Metal Lungies

Stones Throw are the great music archivists and curators of our time and so they’re reviving Ultimate Breaks & Beats with a producer series. Oh No helms the first volume with most potent funk.

Karriem Riggins has been on a roll since “30 Hours,” or I’ve just started paying attention.

Gonzo Internet beatheads have an affinity for New York goon rap because it’s kind of cool to hear a Funkmaster Flex freestyle over floaty backpacker boom bap and it also probably avoid the “conscious rap” label. Here are choice cuts from Knxwledge’s newest batch, WT?.?PRT10?.?8_.

Boss level. Pan Daijing is a Chinese-born, Berlin-based producer with a new EP called A Satin Sight out on Bedouin Records.

D/P/I (DJ Purple Image) of LA soundtracks an industrial accident. This is the last one I’ll steal from Shapednoise’s Solid Steel mix, to which you should probably listen.

One more from Shapednoise’s Solid Steel mix, Turin-based producer Yves Tumor has beats for all occasions.

British producer G. Howell with the dope radiator sounds, courtesy of Shapednoise on Solid Steel. Listen to the full album, Housebound Demigod, here.

The sprawling, Eastern-inflected “Shabba” remix I didn’t know I needed. I’m sure there will be a lot more heat on Josh Hey’s Beat Hotel tape when it drops.

Remember Hubert Daviz from his Romanian jazz flips? No? Well, “Space Journey” knocks.

You would think a progressive, indie beatmaker wants to get his beats in front of Blu or whoever is dropping on Fat Beats next month. But you can tell TUAMIE is dying to produce gangster rap. On his recent tapes, he’s remixed The Clipse, vintage Jay Z, and now Freddie Gibbs with Madlib-lite beats. It’s a fun and effective mixture.

Clear an afternoon and listen to his 2015-2016 tapes below.