URBNET kicks off 2012 by launching a new series of “Certified”compilations. The latest addition to the label’s compilation line focuseson new singles from emerging artists. The series will also offer a sampling of songs from URBNET’s expanding roster, and this will be an opportunity to hear new music before it appears on full length releases. Certified selections are pulled from URBNET’s top 10 best new music list. The monthly list highlights the best new music submissions received by URBNET for release. Volume 1 is set to be released digitally on Tuesday, January 10, and features new music from Ian Kamau, Motëm, royceBIRTH and Besque to name a few
Puzzle from the Sars Network from Toronto, drops this short EP. It features production by The Quarter Inch Kings and mixed by PhameOne. You can’t go wrong with $3, McDonalds cost more…
D-Sisive’s latest, Run With the Creeps. It’s a deeper dive back into himself, and with his wide-open online look at the creative process along the way, his most honest yet. The hunger, pain, humour, and scrutiny have been on display every day; he’s forever brazen in ambition and as credulous as a kid. He’s writing the whole thing down, sparing no detail and certainly no time.
The VIA Rail presents: The Train of Thought Tour Mixtape is a FREE, exclusive DJ mix by Muneshine, in support of the VIA Rail presents: The Train of Thought Tour. Featuring the brand new exclusive track, “Train of Thought”, produced by Jeff Spec, the mixtape showcases 1-hour of music from Ghettosocks, Muneshine, Timbuktu, and Jeff Spec.
Included tracks feature guest appearances by D-Sisive, PH, Chokeules, Dminor, Shuanise, and Saidah C., with production by Bix, Fresh Kils, Vinyl Frontiers, Jorun Bombay, M-Phazes, Impossible Nothing, Rich Kidd, and The Extremities. (more…)
URBNET returns this winter with the seventh volume in its underground Hip-Hop series. The 16 track compilation features singles selected from various recent URBNET releases, featuring music by D-Sisive, Rel!g!on, Sweatshop Union, Don Cash, Timbuktu and Canadian Winter among others. Volume 7 also includes new exclusive music from emerging hip hop artists such as Perfeck Strangers, Emay and Animal Nation.
The 4-piece live Hiphop collective the Local Onlyz have been keeping it innovative in the Queencity for the past half a decade. Made up of InfoRed from the Little Black Bear First Nation of Saskatchewan, DJ Merky Waters, Thomas Roussin on guitar and Nathaniel Bowen on drums, this collective brings a deliberate deliverance of Hiphop style and musical skills.
InfoRed and DJ Merky Waters have been bringing out underground-styled Hiphop tunes for the last decade, and now with the Local Onlyz, they transcend the barriers of the genre with a raw style of rap, soul, rock and funk that is accented by InfoRed’s technical lyricism, Merky Waters’ clean turntablism and the musical stylings of Thomas Roussin and Nathaniel Brown.
In perfect timing for the fall season, The Local Onlyz say they have ‘fine-tuned’ this release to where they are truly comfortable with it.
