DJ Shadow and the Quannum collective in full effect on this great modern day soul track. Do yourself a favour and check out Shynola's still fresh promo video.  

Wayne "Lotek" Bennet ventures away from his work as Root Manuva's "director of music" (does he mean programmer?) with the release of an excellent hip-hop meets reggae long player. Enjoy.

Have you seen these guys live? They play this shit! Great players and production which veers from pure pop to pure experimentation. Can be hit and miss but at least they try and this one is most certainly a winner.

A slow burner from Dan The Automator and Prince Paul . These guys are just consummate producers. Pure gold.

I want this to become essential listening for all would-be b-boys and b-girls out there. The world's slowly disolving into a bling bling me first quagmire of bad boy attitude. Where's the love?

Electro classic from Tommy Boy. My favourite hip-hop has always been about meaningful raps and social realist lyrics. This delivers the bomb and with such a tight funky groove. Whatever happend to the guy?

Great hip-hop reggae crossover - hopefully the good vibes will have an impact on the mindless gangster scene which seems to have taken over in recent years.