Metal Lungies

Done right, instrumental hip-hop can be the most potent and emotive music, all while saying and doing very little.

This sounds like Shirley Bassey in outer space. Something tells me it syncs up perfectly with Moonraker.

Custodian of Records takes the Miami Vice vibes on Nipsey Hussle’s “The Weather” and turns them jazzy.

Of the hundreds of stray beats Knxwledge tosses online, my favorites are the ones that flip yesterday’s R&B jams. Remember Hexual Sealings?

Cities Aviv manages a banger using bells. Salute.

I’m just here for that ghostly vocal flip.

Droning circuits from Turin.

Sometimes the most remarkable beats are the ones with the most empty space, the ones that do the most with the least.

A sparse but inviting electronic beat that I pilfered from Mumdance on Rinse FM.

Rarefied knock.