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Ikant Noh (@IkantNoh) is a rather mysterious beat-maker, producer, and musician based out of Scotland, UK . Just this past weekend, as a matter of fact, @IkantNoh started Following me on Twitter , I saw that he had recently posted an Instrumental Hip-Hop beat, and had some interaction with The Witzard regular @Charles_Edison . While this is Ikant Noh 's first foray into Hip-Hop , he's been a long-time musician; having previously created and released Indie Rock and Electro/Synth-Pop style music, but has "now landed in the world of Hip-Hop ." Ikant Noh says he has drawn musical inspiration and influence from Kendrick Lamar , JAY-Z, and Eazy-E , as well as beat tapes from NIKK BLVKK, Kuartz, Tōfu-kozō Records from France , and kick a dope verse! from Russia . "I really think the genre of Instrumental Hip-Hop and beats is all about the "small guys" and I try to spend as much time finding new stuff as I do making my own," Ikant Noh explaine...

"Buy Lantern here... s.warp.net/lantern. Support King Push . Happy anniversary to Jeezy . And get tickets for all live dates with The-Dream here: hudsonmohawke.com/live," reads the description accompany G.O.O.D. Music producer Hudson Mohawke 's latest Soundcloud upload; an apparent allusion to the recent 10th anniversary of Young Jeezy 's critically-acclaimed major label "debut," Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 . While low-quality live rips have supposedly been floating around for a number of years, the Scotsman 's newly-unleashed G.O.O.D. Music sanctioned CD-Q cut is in fact, "Amen" RMX 's first official release. "The album's second single, the follow-up to [ Pusha T 's] Tyler, The Creator collaboration "Trouble On My Mind," was the Kanye & Young Jeezy -assisted "Amen" — a scripture-nodding exploration of many of [Fear of God II: Let Us Pray] 's recurring themes," reads Complex...

"When myself and Lunice did the TNGHT project, it was not even intended for release. That's basically why we decided to put it on hiatus for a while, because we felt like — without wanting to sound too arrogant — what that record spawned became kind of a parody genre," Scottish Electronic producer and Kanye affiliate Hudson Mohawke recently lamented to Pitchfork 's Jeremy Gordon in their newly-published This (and This... and That Too) Is a Hudson Mohawke Production spotlight featurette. "That's why we wanted to refocus on our own projects. So we haven't quit the project, but there won't be anymore TNGHT music until both of our solo records are released," he continued, seemingly alluding to his soon-to-be-released "solo" album, Lantern . Unlike his typically borderline clustered Hip-Hop -tinged productions, on HudMo 's latest "leaked" Lantern single, "Ryderz" he's managed to dial it back a few not...

"We thought "Take Me Out" [2004] was very cool, and wouldn't it be nice to say hello when they came to Los Angeles ," Sparks frontman Russell Mael recently lamented to Domino Records concerning his newly-minted band with younger brother Ron and the entirety of Scottish Dance-Punk band Franz Ferdinand . "We met and decided then it would be great to do something together. We put forward a couple demos, one was "Piss Off." But they got swept up by everything, and it didn't happen at the time," Mael continued. Legend has it that FFS didn't fully reconvene until Coachella 2013 when Ron & Russell Mael ended up bumping into a tooth-aching Alex Kapranos frantically in search of a local dentist that they unanimously decided a "10-year gestation period for this idea was long enough." FFS' self-titled Domino Records debut was recorded late last year during a marathon 15-day recording stint, wherein the 6-man band...