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This Week’s Tape
A survey of the state of the underground hip hop nation through 2026 releases. At its best, most pure, underground feels like community, not commodity with lyrics focused down on earth, on today, jumping and bumping towards freedom. Beats and samples and production are on point (but one can get caught in the trap with nothing new to add). Flows are tight. Vibrant, abrasive, smooth, and cerebral, all at once. Premier’s Cri de Coeur's words still ring true for today’s best artists. “We gonna keep walkin through the darkness carrying our torches. Underground will live forever, baby. We just like roaches— never dying. Always living.”
Last Week’s Tape
What's more Fall than the changing foliage, flannel, fire pits, and football? And what's the best thing about a [college] football game... the band! This mix is dedicated to the heartbeat of the marching band, the drumline. Starting with a palette prep called the Brush Off, followed by a rudiment warm-up, leading into drumline cadences perfect for parades and dancing in the stands, then ending with scores of marching band halftime shows and full competition routines.
The ‘26 Archive
- Hilly’s on the Bowery
- City Pop
- DJ cdmtm POPsTART
- Fireside Introspective
- Throat Goats
- Space Elevator
- Therapassette
- Odd Grooves and Elastic Moves
- Can’t Afford Ibiza
- Ladies Who Synth
- Albarn Album All Day
- 2026 Quarterly Report
- Dance into the Darkness
- Shugazi
- Frolic
- Glass
- Split Selves
- How Long
- Fourth World
- Asteroid Face Melt
- Roadrunner
- Before the Apology
- DOOM
- World Cup
- Q2 Earnings Call
- Desert Drifters
- Stage and Screen
- Gimme a Beat
- 1976 | A Golden Jubilee
- Reggae Journey to the East
- Summer Dubbin'
- Soweto, So We Dance
- Xlomorph
- Late Summer (Soul)stice
- Sage Throughout that Church
- Down by the River Up Yonder in the Mountains
- Ages at the Chelsea Hotel
- Company Picnic
- Jesus Freaks: X'ian Psych
- Hallows Eve Hip Hop
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