Seeing Suge

When three of your favourite in-the-moment music makers combine forces, it can rarely be bad. Seeing as Emay, Blackbird Blackbird and Star Slinger are all AndygoesdowntoChinatown favourites I can hardly find any reasons not to write about this brilliant track that arrived in my virtual postbox yesterday.

Seeing Suge is the name of this collab project and Breaking is the name if their first single

Breaking also samples another AGDCT-favourite Memoryhouse, making this just one huge swirling music-orgy.

Download Seeing Suge's EP for free from bandcamp. No seriously do.

Seeing Suge bandcamp

the EP also features one song from each collaborator, so you can deffo see who brings what to the table.

Here's the only Video I could find to link. It's Emay's offering called Sleep

Star Slinger

I first heard about Star Slinger and his brand of sample-heavy choppy hip-hop instrumentals from the insanely good Emay. But now the name's popping up all over the place.

Generally Manchester wouldn't be in my top-whatevs list of anything to do with hip-hop. But the beats this guy has been churning out might force me to up-to-date that list. Using all sorts of eclectic samples in his music, Star Slinger seems like the guy who's spent way too much time (or some might say just the right amount of time) indulging in long-lost records.

He's also been remixing all sorts. With remixes for the likes of Deerhunter, Small Black, Blackbird Blackbird and Fiveng. I've also heard that there's some kind of collaboration in the works with Emay. That should easily be incredible.

You could/should/would download his first full lenth 'Volume 1' from his Bandcamp site along with his remixes.

Star Slinger Bandcamp

Emay

Once upon a time I saw a film called Where The Wild Things Are.

It was good. The film itself was hugely entertaining and the soundtrack perhaps even more entertaining.

Karen O and the Kids - Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack on Spotify

So get this right, when I put my ears towards Canadian rapper/Mc Emay's take of the WTWTA soundtrack, it damn near blew my ears off.

Keeping a lot of the Karen parts and adding some ridiculously tasty beats to it is a working formula. Here's CAPSIZE to get you into the gist of what I'm saying.



The whole she-bang can be downloaded for no money whatsoever right there on Emay's Bandcamp site. Check it out

emay.bandcamp.com

After well getting into that album, I thought I might as well check out his other stuff too. Well glad I did that!

Listened to his collab EP with Ivan Ice called Sounds Like and straight off fell for the Grizzly Bear sampling Get Ready!.



I'm not going to start comparing the sounds to other hip hop acts as to not expose my obvious lack of knowledge in that music department, but what I will say is that Ze Drums (feat. C4) is shit hot! Ok maybe C4 sounds a wee bit like Chali 2 na. How's that for a comparison?



Laterz