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Setting the pace for 2008, the entire Living Legends crew locked down at Encore Studio (Dr Dre’s The Chronic 2001, Eminem Marshall Mathers LP, etc.) to record ‘The Gathering’, out 28th July on Legendary Music, set for nationwide release on their own Legendary Music label. Each song in this brand new collection features every single MC on every single track, and it is definitely the most well crafted batch since their inception.

As a collective, the prolific Legendary crew has sold well over a quarter million records between them.

The line-up includes Murs, The Grouch, Luckyiam, Eligh, Scarub, Sunspot Jonz, Aesop and Bicasso. ‘The Gathering’ is a seven song collection highlighted by a socially conscious anthem for peace, while not forgetting to move the crowd with heavy bangers, catchy hooks and fire-spitting verses. The record was mastered by Grammy Nominated Mike Lazer (Gnarls Barkely “St. Elsewhere”) at Paramount Mastering and Recording and has a sound bigger than anything coming from the independent hip hop movement.

‘The Gathering’, a precursor to a full length coming in late ‘08, serves to warn the greater hip hop massive: Don’t forget the longtime leaders of the Wild West coast!

Check the reality show spoofing video for ‘She Wants Me’:

» Buy ‘The Gathering’ online at the official Living Legends website

» Visit Living Legends on MySpace

There are two new posters to download and print, in both black and white versions, A3 in size and featuring a fine spread of tapes from way back. It was all about hitting play and record, peep the labels for some old school type steez.

» Download from the posters section.

We caught up with Slug from Atmosphere whilst he was on the ‘3 the Hard Way’ tour with Brother Ali to talk about live shows, hip hop & being a slacker amongst other things…

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Running time: 30mins 24secs

Download the interview as an mp3 (42mb - 192kbps)

Atmosphere’s new album ‘When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold’ is out now on Rhymesayers Records.

Available at: iTunes | Amazon | Fifth Element

Videos

On YouTube:
Shoulda Known
Guarantees
Paint it Gold
Bonus DVD Sneak Peek

Interview conducted on 19th June 2008 in Brighton, UK

Download ‘Now is the Time’ mixtape
Zip file contains mp3, cover image and playlist (78mb)

Tracklist:

Time 1
Bo Hansson ‘a journey in the dark’ / Two Lone Swordsmen ‘palais munich’ / Jackson Jones ‘bread and circuses instr’ + Dinah Washington ‘cry me a river (Truth & Soul remix)’ / Glen Porter ’she cries’ / Jah Division ‘isolation dub’ / Sixtoo ‘dead on arrival (Hasai’s suicide manual edit)’

Time 2
MRR-ADM ‘009′ + Combat Wombat ‘corruption dub’ + MRR-ADM feat Malcolm Catto ‘catto beat’ / Unknown Source ‘frowning’ + Muslimgauze ‘fazal mahmood on jute’ / Portishead ‘cowboys instr’ / The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion ‘greyhound part 2 (Genius remix)’ / Kid Loco ‘horsetown in vain’ / Free The Robots ‘clocks and daggers’ / Dr Octagon ‘waiting list instr’ / Glen Porter ‘glen porter’ / MRR-ADM ‘011′

Time 3
Alexanders Dark Band ‘zeus guitar’ / Urban Tribe ‘eastward’ + The Herbaliser ‘verbal anime (remix instr)’ / Ted Howler Rhythm Combo ‘crusader (halberd mix by Midnight Funk Association)’ / Sandor Caron ‘floating’ + DJ C ‘gi mi di break’ / Alexanders Dark Band ‘farmyard battle weapon edit’ / STS ‘trip to the graveyard’ + Meat Beat Manifesto ‘international’ / Tenshun ‘nihilism 7′ / Sofa Surfers ‘elusive scripts’ / Bad Meets Evil ’scary movies (Tom Tyler instr)’ + Muslimgauze ‘turkish cypriot’ / UNKLE ‘rabbit in your headlights (Underdog instr)’ / Skull ‘destroy all monsters’ / Morti Viventear ‘ciboire’ + Bolaphone ‘badness story’ / Cherrystones ‘pleasure in measures’ + Awkward ‘atomic rot’ + DJ Tundra ‘piano interlude’ / Joe Beats ‘me talk pretty’ / M.E.D. ‘rhymes with an l (Dabrye instr)’ + ie merge ‘implode (beat 1)’ / Sixtoo ‘jackals and vipers in envy of man part 9′ / DJ Signify ‘bollywood babies’ / Jon Kennedy ‘demons’

