Avant-Garde Soul/Hip-Hop producer Nujabes Dies In Car Crash
March 18, 2010
A sad day for the world of underground soul and Hip-Hop as news breaks of the untimely death of maverick Japanese produces Nujabes- real name Jun Seba. Reports say he actually passed away at the end of last month. However following his burial his family have only just decided to release the news. Click here for the full story.
Among many other works, Nujabes was responsible for the production and release of QN5′s Substantial’s first album, To This Union A Sun Was Born and served as pivotal figure in his career. Substantial will be issuing a statement regarding this unfortunate tragedy shortly, as this loss is in addition to one in his family this week.
VIDEO: Sean C & LV Remember Big Pun (R.I.P.)
February 7, 2010
Ten years ago today hip-hop lost one of its most lyrical MCs-EVER. In this fourth and final segment from Nodfactor’s interview with Grind Music’s Sean C & LV the former A&R for Loud Records(Sean C) and DJ for Big Pun (LV) reminisce about the making of “100%” “Super Lyrical” and “Caribbean Connection” and why Pun was every producer’s dream MC.
“The Puerto Rican anthem (100%) was produced by a Black dude, a old Dominican dude is doing the live percussion, it’s a Columbia engineer with a Cuban sample…”
Bloggin 4 Beats: R.I.P. Isaac Hayes
August 11, 2008
Can’t believe it. Isaac Hayes? Gone? No warning. I’m sure my bloggin peers have a ton of things in the works to pay tribute to the man, but for now I’m republishing some things from my Low End Theories beat blog. I went through a phase of sampling Mr. Hayes about a year ago…
