Can't exactly say there has been much to have a positive impact on my ear cavities this 2017. Hear were some that were more bearable than others. Though a year more of comedy silliness than really good musical offerings...That's what I heard... ZEN-LA-ROCK, 鎮座DOPENESS and G. Rina - Seventh Heaven
This is just stupid.
YOUR SONG IS GOOD - Double Sider
Such a collection of attractive men in hats.
Chai - Sayonara Complex
This isn't completely terrible. They're kind of like Blondie for the under-5s.
Sludge Pump - Straight Outta Mount Penglai
Dirty British beat for dirty minds.
bugseed - E.S.T.
More solid stuff from the seedy insect. Decent, you know?!
Onra - Chinoiseries Pt.3
More Asian-inspired stuff from Onra's Vietnamese side. Tasty.
Damu the Fudgemunk - Vignettes
Autobiographical beat mix of words, noises and sounds.
U-zhaan, 環ROY, and 鎮座DOPENESS - 七曜日
Those guys get to making fun videos yet again. This time summarising the repetitiveness of the seven-day week. And then they got off the bus...
Evisbeats - Week
The leader of the new school releases some nameless beats.
DJ Krush - Kiseki
A series of beats for vocalists. Speak words over it!
Anchorsong - Ceremonial
One of music's nicest men comes with another album of live-production fun. See if live.
Kid Koala and Emiliana Torrini - Music to Draw to: Satellite
Slow, broody stuff to get your hands moving to. Not the rest of your body, mind!
環ROY - Nagi
Something of a mature album from the young man. Many songs getting - and deserving - promotional video formats also.
It's fair to say there wasn't too much great music this year, but feel free to change my opinion...
Couple of nice new Kakato sounds. Those dudes 環ROY and 鎮座DOPENESS make noises again...sometimes with super-friend U-zhaan. Hear me now... デザインあ ('Design'...or something)
List of some noises from the last pre-specified number of days... No vintage, but some nods and taps... Click your fingers to it... Too much wanking over RTJ3 already to include that here. De La Soul - ...and the Anonymous Nobody Some nice noises on this. Not quite 3 feet high, but maybe about 18 inches and leveling out...
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got it from Here...Thank you 4 your Service Difficult year for the other Native Tongues. 'We the People...' on your rotation box.
Zach de la Rocha (and El-P, of course) - Digging for Windows 'Big Zach' holding it down in the hip hop world with some tasty help from El-Producto himself.
Mndsgn and Ahwlee - A Rap Vacation Xmas An oldie (from like 2012) re-packaged with colourful vinyl...Ooooo, presents. Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!
Invisibl Skratch Piklz - The 13th Floor Q-Bert can scratch my back. Wrists not yet ruined.
ILL SUGI - Back to Rock Unreleased noise-sounds from the Japanese man. The re-birth of the beat tape...Literally a tape. Sugimoto-san is a little sick.
Evisbeats - Qualia That man makes some nice noises yet again. Should do another full album. Alongside release of 'Hanabi' a nice effort, but where's 'Vietnam'?
サマージャム'95 -鎮座DOPENESS and 環ROY and U-zhaan The karaoke super friends recombine to re-create スチャダラパー's 1995 el classico of much the same name to the sounds of the tabla drum. Make sure to get everyone involved!
bug seed - Street Mentality Listened to a bit too much bug seed this year - ha, there's never too much.
Damu the Fudgemunk - HISS Abyss EP Unreleased instrumentals from Damu's various 'How It Should Sound' series. Volumes, 3, 4 and 87, or something like that. Ooooo, blue vinyl.The beat tape re-revolution continues...
