UK-based soulful hip-hop seems to be enjoying something of a renaissance recently, with artists like Little Simz and Hawk House notably leading the charge. You can add The Age Of L.U.N.A to that list, an unfairly young quartet whose in-house producer, NK-OK, is the greenest at a mere 16 years old.
With a penchant for jazzy beats, OK’s fingerprints are all over the group’s new free-to-download mixtape Live Under No Authority which, as the eagle eyed among you will notice, is the full name of the L.U.N.A acronym.
Befitting his sound as a producer, OK’s mix for Bonafide unsurprisingly focuses on classic 90s boom bap from J Dilla, Gang Starr and Pete Rock, with Thundercat and Kendrick also popping up later into the mix. Listen to it below.
NK-OK x Bonafide Beats #72 by Bonafide Magazine on Mixcloud
Manhattans – Devil in the Dark
Gang Starr – Work
Pete Rock & CL Smooth – I’ll Take You There
Das EFX – Real Hip Hop
Lords Of The Underground – Neva Faded
Group Home – Livin-‘ Proof
Quasimoto – Broad Factor (FloFilz Remix)
The Young Holt Trio – Strangers in the Night
Crooklyn Dodgers ’95 – Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers
Dave Grusin – The Colorado Trail
J Dilla – Dreamy
Hir-O Voyager
BMB – 1988 [interlude]
Shungu – SumStyle Ft. Stanley Ikpuss
Bxnjamin – Stupid.Jewels◊
C Y G N – Frequency 12
J-Louis – 22 & The Age Of Luna – Better Than
The Age Of Luna – Frozen
Melo B Jones – Call (prod by Oseias Xavier)
Lalah Hathaway – On Your Own
Kendrick Lamar – Momma
Thundercat – ‘Them Changes
Anderson Paak & Knxwledge (NxWorries) – Suede
