Jacques Jones

Bilal – Airtight’s Revenge

by Jacques Jones August 10, 2010

Bilal is back after a 9 year solo hiatus with a new long player entitled Airtight’s Revenge released on Plug Research a unique label which is known for its tolerance of artists who desire to have their right to pure creative freedom. That 9 year hiatus doesn’t take into account his saga in 2006 in [...]

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DJ Shadow The Remix Project

by Jacques Jones August 2, 2010

DJ Shadow received critical acclaim before releasing a full LP and upon the completion and release of Endtroducing sealed his place in the record books as creating an album solely built on samples in a landscape where sampling became a difficult art. Fortunately his approach to sampling didn’t rely on loops and instead used phrase [...]

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Skream Artwork and Benga are Magnetic Man

by Jacques Jones July 6, 2010

Magnetic Man – I Need Air Magnetic Man is a dubstep super group formed from three producers/DJs Skream, Benga and Artwork. They perform live using their mac laptops all synchronized in harmony. Their début single is out on July 25th entitled I Need Air” and gets a big GBC thumbs up. Keep your ear to [...]

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Giggs – Let Em Ave It

by Jacques Jones June 21, 2010

Giggs is an emcee who needs little introduction to UK Grime listeners however may be a new name to our stateside brethren. A man who is outgoing, has purpose and has also been waiting some time to drop his debut LP. The title of the album which is available now is appropriately titled “Let Em [...]

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Mark Ronson & The Business INTL – Bang Bang Bang Video

by Jacques Jones June 15, 2010

Mark Ronson is set to release his new album entitled “Record Collection” this September and apparently without any covers or remixes included this time round. (note to self – Must get a copy of the Mark Ronson Pink Mixtape that I lost). The video for the new single with his band The Business INTL featuring [...]

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Charis Tsevis – World Cup Inspired Art

by Jacques Jones June 11, 2010

Charis Tsevis is an Athens, Greece based visual and graphic artist who can be summed up shortly and appropriately as a bit of a don at what he does. He has been commission to illustrate with companies such as AT & T and other equally established and reputable firms. It seems Charis and I share [...]

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The Charming Theophilus London

by Jacques Jones May 25, 2010

Theophilus London is not a pseudonym, a clever play on words, or an alias but the birth name of Theophilus London II a hip hop artist who infuses house, soul and some disco into his musical broth. There are a million ways to describe his music and at the same time there isn’t one. From [...]

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Untitled/Fantastic Remix – Georgia Anne Muldrow feat Nokware

by Jacques Jones May 24, 2010

Georgia Anne Muldrow has taken on the curious task of remixing Suites for Ma Dukes and has done so with distinction. Georgia has produced for the likes of Erykah Badu and hip hops finest Mos Def. Georgia decided she would rather play along with the original as opposed to cutting and chopping it up and [...]

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