This week the UK’s Matt Ford, aka DJ Format, will release his first album in nearly seven years. Statement of Intent, the long awaited follow up to 2005′s If You Can’t Join ‘em, Beat ‘em is set to feature DJ Format’s incredibly strong boom-bap production while also giving great independent rappers a great platform to be heard. For those unfortunate enough to have missed the first two albums in the mid-naughties, here are DJ Format’s Essentials.
A quick teaser for the long awaited 3rd DJ Format album, Statement of Intent. While it hasn’t been announced that, personal favourite and frequent collaborator, Abdominal will feature, it does include the UK’s DJ Format collaborating with Edan, Mr. Life, Sureshot La Rock, Phill Most Chill and more. This is the first we’ve heard about a follow up to 2005 album, If You Can’t Join ‘em, Beat ‘em, since he dropped the Mr.DJ/Dope Pusher EP nearly a whole year ago. The album is due out on February 27th 2012.
We continue our countdown of the top 50 tracks of 2011 with those just outside the top 20.
Well this was a pleasant surprise if there ever was one. UK’s own DJ Format, producer who gave starts to D-Sisive, Abdominal while also working with members of Jurassic 5, has released new material in “Dope Pusher/Here Comes The Dope Pusher”. Big Daddy Kane samples & a distinctly old school feel means this is all we could have wished for and more. You should probably check out the instrumental B-side while you’re at it as well.
It’s been publicised that he’s been working on a 3rd album for a long time now, could this be a sign of things to come? It has been six long years since we last laid ears into a new DJ Format solo album, let’s hope that changes soon.
It’s funny how one line can trigger a playlist:
“We should rap about things that we like / Like food?”
This came about by accident when I was gorging myself on food and a few beers one night and listening to some PUTS. It occurred to me that hip-hop is one of the few genres of music where artists can do just that, rap about any subject as long as the content is clever and/or amusing and the beats are good.
Another Monday, another six choices from the Lesson Six playlist. If you’re new to the site, every Monday we post six tracks we’ve been listening too recently. Now this doesn’t mean that they’re new, in fact it normally means the opposite, but they’re all decent.
We’re just entering our second week. Thanks for the support so far guys, we really appreciate it. As a reward, we’re going to carry on our weekly features as planned! The 2nd weekly top six is here. Remember, this is what we’ve been listening to personally and not anything respective of sales or new releases.
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British success story, Plan B, might not come off as the most eloquent guy but last month he gave his thoughts to an all-ears TEDxObserver crowd on hip-hop and the term ‘chav’, among other topics. It’s definitely well worth a watch whether you’re a fan of his music or not. I found myself agreeing with [...]
Lesson is about progressive & cliché-free hip-hop with intelligent lyrics. Striving for something more than the mainstream perception of hip-hop. This means no misogyny, no glorification of drug-use, no violence and no played out flaunting of personal wealth.