Portishead’s Geoff Barrow to release hip-hop project on Stones Throw
Dead Prez, Guilty Simpson and more feature.
James Pants – Sludge: James Pants Sorrows Pt. II 2006-2010
Hip-hop / synth-pop / coldwave playboy James Pants just released a new beat tape, Sludge, for free online. The follow-up to last year’s JP’s Failed Rap Beats 2004-2008, it’s another instalment of music chosen from a “vast collection of oddities, soddities, and heresies from back in the days when I thought I could be a [...]
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – 'Thuggin'
Madlib makes so much music that you think he’d make more of it with MCs. We mean, it’s great doing seventeen volumes of Medicine Show in two months or whatever his current form is, but given his track record of working with rappers (Madvillain, Guilty Simpson et al) you’d imagine he’d want to collaborate more [...]
Five minutes with… Veronica Vasicka
Talking Stones Throw’s The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol.2
FACT mix 262: James Pants
One of contemporary pop’s most unique and frequently rewarding characters delivers his FACT mix.