In the style of Deadly Wiz Da Disko and Chris De Luca vs. Phon.o, comes this tip from Wax­fac­tor of the DJ called Ooah. Tech-y hip-hop, gor­geous breaks, plen­ti­ful scratches, IDM, glitch, elec­tro, it all comes together in this man’s mixol­ogy. Not gonna say much more about it, but check it out if any of that appeals to you.
“Sound Adap­ta­tion“
“Tec­cch Hop Mix“
“Glitch Funk Tech Break Mix“
“Tastes Like Vinyl”

I barely under­stand what this is, to be hon­est. As near as I can make out, a French record label asked DJ Krush to do a megamix of their label’s out­put, and this is part of series called OuMuPo. But I’m not even sure what the label is actu­ally called. If you know French and would like to leave some com­ments, please enlighten me! Here is the web­site. What I can tell is you is maybe the most impor­tant thing: this is fan­tas­tic mixol­ogy right here. DJ Krush has long been a god among pro­duc­ers, and the var­i­ous live record­ings of his mix shows leave no doubt he is an inspired DJ. The moods, tex­tures, and drums on this mix show this beau­ti­ful detail. There is an epic and metic­u­lous qual­ity to this mix that makes it much more than a blended col­lec­tion of music. It’s basi­cally an album, made by sam­pling the out­put of one spe­cific record label. Gere are the first 2 con­straints given to Krush, to give you an idea of the basic pur­pose: “1) To use the cat­a­log as mate­r­ial, and build the whole mix in a re-construction style, 2) To be ‘a live drum­mer with­out drum­sticks’ through­out the whole mix.” In these respects, Krush hits it out of the park. Pur­chase here.

In other Krush news, he pro­duced a track for someone’s web­site. Check it out:
“Time To Melt” (mp3)

My first inter­ac­tion with Joe Beats was the Non-Prophets album, Hope, with Sage Fran­cis. This was a new mod­ern album on Lex Records that sounded like mid-90s hip-hop through and through. There is a song on there that sounded like Pharcyde’s “Run­nin”! But when I say it sounded like that, it doesn’t mean that it was dated, it was time­less in a way, rep­re­sent­ing one of the most pure and inven­tive peri­ods in hip-hop music. Joe Beats’ love is clearly for this type of sound, and his par­tic­u­lar stamp on it is an almost indie rock influ­ence, born out by his Indie Rock Blues project. This new instru­men­tal album, a com­bi­na­tion of orig­i­nal new tracks and instru­men­tals of his work with MCs, is prob­a­bly his most per­sonal work to date. It’s a deep album, tak­ing in almost 20 tracks of tough drums, lib­eral gui­tar sam­ples, and rolling bass. Let’s come back to the drums… these things are sharp! By now, whip crack­ingly sharp drums are his trade­mark, along with the com­bi­na­tion of play­ful sen­si­bil­ity and melan­cholic melodies. This com­bi­na­tion is what gives his approach to hip-hop pro­duc­tion such a dis­tinc­tive and time­less qual­ity, like the very best song­writ­ing. Avail­able at Bully shop, Bent Crayon, among other places. Here are a few down­loads that are cur­rently online for a taste:
“Fade” (mp3)
“Me Talk Pretty” (mp3)
“Hell­fire (Remix)” (mp3)
Rhythm Incur­sions Pod­cast Spe­cial (mp3)

Got a nice cre­ative com­mons release here for you from the mp3 label Serein. Nest is a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Otto Tot­land (Deaf Cen­ter) and Huw Roberts (Serein), and it’s gor­geous music. Min­i­mal, glacial, and del­i­cate, it’s con­structed from their com­mon instru­ment, the piano, as well as the Welsh harp, wood­wind instru­ments, field record­ings, per­cus­sion, and effects. It sounds so effort­less, which is where part of the beauty comes in. The full force of the duo’s musi­cal knowl­edge comes to bear on this, really val­i­dat­ing the phrase “con­tem­po­rary clas­si­cal” when refer­ring to music of this type. Make sure to give your­self time to soak this EP in. Check it out at the release page or directly down­load the music and art­work with this link.