Meanest Man Contest | Contaminated Dance Step b/w Feelin’ Pretty Psyched (About Love) – 7″ vinyl single | Weapon-Shaped

The Meanest Man Contest is at the top of the bottom. Yet this bottom isn't like sewers, or Hell, or someone's ass. This is the extreme underground, the artistic cream of the crop.
read more

Various Artists | The Funky 16 Corners | Stones Throw

Peanut Butter Wolf knows how important it is to keep the funk alive; it's his job as a skilled producer and as founder of Stones Throw Records.
read more

3582 | The Living Soul | Hum Drums

>Fat Jon is "35," a versatile producer and member of the crafty 5 Deez. J-Rawls is "82," a distinguished MC and member of the up-and-coming Lone Catalysts. What the hell more could an underground hip ...
read more

Not Just a Passing Fad

Emerging during the mid-'90s, Styles of Beyond tested the waters with their first single, "Killer Instinct," in 1997. Their full-length response, "2000 Fold," dropped a year later and was an undergrou...
read more

Jel | 10 Seconds | Mush Records

Using an SP-1200, the classic production tool of old school legends (which creates dirty, raw-sounding samples), Jel gives birth to 10 Seconds - an album that, in my way of looking at it, parallels th...
read more

Various Artists | Sundays, Volume 1 | Nude Recordings

The people at Nude Recordings have put together a compilation that made me wet my bed. Last night I dreamt I was stranded on a deserted island, making love to my dream girl.
read more

Techno Animal | The Brotherhood of the Bomb | Matador

To put it simply, this is Techno Animal: a slowed electronic rhythm with hard drums and heavy bass.
read more

Lexicon | It’s the L | Spytech

With its first full-length release, It's the L, the Southern Cali-based duo hopes to broaden its local rep and become "popular" nationwide. Shit ... I remember what it was like to be 15, too.
read more