Delarge: Desktop wallpapers, stickers, posters & downloads

Some weekend treats are in store for your eyes and ears - there’s another brand new desktop wallpaper for you to download, featuring a photo from Face It, it’s also available in a 1440 x 900 size for the mac heads.

We have teamed up with Simpson from Zebra Traffic to bring you some online streaming hip hop radio in the form of The Dugout - his weekly hip hop show, much more of that to come soon but for now, feast on the latest show featuring a new Wu Tang Clan track, gems from Diplo, The Beatnuts and Nice & Smooth amongst more, here’s the playlist for the week starting Monday 24th September 07 and a link:

1. Benga & Coki Night (Tempa)
2. Wu Tang Clan Watch Your Step (Src)
3. Last Skeptik & Verb T ft Ed O.G. No More (Silent Soundz)
4. Metabeats Ft Baleef White Girl (Cocaine) (Associated Minds)
5. Iron Butterfly Get Out My Life Woman (White Label)
6. Wildstyle Subway Theme (Mr Bongo)
7. Outkast Skew It On The BBQ (inst) (promo)
8. Doc Brown Do It (Janomi)
9. Diplo Diplo Rhythm (Big Dada)
10. Guts Le Bienheureux And The Living Is Easy (Dynamics Remix) (Wax On)
11. Jehst Work Ethic (Groundwurq Remix) (Y’n’r)
12. Beatnuts & Method Man Se Acabo (Loud)
13. The I.R.S. Monkey See Monkey Do (IRS)
14. Hezikiah Ultra S**t (Soulspazm)
15. Talib Kweli Hostile Gospel (Warner)
16. Stray Never Free (instr) (Little League)

Classic selection:

1. Nice & Smooth Old To The New (Rush)
2. Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators If This Aint Love (Mr Scruff Remix Instr) (Atc)
3. Donovan Get Thy Bearings (Epic)
4. Common The People (Geffen)
5. Bayani Opening Salvo (Rawkus)
6. Shape Of Broad Minds Let’s Go Ft Mf Doom (Lex)
7. Gecko Turner Un Limon en la Cabeza (Quantic mix)

Guest Mix - Kempston Joystick:

1. Ramsey Lewis Messengers (Re-edit)
2. Captain Funkaho My 2600
3. Jethro Tell Bouree
4. Clark Ted (Bibio Remix)
5. Mum They Made Frogs Smoke Til They Exploded
6. Baron Zen Baron Zen Theme (Danny Breaks Remix)
7. Common The Game
8. Beatnuts Niggaz Know
9. Lena Horne & Gabor Szabo Rocky Racoon
10. Tamba California Soul

Tune in (Streaming .wma file)

In 1997, when delarge was just a twinkle in our eyes, a lot of time was spent at a friend’s house making hip hop mix tapes on 3 decks, delving through his immense stacks of wax (Shouts to mad money making SMD). Upon leaving, you’d always have a hot 90 minutes in your pocket. Recently, whilst sniffing around for some beats, we stumbled upon this ‘Back to 97′ mix where Ross the Boss / DJ Rook takes us back. It features some underground rap classics like AG’s Hidden Crate, Casual, Del, and Xzibit’s Orion’s Belt, some Company Flow + more. Heavily suggested listening:

» Visit Odeo to download the mp3

Photo by SupaDope

Bonus video: Watch the ‘Hidden Crate’ video

When you’re stranded at your desk and you’re on the look for some beats to pump, you should take a trip to the Turntable Radio podcasts where you’ll find huge heavy beats and buckets of dope tunes. Visit them on Odeo for the mp3 downloads or their website. Photo of Birdy Nam Nam by Monsieur Haze.

Take it back to the source with this "Legendary Hip Hop Producer Marley Marl MIX":

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The MP3 download is also available. Photo by Ro Halfhide.

And if you need a bigger old school fix, check this ‘Rap All-stars’ video from the Arsenio Hall show.

Much of the work done on this site over the last week or so was done with this mixtape on loop (and it still is), so we thought it only right you cop a blast too. You might be weary of drug-pushing related rap after a barrage over the last few years, and be warned, that is pretty much the only topic here, but despite that, an old dog has been taught new tricks.

There’s no doubting that the Clipse and co. are on top of their lyric game, and here we get over 50 minutes of Pusha, Malice and their pals Ab-Liva and Sandman (collectively known as the Re-Up Gang, complete with neighbourhood nerd Pharrell) dropping hot and complex verses over some classic beats: The Corner, Daytona 500, Put You on the Game and (don’t be put off) some G-unit beats… which gain new life when these guys get hold of them, all produced by Clinton Sparks who refrains from shouting a lot and gets on with with a light touch of scratching/breakbeating.

Enough babble, here’s the music:

These mixtapes are available for free download on the Clinton Sparks website - most of the other tapes look very dodgy/boring, just head for the Clipse ones. (There’s Vol. 1 as well, which is OK, but not as good). You can also grab it from Odeo. Photo by Angry Citizen.