Ed Sheeran - The City/Empire State Of Mind (Live @ Bowery Ballroom, NYC)

Ed Sheeran is in the USA for most of June promoting the release of his debut album '+', which is currently sitting at #1 on iTunes. During his New York gig at the Bowery Ballroom, he performed a special version of album track 'The City', where he interpolated lyrics from 'Empire State Of Mind'; a cover that he did from Radio 1 earlier in the year. Buy his album in the US HERE.

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Daniel Dexter - Today

Sampling the iconic horns from Pete Rock & CL Smooth's Hip-Hop classic 'T.R.O.Y.', here is the latest single from German producer Daniel Dexter. Get your copy HERE, click play and let 'Today' take you back to the early 90s.

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Plan B - Playing With Fire (Prod. Labrinth) x Falling Down (Live Lounge)

With the film having hit cinema's around the country last week, Plan B tonight dropped into the Maida Vale studio to perform a special live lounge with his band, which included exclusive performances of new material from the 'iLL Manors' soundtrack. 'Playing With Fire' is produced by Labrinth, with the studio version featuring Etta Bond, and 'Falling Down' is an incredible Hip-Hop storytelling record that sees Ben Drew go back to his 'Who Needs Action When You Got Words' days. Cannot wait to see the film, because this soundtrack is already something really special.

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Mikill Pane - The Campane Tour

After just finishing a very successful Rizzle Kicks tour as the main support act, Mikill Pane has this week announced his first ever (mini) UK tour, which will see the wordsmith play 3 shows, in London, Manchester & Birmingham. The tour will kick off on September 26th @ XOYO, London and tickets go on sale HERE this Friday (July 15th). If you fancy seeing him at a festival, then you can catch him at Wireless in London on July 7th or Wakestock on July 8th. Check out the dates after the jump.

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Jam Baxter - Disco 3000 (Official Video)

After releasing the lead single 'Who' last week, Jam Baxter yesterday unleashed the video for the B-side 'Disco 3000', which is produced by 184. You can get a copy of this and the single HERE, and pre-order the album 'Gruesome Features' HERE, which is set to drop at the beginning of July. Have a feeling this album will be a bit special.

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Onra - After Hours (Feat. T3)

Featuring Slum Village member T3 on vocals, here is my favourite track from French Hip-Hop producer Onra's new EP 'Deep In The Night'. The EP has Onra's unmistakable glitchy Hip-Hop feel throughout, but has clear Electronic/Dance influences intertwined within the tracks. Absolutely love this guy - buy HERE.

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Wordsworth - Coloring Book (Feat. Meleni Smith) x Vanish (Feat. Punchline & Masta Ace)

Produced by The Are & Apollo Brown respectively, here are two of my favourite tracks from Brooklyn-based rapper Wordsworth's new album 'The Photo Album', which his first solo release since 2004. Hip-Hop in its purest form. Buy HERE.

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Joey Bada$$ - Waves (Prod. Freddie Joachim) x Funky Ho'$ (Prod. Lord Finesse)

After blowing up the internet with the extravagantly raw 'Survival Tactics', 16 year old Brooklyn-based rapper Joey Bada$$ has today finally dropped his highly anticipated debut mixtape '1999'. Below are two of my favourite tracks, which are produced by Freddie Joachim & Lord Finesse, with other beats on the tape being provided by the likes of MF Doom, Chuck Strangers & J Dilla. One of the best Hip-Hop mixtapes for a very long time, from a youngster who has the talent to go very far - download HERE.

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J Dilla - Dillatroit (Feat. Supa Emcee, Nick Speed, Guilty Simpson) (Official Video)

Official visuals for the latest single to be lifted from J Dilla's posthumous album 'Rebirth Of Detroit', which was released today and is available HERE. A pretty cool album on the whole and it has that raw Jay Dee feel throughout, but nothing will bring him back and nothing will compare to his work whilst he was here with us. R.I.P. James Yancey.

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Disclosure - BBC Radio 1 Mini-Mix

Guy & Howard, better known as Disclosure, tonight came through with their new mini-mix for Annie Mac, which was packed full of Hip-Hop, Garage & House (and much more) classics, alongside some of their own material. Keep saying that if I was a producer, I would want to make music like these two are, and if I did a mini-mix, it would be guaranteed to sound like this. Disclosure can do no wrong in my eyes, and this is one of the best mini-mixes I've ever heard. Tune, after tune, after tune.

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