hip hop, basically...

RJD2 - In Rare Form
A collection of instrumentals from RJD2, not too bad, but I can't shake the feeling that this isn't a proper album and one or two of the tunes could do with some vocals. Anyway, if you are in the mood for some heavy funk or strangely some Vangelis this will do the job.

MP3: The Takeoff

Prefuse 73 - Prefuse 73 Reads The Books
Once again Prefuse 73 does his best work when being inspired by another group/artist. This EP is a collaboration with a band called The Books, I must confess to being ignorant of there work, but they seem to get lots of good reviews on Pitchfork. As far as I can work out they provide plenty of strange plucked guitar lead tunes, and Scott Heron aka Prefuse 73 rips them apart to produce an overall effect that could be described as 'glitch folk', if I was in the mood for labels. Nice EP overall.

MP3: Pagino Dos