Poetry. Slam. Honestly, I’m not to big about it. But after watching Kate Tempest her ‘Line In The Sand’ I caugth myself staring at the screen, all goosebumped. That’s enough to share this video. A rugged boost of energy and passion. Real proper UK styling: “See I’m all city, except I got the hair of [...]

One of the most interesting producers out there at the moment, Martyn, is starring in his first shortfilm, which goes by the same name as his album debut: Great Lenghts, shot by Ramón Gieling. Great Lengths is a tribute to Martyn’s parents, his father, former PSV team-leading scorer Gerrie Deijkers, who died of heart falure [...]

Donny Hathaway, unsung hero of soul, with classics like Little Ghetto Boy, The Ghetto and Roberta Flack’s debut album and work with Curtis Mayfield under his belt, to name just a few (download this tribute mix if you want a nice overview of his career). A lifetime overshadowed by the darkside it seems: “During the [...]

Staff Benda Bilili is a group of street musicians who are paraplegic polio victims living in and around the grounds of Kinshasa Zoo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They call their disability a state of mind. Leader Ricky has dreams of his group becoming the best band in Congo Kinshasa. A documentary crew followed [...]

Blend’ was the track that put them on the map as Uphigh Collective (you’ve seen the live video, you’ve got the 7″ vinyl, or the mp3 – out on On-Point Records), gaining them international acclaim from Athens to Los Angeles over London and Amsterdam. Currently preparing their live show and with new tracks to surface [...]

Downtown Calling was just brought hom to day, only to premiere to a sold-out venue. This sure looks like a must-see documentary for anybody interested in what is most likely the most amazing outburst of creativity in one period of time, in one specific place: downtown New York, 1977 – 1985. (To know the background [...]

“We had no idea what that song was about, we just needed a b-side.” Well, if only more b-sides like this were made, creating a trademark sound for other genres to grow out off. Melvin Bliss’s Synthetic Substitution is one of those classic breakbeats you’ve heard over a gazillion times, sampled by your favourite hiphop [...]

Like two years ago, I went to Dour Festival (and Werchter too, but that’s less relevant for this blog) to shoot some interviews for the sites of Humo and TéléMoustique. Not all went well, not all were deep, but that’s all part of the festivalgame, isn’t it? The hectic schedules, the freestyled questions, the artists [...]

Fela. One of the artists we should all own as much albums off as possible. For the music, for the message, for the artwork, for the energy. A while ago, you’ve seen this documentary ft. the man himself and all of his wives. Now, with ‘Fela!’, the musical playing on Broadway, more videos are put [...]

For a four-day frenzy of quality music and warm Southern French vibes, it’s going down as of today : Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Festival. With acts such as Gil Scott-Heron, Dorian Concept, Martyn, Flying Lotus and many others, this is a music fan’s walhalla. The festival is happening twice a year, in Sète ànd in Singapore [...]

Almost a year ago, when we were vi-si-ting New-York City, Matthew at turntablelab tipped us there was a guy in town, which we really should go check out and maybe even meet: Turns out the guy was a boy, and so the day after, we connected with 17-year old Kyle Hall, who was in NYC [...]

Last Sunday On-Point Records was invited on national radio, as a part of Lefto’s season closing on Studio Brussel. JtotheC & the Bad Mothas were in the building, Nouk was in the building, Title was in the building, LuiGi was in the building, and most notably Delv!s was in the building, alongside the entire Uphigh [...]

As an answer to Beck’s Record Club, the Belgian Internet Recording Klub was recently put together. Assembling artists of all genres and flavours, to make covers of classic albums in the same spirit as Beck’s very own club. JtotheC was asked to participate in this, choosing one artist from a genre far away from his [...]

Here’s something that wasn’t discussed the last time I met mr. Flying Lotus (watch the video) : the art of his Cosmogramma album. All is explained by visual philosopher Leigh J. McCloskey in this beautiful video. I don’t think I fully understand all of his words, but the art is beautiful nonetheless, especially the vibe [...]

Kid Sublime is back! And back with a masterplan, which on-point fully endorses, of course! Download The Alicia Beattape, 1h10min of pure soul, produced by the Kid, on the keys, drums, bass and vocals. I’m feeling this passionate magnus opus of Amsterdam’s finest producer/composer: Download ‘Kid Sublime presents The Alicia Beattape’ (and don’t forget the [...]

Gil Scott-Heron’s concert in Brussels last month is arguably the best concert I’ve seen in a long time, and with that, I’ve grown even a bigger fan of the man than I already was. His latest album ‘I’m New Here’ has slowly but surely grown under my skin, regardless what the critics say, the album [...]

Rough Trade, the name is a myth and a landmark in music’s history. That’s what you’ll probably know already, just because it’s that big a name. But it takes a 1h30 documentary to fully come to comprehend the importance of what the founders of Rough Trade have done. True pioneers. An inspiration and a must-see [...]

Roy Ayers is coming to town! Next week that is. With that, it seemed like the time was right to dig up this three year old recording of a talk I had with the man when he was in Ghent. “It’s Digital! Euhm, I mean, it’s Analog! It’s analog!” Dj SNS – also known as [...]

And so it happens that I’m surrounded by creative minds, all creating and creating. Creating like there is no tomorrow. New groups, new formations, new labels, new blogs, new aliases and aka’s. And every now and then, a vague, yet surprising project pops up. In comes Ljipe Trukn, from Kortrijk. I couldn’t quite figure out [...]

“There is a cool islam, you just have to find it!” Screening tonight at De Beursschouwburg in Brussels: Taqwacore – The Birth Of Punk Islam. Surely a must-see if you’re interested to learn about how a fictional story about a punk islam movement, became a self-fulfilling prophecy and an actual music scene in North America. [...]

As of last Friday the fourth edition of Apollo is out, and as you might have heard by now, it’ll be the last edition of this brilliant music/film magazine. The disappointment is big, so I wish not to talk about that too much. (although we appreciate the person who started this facebook initiative, thanks!) None [...]