Rich Jones is an emcee from Chicago who has been releasing music for about the last ten years. His last release was an album done in collaboration with Iceberg Theory, Smoke Detector, which came out last November. Now he’s back with a new EP done in collaboration with goldenbeets, it is decidedly so. goldenbeets is a producer from Portland, Oregon who has been releasing music for a few years, and in that time has worked with artists like Bloodmoney Perez and Dex Amora.

Los Angeles artist Rhys Langston has been releasing music since the mid-2010s, and he’s given us some ambitious and varied projects in that time. Whichever projects you’re familiar with, however, you probably think of him as an emcee and front person. However, the truth is that he’s been producing as well, even if he hasn’t gotten as much recognition for it. With his latest project, however, you’re sure to take notice, because he’s stepping away from the mic to solely focus on production, while Vancouver artist Andrew Mbaruk gets to step into the spotlight and provide the vocals and lyrics on Affect Theory and the Text-to-Speech Grandiloquence.

steel tipped dove is a producer from Brooklyn who has been releasing music for over a decade now. In that time, he’s worked with everyone form PremRock to Armand Hammer to Noah23 to milo. Most recently, this past November he worked with an artist named Aloe Vera to put out an album called Days Pass Strange. Now he is back with a solo album, all the weight feathers don’t have.

Oh No is a producer from Oxnard, who burst onto the scene as a solo artist in 2004 when he released The Disrupt on Stones Throw. Over the years, he’s given us a myriad of projects and produced for the likes of Declaime, LMNO, Moka Only, Percee P, and Guilty Simpson, just to name a few. His most recent project came just last year, when he teamed up with Chilean artist Hordatoj to release an EP called Al Amanecer.

Nappy Nina is an emcee originally from Oakland, but now based in Brooklyn. She’s been releasing music since the mid-2010s, with her last album, Double Down, coming in 2021. Now, after releasing a few singles in in 2022, Nina comes back with her latest album, Mourning Due. To make this album, Nappy Nina worked with dane.zone, JWords, Unjust, Nelson Bandela, Maurice ii, and Nathan Bajar to produce the tracks, as well as adding a little production of her own.

Black Milk is an artist from Detroit who has been releasing music since the early to mid-2000s, but he really cemented his status with his excellent run of albums starting in 2010 with Album of the Year, then 2013’s No Poison No Paradise, and then 2014’s If There’s a Hell Below. Most recently, we got an EP in 2019 called DIVE, but he’s been relatively quiet since then. Now he’s come back with a little something to remind us that he’s still making music, a beat tape simply titled …….

The Degrees are a duo out of Bristol consisting of vocalist/songwriter Isha Campbell and producer Charlie Bierman. They joined forces a couple of years ago, and recorded this album, their first as a duo, back in 2020 at Rockfield Studios. Now, after releasing a couple of singles last year, they finally get to make their debut on Fallen Tree 1Hundred with The Day Out of Time. As might be expected for a duo like this out of Bristol, there is a solid influence of trip hop to this album, with some moody downtempo production and plenty of lush string arrangements to really take things over the top.

Flume is a producer from Sydney who has been releasing music for a little over a decade. He’s released a handful of solo albums and done some remixes, but he’s also provided production for everyone from Ghettosocks to Vince Staples to Lorde in the process. His last solo release came just last year, when he dropped Palaces. Now he’s right back at with a new full-length album, Things Don’t Always Go The Way You Plan.

Wax Tailor is a producer from France who has been releasing music for nearly two decades. Over that time, he’s garnered a reputation as a musician who has brought orchestral grandeur and trip hop together into one cohesive style, often releasing albums that feel cinematic in nature, featuring a number of noteworthy guests. His most recent album, The Shadow of Their Suns, came out in 2021. Now he’s back with another full-length album, Fishing For Accidents.

SKECH185 is an emcee originally from Chicago, but now based in Brooklyn. He made a splash in 2011 with the release of New Age Middle Finger, and album he made with producer Analog(ue) Tape Dispenser. They followed that up in 2016 with an album called Gunship Diplomacy, this time under the name War Church. Since that time, we haven’t gotten a proper full-length album from him, although he kept showing up with dope verses for projects for the likes of Uncommon Nasa, Shrapknel, Rich Jones, Armand Hammer, and Steel Tipped Dove, just to name a few.