lee bannon

  • burial

    The latest offering from West Coast producer Lee Bannon is accompanied by a fittingly nocturnal, dimly lit video collage. “Hyper/Eclipse” finds Bannon continuing to explore the sounds of drum ‘n’ bass, but its choppy female vocal sample and dark atmosphere make it feel like something of a jacked-up Burial

  • West Coast producer Lee Bannon is getting more and more creative and versatile by the minute. He’s constantly creating, and thinks almost nothing of just suddenly dropping a track like “InMySleep,” which combines his recent obsession with breakbeat-like grooves with some jutting bass notes and an odd chord progression.

  • 2013

    The song streaming above is one many cuts from the new Joey Bada$$ mixtape, Summer Knights. It’s finally out, and is a must-listen for anyone who was down with the 1999 tape, which you can check a review for below. Enjoy!

  • 2013

    With underground super producer Lee Bannon, versatility is the name of the game. I can’t believe how many different sounds come out of this guy, and this latest track is an energetic and sincere tribute to the sounds of jungle and drum ‘n’ bass. Enjoy! /via/

  • dark

    A new collection of tracks from producer Lee Bannon, the followup to the Caligula Theme Music project he dropped a few months ago. Like that group of tracks, Never/mind/the/darkness/of/it has a strong trap influence go it, but Bannon makes use of space and ethereal effects

  • 2013

    With some colorful production from up-and-coming producer Lee Bannon, West Coast rapper Blu has a new track out titled “Vex’d,” which is easily one of the most driven tracks that I’ve heard from the guy since the botched release of 2011’s No York–recently, the album did

  • A group of quick, cursory reviews of albums, tracks, and other musical events that occurred this past week that I wanted to talk about a bit, which includes new stuff from James Blake, Pusha T, Grave Babies, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, and more. WATCH THE REVIEWS

  • 2013

    Up-and-coming hip hop producer Lee Bannon has a new full-length, solo project out titled Caligula Theme Music 2.7.5. It’s loaded with dark, gritty, and atmospheric hip hop instrumentals that occasionally feature a trap flavor to ’em. Not only is the percussion busy and sharp, but the samples

  • 2012

    Over an atmospheric cloud rap beat created by Lee Bannon, America’s most beloved nerd rapper, Milo, has a new track out featuring his usual series of strange personal musings. We already know he’ll be reading Aristotle while we’re all popping bottles at the club, but giving pep