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March 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Tenderlonious: Think Twice (ep)

Tenderlonious Think Twice (ep) 22a Music / 22a Ed “Tenderlonious” Cawthorne released a killer record last year called Hard Rain and he followed it up with this EP – another oblique  Bob Dylan reference… Flautist, saxophonist, bandleader turned label-owner, beatmaker and producer, Tenderlonious has parked his future-jazz 22archestra to the side and now seems more […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 22a, Album Review, Beatmaker, Dennis Ayler, DJ Rels, Ed “Tenderlonious” Cawthorne, Ed Cawthorne, EP, Funk, House, Jazz, Karriem Riggins, Madlib, Moodymann, Questlove, Techno, Tenderlonious, Tenderlonious: Think Twice (ep), Theo Parrish, Think Twice, Think Twice (ep), You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Cave Circles: Apricity (ep)

Cave Circles Apricity (ep) Wonderful Noise Japan Here’s Riki Gooch working (again) under his Cave Circle alias – it’s been a busy time for releases just recently with Cave Circles’ 12”, My Heart Is A Beating Drum and then the recent cassette tape release under another of his working aliases, DJ OBOE.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Apricity, Apricity (ep), Beatmaker, Black Rainbow, Cave Circles, Cave Circles: Apricity, Dilla, DJ OBOE, EP, Garden, Housekeeping, Instrumental, Instrumentalist, Instrumentals, John Carpenter, Kiva, Leila Adu, Mirrors, My Heart Is A Beating Drum, Parks, Producer, Riki Gooch, Rocks, Seven Davis Jr, Vocal, Waves, Wonderful Noise Japan ·

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October 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

DJ OBOE: DJ OBOE

DJ OBOE DJ OBOE (Independent/Bandcamp) Riki Gooch is a drummer, produce and beatmaker. He’s been both band-leader and sideman and a DJ in various guises. He’s been making music under various aliases (Eru Dangerspiel, Cave Circles, Nil-Nil) across the last decade and a half and has been behind the kit (and sometime the MPC/sampler) for […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Angola, Bandcamp, Beatmaker, Beats, Cassette, Cave Circles, DJ OBOE, EP, Eru Dangerspiel, Kuduro, Riki Gooch, Tape, Techno ·

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October 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Jlin: Black Origami

Jlin Black Origami Planet Mu Records Ltd. Jerrilynn Patton has been making music under the moniker Jlin since 2008 – and after a few key singles in the early 2010s she made her mark with 2015’s debut full-lengther, Dark Energy. Twisting rhythms around themselves to create a sprawling, hypnotic prototype of trance and techno splices […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Beatmaker, Black Origami, Dance, Dark Energy, Deantoni Parks, Electronic Musician, Hip-Hop, Jerrilynn Patton, Jlin, Jlin: Black Origami, Planet Mu Records, Producer, Pulse, Techno ·

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April 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 57 – Myele Manzanza

Welcome to episode 57 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, L’affare and Yeastie Boys. This one is a chat with musician Myele Manzanza. I first met Myele about five years ago when I interviewed him for this story around the release of his debut album. I knew he was […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged America, Beatmaker, Chat, Conversation, DJ, Drum, Drumming, Drums, Electric Wire Hustle, ep57, Episode 57, Episode Fifty-Seven, Europe, EWH, Interview, L'affare, Modern Drummer, Myele Manzanza, One, OnePointOne, Podcast, Podcasts, Producer, Sam Manzanza, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 57 – Myele Manzanza, T Leaf T, Talk, Theo Parrish, Wellington, Wgtn, Yeastie Boys ·

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January 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

J Dilla: Jay Dee’s Ma Dukes Collection

J Dilla Jay Dee’s Ma Dukes Collection Yancey Media Group/LLC/Official Ma Dukes J Dilla died 10 years ago. Aged just 32. He had released a handful of hip-hop masterpieces, some under his own name, many in assisting others. Since his passing there’s been no shortage of Dilla beats, mostly thanks – in dubious tones – […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Beatmaker, Beats, Dilla, Donuts, Drums, Hip-Hop, Instrumental, J Dilla, J Dilla: Jay Dee's Ma Dukes Collection, Jay Dee's Ma Dukes Collection, Ma Dukes, posthumous, Producer ·

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March 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

J Dilla: Dillatronic

J Dilla Dillatronic Vintage Vibes Yes, yes, it’s starting to feel like Hendrix, or Jeff Buckley…and it’s felt that way a while, in fact, as we have just passed the 10th Anniversary of J Dilla’s death (he was just 32). But at least Dillatronic contains some actual magic – and more than that it’s reminders, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Beatmaker, Beats, Dilla, Dillatronic, Hip-Hop, Instrumentals, J Dilla, posthumous, Producer ·

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September 15, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Mark Guiliana: My Life Starts Now

Mark Guiliana My Life Starts Now Beat Music Productions Mark Guiliana has been on my radar since discovering his old band Heernt, a jazzer with huge forward-thrust, a most musical drummer who you just knew, from hearing with Heernt and in backing the likes of Me’Shell Ndegeocello and Dhafer Youssef, collaborating with Brad Mehldau – […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Beat Music, Beat Music Production, Beat Music Productions, Beatmaker, DJ Shadow, Heernt, Karriem Riggins, Madlib, Mark Guiliana, Moby, My Life Starts Now ·

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July 31, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Jordan Ferguson: J Dilla’s Donuts (33 1/3)

J Dilla’s Donuts (33 1/3) Jordan Ferguson Bloomsbury Academic It’s sometimes worrying when a thoroughly modern album is approached as part of the 33 1/3 series. Maybe we’re more sympathetic with the passing of time, ready and open for nostalgia and of course, more simply, there’s more weight attached with the wait, the passing of […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 33 1/3, Beatmaker, Bloomsbury, Book, Book Review, Dilla, Donuts, Hip-Hop, Instrumental Hip-Hop, J Dilla, James Yancey, Jay Dee, Jordan Ferguson, Madlib, Music Book, Peanut Butter Wolf, Producer, Stones Throw, The Pharcyde ·

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May 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

L’Orange: The Orchid Days

L’Orange The Orchid Days Mello Music Group Hip-hop producer L’Orange returns with The Orchid Days, another easy-to-like collage of dusty old jazz and soul vocals chopped up and spliced in with clipped hip-hop beats. If that sounds like a simple (classic) formula – well it is. But it’s in the way he does it, not […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acid-Jazz, Album Review, Beatmaker, DJ, DJ DSL, DJ Shadow, Hip-Hop, Jazz, L'Orange, Old Soul, Sampling, The Orchid Days, Turntablism, Vinyl ·

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