"...a throwback to the days of the old boom bap, when tracks just made you want to bang your head and break your neck", says Laurent Fintoni, aka Kper, of his current hip hop fixes: beatheads such as Flying Lotus and edIT in LA, Dabrye and Waajeed in Detroit, and Rustie and Hudson Mohawke in Scotland. Laurent has been interviewing some of the aforementioned artists for articles coming out in the August issue of Serie B magazine. This mix, featuring snippets of the interviews (taken from www.samurai.fm), showcases many of the crucial players in this globally evolving hip hop sound. More info on the mix can be found over at Laurent's blog. Tracklisting: Dilla beats intro 2tall — Killa (unreleased) Dabrye — Truflle no Shuffle (Ghostly) Flying Lotus — wwwdot (July Heat) Heralds of Change — Sittin On the Side (All City) Piano Overlord — Track 3 (Money Studies) edIT — Laundry (Planet Mu) Dabrye ft Jay Dee and Phat Kat — Game Over (Flying Lotus remix) (Ghostly) FLYamSAM — The Offbeat (Ghostly Swim) Nosaj Thing — 1685 (unreleased) Bullion — Rude Effort (One-Handed Music) Harmonic 313 — Problem 7 (Warp) Bass Clef — Zero Eight Zero (Blank Tapes) Waajeed — Get Live (Fat City) Flying Lotus — Massage Situation (Warp) edIT — Certified Air Raid Material (Alpha Pup) Danny Breaks — Jellyfish (Alphabet Zoo) Heralds of Change — Work it (All City) Take aka Thomas 2000 — Lie-Twerx (Eat Concrete) J Dilla — Lightworks (Stones Throw) Ras G — Random Selection (P-Vine) Samiyam — Cheesecake Backslap (Hyperdub) Mike Slott — Knock Knock (All City) Take — Slouched Over (12″ edit) (Inner Current Recordings) Ooah — Hacksaw (Alpha Pup / GM unlimited) Hud Mo — Ooops! (Lucky Me x Wireblock) Megasoid — Soundbwoy Bass (inst) (unreleased) FOOL — Slaves (2tall remix) (Huw + Haw) Harmonic 313 — Call To Arms (Warp) Dabrye — Temper (Ghostly Swim) Joker — Gullybrook Lane (Soul Jazz) Zomby — Spliff Dub (Rustie remix) (Hyperdub) Quarta 330 — Sunset Dub (Hyperdub) Ikonika — Please (Hyperdub) Machinedrum — Don’t Ask Me (Sped up and Cut up mix) (Norm Rex) The Bug ft Spaceape — Fuckaz (Ninja Tune) Daedelus ft. Paperboy and Taz — Touchstone (Ninja Tune Heralds of Change ft Olivier Daysoul — Bopgunnn (All City) FOOL — Drama (Rustie remix) (Huw + Haw) Samiyam and Hudson Mohawke — Eff This (Red Bull) Flying Lotus — Camel (Warp) Hud Mo - Still On It — (Lucky Me x Wireblock) Ghislain Poirier — La Ronde (Musique Large) Rustie — Clipper (Stuff) J Dilla — Trucks (Stones Throw) edIT ft Jay Dee and Phat Kat — The Game is Not Over (Alpha Pup / GM Unlimited)