Hip-hop quintet Theoretics with the latest drop in their “One A Month” series of releases. “Spiral Arms” is a nocturnal party groove featuring singer Hanna Stevens.
Category: Audio
NEW MUSIC: Untitled – Thaddeus David & Stewart Villain
SEA meets PDX on Thaddeus David and Stewart Villain’s latest team-up, a six-track EP sans title. Something to rock to while you’re bridging that long stretch of I-5 between the Puget Sound and Columbia River.
NEW MUSIC: “Vida” – Paid Roza (prod. by Trowa Barton)
Underworld Dust Funk’s Paid Roza made a love song. It’s moody and dark as fuck. And you expected something different?
NEW MUSIC: “Animals” – Doze (feat. Onry Ozzborn & IAME)
Onry Ozzborn and Portland’s IAME hop on the track “Animals,” from Sioux Falls-based producer Doze. His compilation album, Hell Is Hot As Hell, Boss, also features an appearance by Graves33. Preview and download this worthy banger below.
NEW MUSIC: A Beautiful Funeral – Ripynt
From the depths of the neglected email inbox: Ripynt’s latest, A Beautiful Funeral. More hard-edged, technically proficient, big beat and synth hardcore from the North End native. Rapper, producer and studio engineer Carl Roe again rides shotgun throughout this 18-track effort. Worth your time.
And check out the music video/short film for the track “Never Give It Up.”
NEW MUSIC: “DB Shooter” – Nacho Picasso (feat. Jarv Dee; prod. by SAT Beats)
We missed this Nacho x Jarv x SAT Beats one-off when it dropped back in early August: “DB Shooter” (not to be confused with DB Cooper or DB Sweeney.)
NEW MUSIC: Nick Johnson EP Vol. 1 – EarDr.Umz & T-Bone Steak
Bonafide Seattle crate-digger EarDr.Umz and fellow beat cohort T-Bone Steak sampled, chopped and looped together this collection of head-nodding instrumentals and tagged it with the furtive title, Nick Johnson EP Vol. 1. It’s a passing homage to Captain Baltic (government name, you guessed it: Nick Johnson) who began his run as a resident jazz DJ in 1963 at KRAB, a listener-supported FM station with a politically subversive bent. This dusty sprinkling of classically-minded boom-bap rolls along in that spirit. Good stuff.
NEW MUSIC: Symbiosis – Araless
Black Magic Noize crew member Araless dropped his new album, Symbiosis, earlier this week. Unsurprisingly, it nods to the Golden Era of hip-hop with a sample heavy, boom-bap aesthetic. There are a some nice surprises in here, like the Charlie Brown Christmas hack “Brutal Murder” (featuring Hash Adams), and the previously released “Cloudcatchers” (featuring New York MC Mike Larry Draw), a meditative, philosophical stroll through the rap haze. Ara does his due diligence with a studied, diverse flow. A solid project all around from one of the Town’s lesser-known artists.
NEW MUSIC: Maladjusted – Mega Evers
Mega Evers — relentless street rapper, unofficial official Central District reporter — follows up his No Concept The Mixtape with this six-piece EP, Maladjusted. Featuring production by Nima Skeemz and Fano, this eyewitness account of the CD is crucial to the conflict going on in the Town.
NEW MUSIC: You Wouldn’t Know – Aaron Cohen
Captain of the filthy monotonic, Aaron Cohen — the Queens-based, Seattle-bred rapper — dropped his latest project yesterday. You Wouldn’t Know is a seven-track EP with a dark and catchy appeal; the most accurate representation yet of who he is as an MC. Listen and download below, and make sure to check out the exclusive 28Hundred interview below that.
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