Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - The World & Season's Trees

After 5 years in the making, here are two of my favourite tracks off the collaborative release from American producer Danger Mouse and Italian composer/arranger Daniele Luppi. United in their shared passion for classic Italian film music, Burton and Luppi have created a record like no other - they made a concious effort to replicate the recording practices of the 1960s/70s golden age, recording live to tape, with no electronics, computers or 21st-century effects. A simply stunning piece of music that you should probably buy.

ODB - Shimmy Shimmy Ya (GeeMix)

ODB's all-time classic has been given the once over by female producer Georgia Anne Muldrow. She is has so much talent. Download for free HERE.

Dr. Dre - Die Hard (Feat. Eminem) (Preview)

Preview of a track that is apparently going to be on the Doctor's long overdue album, Detox. Sounds about 100x better than I Need A Doctor. More of this please Dre.

Fresh Daily - Diamonds (Feat. Chris Faust) x Impossible Dream

Here are two of my favourite tracks from Brooklyn native Fresh Daily's new album, Quality Life. No pun intended, but this has an incredibly fresh and unique sound to it, and encapsulates everything that I love about underground Hip-Hop. Unbelievably you download it for FREE on his Bandcamp page, even though Tyler is going to shift thousands of units with an album that incomparable to this when it comes to ryhmes, flow and production. Make sure you get a copy.

Onra - L.O.V.E.

Onra is a French Hip-Hop producer who over the past few years has received a ridiculous amount of praise from people all around the world, with some labelling him as the modern day Dilla. From this brand new demo that he uploaded to his SoundCloud earlier today, you can see why; he pushes the boundaries and does things that Hip-Hop producers shouldn't be doing. Super stuff.

Tyler, The Creator - She (Feat. Frank Ocean) x Nightmare

Now I had a bit of a Twitter rant about Odd Future the other day, but thought I would save my true opinions until I had heard Tyler's new album, Goblin. Having listened to it twice now, my thoughts haven't changed much. I love what they're doing for the game, but a lot of it is purely hype and the fact that it's a bunch of young men not caring about anything, or anyone. Tyler is a decent rapper, but the beats (bar a couple) are not for me and throughout the album there is far too much swearing. It's not like I'm against swearing, especially in Hip-Hop, but when you're using "fuck" every other word, then I'm worrying for you as a lyricist. The album is pretty enjoyable (was more enjoyable than expected if anything), and I'm sure I will be listening to it more over the next few weeks, but I don't think it's anything to get overly excited about (just like his debut album). I'm sure it will go down as a piece of history, but I really don't think it has the crudentials to be classed as a classic. Below are the two stand out tracks for me (Frank Ocean is exceptional), but Yonkers still steals the show.

Odd Future became boring as quickly as Charlie Sheen did, unfortunately.

DJ Mitsu The Beats - T.R.O.Y. x Award Tour

DJ Mitsu The Beats is one of many Japanese Hip-Hop producers to emerge from the scene over the past 10 years and be recognised by people across the pond. Recently he has released a new instrumental album called Loop Amplitude, which sees him do Jazz re-works of 18 classic 1990s Hip-Hop tracks. If you like Hip-Hop, then you need this in your life. T.R.O.Y.

Has Lo - Storm Clouds x Forgotten Styles

Released on Mello Music Group, here are my two favourite tracks from Philadelphia born MC/Producer Has Lo's debut album, In Case I Don't Make It. When someone like Oddisee says its: “a beautiful new and dark twist on what we all know and love.", then you know you're doing something right. This is thought provoking Hip-Hop.

Murkage - Real Sick

Here is my favourite track from Manchester based group Murkage's debut EP, Default Sovereign. Mixing Hip-Hop with Dubstep and Grime doesn't always work, but this really does and seeing as it's FREE, then you have no excuse to not download it. One thing I want to do this Summer is see these boys live. Sick, real sick.

Omarion - Luke Skywalker (Bullshit) (Feat. Method Man)

Are you like me and have wondered where Method Man has been hiding for the past few years? Well it seems as though he's been in the studio with Omarion. Not exactly what I expected for his first comeback track, but this bangs, really hard.