Sonic Walker

The follow up on the popular Netcandy Volume 1 mix is available now. Netcandy Volume 2 also features netlabel hip-hop and other breakbeat styles with vocals as well as instrumental. The mix starts with a beautiful track by Playme which is sung in Rumantsch, a language only being spoken by about 50,000-70,000 people in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. Other raps are in English, German and Spanish.

Complete tracklist and free mp3 mix download

“Can I Get An Amen?” is another essay by Nate Harrison about probably one of the most famous breaks used in hip-hop, jungle and drum & bass.

Can I Get An Amen? is an audio installation that unfolds a critical perspective of perhaps the most sampled drums beat in the history of recorded music, the Amen Break. It begins with the pop track Amen Brother by 60’s soul band The Winstons, and traces the transformation of their drum solo from its original context as part of a ‘B’ side vinyl single into its use as a key aural ingredient in contemporary cultural expression. The work attempts to bring into scrutiny the techno-utopian notion that ‘information wants to be free’- it questions its effectiveness as a democratizing agent. This as well as other issues are foregrounded through a history of the Amen Break and its peculiar relationship to current copyright law.

Click here to listen (and watch)

K-oZ Collective, a hip hop band with Dutch lyrics, has release some promo tracks (unfortunately only 128kbps mp3). Their music is a fusion of jazz, funk and hip hop.

• Lieve Woorden
• Check da Sound
• Fozz dropt de bom
• Fozzyvostra en de Davidido
• Nieuwe Ronden, Nieuwe Kansen

You can also listen to a radio show with rapper Fozz in the studio.

Pete Philly & Perquisite were the act before our Roller Disco party at the Vondelpark Openluchttheater in Amsterdam last Saturday. Pete Philly & Perquisite merge hip hop with jazz, broken beats and even some classical music. Just one day before they perfomed at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague.

Click here to see some photos of their live performance.