Instrumental albums are a mixed bag. Sometimes you find a producer slapping ten leftover beats on a CD-R and then turning it into the label to spruce up with artwork for mass consumption. Other times you get a fully realized magnum opus that forever changes the way we look at hip-hop production. El-P’s latest (which [cont.]

Bun B – “Trill O.G.” – Best Buy and Napster have Bun’s latest on lock, with four exclusive bonus tracks on either CD or digital versions. The bonus tracks are “Gladiator” featuring Truck Buck (produced by Steve Below), “Sext Me” featuring Just Brittany, Candy Redd, Surreal, Troublesome, & RawLT (produced by Steve Below), “Real Live” [cont.]

El Producto shows off the vocal version of the “How To Serve Man” instrumental, as heard on WeAreAllGoingToBurnInHellMegamixxx3, in stores today. Official HHS review coming soon….

El Producto performs “Patriotism” and “Up All Night” at the PMF in Chicago.

Are you still confused or uninformed about the release of El-P’s Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixx3, dropping August 3rd. Read on, true believers: this is the front cover (right) and back cover (left) it drops on AUGUST 3RD, IN THIS YEAR OF OUR LORD 2010 on golddust records you can pre order it here.  please ignore the fact that [cont.]

El-P released the following statement in regards to Camu Tao’s King of Hearts LP, which will see release on August 17th on Definitive Jux / Fat Possum. Who said Jux was done? Not us. Two years ago today  Tero “Camu Tao” Smith died after a grueling battle with cancer.  He was a friend, a son, [cont.]

El’s next mostly instrumental magnum opus, Weareallgonnaburninhellmegamixxx3 preorders have begun, via Definitive Jux’s website. The site is offering several different packages – digital, autographed CD and autographed vinyl, which you can get a la cart, or in special T-Shirt package deals for a little extra. Megamixxx3 T-shirts and hoodies are also sold separately. Orders will [cont.]

El-Producto will return on August 3rd, 2010 with “WeAreAllGoingToBurnInHellMegaMixxx3″ on August 3rd, via Gold Dust Media. The collection includes mostly instrumental selections, as well as remixes he has done for tracks from Young Jeezy and Kidz In The Hall. “I wanted to do little mini-movements that had a real beginning, middle and end and then [cont.]

Gym Class Heroes lead further elaborates on upcoming projects, namely his Forgetting Katy Perry mixtape, not to mention his solo album Lazurus, hitting June 8th.

In the above clip, despite his potential “Billionaire” status, Travie McCoy suggests that Gym Class Heroes has not broken up, and his solo album, Lazarus, is merely one of many side projects he’s working on – which also include Blood Pony with “(his) homeboy L P” (this El-P? or that “LP”) and The Goonies with [cont.]

Wow, El-P releases the first treat from weareallgoingtoburninhellmeggamixxx3 which should serve as a nice reminder on why we all fell in love with El-P beats in the first place. Insanity. (That’s not the cover, by the way). El-P – “Whores: The Movie” (MP3)

Def Jux head El-P posted the following information regarding weareallgoingtoburninhellmeggamixxx3 via his blog. the above is a drawing/painting/something my boy travis millard (google him) did for the inside of the weareallgoingtoburninhellmeggamixxx3. its not the cover. anyway, im done with this shit. it took me longer than i thought it would. originally it was the the [cont.]

Featuring interviews with Chuck D, DJ Q-Bert, Pete Rock, Afrika Bambaataa, Aesop Rock, Mix Master Mike, De La Soul, Danger Mouse and a bunch of stuffy lawyers, this documentary examines the history of sampling in hip-hop music, and how the legalities behind it changed the entire landscape of hip-hop music. Perhaps the best quote in [cont.]

You gotta love the balloons. Definitive Jux celebrates the 4th of July (or not) by teaming up with AmazonMP3 for a free sampler album, featuring new and classic tracks from Cage, El-P, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, Chin Chin, Company Flow, Del, Rob Sonic, Hangar 18, Dizzee Rascal, and Murs. Cop that shit. – DJ Pizzo

By: David Ma EL-P’s career has been full of triumphs. From Company Flow’s paradigm shifting Funcrusher Plus, to the label successes of Def Jux, EL-P has been in the thick of it all. His production style is completely original, blending thrashy sounds with pulsing urgency into smooth arrangements. Compound that with wide-ranging remixes and the [cont.]

    I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead is the second official solo album from producer / emcee, El-P, who also doubles as founder of Definitive Jux and one time member of Company Flow. To say that this is a step-up from Fantastic Damage or Cannibal Ox’s The Cold Vien, would be an understatement, as El has [cont.]

      Since the Funcrusher EP dropped in 1996, the hip-hop world has come to expect a certain sound from El-P. It is an abrasive, challenging variety of boom-bap that rubs a lot of people the wrong way, but is also a great conduit for the reality that El kicks in his rhymes. Today, it seems [cont.]

Each decade of hip-hop music has had a producer that refused to remain grounded within the bounds of conventional production, abandoning any and all traditional rules of music, and forging their own way ahead. In the 80′s it was the Bomb Squad, who backed Public Enemy’s political agenda with immense sample collages, while in the [cont.]

It’s the battle that no other magazine would cover, because the artists weren’t as large as Canibus or Cool J. As followers of underground and independent hip-hop may already be aware, there’s a little beef between two artists who are both putting down on the scene. El-P is virtually one of the kings of the [cont.]

It’s the battle that no other magazine would cover, because the artists weren’t as large as Canibus or Cool J. As followers of underground and independent hip-hop may already be aware, there’s a little beef between two artists who are both putting down on the scene. El-P is virtually one of the kings of the [cont.]