Sofa King

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Sofa King - Headspace EP

My second instrumental release, a lot more chilled than the first one. On a pay-what-you-like tip, so you can even grab that for free.

Most of these beats are still available to be used in tracks, so any MCs out there get at me.

On a pay-what-you-like tip, so you can even grab that for free.

Baked

So, I dropped a free Beat Tape this morning. Give it a Download (It's free), give it a share and let me know what you think. 

Sofa King  -  Twatter Fass Book

ExP - Pacifist with an Enemy prod KNYT 

Brand new FREE track from Sinoptic Music's Head Honcho and all-round top bloke ExP. This should whet your appetite for the forthcoming Flamegriller LP, go cop a free download of this one whilst they're available.

Go here and click on DOWNLOAD to grab this for yourself before they run out.

Jman - Any point of the day

From the LDN via Bristol, with Beats & Cuts from Badhabitz, this is a freshly released BANGER from Jman from his upcoming LP. Keep an eye on this guy coz he's got that fire!

Mury P Featuring DJ esSDee - Fuck You All

Ripped from the Double A-Side single, this is Mury P flexing his angry muscles over a Pheend Supreme beat aided and abetted by DJ esSDee on the cuts. The video is pure jokes, again crafted by visual maestro Major Kuts.

Lunar C - Reality Check

Black Josh - The Black Josh EP

Released today, this is the debut solo EP from Ape Clan's Black Josh. If you're a lover of twisted flow and MC's that most definitely don't take themselves too seriously then Josh could be the very cat you've been looking for. 

With production from Four2wenty, Metrodome and Mad Alpha I guarantee you've never heard anything quite like Josh before.

You can cop this for free right here

Jam Baxter – The Gruesome Features (Review)

 As a member of the near-legendary rhyme crew Contact Play, Jam Baxter should be a name very much familiar to any Hip Hop head’s with an interest in the UK scene. Alongside Dirty Dike, Ronnie Bosh, Ed Scissortongue and Mr Key, Jambo has forged his own path through the underground, making up his own boundaries and forming his own distinct style of irreverent rhymes and wordplay. Back in 2010, he released his debut solo LP, the double disc epic “Rinse Out Friday/Spack Out Monday” to wide critical acclaim. Since then, he and Dike have toured extensively around the country and seemingly put out material on a non-stop basis.

 Featuring heavily as a member of Fliptrix’s High Focus Records, Jam has toured with the mighty Four Owls and penned guest verses on most of the label’s releases since its inception. In the meantime, he’s been making tracks with some of his favorite MC’s literally whenever time has allowed. The result is this CD, it’s NOT an Album, as Jam himself points out in the liner notes “This little shit slyly built itself up over the last year while I wasn’t looking. My plan was to plug a gap between Album’s  by making a few tunes with a few talented individuals without having to worry about an end product.”.

What we end up with is a Ronseal LP, it literally does exactly what it say’s on the tin; Fourteen tracks done with some of the nicest MC’s in the UK scene with a massive variation of production from the likes of Pete Cannon, Ben 9mm, Kerem Fraiche and GhostTown.

We kick off with “Brains” one of only 3 solo tracks on the CD. A heady piano-loop-laden laid back beat crafted by Illinformed, with Jam spitting observations on the denizens of your average inner city and just what goes on in their twisted little heads.

“Off to clock the shrunken brains that punctuate the squalor yonder/Shotters on the underpasses passing rocks in rotten Poplar”

 Jam Baxter – Brains

As expected, all the members of Contact Play feature on this CD, with Dirty Dike showing up on one of the best tracks on this project “Filet Mignon”, this is purest  vitriol verses aimed at the “anyone can be an MC” vibe and those that embody it. “Altitude Sickness” with Ronnie Bosh is a literally spaced out beast with some startling production from Ben 9mm.

Also featuring heavily on Gruesome Features are Jam’s fellow High Focus alumni, with three of the Four Owl’s popping up at various points. In particular “Who” with Leaf Dog is a seriously good track, with intricate storytelling verses from both Jam and Leaf detailing the struggles of an average wrong’un in a drug deal gone very bad indeed. “Eggs” featuring Dabbla from the legendary LDZ crew kind of acts as a prelude to the upcoming “Dead Players” project that he, Jam and Producer GhostTown are putting together. With a beat by Philly B, this is a classic that has both MC’s switching from regular into double time and back again with consummate ease.

It’s obvious that Jam prides himself on his reverence for the best MC’s that this country has produced, that’s made obvious by the fact that only one MC features on two track’s on this project; the iconic Chester P. Both “Fine” and “Tin Of Worms” feature the same creative team of Jam, Chester and Beat Crafter extraordinaire GhostTown.  Chester has always been known as one of the more complex rhymer’s of the scene and this rings true on both of these tracks, whats most impressive is that Jam doesn’t feel out of place whatsoever and the two MCs compliment each other’s style and flow perfectly. Which results in the two best track’s on The Gruesome Features.

All in all, although it heads in a wide variety of directions, this is an LP is full of quality. As previously stated by the man himself, this is not an Album but a compilation, so there’s no overall narrative structure to the project. Despite this, Jam Baxter and High Focus have given us yet another classic display of why they are one of the leading exponents of a creatively diverse and hugely talented Hip Hop scene in the UK. It’s something that all the UK heads out there should be massively proud of and celebrating. So go cop this CD and get yourself along to one of High Focus’ awesome live events which usually feature the majority of their roster of dope-as-all-hell MC’s and Producers.

You can cop “The Gruesome Features” direct from High Focus here

Meet The Elite - Tenchoo

Easily one of the top MC's in the country right now, this is Tenchoo spitting more fire bars in support of the Elite Leagues Cypher's. 

If you wanna find out more about these superb monthly London Hip Hop event's, check out the Facebook Page for more details.

JUNE.12

It's a sad truth but all good things come to an end. Relationship's, Weed and now HashFinger drop's the curtain on his iconic series of monthly download's.

Sinoptic Music's  Michaelangelo of the beat's HashFinger has been creating great instrumental Hip Hop and releasing them on the masses on a twelve-times-a-year basis for a long time now. In that time his sound has evolved hugely and taken the lucky few who've copped them all on a journey into the mind of a guy who's a master of his craft.

So go cop this one, and the rest if you haven't already, on the Bandcamp page while you can.

                  Grab this right now over on the Sinoptic Music page

Tenchoo - Fire In The Booth

Tenchoo lay's down some EPIC shit here, burning holes in the booth with some fire bars over a classic Wu beat.