Today marks twenty years since I first posted on unkut.com. In recent times I haven’t a great deal to write about, but just yesterday I finally got to interview the legendary Godfather Don, and as a result I’m fired-up to take Unkut into a new phase. Look-out for this interview in the coming weeks and…
I’m not sure if Tuff City Records plan on releasing a follow-up to the 33 1/3 Anniversary Box Set, but not long after the 1986 cut-off date of that collection is when things really got interesting, as the drum machine and repeated cartoon sample hooks gave way to the intricate drum chops and horn stabs…
It’s times like this that I’m glad I’ve still kept the lights on at Unkut Dot Com these past twenty years, if only to provide a valuable resource for YouTube screenshots in 2024. We get to relive the hilarious era of when everyone was going hell for leather in the comment sections – except now…
Hype stickers can vary from a mini-sales pitch to spruik the album you’re looking at, a bog-standard track listing or just the name of the producer who was paid twenty grand in the 90s to remix the single. Here are some I found in the shelves this morning and deemed worthy of a snarky accolade….
After having three previous liner notes jobs canned before I even got to write a first draft, I’ve beaten the odds and finally gotten something to the pressing plant. Big Noyd’s first album is getting a re-release via Coalmine Records and Big Noyd Entertainment, complete with a new remix of ‘Recognize and Realize’ by Big…
This is a turn-up for the books – not only has Debonair P brought back the previously retired Gentleman’s Relief Record (possibly just for this final release), but he’s managed to bring along the ever-reclusive Godfather Don along for the ride! Four brand new vocal performances, served up in two flavours of each, with Debonair…
It’s on like Diddy Kong.
Nine years after I made a bootleg of all of the tracks/demos recorded for the never-completed second Main Source album with Large Professor, it’s now available on record, tape, CD and Spotify. Unsurprisingly, this all of the same material presented with varying levels of sound quality, with some phone interview snippets sprinkled in between. Nice…
Don’t let the fact that Zippyshare is dead and buried mean that the mighty bootleg MP3 era of Unkut Dot Com is taking a permanent dirt nap. Thanks to the wonders of the InternetS, Google Drive Live is now hosting every one of the old compilations from the 2015-2018 era of Unkut Dot Com, along…
Fun fact I discovered recently – M.O.P.’s ‘Victim of the Ghetto’, first heard on the Marxman Cinema compilation, was originally slated as the final song on First Family 4 Life. After I included it on this week’s mix, it’s pretty clear that the song itself fell victim to the same fate as Da Lench Mob’s…
Here’s an hour of Select Records stuff that I rate, focusing on some of the less well-known releases as well as a few old favourites. Some great edit and dub versions in here, because as someone who focused my meagre funds on buying albums as a youf, I still marvel every time I find an…
You may remember the Bad Boys and K Love for their beatbox rendition of the Muppets song ‘Veronica’ and the Inspector Gadget themed ‘Bad Boys’ from 1985, or the jaunty delights of ‘Here I Reign’ from 88, but it turns out that they also hold the honor of being the first crew to rap over…