Time 4
Glen Porter ‘prolong’ / UNKLE ‘be there (Underdog instr)’ + Vincent Markowski ‘false flag’ + Tenshun ’savage lands’ / Depth Charge ‘drum reprise’ / Hipster Wonkaz ‘jupiter jam’ / Deadly Avenger ‘where fools lay dead’ + Bushido ’somebody up there likes me’ / Pivot ‘didn’t i furious’ / Bumps ‘exponent memoir’

Now Is The Time… mixed by neut @ the timbre mill in june 2008.
More info www.myspace.com/thetimbremill
Email: timbremill@bigpond.com
Artwork by Sir Robbo, from sometime in the early 90s.

The new album from beat boiler & scientist of the sampler - Wax Tailor is out now. ‘Hope & Sorrow’, the follow up to the hugely successful ‘Tales of The Forgotten Melodies’, contains 15 tracks featuring a range of guests from The Others, Voice & A.S.M. to the sweet soul of Charlotte Savary & Marina Quaisse to the spoken word skills of Ursula Rucker.

The album kicks off with a head nodding instrumental intro, and sets the tone for what’s to come. The samples and cuts ground you in that hip hop mentality, as you are whisked into the uptempo, soulful ‘The Way we Lived’ (which you can download bellow). From there you get a journey that goes from straight up boom bap raps to beautiful soulstress sounds and back again.

Wax Tailor demonstrates top notch production, paired with well chosen guests, samples and scratches to provide an album that flows perfectly from start to finish with a fine balance of instrumentals and vocal tracks. Personal favourites are ‘Positively Inclined’ and ultra-dope ‘House of Wax’.

To celebrate the release of ‘Hope & Sorrow’, we have a free mp3 to bag up:

Download ‘The Way We Lived’ by Wax Tailor featuring Sharon Jones
(mp3 - 5mb, 192 kbps)

Wax Tailor - Hope & Sorrow, out now on Decon.
“Breathtaking stuff” - The Beat Surrender
“A masterpiece of an album” - Experimusic
“An album that early Shadow and RJD2 would be proud of…” - Caught In The
Crossfire

Buy ‘Hope and Sorry’ at 7digital or Amazon

Wax Tailor music and videos on Last FM

www.myspace.com/waxtailor
www.waxtailor.com

Photos by Yves Le Bail

“From the streets of the Lower East Side New York, the City of Light and London Town come Daniel Jackson, Gabriel Mimouni and Simon Waller, who unite to form the Virgil Sturgeon…”

» Take to the seas and download/listen to the ‘Hook, Line & Stinker podcast’.

We have some great stuff coming up for the new site, some new interviews are planned with a few of your favourite rappers & there’s a new tshirt range coming shortly amongst other things. So keep an eye on the homepage for the lastest links, images and updates - or grab one of the RSS feeds.

In another Delarge exclusive, we are proud to present a brand new 55 min podcast mix called Lone Sound [Drums] by Neut from the Timbre Mill.

The Timbre Mill studio on the east coast of Australia has been very active in the last six months, lying to rest the slight rumble in favour of an aural assault in both production, and the beloved mixtape. Two DJ’s/Producers, Neut, and Neural, have been busying themselves with numerous projects, the latest being this podcast for Delarge.co.uk.

Neut has assembled 55 minutes of dirty psych drums from the past three decades into a coherent mix, its raw, its loud, its all about the drums. It’s a beat tape, with an eclectic difference… The pair prefer to stay anonymous; focussing on just the music, there’s always something to do, and to listen to. The future will see a debut vinyl release, and more mixtapes to overload your car stereo and ipod. For contact and future releases, visit myspace.com/thetimbremill.

Neut says:
“It’s all about the drums… I like drums… I hope you like drums… If you like these tracks, support the artists, go buy their beats.”

» Listen to / download Lone Sound [Drums] (& view tracklist)

Massive props to Neut for the mix, it’s a corker and thanks for taking the time out to do it.

