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May 27, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

CZARFACE & MF Doom: Czarface Meets Metal Face

CZARFACE & MF Doom Czarface Meets Metal Face Silver Age/Southbound 36 Chambers, Tical, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Liquid Swords, if Metal Face can’t quite hold a candle to these seminal hip-hop releases the flame is, at least, still a-flicker. Czarface, the supergroup comprised of the Wu’s Inspectah Deck and duo 7L & Esoteric had […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 36 Chambers, 7L, 7L & Esoteric, Album Review, Czarface, CZARFACE & MF Doom: Czarface Meets Metal Face, Czarface Meets Metal Face, Doom, Esoteric, Hip-Hop, Inspectah Deck, Liquid Swords, Madvillainy, Metal Face, MF Doom, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Rap, Silver Age, Southbound, The Mouse and The Mask, Tical, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: GZA/The Genius (November 12; Wgtn)

GZA/The Genius San Fran Sunday, November 12 Live hip-hop – always a gamble. If the MC is great the sound might be shit, if the production is all good you can bet there’ll be excruciating delays…I’d complain, too, about the crowd being full of white munters, but, erm… So, I’m a fairweather fan of the […]
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August 8, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

GZA: NZ Tour (Nov, 2017)

Wu-Tang Clan founding member, GZA/The Genius returns to New Zealand. He’ll be at The Studio in Auckland on Saturday, November 11 and  San Fran in Wellington, Sunday, November 12. I saw him last time – so good, worth it to hear those mega songs from Liquid Swords alone. But you’ll get key choruses from Wu songs […]
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April 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Taking The Power Back: Ten of the Most Important Hip-Hop Albums in my Life

We all know that lists are subjective – that is the point of them. So I’ve decided to do a series of top ten albums across genres. They’ll appear sporadically. And rather than call them “Top Ten” I will call them ten of the most important – sorry if that sounds pretentious. It’s not meant […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 36 Chambers, Alphabethead, Antipop Consortium, Beastie Boys, Beats, De La Soul, DJ, DJ Shadow, Dr. Dre, Electricity, Fear Of A Black Planet, Genius/GZA, Hip-Hop, Ice Cube, Illmatic, Jay-Z, Licensed to Ill, Liquid Swords, Lyrics, Madvillany, Madvillian, Matthew Shipp, N.W.A., Nas, Public Enemy, Rap, Samples, Taking The Power Back: Ten of the Most Important Hip-Hop Albums in my Life, Ten of the Most Important Hip-Hop Albums in my Life, The Roots, Wu Tang Clan ·

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March 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Chali 2na: Against The Current – EP

Chali 2na Against The Current – EP Manphibian Music Chali 2na’s EP, Against The Current is the first in a series of five – the aim is to explore the influences and antecedents around his career as an MC. He was the power forward of Jurassic 5 (and is still, sporadically, with reunion dates popping […]
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