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Earlier this summer, Turkish singer-songwriter emir taha released his debut EP, Hoppa Pt. 1, a stunning six-tracker that put forward his R&B vision. In the past he’s commented that he hopes to do for Turkey with R&B what Roselia did for Spain with Flamenco. That may seem like hubris, but Hoppa Pt. 1 laid out an R&B sound built around impossibly graceful vocals […]
Just a couple of months ago, UK-born, Sydney-based producer Jonny Reebok made his grand, official debut with “Aphrodite Dub” / “Ghost Town Riddim”, the A-side of which was a painstakingly detailed ode to the UK’s underground club culture. Now he’s revisiting the track, calling on NTS regular Peach to reinterpret it with a fresh new remix. Stirring together […]
adidas‘ latest Sport headphones are a pair of wireless performance headphones designed for athletes going the distance. Produced in collaboration with Zound Industries, adidas’ wireless over-the-ear headphones fuse high-end audio technology and sport performance together to create one of the most innovative bits of tech the Three Stripes have produced to date. The RPT-01 is the game-changer from adi’s current collection, […]
Man United star Marcus Rashford has inspired McDonald’s and local businesses across England to step up and support the provision of free meals for children and families less fortunate during the October half-term. The fast-food chain took to Twitter to announc their pledge of one million free meals for “families in need” following 22-year-old Rashford’s campaign with the FareShare charity. […]
South London rapper SL has dropped off his new mixtape, Different Dude, which sees him stand out from the crowd once more across ten expertly-executed tracks. After going viral in 2017 with the songs “Gentleman” and “Tropical” while still doing his GCSEs, SL unleashed the EPs Everything Good Is Bad and Selhurst SE25, where he further illustrated his precocious talent […]
Just last month, grime veteran D Double E whipped us all into a frenzy when he surprise-dropped his collab with Kano, “Tell Me A Ting“, and announced he had a new album on the way. That was later followed-up with a solid-gold, all-star remix featuring BackRoad Gee, Novelist, P Money and Frisco, and now—in what might be the […]
Having spent much of her life between Germany, France and Ghana (as well as Togo, Chad and Cameroon), singer-songwriter Y’akoto (real name Jennifer Yaa Akoto Kieck) recently made her home in the Ghanaian capital of Accra, which also happens to be her father’s birthplace. The decision to move there came after a particularly painful heartbreak which […]
E.M.M.A.‘s debut album, 2013’s Blue Gardens feels like a lifetime ago, and in the intervening seven years, a lot has changed for the Merseyside-born producer. A brief pause on releasing her own music saw her explore other avenues, launching the Producer Girls production camp with the help of Dexplicit, Ikonika and P Jam, launching an imprint, and unearthing a new desire to score […]
Reebok and JJJJound have finally unveiled their new collaborative silhouette, which sees the Montreal-based design studio reinvent Reebok’s historic Classic leather Nylon retro runner in a clean new design. The Classic Leather Nylon is an 80’s classic steeped in Reebok’s fitness heritage, that today offers a breadth staple models for contemporary lifestyle wardrobes. The understated classic resonates with JJJJound’s own refined attention to detail, with the 2020 […]
Tomorrow, October 23, North London producer and artist Wauve, aka Robeal Yohannes, will release his debut EP Shade. Although he describes himself as a producer first and a singer a distant second, if the EP’s new single “Pamela”, which features Afrobeats stars ZieZie and Stonebwoy is anything to go by, we can’t help but feel like he’s […]
