Get Your Boom Baps Out! Full English Hip-Hop 23.08.11

Across the nation this week excited and hopeful bright young sparks are fervently waiting in the bushes outside their houses ready to ambush unsuspecting postmen for their (hopefully) hard earned A-level, GCSE and degree results, eager to see what their future holds... Meanwhile in Great Yarmouth, a downtrodden graduate with neither housing nor employment is probably waiting in the bushes to jump an unsuspecting single mum for her Blackberry, I-Pod, can of Kestrel a shag or maybe even just pocket change. But potentially all of the above. So in light of all these hopeless vagrants drifting through what barely tallies as an existence let's make like Mr O'Leary said and turn on, tune in and drop out...

Riding back in to town on his thoroughbred hip-hop steed this week is Blighty's premier leftfield beatmaker Paul White with his brand new album Rapping With Paul White available through One Handed Music. OHM have been rearing a fine stable of artists over the past few years, including Bullion, whose mix album of Jay Dee & The Beach Boys 'Pet Sounds' must be heard to be believed, have possibly unearthed their must polished gem yet with White's new record. White has been producing some of the most innovative and thoroughly psychedelic hip-hop around in recent times, with 2010's Paul White & The Purple Brain being a particularly mind boggling listen, coming across something like a B-boy Amorphous Androgynous. Apparently never one to brew the same concoction twice White has taken a step further into the stratosphere, extending his sound somewhat to involve more heady synths and also bringing in a clutch of some of underground hip-hop's finest vocalists to embellish his already fascinating audio adventures. Appearances from the likes of Homeboy Sandman, Jehst, fresh of the back of his masterpiece Dragon Of An Ordinary Family, Guilty Simpson on leadout single 'Trust' and the always obvious choice of Wigan born folk singer Nancy Elizabeth, on the wonderfully entitled and infinitely twee 'Wily Walruses', provide his beats with an added dimension and focus that some listeners may not have found on his previous, mainly instrumental collections. So fire up your big ole' seventies headphones (bonus points if you dig out some that look like Jim Kelly's pair in Enter The Dragon) and wander off into the ether that is Rapping With Paul White.

Bringing us back down to terra-firma with a grimey bump comes the return of a newer label which has definitely started to put in major hours in the green pastures of UK hip-hop & bass music. Butterz, ran under the beady eyes of Skilliam & Elijah, is currently one of the premium purveyors of bass heavy grime & hip-hop on the scene. Boasting past releases from the likes of Terror Danjah, Royal T & Swindle and always coming adorned with signature bold black & yellow album sleeves, they really are records you can't fail to miss on a shelf. Fresh out of the Butterz kitchens in the past few months we've had the P Money & Blacks 12" 'Boo You'. also featuring Slickman and coming with the energy only a P Money cut can. A side 'Boo You' is a garage inflected rumbler guaranteed to leave egg on the face of the endless torrents of sub-standard club ready music senselessly dribbling out of every supercharged club soundsystem and undercharged boy racer found on the streets of dear old Blighty, whilst over on the B there are two renditions of TRC's 'Oo Aa Ee'. The first of the 2 comes courtesy of Royal T and is a standard old school styled garage cut, which, I'm not going to lie, I found to sound almost like any other bit of garage that exists. It isn't a sound I'm particularly keen on nor familiar with so I'll delve into no more detail than that. But then again I'm from Great Yarmouth: I don't do garage... I do sheds. Coming in to save the B side's proverbial bacon however is the always on-point D.O.K with his 'Very Butterz Remix'. Starting the track of fwith a cheeky splash of skanking brass, the tune then flies off the handle into warping synths, not too dissimilar to that "purple" tag style, all tacking along to a wonderful set of bouncing sub hits. Much better. As if this wasn't good enough the Butterz boys have this month dropped the newest nugget from chronically overlooked MC Trim. His new 12" 'I Am' comes packed with 3 versions of said track, including a slow rolling spaced out Preditah rendition of which I'm particularly partial, a crafty little LV cut and the TRC original which sees Trim deliver one of his skippiest and most intricate flows in a while. Alongside this certified smorgasbord of sound D.O.K once again pops in on 'Notice Now', another belting synth led number which gives Trim the frame for some classic bragging rights. So, to sum up somewhat curtly, fuck Wiz Khalifa and his 15 word vocabulary (I'm counting his annoying laugh twice out of charity) as Butterz is the only black & yellow that you need on your speakers... Anyroad that's me done I've got to get this gin down me, get out the shed and into the bushes as I just know there is a sugar mama out there for me this week, ready to put the GY in Gyro Tuesday!