Archive for August, 2008
Reeplay - Come With Me
When Reeplay mentioned that he’d like us to host his debut Album ‘Come With Me’ as an exclusive free download through Blunted we clearly jumped at the chance. We think this is such a good look and should give the young producer more of what he deserves - exposure. Reeplay is an English-born, Oxford-bred producer, he [...]
Bum Rush The Boards
I once jotted down two lines for a song without any idea what to do with them. The lines were: “It was quite the strangest sight ever seen / one Knight, he tried to mate with the Queen!”. Many moons later I was sitting at my computer and my man Nick (Community League President, amongst [...]
BT Digital Music Awards 08 - Vote for Blunted!
Some of you may remember it was this time last year we were entered in the BT Digital Music Awards, and ended up coming a semi-respectable 45 out of the top 100 music blogs. Well, the awards have come round again and we’ve been entered into the “Best Unofficial Music Site” category, which will be pretty [...]
Choose Mics Interview
Time for a little something different - hip hop from Down Under. The scene in Australia is so strong that even some UK hip hop acts, Mystro, Fraksha & our boy Doc Freud are all plying their trade there. (It may have something to do with the sun, sea, and sand too!). You’ve probably heard [...]
Elastic Island, a YWFT Mixtape
You probably haven’t heard of YouWorkForThem or YWFT. If you have then you probably (should) know about this little mixtape right here. To give you some background, YouWorkForThem is an award-winning group of artists and designers that produce some absolutely sick graphics, typefaces, prints and t-shirts. The YouWorkForThem website, founded in 2001 by Michael Cina and Michael Young, showcases [...]
Going it alone in the music industry
There are more resources available than ever before to aspiring artists, and musicians, to make it on the scene without the support of a label. Through mediums such as the internet, independent nights, and the use of CD decks to play underground tunes, unsigned artists are forging their own way. Some artists are taking this [...]
Tucka Man - Kiwi Kompilation
This is the man that first nodded me towards Fat Freddy’s Drop back in 2004. After returning from a long stint in New Zealand, Tucker Man came with tales of how good the dub scene was in NZ. I asked him to burn me a compilation of tunes. Featuring on the CD were the likes [...]
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