Leeds Hip Hop Scene

It looks like Huw Stephen’s has finally cottoned on to give BTI’s album “Mixed Messages” his unreserved attention. Last Night /this morning BTI was featured on Huw Stephens’ Radio 1 Introducing show… as his top album of the week, there was some other UK Hip Hop on the show too.
You can download the podcast of [...]

Interesting music news from the web it seems that Yahoo Music is closing down - not that I know anyone who has Yahoo Music (probably the problem) but I thought in the interest’s of the public I should share - Yahoo is warning people who’ve purchased tunes via their Yahoo Music service to burn them [...]

So I’ve had a lot of time on my hands as watch I Sky Sports News and email my CV to just about every business in West Yorkshire as I look for work, there’s only so much Sky Sports News you can take before you start giving yourself little projects to do such as sorting [...]

I was hit up with this track from The IRS’s Ed Strong, with DJ c0mplex, in support of incarcerated graffiti artists DPM. With 5 members of the crew receiving custodial sentences of between 15 months and two years it cries out as purely ridiculous in a society where many violent criminals and repeat offenders are [...]

To mark the launch of First Word Excursions the sister arm to local label First Word Records, Stateless team up with Gary Castleton (Sage Francis) who delivers a half-rap style that perfectly compliments both sides of this EP. Leeds based, Stateless are one of the UK´s most exciting bands, currently on course to explode all [...]

I’m all over the free mixes today….
UK turntablist & producer Mr. Thing recently released the latest in his series of “Anorak” break-spotting mixes and is available to download here…http://www.sendspace.com/file/khzsum

Featuring some serious crate digging goodies. Enjoy it…