The anticipation for this LP is almost too much, Window Seat saw Badu back to her best form and was more than enough to keep us happy until the full length dropped, but lo and behold, she sneaks out another didn’t…

read Strawberry Incense

It was very sad to hear about GURU’s health problems last month and all the moreso when his nephew went online to inform us that Keith Elam’s family have been out of the loop regarding all of these health…

read Download – GangStarr Mix

Remember this is on tonight folks if you are out for St. Patrick’s Eve, making his Dublin debut multi award winning turntablist and resident DJ with the Beastie Boys MIXMASTER MIKE is set for a headline show at THE…

read MMM & Gift of Gab this tuesday

” Your entire community is gone…

You can’t go home, it doesn’t exist anymore”

-Jay Electronica

FULL SCREEN
The Sounds of VTech / jay_elec_3rdward_v5b

as per B+ and Coleman

In the weeks after Hurricane…

read NOLA with Jay Electronica

When hip-hop trio Digable Planets emerged in the early 90s, their memorable moniker raised eyebrows. What, exactly, did it mean? The name sprang, they explained, from the notion that every individual is a planet. But the unique worlds that their tracks mapped out were not insular ones; as their Grammy-winning hit Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" would prove, the Planets were primed to connect with audiences weary of the aggressive posturing of Gangsta rap. Digable Planets play their first Irish show for ChoiceCuts in Crawdaddy.

read Digable Planets & U.G.O Band

Great news just in, we just confirmed the booking of legendary Hip Hop-Jazz outfit Digable Planets.
A favourite of ours ever since the double bass slapped on the infamous Rebirth of Slick (Cool like Dat) single….

read Digable Planets to play ChoiceCuts

Cited as the inventor of the remix with his partner Double Dee, Their ‘Lessons’ series encapsulated the sounds of New York Hip Hop and club culture in the early 1980s and these productions were released by the revered Tommy Boy records. These holy grail records are the building blocks and main influence for DJs & Producers like DJ Shadow, Cold Cut, Massive Attack. Steinksi will be performing an Ableton Live set joining the dots between brass, funk, spoken word, electro and modern classics. Anyone who is a fan of beat culture will enjoy Steinski.

read Steinski (Ableton Set)

excerpt from Tu-k Mix, with excellent visual and editing from the man Fergal Brennan, big ups

Mc Nasty Remix from The Pre-Seed

Link to stream Mix and download at the following link – Preseed

For those who don’t…

read Pre:Seed Visuals and Mix

Music is therapy – rhythms ease the mind and transport one to places and spaces far beyond their immediate surroundings. At the turntables, DJ Center soul-travels, navigating audiences with a crate of musical goods from…

read DJ Center – Leave The City Outside

Hip Hop duo Reflection Eternal have finished their new album Revolutions Per Minute and it is expected to drop in February 2010. Reflection Eternal are comprised of Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek and this is the first time…

read Re: Union Mixtape

Double trouble folks, The first Revolution of 2010 will be a family affair with DJs Tu-ki & Scope joining forces on 4 turntables running through all styles of music on one of Dublin’s best sound systems in The…

read Revolution

Lovely video to compliment her track ‘Always’. Muhsinah comes correct as per usual with her lush beats and vocals, expect a return to CC from this lady in 2010. Check out the Gallery from her show with…

read Muhsinah – Always

Playing with us on Saturday JRocc is one of the best DJ’s to walk the planet. No stranger to ChoiceCuts he has played some memorable parties for us with Shortkut, Madlib, Tony Allen, Chali 2na, so we look forward to…

read Secondhand Sureshots with JRocc

Edan the Deejay announces 2 Irish launch parties in conjunction with his seminal Echo Party mix release on 5 Day Weekend. Check this trailer from this innovative mix from the talented Mr. Portnoy. Travelling with Edan…

read Echo Party comes to ChoiceCuts

With the widely advertised launch of the DJ Hero game all eyes are on the turntables. The game itself is the latest installment in the wildly successful series of ‘rhythm games’, though the first to be based on…

read Controllerism – turntablism reinvented

JRocc unleashes snippets from the second coming of Mad Villain on WFMU radio in NYC’s East Village around the time of CMJ last week, click here for this link on The Fader website. This is going to be a huge release,…

read Mad Villain Snippets

Following on from our post about Edan’s latest creation “Echo Party” last week the good people at WMFU have a full interview and album preview with Edan…

read WMFU Exclusive : Edan’s Echo Party Album

Our good friend Charlie in LA hipped us to this new station Current TV he is working with and he is a sample of shows

This is from the series Embedded and this one has Mos Def giving us the lowdown on Japan while he…

read In Japan with Mos Def

Ghanian MC Blitz is making noise in all the right corners at the moment with his single ‘Breathe’. Based in New York he has been turning heads with his live performances, check ‘Radio’ for a sample of his flow and his…

read Blitz The Ambassador

Sad news over the weekend is that DJ/Turntablist/Producer Anthony Williams aka Roc Raida passed away at 37 years of age. Spinal injuries from a martial arts session had put the artist in hospital and at the time of…

read Grandmaster Roc Raida R.I.P