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• Big Sean - Finally Famous maandag 05 december 2011

  Sporadically fun, but this set doesn’t paint its maker as a long-term talent.

  Detroit-raised rapper Big Sean – a whopping 5’8", physically – has followed a path well travelled to this debut studio collection proper. Potential exhibited on previous mixtapes, encapsulated by the track Getcha Some, has been refined at the expense of some bite. This smoothing of aspects unpalatable to mainstream tastes is an action frequently taken in translating blog buzz into radio hits – and, taking Drake as an example, it can lead to significant successes. Sure, a few early adopters get dropped; but a few million fill, and swell, the spaces.

• Yelawolf - Radioactive donderdag 01 december 2011

  The Alabama rapper’s star is sure to shine for the foreseeable based on this debut.

  With a catalogue stretching back to 2005’s self-released collection Creek Water, it’s perhaps surprising that Alabama-based rapper Yelawolf (born Michael Atha) has taken until now to reveal his debut album proper. (There have been mixtapes and EPs, but nothing more substantial.) But as its generally positive reception stateside illustrates, Radioactive has largely been worth the wait. With a plethora of guest vocalists crowding the credits, as well as a diverse array of production talents on board, it risks being a case of too many cooks – but the myriad styles just about gel together, enough to ensure that the central voice is worth focusing on throughout.

• Beastie Boys - Ill Communication donderdag 03 november 2011

  Their classic 1994 set that better encapsulates the Beasties than any other LP.

  While it was far from disappointing, the Beasties’ third LP, 1992’s Check Your Head, lacked a lot of the wow-factor that’d graced their sampladelic masterpiece of 1989, Paul’s Boutique. A return to the New York trio’s scrappy punk sound, prominent on early demos, Check Your Head was solid, competent, mixing the band’s trademark rhyme schemes with bombastic percussion and over-amplified riffs. But for their next set, messrs Mike D, Ad-Rock and MCA would have to step their game up.

• Oddisee - Rock Creek Park maandag 24 oktober 2011

  Versatile D.C. producer pays homage to hometown park.

  Certain melodies don’t need words, rolling rhythms and lush crescendos filling the space where verbal expressions normally reside. It happens in rare moments, where lyrics would impede the flowing percussion and stifle its budding effervescence. When done properly, instrumental projects have the ability to soothe and sizzle, encouraging listeners to relax from the struggle and reflect upon calmer times. Amir Mohamed aka Oddisee’s Rock Creek Park is all of the above, serving as a flawless soundtrack for the historic Washington, D.C. park and a moving blueprint for other producers to follow. Quite the achievement for a project recorded over a two-week period in June.

• Mary J Blige - No More Drama donderdag 25 augustus 2011

  Well-made, extremely personal and exceptionally heartfelt.

  Spawning her first US number one single, Family Affair, for many fans No More Drama will always be their favourite Mary J. Blige album. Originally conceived as the second part of a trilogy following1999’s Mary, it reveals an artist in complete control. Singing every note (aside from collaborations with Eve, Pharrell, Common, Diddy and Ja Rule) and writing every word, while Blige has the obligatory cast-of-thousands so prevalent of RnB albums at the turn of the century, it feels like no-one else’s work but her own.

• Stereo MCs - Emperors Nightingale dinsdag 23 augustus 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Emperors Nightingale' van 'Stereo MCs'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne maandag 15 augustus 2011

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• Diagrams - Diagrams vrijdag 05 augustus 2011

  Former 'folktronica' maverick branches out in style

  The latest project of erstwhile Tunng co-frontman Sam Genders, Diagrams offer a lavish, folk-tinged take on contemporary pop, full of deftly executed collisions between acoustic instruments and discreet laptop sound design – or ‘folktronica’ as it was once clumsily dubbed. It’s not, frankly, a million miles from Tunng, especially given how intrinsic Genders’ velvety Derbyshire brogue and songwriter’s craft, both very much the focus here, were to so many of his former band’s signature recordings.

• Mellowhype - BlackenedWhite dinsdag 19 juli 2011

  Hiphopcollectief Odd Future maakt nu drie jaar furore in de undergroundhiphopscene. De heruitgave van het album BlackenedWhite, dat vorig jaar nog de ronde deed op het internet, laat de luisteraar kennis maken met Mellowhype, bestaande uit Odd Future-leden Left Brain en Hodgy Beats.

• DJ Shadow - Endtroducing… donderdag 14 juli 2011

  An unprecedented debut which changed the face of hip hop in the 90s.

  It’s an uncomfortably common practice in the cult of music critique for writers to overstate the importance of particular albums. Subsequently, long-players by relative makeweights like the Longpigs are talked about amongst scribes of a certain age as lost classics, and the consumer can pick up a deluxe edition of almost any album released prior to 2004, replete with unnecessary ‘bonus’ content that’ll never get played. So allow me to undersell the significance of DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing… LP, the Californian producer’s debut of 1996. It’s alright. It’s got merit. Its influence is definitely noticeable. It can be heard today and sound just as fresh as it did nearly 15 years ago. It did change the face of hip hop, sample culture, and has impressed its presence on next-to-every electronic artist to have dropped a break since its release. Sorry, I tried: like I said, such hyperbole is a mainstay of articles like this.

• Classified - Handshakes And Middle Fingers vrijdag 08 juli 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Handshakes And Middle Fingers' van 'Classified'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• Samiyam - Sam Baker's Album vrijdag 08 juli 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Sam Baker's Album' van 'Samiyam'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• Wiley - 100 % Publishing maandag 27 juni 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD '100 % Publishing' van 'Wiley'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• Dels - Gob dinsdag 14 juni 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Gob' van 'Dels'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• 13 & God - Own Your Ghost maandag 02 mei 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Own Your Ghost' van '13 & God'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• J. Rocc - Some Cold Rock Stuff woensdag 30 maart 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Some Cold Rock Stuff' van 'J. Rocc'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• The Death Set - Michel Poiccard woensdag 02 maart 2011

  Via de VPRO Luisterpaal is weer een nieuwe CD te beluisteren. Dit keer is het de CD 'Michel Poiccard' van 'The Death Set'. De track lijst is als volgt.

• J Dilla - Donuts dinsdag 22 februari 2011

  Dilla had a Midas touch which has reached beyond his tragically short lifetime.

  I’ve never been one for Golden Eras of art – especially when it comes to pop music, a form ever-morphing beside technological innovation and fluctuations in the human condition. To say that a select few years encapsulated everything that’s ever been great about a continuing movement is, typically, madness, as what the near-or-far future holds, nobody can say.

• Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans dinsdag 25 januari 2011

  Zijn stem domineerde de ether in 2010, terwijl niemand wist wie hij was. Met Doo-Wops & Hooligans levert Bruno Mars een volledige staalkaart van zijn talent af. Zijn naam is al een hemellichaam, maar de man zelf is ook hard op weg een grote ster te worden.

• Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans donderdag 20 januari 2011

  Mars’ solo debut lacks the sparkle that some of his previous productions had in spades.

  Every day, life presents us with puzzling posers. Why did the Crazy Frog have a penis? It makes no sense. Others are far easier to tackle. Recently, the music press asked, for roughly the nth time: is rock dead? The foundation for said inquisition: rock tracks accounted for only three of the UK’s 100 top-selling singles of 2010. And the answer is, of course, no. But it’s the success of jack-of-all-trades artists like Bruno Mars (pop, soul, reggae, RnB – he has a crack at them all), whose two British singles to date have both topped the chart, that threatens rock’s influence on this nation’s impressionable youths.