5lack's 5 Sense

12月

Landtechniks's Struggle in the Silence: dope album from A to Z.
JND's Working Classics: one of the deepest, sincere hip-hop ish I heard this year,
go make dude's CD OOP, the man deserves it big time.
16Flip's Smokytown Callin: the perfect instrumental album to piff with...
072's Inquisition: pretty great album, My MIC is definitely one of my fav' track of the year.
OYG's Now, Then... Again: "Longboard with new bearings can't be stopped". One word: epic.
5lack's 情: Mori no Naka e
Soul Jugglerz's Tongues of Terror: L.A.'s at its best.

Big up to SSB's Watter & Mc Komicklinick, DNC heads, Sega Front Giants, Osaka Guerrilla Beatniks,
丸, Zimback, Brock Berrigan, Sinoptic Music heads, C-L-C, Kev-k, Green Butter and a hundred more...

Nuff' said.

2013, the shape of things to come...

5lack & Olive Oil's - 50 -

5lack & Olive Oil teamed up for a ten tracks collaboration album.
「 - 50 - 」 will be released on january 23th. No trcklst yet.

Stay tuned boppers.

Gapper's Summer Day

A toast to the sun (produced by 2-stik).

5lack's 情

5lack bless us with a free nine tracks project filled with Joe Hisaishi based samples.
情 (Jou) means feeling, emotion...

Get it here, via Takada Ongaku Seisakujo Tsuujin

Watter

ワッターさん in all its glory!

髙田音楽制作事務所HP

Takada Ongaku Seisakujo Tsuujin.

Gapper

Pretty nice EP but way to short.
Like a good fuck in a tiny love hotel,
good shit's always too short you know...

ワッター

After several CDRs and a full length (About Me) with Mc Komicklinick

(and without countin' the pretty hard to find Indo),

beatmaker Watter will release a seven tracks EP on 5lack's label.
Peep the tracklist & the trailer.
It made my day, dude's one of my favorite cat.
SSB all day 24/7!

我破

Hip-Hop ain't cosplayin'

5lack:「ヒップホップはコスプレみたいなものじゃなく、

生活を丸ごと賭けられる文化だと思うんですよ。

周りをそういう風にしていくのが音楽をやってる側の仕事だと思うし。」

Pic via Dragon, quote via Cafuein.

我時想う愛

Pic via Odds N' Ends.

5lack's まとまらない街

まとまらない街

5lack x Gapper & Watter 近日発売 (Comin' Soon)!!

高田音楽制作事務所

Designed by Yosuke Takada & Watter (both SSB heads)

for S.L.A.C.K. & CES2's album All in a Daze Work

'11

Several beatmakers blessed us with some dope material over the year and names like Watter (Japan), Zaeg (Mexico) or Hashfinger (UK) instinctively comes in mind.

Big up to Red Nore Scale, big up to Budamunk who had a crazy productive year and shout out to the whole Down North Camp /SSB heads for the massive amount of dope releases: Qroix and his infectious groove (Muzik Makes me Fly & an atomic B-Side on the 12'), the highly productive S.L.A.C.K. (four albums in a row: 我時想う愛, Sick Team, All in a Daze Work with producer CES2 & この島の上で), Senninsho's Live on Refugee Mxtpe and the list goes on & on...

My two fav' albums of 2011? Keentokers's The Fresh Speech & Doppelgangaz's Lone Sharks.

"Do whatever saves you", knowledge yourself.