As most of our beloved following will know by now, the OTU Live team has been working endlessly behind the scenes to bring the UK the scintillating lineup of Reef The Lost Cauze, Slaine and Snowgoons’ DJ Illegal. Now it’s my turn to step up to the plate and drop some knowledge in support of OTU’s monumental movements. Escucha y aprende.
Starting this off, here’s visuals from Reef and Snowgoons’ recent LP collaboration Your Favorite MC (iTunes). On the audio side of things, the German production powerhouse bring super-charged violin chords to create that dramatic sense of purpose whilst Reef pumps us with the cold similarities between the streets and the various war’s the world finds itself embroiled in. Like this? You’ll love the album.
Shout out to Chris‘ Facebook for this one. German production-powerhouse, Snowgoons, hit us with their latest compilation of head-bangers for underground heads to enjoy. Kraftwerk boasts features including Ill Bill, Crooked I, Torae, Skyzoo, Reef The Lost Cauze, Esoteric and many more household names which find themselves over the crisp, efficient production that only Germans could produce (sorry, I couldn’t resist!). I’ve selected the intro joint for your to sink your teeth into as it eerily sets up the rest of the album. Slowly building with soft yet dramatic, almost cinematic, momentum (brilliantly illustrated by the Soundcloud frequency below) before Freestyle from the Arsonists drops a few bars to put us on our way.
So I think we are all in agreement: 2009 has been quite a year for hip-hop. It has seen the return of Em, Jay has completed his Blueprint trilogy and 50 has had so much beef you would think he will be full up for Xmas (*cringes*. Yeah that was bad).
Aside from the big names dropping their albums, we have also seen some highly anticipated underground acts dropping LP’s too. This is my Best Of ’09 list and contains some real gems so don’t let the year go past before getting your hands on these.
A clearout of the inbox and BOOM: It throws up another UGHH for the hip-hop heads to enjoy.
This one is (mostly) full of artists who haven’t been featured on the site before, so amidst all the mainstream music that’s been up recently, we’ve gone so underground that you’re gonna need some sort of torch.
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