We missed this free one when it was first posted just before 2012 came to a close, but fortunately the Detroit wunderkind himself, Kyle Hall, re-uploaded it for all to enjoy/download, even tagging it with the gear he used to make the tune: “Juno 106, Nord Lead 2, Roland SP 404, Akai MPC 1000, Zoom [...]

The elusive Moscow producer known as vtgnike (or alternately myown) added a handful of tunes to his SoundCloud yesterday with the tag “some old-new tracks for download.” Which is to say, we have no idea what the story is here but these tracks are fresh. Some classy jazz-sampling juke from the [...]

Late last week, Baio—the budding New York production talent who also serves as the low-end provider (read “bass player”) for the Vampire Weekend outfit—dropped a pair of new songs for free download. Serving as the first slices of audio since the excellent Sunburn EP debuted Baio’s production project earlier this year, “The Silent” and [...]

Let’s be honest, here at Mapzzz, we really don’t know shit about current hip-hop. From what we’ve seen, Oakland has a lively scene (Trill Team 6, On Task Family, and Antwon just to name a few), but we’d be the first to tell you we’re not an authority on [...]

Earlier this year, the Oakland duo of James & Evander (who claims Mapzzz’s own Glenn Jackson to its ranks) unveiled their proper debut full-length, a sweet and swirling ten-song collection entitled Bummer Pop. Now the duo has issued a series of remixes from that record tapping a solid list of dreamy, like-minded [...]

The Australian upstart Charles Murdoch recently added another fine piece of audio to join the heap of impressive tracks already on his SoundCloud. “We Can Control” is the exact kind of soul-drenched post-dubstep/future-garage/bass-music-whatever that has made the young Aussie’s page one of our favorites to follow as of late.

Vyxor is clearly not fucking around on his new EP, Porcelain & Pewter, which dropped today via the Young Lattitudes net-label. The title track is an absolutely bananas hybrid—part future-soul, part R&B-injected electronics, and part pop-inflected jazz, all with a litany of guilty-pleasure club sensibilities thrown in for good measure. Vyxor’s whole two-track affair [...]

We dropped the ball a bit last week and lagged on the chance to offer up a free tune from one of our favorite Oakland soundsmiths Some Ember. After full-on loving the project’s Hotel of Lost Light casette released earlier this year, we were glad to see some new material surface, especially [...]