Beats – 3hive

DE LA SOUL

Jason — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:34:48 +0000

Cabin In The Sky – A fitting love letter to Dave (Trugoy the Dove)De La Soul releasing their first album in nine years would be newsworthy by itself, but Cabin In The Sky arrives under an even heavier weight: it is their first project since the tragic 2023 loss of founding member David Jolicoeur, AKA …

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GMO

todd — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:35:59 +0000

The latest single from Los Angeles band GMO, “Double Headed Gemini,” is a dingy, electro-pop gem that is sure to delight any fans of Broadcast. Hopefully there will be more from these guys, including a full-length LP, which would be rad! Check it out below. Double Headed Gemini by GMO

Prefuse 73

todd — Thu, 30 May 2024 16:44:39 +0000

Pioneering electronic musician and producer Prefuse 73 — aka Guillermo Scott Herren — is following up his latest album, New Strategies for Modern Crime Vol. 1 (released in March), with New Strategies for Modern Crime Vol. 2, which is set to be released at the end of June via Lex Records. His latest single, “Vast Wildlife Poison,” (below) …

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Aesop Rock

Owen C — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:51:16 +0000

Ian Matthias Bavitz, more commonly known as Aesop Rock, is a NYC native and a pillar in the underground hip-hop scene. He’s been making music and doing it in a way that’s sustainable and submented in legend for the way he has done it. His projects have dabbled in chart success over the past 20+ …

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Armand Hammer

guest — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 20:14:28 +0000

This post was written by our great friend Jeremy. I challenge any musical outfit in the world to create a more thought-provoking and challenging piece of music than Armand Hammer’s We Buy Diabetic Test Strips, because I haven’t heard one this year. Just as their past three albums have, this release makes me feel like …

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billy woods & Kenny Segal

Owen C — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000

billy woods, half of Armand Hammer, dropped his 13th studio album, Maps. This is his second album with producer Kenny Segal following their critically acclaimed 2019 album, Hiding Places. The duo keep building on their early 2010s underground, experimental hip-hop sound – giving vulnerable, eerie, and tense vibes throughout. The sounds and emotions of Maps …

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Soichi Terada

todd — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:47:24 +0000

This post would be better had Sam or Sean written it. Their knowledge of electronic music is vast and I only dabble in the genre. However, I am really digging Soichi Terada’s Asakusa Light so here we are. For those who don’t know (like I didn’t), Soichi Terada is a Japanese electronic music composer who’s …

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Nathan Womack

todd — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Nathan Womack is one half of the fabulous Paces Lift & Ben Bounce project, as well as the guy behind the Wax Thématique label. He also just released his debut single Past But The Dream. Taken from samples found while crate digging in Bangkok, Thailand and Guangzhou, China, Nathan has constructed two killer tracks full …

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Courtesy

todd — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:35:25 +0000

I’m not really sure how to accurately describe Courtesy’s sound, but it’s somewhere in the realm of: wonky, electronic pop with some heavy-ass beats and grooves for days. Their most recent album, Check The Milk has the wonk dialed back just a bit (versus their last album Slow Bruise), but there is still plenty of …

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Nathan Womack

todd — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:05:23 +0000

Eastern Rain, the newest EP from Nathan Womack (who is also one half of 3hive favorite Paces Lift & Ben Bounce), is inspired from Womack’s many years traveling and living in Asia and collecting music while there. Eastern Rain is 4 tracks of music sampled, recorded and produced in Kunming, Yunnan, China. It features hand-pan …

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