Articles by Aaron Matthews

Black Milk

Album of the Year

PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2010

Detroit had a hard year, and so has Curtis Cross. Album of the Year, the Motor City producer/MC's third record, begins with him meditating...

Ty

Special Kind of Fool

PUBLISHED May 25, 2010

Establishing yourself as a British talent in a genre thoroughly dominated by Yanks takes talent and persistence. Ty has certainly paid his...

Kon & Amir / Various

Off Track Vol. III: Brooklyn

PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2010

Off Track Vol. III is the latest in DJ duo Kon & Amir's series of rare funk compilations. Vol. III offers 29 unheard gems largely drawing o...

Marco Polo & Ruste Juxx

The eXXecution

PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2010

Ruste Juxx lays out his M.O. for The eXXecution succinctly on the album's intro: "if cats don't respect the rhyme, they gonna respect the R...

Raheem DeVaughn

The Love & War MasterPeace

PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2010

With his third album, DC crooner Raheem DeVaughn has finally recorded a full-length worthy of his influences. The Love & War MasterPeace ta...

Rob Swift

The Architect

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2010

Former X-Executioner and legendary DJ Rob Swift returns with his eighth album, based upon the manipulation of classical music. The Architec...

DJ Babu

The Beat Tape Vol. 2

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2010

DJ Babu is best known as a DJ for underground stalwarts Dilated Peoples and as a member of the Beat Junkies, but the man born Chris Oroc ha...

DJ Rob Swift Remembers Fellow X-Ecutioner Roc Raida on New Album

PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2010

Roc Raida, legendary DJ and member of the New York-based turntablist group the X-Ecutioners, passed away in September of last year, stemmin...