September 28th, 2010

LIVE: FREE Hidden Fortress show in Vancouver

If you like dark, progressive hip hop with a cinematic flare and you live in Vancouver, you shouldn’t miss this FREE show from Hidden Fortress. And with $2 Rainier, the drinking is cheap, too. AT-AT parking nearby… Can you ask for anything more?




<a href="http://handsolorecords.bandcamp.com/track/fire-walk-with-us">Fire Walk With Us by Hand&#8217;Solo Records</a>

September 22nd, 2010

LIVE: $5 Rap Show w/ Mindbender, Sunny D & Mister E

Toronto hip hop heads would be well advised to hit up the $5 Rap Show this Thursday, October 23 for Canadian rap legend Mindbender, as well as In Divine Styler mainstay Sunny D and rapper Mister E, the latter also celebrating his CD release. Only $5. It’s all going down at Rancho Relaxo starting at 9:30 with More Or Les on the wheels of steel…


September 16th, 2010

REVIEWS: Joshua’s Dreamixes reviewed again and again and again…

The Dirty Sample’s remix album Joshua’s Dreamixes has received a few reviews recently so it’s time for an update…

Giving Joshua’s Dreamixes 4.5 out of 5, Skope Magazine’s Shawn Alexander Roy proclaims the album “a surreal journey through twenty-two songs.” Read the rest of the review here: http://skopemag.com/2010/09/13/the-dirty-sample-joshua’s-dreamixes

Our always supportive friend Z. of top nerdcore music blog Hipster, Please! called the album “a fully international, wholly irrational collection that holds up well through rigorous, extended listening sessions” in his track-by-track breakdown of the album. Read the rest of the review here: http://www.hipsterplease.com/2010/08/dream-on.html.

Also supportive of Hand’Solo Records, Lukas Trs, giving the album 7 out of 10 in Czech music magazine BBaRáK, translates his review as: “In short, the review says that Planit is very talented as a producer and the album shows a wide variety of beats. I think it would be a good move for him to do an album with some solid underground rapper on some Marco Polo & Pumpkinhead ish. He definitely has skills to make a cohesive album with an MC.” The online, non-translated review can be read here: http://www.bbarak.cz/recenze-1-the-dirty-sample-joshua’s-dreamixes-hand-solo-records-308