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Skepta's is brilliant because it's fourteen good tracks and one swag one. it's not quite the rush that Axiom or Corner were, but I think a lot of that is because those came out of left-field a bit, where as Skepta's has been anticipated for ages and most of us are already familiar with, if not...

That's because you're lucky enough to not get Top Gear... ;) I havent got the album yet (it's in the post), but Archangel is one of the best things i've heard all year.

Yeah, what the fuck was that song? It was ace. Agreed that House Party was incredible. I enjoyed Tubby, but it had reached that point in the evening where I was in love with everyone and everything. Except for the Bug dropping Jah War, I Luv U, Stageshow Riddim and then Gold Digger - what the...

Emergency Rations is the name of Lif's EP I think. Not sure though, I only had I Phantom. Speaking of which, I always liked El-P's verse on this:

That's really cool, but not entirely unexpected; the Metro seem to pick what music they're going to cover completely at random. It'll be Britney and Rhianna one day and a page-long feature about Slint or someone the next. There's a cool interview with Toddla T on Prancehall right now actually...

Agreed. I think he's the most exciting MC to emerge since Skepta.

from wiki: 'In a post on his MySpace Blog, Vast confirmed that he was no longer working with Definitive Jux and that plans for a new Cannibal Ox LP were scrapped. He cited creative and financial differences with El-P and Definitive Jux, as well as Vordul's alleged clinical depression.'

Around the time the live album came out, they said they were going to do a follow up with El-P, Pete Rock and the RZA splitting the production. This was on the def jux website and everything I believe.

Great post! It's that sort of talk that makes me wish I had the thing on vinyl as opposed to CD actually. I used to spunk all my money on ughh.com in those days, and I'd always go for CD over record to cut down on the shipping costs... Yeah, Look Ma No Hands. I think the story at the time was...

I'm really fond of the big five records the label put out in 2001/02: Labor Days, Cold Vein, Daylight EP, Fantastic Damage and I Phantom. Though Cold Vein is easily the stand-out; I think you're spot on when you say it managed to be authentically hiphop without feeling really forced and retro...

Have any of you heard the latest Aesop Rock? it's alright, not incredible or anything, but there's a real subdued, casual feel to it- like the prime Def Jux stuff happened, and did what it had to do (I know that it's easy to go back and slag the label now, but in 2001/02 they were putting out...

Logan's defo a hater.

Anyway, where do i get a Beech-Effect Multimedia Unit? they sound ace.

This is a parody of that stat-based best ever footballers book, innit? The one that had Gary Neville down as the 12th best defender of all time and Sylvain Wiltord in the top fifty ever or whatever it was...

Dan i think you hit the nail on the head with the line about chipmunk/maniac etc growing up on dizzee as opposed to tupac and biggie- it's almost exactly what griminal said when I interviewed him for the new Woofah. The older MCs grew up on hiphop, and the ones that have come through in the...

I love the phrasing; 'toy that turns into drug'. as if it's a transformer that turns into a giant spliff or something.

There was a case- I want to say in Hull but I'm not sure- where a guy was running from petrol station to petrol station, drinking straight from the pumps to get his fix. i think he was a bit of an infamous character in the area for a while too; a bit like a local flasher...

Onur Ozer’s album is amazing (I owe you on that one Simon). I think my review of it is on the first page of the fact reviews section but it’ll probably just put you off it—just buy it instead.

I chose it. It was never a revelatory experience for me like ecstasy was, and I don’t think I’ve ever had that many genuinely great times on it, but I can never seem to turn the stuff down. I love reading these threads btw, albeit in a queasy sort of way—I always feel a little bit...

Actually, I can't think of a single thing I used to like and now actually hate (anything I listened to past the age of about sixteen anyway). There are bands like Isis who I used to love and now think are total shit, but that's due to the declining quality of their output; I still think their...