Metal Lungies

Loopy electronic beat with an analog touch from the Slovakian Proto Sites label.

Florentine breakbeats.

Kutmah calls himself Kutoma on this release (WordPress won’t show the Japanese characters), and offers beats made of spare parts – I scarcely heard any horns, pianos, strings, guitars, or Motown wails. Instead, the beats are made of clatters, pops, and echoes. Something tells me WhoSampled won’t tell you much about these beats.

I listen to a hundred beats so I can hear two like these.

Somebody ship this to Ghostface.

From a quiet, overlooked corner of New York rap that, despite appearances, still exists.

London beats steeped in digital kitsch. UIQ proprietor Lee Gamble played it on the Dekmantel Podcast.

Kutmah of the UK is a beatmaker in the Beat Konducta tradition, with volumes of inventive ideas.

Oh No is making the most exciting beats around and he’s just tossing them up on Soundcloud. I hope Oh No’s Life of Cujo mixtape is a real thing and not some cruel joke.

Visual artist Jesse Kanda pours out his feelings with an EP of underwater electronic beats. I discovered this on PAN’s NTS show.