazine Issue 1
Apr 19th
Hip Hop Connection Rap Magazine releases their first Digital Issue which we’re currently drooling over. Check their feature on DOOM.
Madvillain Paper Toy
It makes for an even more interesting read printing out this Doom paper toy. While we’re waiting for stores to open for new toner ink to print our Doom toy, we’re asking you to print this paper toy and photograph it somewhere interesting. Most interesting photo as judged by our inhouse design team gets a freshly printed Crumpet tshirt.
So
1. Print the toy.
2. Photograph your toy somewhere interesting.
3. Upload it online and post the link to the comments section of this post.
4. Winner gets a Crumpet Logo Tshirt.
5. Winner announced June 1st 2009.
IMPORTANT: *You must be a registered Crumpet reader*
What’s up on our technics 1200′s?
Mar 5th
At Crumpet we always have the freshest beats up on our Technics 1200’s. We are constantly digging and scratching the surface for artists and music that are pushing the boundaries and making us groove. And whats even better we LOVE to share the goodness with ya’ll….
Lush is the ideal word to describe this Californian born Brooklyn based artist Afta-1. Creating Dilla-esque sci-fi sound scapes that make ya wanna move. Carefully crafting hypnotic melodies over inimitable bass lines. His influences are evident in hip-hop as much as in jazz and avant-garde inspired space jams. Let his cosmic soul take over and control….your mind.
A Suite For Ma Dukes
Feb 25th
Conducted by Miguel Atwood Ferguson & Carlos Niño – A Suite For Ma Dukes A Tribute To J Dilla was a special event in Los Angeles commemorating the life and work of James Dewitt Yancey with the help of a 40 piece orchestra. The 4 tracks on Suite for Ma Dukes cover Dilla’s productions from “Antiquity” and “Nag Champa”, A Tribe Called Quest’s “Find a Way” and Slum Village’s “Fall in Love”. The EP available on preorder now via Stonesthrow Records
Hip hop I love you but step out of line and I’ll beat that ass.
Feb 5th
Xpizzle’s Bitch Slap
The most unintentionally hilarious thing one encounters in their journey as a hip hop journalist are press releases. Seriously who the fuck writes these things, people, that’s who, what’s worse than this is they are getting paid, actual money! There is one company in Australia doing an outstanding job largely, other than that it is a constant stream of rubbish into our mailbox, both online and the old fashioned postal way. Rather than helping launch their acts into the stratosphere of superstardom the third rate writing promises, they instead make them mocked and judged before the music has even hit the ears of a handful of listeners. If everyone is “the future” and every album “definitely the years best” what exactly does that leave? I long for the day where I read something along the lines of “CD contains an attempt at a Triple J single, three BBQ songs, some stolen beats & gratuitous use of the word fuckholio”. If those writing these releases are really serious about both their jobs and the careers of those they are looking to promote they need to step their shit up or step the fuck away from the Microsoft Word document.
Press release writers, you’ve been pimp slapped.
What’s up on our Technics 1200′s?
Jan 4th
Crumpet always has the freshest beats up on our technics 1200’s. We are constantly digging and scratching the surface for artist and music that are pushing the boundaries and making us groove. And whats even better we LOVE to share the goodness with ya’ll….
Dam Funk – Rhythm trax 4
Seminal Los Angeles based label Stones throw continue with their forth installment of the decisive “rhythm trax” series. Dam funk takes control of the mother ship and steers it straight into space…space boogie that is. Emerging as a new cat on the Stones Throw block, Dam Funk has taken the 80’s boogie sound and given it a new millennium imprint, bringing together vintage synth sounds over the funkiest bottom end rhythms which in turn create inimitable dance floor orientated joints catered to make you move.
first of all I’d like to thank god
Dec 5th
The 2008 Online Hip-Hop Awards. Bet you never knew there was one! Or maybe you did. In which case you’d be all over this post already. Presented by the luscious Hip-Hop writer Angela Yee + comedian Donell Rawlings here are the nominees and winners for 2008′s Online Hip-Hop Awards.
Whutisit? The Online Hip-Hop Awards is the premier awards event that provides fans the power to vote for their favorite rap star or become a star themselves. It’s the best of both worlds – merging hip-hop and technology – so that fans, artists and the music industry together have an equal platform to elect the best in over 30 categories.
To view the tale of the tape click yo’self over to www.onlinehiphopawards.com
Kevin of Nottingham
Nov 24th
Actually its Kevin and he runs a dope site called kevinnottingham.com. His genius website provides music reviews, latest news and runs downloads to hip hop sample albums which is what got our attention. Seriously we’ve been on the download and lettin’ the Alpine blast the whole weekend with the sample album posts on his site: right herr.
We’ve just gotten savvy to the site and we recommend hittin up the exclusive download page. Plenty of tunes to keep on heavy rotation. We give Kev’s site a big thumbs up and 4 Crumpets. Fresh!
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xXx
Oct 13th
With Diesel’s Dirty Thirty party now over, we Crumpeters gotta say throwing a big three-oh party for the rest of the world is a mad major marketing ploy to get masses back on the Diesel bandwagon which, in our circles at least, had been dying in the a-hole.
We’re taking a look at the mashups that happened as part of Diesel’s artist lineup.
London’s lineup included Soul Jazz Soundsystem, Mark Ronson, and DNB heavies DJ Fresh & MC Dynamite.
Stockholm sported Swedish hip hop superstar Lazee, while in Zurich the Cuban Brothers smashed it up.
Tokyo got a sweet deal with Soulwax and the venerably talented A-Trak
and of the more current commercially viable known artists Chaka Khan vs Hot Chip performing at the New York event also a pregnant M.I.A (coming out of retirement) vs N.E.R.D live mashup. Insane!! Check the clips here
Restless by Crown City Rockers
Oct 7th
We’re always down with Crown City Rockers. For one, they have a slick crown logo and the other, they’re a dope crew with our flavoured hip hop. They have a new single you can check on crowncityrockers.com We won’t brag no more, body rock over to their dot com. chicky check it.
