Author: Jesse Ship

Congo Natty – UK Allstars – NEW TUNE

Congo Natty – UK Allstars – NEW TUNE

Junglists are you REAAAAADY? Let’s all collectively shit our pants and exalt, YES, JAH! The new “UK Allstars” track features Tenor Fly, Top Cat, General Levy, Tippa Irie, Sweetie Irie and Daddy Freddy, and it’s the first time all of these legends have been featured on Read more

Austrian Filter House – Auf Babent (spoof)

Austrian Filter House – Auf Babent (spoof)

  WOW WOW WOW… Ihren Tuba macht sehr poomppoomp! Can’t wait to hear the latest! This kind of reminds me of the time I interviewed Booka Shade for Spinner, not gonna lie.  Ok, it reminds me a lot even.

Dalai Lama speaks at PTTOW

Dalai Lama speaks at PTTOW

  So this is a weird one. PTTOW, an innovative invite-only marketing conference a la TED TALKS invited the Dalai Lama to speak in 2011 and thought it would be “cool” to have Will.I.Am get up and ask a question. Eventually it didn’t work out Read more

Futurecop! – Atlantis 1997

Futurecop! – Atlantis 1997

FUTURECOP! – “ATLANTIS 1997 feat. Cavaliers of Fun” OFFICIAL VIDEO from Ariel Belziti Futurecop! are an awesome newish group that summon the 80s with He-man’s power of Grayskull, Lion-O’s Sight Beyond Sight, the Care Bear Stare-down, and a shit load of LSD-25.  I am particularly Read more

Debian Blak – Aaliyah remixes

Debian Blak – Aaliyah remixes

  Trap music and phuture r&b probably wouldn’t be as successful if it weren’t for pop icons like Aaliyah and Salt n Pepa for them to draw upon. Debian Blak mixes up some housey 2-step, and a light dusting of hungover sloths mating with sea Read more

Andy Stott gets dark and danceable at Foundry – BlogTO

Andy Stott gets dark and danceable at Foundry – BlogTO

If Andy Stott is the future, then the future is dark. Very dark. The celebrated producer of 2012’s sleeper hit album, Luxury Problems played at Mansion’s Foundry series in the Blk Box Theatre, beneath the Great Hall on Saturday night. His set was a technical exploration of negative space in sounds Read more

Jimmy’s Coffee Grinds New Life Into Kens. Market Location – BlogTO

Jimmy’s Coffee Grinds New Life Into Kens. Market Location – BlogTO

Jimmy’s Coffee has emerged from the spent ashes of the Hot Box Café at 191 Baldwin St. in Kensington Market, joining the original and very popular location on Portland. Walking in, you’re greeted with a portico type space with outside benches that will either be used by Read more

Birdman and Lil Wayne to Release Teen Novel from Daughters Bria and Reginae

Birdman and Lil Wayne to Release Teen Novel from Daughters Bria and Reginae

  FROM THE PRESS RELEASE (Yes, this is fucking real, and yes, it’s bound to be a page turner for “teens and young adults everywhere” LEAN INTO IT BIATCHES) March 11, 2013 – New York, NY – Bria Williams and Reginae Carter will make their literary Read more

Maetta Vibrations – DJ Flim

Maetta Vibrations – DJ Flim

Don’t touch that dial, it’s got FLIM on it! Toronto via Thailand, with a skip in Montreal, now living it up in Nice on the Côte D’Azure, Flim is a friendly dreadlocked face from the land of smiles. Flim’s so excited about his Belladonna – Read more