American Archive

A rare WKCR moment on the streets of Paris where Hip-Hop has been embraced and created by millions beyond the US. Zach has a chat with the Paris-based beatmaker and producer, Maximus MMC in front of a bar about his music, Flow-Fi, fashion, and much more.

• Maximus MMC's SoundCloud
• bandcamp
• twitter
• Flow-Fi SoundCloud

DøøF and rbchmbrs (Rob Chambers) came to WKCR for about 3 hours on a Friday morning to talk with Laurel and Zach about music and assortment of other things. Learn about their past work and their upcoming work in this mix of talking and music. This is a rare recording of almost an entire Offbeat show.

The O'My's came to WKCR to have a chat with Zach about music and food. The O'my's are a roots rock'n'soul group from Chicago that have connections to many other music genres including hip-hop. Maceo Haymes and Nick Hennesy came to the studio on February 28th, two days after doing a show at SOB's. Find them at Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/the-omys Twitter: https://twitter.com/theomysband

Us Natives Records came to WKCR on February 20th, 2016. Hailing from Philadelphia, Ill Clinton and Purple Dialect trekked to NYC to talk to Zach about their music, making cassettes, the beat scene, and much more. This is a unique look into how the current generation of music is working. Purple Dialect's recent project Word Born was recently released.

Us Natives Records can be found at

Amazing Live Set including many songs from Flamingosis and some of his favorite artists, such as Knxledge, HNNY, and Max Graef.

• Check out the interveiw here.

Flamingosis comes to WKCR's Offbeat radio show to talk with Zach Wyche. They discuss his music, the current underground beat scene, soundcloud, influnces, bandcamp, New Jersey, Brookyln, Morristown, and much more. Flamingosis talks about doing new things with his music, and collaborating with other musicians.

Hip-Hop Producer, Ill Tal came to WKCR for an interview (link here) with Zach Wyche, and also did a break mix. This is the second part of the recording, with the break mix. Ill Tal goes through well known and rare breaks from his record collection (over 7000!). Have fun trying to figure out what he used. Check out his website at www.illTal.com.

Hip-Hop Producer, Ill Tal came to WKCR for an interview with Zach Wyche, and also did a break mix. This is the first part of the recording. Here is the link to the break mix. Check out his website at www.illTal.com. IllTal's most recent project was Still Trapped in the 90s, which is a completely instrumental hip-hop album with a heavy 90s theme.

TTF the Gang and Flightschool come to WKCR to talk with Zach. They also drop some freestyles and dosome accapella.
SpaceGodWizard, Ver$ace Chachi, Flightschool Pree, Narsie, Rell XL, Gold Child, and Rich Rolla

**The station broke down the night this was going on live, so it only streamed live, but it was played over the air at later date.
https://soundcloud.com/ttfthegang

Beat Lampers came back to WKCR to do a live set on Offbeat.

A mix of old songs, new songs, freestyles, and even some special intermissions!

This time around they had even more people in the studio!

D Dand, Volition, NinetyNine, Grits, $AINT ROS$, Hazardous

Memphis rapper Jon Waltz drops by Offbeat for an interview and freestyle session. Waltz discusses his New York show with Pigeons and Planes, his recent EP Alyss, his love of Memphis rap and food, and his work with The Stand4rd, Zayd and Nova. Find more of Jon Waltz's music at soundcloud.com/jonwaltz , and read his Alyss EP companion story at jonwaltz.com .

After an interview with Zach and Brian on November 7th 2014 ~ 1am...
D Dand, Volition, and Grits kick some freestyles over some tracks selected by Zach.

Here are links to their music.

• https://soundcloud.com/beatlampers
• https://twitter.com/beatlampers

There is also a short, bonus chat at the end.

Zach and Brian interview, D Dand, Volition, NinetyNine, and Grits from Beat Lampers.

Beat Lampers is a hip hop collective from Monclair, NJ.

They discuss their music, influences, NJ and a few other topics. The interview is 2 parts, here is the link to the second part (freestyles).

Here are links to their music.

DJ Hektek does a great set on the turntables, live right inside WKCR.

Towards the end J.R. from New Jersey, Armareda from Brookyln freestyle over some instrumentals DJed by Hektek.

Brian interviews DJ Hektek, J.R., Armareda, and other members of The Universal Zulu Nation. (Click name for links to more infomation)

Listen to a deep dicussion about Hip-Hop, Zulu Nation, and other worldy issues.

Live set by the Abby Hollander Band, first aired on the Moonshine Show on 06/15/14. The Abby Hollander Band is a bluegrass quartet from Brooklyn, NY with a repertoire of bluegrass standards and originals.

Live set by the Abby Hollander Band, first aired on the Moonshine Show on 06/15/14. The Abby Hollander Band is a bluegrass quartet from Brooklyn, NY with a repertoire of bluegrass standards and originals.

Live set by the Abby Hollander Band, first aired on the Moonshine Show on 06/15/14. The Abby Hollander Band is a bluegrass quartet from Brooklyn, NY with a repertoire of bluegrass standards and originals.

Live set by the Abby Hollander Band, first aired on the Moonshine Show on 06/15/14. The Abby Hollander Band is a bluegrass quartet from Brooklyn, NY with a repertoire of bluegrass standards and originals.

Live set by the Abby Hollander Band, first aired on the Moonshine Show on 06/15/14. The Abby Hollander Band is a bluegrass quartet from Brooklyn, NY with a repertoire of bluegrass standards and originals.

Live set by the Abby Hollander Band, first aired on the Moonshine Show on 06/15/14. The Abby Hollander Band is a bluegrass quartet from Brooklyn, NY with a repertoire of bluegrass standards and originals.

Live set by the Abby Hollander Band, first aired on the Moonshine Show on 06/15/14. The Abby Hollander Band is a bluegrass quartet from Brooklyn, NY with a repertoire of bluegrass standards and originals.

Live set by the Abby Hollander Band, first aired on the Moonshine Show on 06/15/14. The Abby Hollander Band is a bluegrass quartet from Brooklyn, NY with a repertoire of bluegrass standards and originals.

Live set by the Abby Hollander Band, first aired on the Moonshine Show on 06/15/14. The Abby Hollander Band is a bluegrass quartet from Brooklyn, NY with a repertoire of bluegrass standards and originals.

Live set by Feral Foster, recorded live on Hobo's Lullaby on 06/07/14. Feral Foster is a New York City-based folk and blues singer-songwriter.

Live set by Feral Foster, recorded live on Hobo's Lullaby on 06/07/14. Feral Foster is a New York City-based folk and blues singer-songwriter.

Live set by Feral Foster, recorded live on Hobo's Lullaby on 06/07/14. Feral Foster is a New York City-based folk and blues singer-songwriter.

Live set by Feral Foster, recorded live on Hobo's Lullaby on 06/07/14. Feral Foster is a New York City-based folk and blues singer-songwriter.

Live set by Feral Foster, recorded live on Hobo's Lullaby on 06/07/14. Feral Foster is a New York City-based folk and blues singer-songwriter.