Photo by Neut, taken at Otford easter 2008, (”Yes it’s a fridge…”)

And also congratulations to the winners in our Dephect Clothing competition, James Green (jacket), Stuart Woodburn (Tshirt) & Simon Tibbles (Tshirt).

This will probably be the last update to Delarge before the all new brand spanking new design and format for the site, which is on its way…

The latest addition to the desktop wallpaper collection is this adaptation of Miss Aniela’s photo - Stretch by kind permission. Titled ‘All I Need’, it will also be up in the posters section very soon. As usual, available in the regular sizes plus 1920×1200, 1680×1050, 1600×900 and 1440×900.

Hope you and your desktop enjoy it… more to come.

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If you were raised in the ways of that old boom bap, or if you want to hear some sweet, solid classic hip hop from the 80s, then you should grab hold of Aroe & the Soundmakers’ latest mix, The Wreckshop Philly Golden Era Vol 1. Weighing in at just over 1 hour long with more than 50 of Philadelphia’s finest hip hop gems, with DJ Too Tuff & The LA Kidd as our hosts. Check the tracklist, with joints from Steady B, Tuff Crew, Schooly D, 3 Times Dope, Phill Most Chill, Plush Brothers and Bizzy B to name a few.

As the name suggests, this mix is a “tribute to the greatest hip hop city on the map” - compiled over the last year into a non-stop heavy hitting lesson in Philly’s early vibe and a guide to how to dig in the crates.

Tracklist

The Soundmakers Philly Intro
Robbie B & DJ Jazz - Get Hip to the Real Thing
Another 1 4 U 2 N V - You GotDamn Right
Tuff Crew - Smooth Momentum
Cool C - Juice Crew Dis (Opsta Now Mix)
Steady B - I Gotcha (12″ Philly Mix)
Prelitique & MC Sweet - Another Lie/We Got the Right to Front
Von Love - This is How it Should be Done
Plush Brothers - Back to the Lab
Plush Brothers - No Gun
Ultrafunk - The Master’s Here
3rd Dynasty - It’s Curtains
Larry Larr - Keep on Y’all
Hip City Swingers - I’m the Man
Larry Larr - Line 2 Line, Rhyme 4 Rhyme (Instr.)
Tuff Crew - She Rides a Pony (Remix)
Roots - Boom
Tuff Crew - My Part of Town (Remix)
Tuff Crew - Show ‘em Hell
Tuff Crew - Attack from the Rear
Tuff Crew - Open Field Attack
Tuff Crew - Nut (Soundmakers Remix)
Mobb Sqwad - T.L. Back to Yell
Too Brown - Erie Avenue is the Promised Land
Singing MC Breeze - It Ain’y My Baby
Baritone Tip Love - All Hell is Breakin’ Loose
Phill Most Chill - Damage
Another 1 4 U 2 N V - I am Chaka
Rock Hard Delegation - Just for the Audience
Ice Cream Tee - I Can’t Hold Back
3 Times Dope - Once More You Hear the Dope Stuff
3 Times Dope - From the Giddy Up
Lightnin’ Lee & Poppy P - Lightnin’ is in Effect
Todd 1 - Give ‘em Something Radical (Soundmakers Dangerous Mix)
Todd 1 - I Did It
Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - He’s the DJ I’m the Rapper
Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Hip Hop Dancers Theme
Singing MC Breeze - Superbad
Jewel T - I Like it Loud
Jewel T - School of Hardknocks
Phill Most Chill - On Tempo Jack
Steady B - New Breed
Steady B - Let the Hustlers Play
Steady B - Serious (Soundmakers Touch of Jazz Remix)
Schooly D - Saturday Night
Schooly D - Put Your Filas On
Schooly D - P.S.K. (What Does it Mean)
Mac Money - P.S. P.S.K. (I’ll Tell You What it Means)
Bizzy B - I’m Stronger Than Before
Dominating MCs - Knowledge Bound
Intellectuals of Rhyme - Seconds of a Dope Rhyme
Mobb Sqwad - Flippin’ Keeloz
Tuff Crew - Wreck Shop (Soundmakers Remix)

» Buy online at Rarekind Records or Concourse Records