
2012-04-17

00:01:13
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To be honest there’s so far only two valid song on the topic of Hoods made ’til this day; Lil Jon’s ‘Put Your Hood Up’ from 2001 and Lady Sovereign’s ‘Hoodie’ from 2005. But Sunday’s grime producer Teddy Music finally dropped his huge ‘Hoods Up’ which is like the perfect mix of them both as [...]
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2012-04-16

19:12:59
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Mz Bratt will, as I’ve previously posted, drop her Naughty Boy-produced single ‘Falling Down’ featuring Khalaeliah on the 6th of May. The EP release of the track that was co-written by Emeli Sandé will include three massive remixes from T-Star ft. Krept & Konan, Shogun Audio and Donae’o, who’s remix is absolutely mental. Stream all [...]
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Fresh off the release of her 12th Planet & Flinch-produced single ‘Keep On Dreaming’ that dropped on Trouble & Bass a couple of weeks ago (cop here) now Little Jinder teams up with one of Sweden’s best male producers right now Denniz Prime on his and Queff’s first offering from their upcoming EP release “Midnight [...]
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Let’s start this week fresh with brand new material from Major Lazer as Diplo and Switch’s don dadda unleshed som new material together with Amber Coffman of Dirty Projectors. The track is called ‘Get Free’ and just as the title suggest it comes as a free download together with a remix by none other than [...]
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2012-04-14

09:40:13
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Princess Nyah is set to drop her huge Ill Blu-produced single ‘Soldier’ featuring Wiley taken off her “Destroy & Rebuild” EP tomorrow and the single EP will feature 6 tracks, among them remixes by Filthy Fiction, Major Notes, Flava D and July 5th Music (pre-order off iTunes here). The official video is really a master [...]
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2012-04-11

21:38:23
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I don’t know if I’m repeating myself but acts like Chippy Nonstop sort of embodies everything I wanted with this site when I first started First Up! back in late 2004. I wanted to give fresh talent a platform to be seen, I wanted to explore new music and I wanted the rest of world [...]
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At first I thought it was really ironic that Sway’s new single that dropped the 2nd of April had the title ‘Level Up’ and I burst out into a big laugh when I read that it was sold with the following line: “Never one to conform to the norm” with a production by Flux Pavilion. [...]
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Normally I would not even press play on some male rapper that describes himself with the words “pretentious white boy who who’s main influence is getting rejected by women” in the promo mail, instead it would go straight to the bin. BUT since I actually rate Mike Skinner as a man with good taste I [...]
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2012-04-10

22:41:42
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Last week Chase and Status dropped the deluxe version of their “No More Idols” album featuring ‘End Credits’ ft. Plan B, ‘Let You Go’ ft. Mali, ‘Hypest Hype’ Tempa T, ‘Blind Faith’ ft. Liam Bailey, ‘Time’ ft. Delilah, ‘Hitz’ ft. Tinie Tempah and ‘Flashing Lights’ ft. Sub Focus & Takura, plus videos and remixes from [...]
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Finally, here comes the first taste off King Fantastic anno 2012 as Killer Reese and DJ Troublemaker just unleashed the lovely slapper ‘G Sharp’ taken off their upcoming EP “SocioPoliticalPimpTalk”. Cop the single and the instrumental off iTunes now and stream the track below: King Fantastic – ‘G Sharp’
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