Last weekend the sun was blazing here on the south coast, temperatures crept up above 20C and I got a bit of a tan. This fantastic album ...

Hard to believe that this is 17 years old. Homicidal hip hop from Brooklyn, this is so confrontational, so very anti-social, that you don...

I've seen this compilation a few times in various boot sales and charity shops over the years, but this morning it was going particula...

This is a great archive of sounds from that delicious moment when hip hop burst out of New York's ghettoes in a blaze of spangly disco g...

This dodgy looking compilation from 1984 contains a couple of real boogie funk gems and some great early rap, like this: Even Dead or Alive...

Kool Keith is to hip hop what Sun Ra is to jazz and George Clinton to funk. A weirdly liminal figure, Kool Keith exists both within and outs...

A fantastic compilation of early hip hop and slippery disco from way back in 1980, all lovingly produced by Peter Brown of P&P Records. ...

A couple of weeks ago I was chatting with a friend and we got to complaining about the state of the current music scene, like a pair of old ...