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Chronique Hilly Dilly Portland’s Sapient is responsible for representing a progressive new angle to hip-hop production that keeps hip-hop moving in a interesting direction. His percolating synths and melodramatic guitar chords woven into his instrumentals...

Line-up Officiel “Power Bossa” is the introduction to Fab Samperi’s definition of a boombastic jazz style. Fearlessly and creatively picking up inspiration from the golden decades of classic rhythm & blues, latin, hip-hop and soul Sicily’s most prolific...

Chronique de Surviving the Golden Age Pigeon John is the quintessential backpack rapper for me. With album titles like Pigeon John Is Clueless, Pigeon John Is Dating Your Sister, and Pigeon John and the Summertime Pool Party, Pigeon John does not ape...

Chronique Dusty Groove Amazing, simply amazing – and a record that's way more than we were expecting! The Roots team up here with legendary Miami soul singer Betty Wright – in music that comes from a film project, but which really stands up brilliantly...

Chronique Access Hip-Hop The GreyCrow has landed!. Eligh's first solo album since 2003's Poltergeist. Five years ago, Eligh, the prolific beatsmith and emcee from the Living Legends crew, was wandering the streets of downtown Los Angeles searching for...

Chronique Gogoyoko Highly acclaimed labels like Favorite, Big Single, Rotax and Heavenly Sweetness have collected their forces in order to present "Patchworks Remix Book" a fine section of remixes. For the first time, Patchworks' best remixes come in...

Chronique Dusty Groove Classic work from Brick – a group who went onto become surprisingly successful during the 70s with a hot Atlanta blend of funky soul and uptempo club grooves – absolutely killing it early on with this self-titled second album! Brick...

Chronique TheFunkStore He lent his vocal and keyboard talents to some of P-Funk’s most classic jams. As a member of the original version of P-Funk AllStars, he was right up there next to Bernie Worrell when George Clinton kicked off his 1983 comeback...

Chronique Dusty Groove Mayer Hawthorne moves to the majors on How Do You Do – bringing that fun, neo classic bedroom soul sound he did so well on Stones Throw with him – pretty much picking up right where Strange Arrangement left off! The Mayer Hawthorne...

Topic Officiel Since 2002, Laid Back connects creative minds from all over the world to help develop their art and get the word out. In every project we involve our audience by documenting every step of the process and generate interaction. For this compilation,...