The first cab off the rank to celebrate this site surviving twenty years is a one-off run of t-shirts, designed by Aeon Hand (f.k.a. Theotis Jones) and featuring some of the illustrations from Past The Margin. Pre-order the size you want by the 23rd March 2024 and it will be sent out in early April….
It took me exactly twenty years to get Godfather Don on the phone, which makes sense now that I know that by the time I started this site he had already changed his focus to playing jazz. This being my first phone interview since the ill-fated Just-Ice session in 2016, I had no idea how…
Since this was published in 2004, at least half of these have been re-issued in 2LP format – but with mixed results. Sometimes the labels will just dump the CD master onto two platters, rather than mastering it properly, if the comment section of train-spotting, audiophile sickos on Discogs is to be believed. The real…
Nine years later I finally found this, as it was included on this 2019 compilation of O.C. demos, radio spots and remixes. grass was onto something, this is far and away the best version of this song. This also inspired me to go back to that radio session he did over an early incarnation of…
Recalling that Cornell University has a large digital archive, featuring an extensive collection of early rap flyers and photos, I stumbled onto a section chronicling the first 1,400 records in Bambatta’s original collection. Much like one of your old share-house mates might have done, Bam went through a phase where he would write his name…
Straight outta Paris, Bachir and SLurg (who used to frequent the comment section here back in the day) host a radio show every Sunday where they focus on a particular theme. For the 81st episode, they constructed a mix featuring everyone featured in the Past The Margin book, proving that Unkut.com is now Australia’s second-most…
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…