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Getdown Services: Josh Law and Ben Sadler
Song of the Day: Droll, catchy, glam-rock hip hop disco grooves by the enterainingly downbeat Bristol duo of Josh Law and Ben Sadler taken from their new EP, Your Medal’s In The Post, out on Breakfast Records
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Summer Pearl - The Creator
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Greentea Peng, another stylishly cool London singer-rapper brings spiritual and political lyrics and female power in hip-hop-jazz-soul number that reminds us that music is a healer and out on Kitto Records
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Greentea Peng is back
Song of the Day: With a distinctive new fusion of hip-hop, trip-hop, neo soul, dub, reggae, jazz, and psychedelia, south London artist Aria Wells returns after two years with a stylish number with a dark bassline, tinkling piano, and something of a manifesto about pure expression
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clipping.’s Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson
Song of the Day: Slick, agile clever, innovative, cross-genre hip-hop/cyberpunk with shades of OutKast with added classic late-80s Roland TB-303 bass rave sounds, by the Los Angeles experimentalist trio fronted rapper by Daveed Diggs with Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson
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OneDa - Let Me In
Song of the Day: The charismatic, pull-no-punches Manchester rapper Onyinyechuwku Ezeh returns with sharply delivered hip-hop with a punchy horn accompaniment, and heralds her forthcoming album Formula OneDa out on 4 October via Heavenly Recordings
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潘PAN aka Pan Wei Ju
Song of the Day: An entrancing, experimental hybrid of spoken word and electronica by the Taiwanese rapper Pan Wei Ju, with a song about strength in vulnerability in the form of “a monologue of a young and not so experienced witch, who doesn’t always do all her magic and alchemy right.”
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Lemon Bucket Orkestra
Song of the Day: A slice of punchy Balkan brass fun by Toronto’s Canadian collective band, featuring fiery Ukrainian and Spanish rap against floating traditional Ukrainian polyphonic vocals in what is also the title track of their latest album
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Galliano return in 2024 after 27 years
Song of the Day: The acid jazz, soul and hip hop band returns after almost three decades with a vibrant new ode-to-dance and spoken number namechecking influential artists, musicians and from Arthur Russell to Andrew Weatherall, and heralds the the forthcoming album Halfway Somewhere, out on Browswood Recordings
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Two wise men: Pete Rock and Common
Song of the Day: Two acclaimed hip-hop veterans, the Chicago MC and New York producer combine with slick, articulate new single about “past, present and future happening all at once”, heralding their upcoming collaborative album, The Auditorium Vol. 1
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Madlib - REEKYOD
Song of the Day: Following his last Rock Konducta albums in two parts and Sound Ancestors, the prolific US hip-hop producer and songwriter returns with two stellar rappers with a sharp new single, including The Roots’ Black Thought
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Little Simz has just released her latest EP, Drop 7
Song of the Day: The innovative London rapper and acting star returns with a striking new track of intricate beats and agile lyrical flow on mercurial states of mind, the opener from her brand new EP, Drop 7, produced by Jakwob.
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Cakes Da Killa - Mind Reader
Song of the Day: The flamboyant, charismatic American rapper aka Rashard Bradshaw known as a key figure in hip-hop’s ‘queer explosion’ returns with slick, fast, articulate, confident delivery on this dance-music inflected track, with guest vocals by Stout
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Genesis Owusu
Song of the Day: This striking new track by the Ghanaian-Australian rapper from Canberra, Australia (Kofi Owusu-Ansah) is a punchy potent mix of hip-hop, punk, funk, gospel and electro-pop, now an extension to this year’s August-released sophomore album, Struggler
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Fire Up The Sun - Between A Nail And A Sharp Place
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Belfast rap entry, now some sharp Scottish cross-genre spoken word / hip-hop, this time from lyricist MC Burnoot and Sweden-based producer ArrCee, with a combination of compelling beats and cleverly constructed, phrases
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KNEECAP - Better Way To Live (featuring Grian Chatten)
Song of the Day: The pull-no-punches Belfast rappers’ latest single features the Fontaines D.C. singer in an upbeat, sharp, articulate strongly bassy number about finding that little spark of joy in life’s monotony, and in the day-to-day things
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Enola Gay’s latest EP, Casement
Song of the Day: A powerful, valedictory-style number, the final from their latest EP, Casement, the explosive Dublin punk/hip-hop quartet with an evolved, more tender sound mixing elements electronica with Belfast music producer Mount Palomar
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Balming Tiger
Song of the Day: Catchy, snappy, witty upbeat hip-hop and alt-K-pop by Seoul’s South Korean collective that includes San Yawn, rapper Omega Sapien, DJ Abyss, Sogumm, Wnjn, and Mudd the Student
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The incomparable Bootsy
Song of the Day: Superbly infectious brassy, squelchy Prince and also Parliament-like like funk of the highest order by legendary bass master with Queens rapper Baby Triggy and Hamburg singer Fantaazma
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Jacana People & Antony Szmierek - Twist Forever
Song of the Day: With array of twinkly electronics and dance beats by the British production duo of Aaron Miller and Robert Wheatley, an uplifting, reflective number featuring the Mancunian poet about making the most of your time when life is short
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From the video for Celebrate Me by Baxter Dury
Song of the Day: From his forthcoming seventh album, I Thought I Was Better Than You, the latest alternative hip-hop single by the London artist and son of the famous Ian is poetic, caustic, provocative and strangely beautiful, channelling new “faux-confrontational” character
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