Get your motor runnin’. Which in this case, means crank up your enthusiasm for finely-crafted hip hop, with a conscience, from Saskatchewan. The hip hop in question is Steppenwolf, the new single/video from the MC & Producer team-up of Kay the Aquanaut and Factor. I posted on the duo’s introductory EP last year, and this(…)
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Virtual Flannel – Hey There Bird
I’ve said something to this effect before, but, for me at least, it seems as though many of the most interesting hip hop-related projects we get sent from Canada are of the instrumental variety. It also seems that these folks are finding it easier to make noise in other locales versus their own backyard. This(…)
Premiere:: Ryan Stinson – Melt (ft. Ghettosocks)
Here’s a fact about me: I love a good video premiere. I love it even more when it’s for a song that I think is completely fantastic and has an amazing video to boot. Melt from producer Ryan Stinson’s last EP FUTURA is both of those things and then some. As I said of this(…)
Dragon Fli Empire – Lucky Day
I don’t know about you, but there is absolutely nothing that tops my Thursday off like some soulful Prairie hip hop, so I was delighted to re-discover this here jawn (yeah, I said jawn, get off my lawn) from Calgary’s Dragon Fli Empire. I’ve enjoyed DFE for some time now, but Saskatoon-based producer Def-Chap is(…)
mikedecline – MOOD SOOP
The other day I mentioned that I’d posted some four times on Teenage Kicks so far this year, and low and behold I’ve just discovered that this is my third post featuring Vancouver based producer mikedecline. So, other than the fact that some 80% of my posting output this year featured just two acts (haha,(…)
Ira Lee – The Photographer
I’m not sure why, considering I’ve always been a fan of his uncompromisingly unorthodox style, but it seems it’s been ages since we’ve posted something from Ira Lee. That’s a problem we remedy today with Ira’s new video for The Photographer. The song, with its fantastic, cacophonous beat from LA’s Thavius Beck, is classic Ira(…)
Laika – Pangaean Drift
Like with Fraction & Fresh Kils’ Extra Science, I was drawn to this new EP from Laika (aka the producer/MC duo of Factor & Kay the Aquanaut) because it features production from one of my favorite CDN producers. In this case though, I was much more familiar with the MC, being fully aware that Kay(…)
Def3 – Amnesia
Well now, it seems like ages since we’ve posted any Prairie hip hop, and while this might not normally be an odd occurrence, it’s quite a drought for us considering we were once THE home on the web for Edmonton hip hop (not really, but kind of). Luckily, Regina’s Def3 comes to the rescue with(…)
Ryan Stinson – FUTURA
What does it say that a healthy portion of the new hip hop albums I’m the most excited to hear these days are often if the instrumental variety? Well I think it mainly says I’m a confirmed, curmudgeonly hip hop get-off-my-lawner, but I’d like to think that it also means there are plenty of talented(…)
Erin Passmore – Downtown
Erin Passmore is better known for her work with Regina outfit Rah Rah, for whom she’s been known to contribute drums, keys, bass and vocals, but she’s recently released her first solo record: the Downtown EP. The Saskatchewanian ventured east to Montreal last summer, to make this 8 song EP with the assistance of many(…)
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