Articles by Noel Dix

Ammoncontact
With Voices
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006
Electronic meets hip-hop with heavy doses of soul with this Los Angeles duos latest release. Sometimes the formula works extremely well an...
Buckle Bros.
Underground Superstars
PUBLISHED May 1, 2006
The whole "staying true to hip-hop slant is starting to get a little tiresome, but the fact is that most crews who preach about the golden...
Various
Bay Area Funk 2
PUBLISHED May 1, 2006
Its been almost three years for the sequel of the Bay Area Funk original to make its ways to record shelves, which seems like a long time...
DJ Format / Various
Fabric Live 27
PUBLISHED May 1, 2006
Though primarily a hip-hop producer, Format has always given his beats a huge dose of nostalgia by heavily sampling every portion of old fu...
Birdy Nam Nam
Birdy Nam Nam
PUBLISHED May 1, 2006
The idea of taking a quartet of turntablists as individual musicians to create live music has been going on for years since the Skratch Pik...
Various
Big Apple Rappin'v
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006
Oh, the feel good days in New York when hip-hop was just beginning to blossom and cats were rapping about moving your feet to the disco bea...
Mr. Len
Class X: A Tribute to Company Flow
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006
It was disappointing when underground champions Company Flow disbanded after just two incredible records (one being all instrumental) but w...
Soul Position
Things Go Better with RJ & AL
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2006
Their debut EP was incredibly hot but their first full-length was disappointing, and after a ho-hum release with Aceyalone, RJD2 needs to s...