Los Angeles: 5 Chuckles, Jamma-Dee, Pink Siifu, Giovanni Marks, Ahwlee & Pie2K

The ability to recycle is one of the key elements keeping Los Angeles' beat scene healthy. After all it's a movement sturdily built upon imagination and reimagination, taking existing relics and spindling new abstract lifeforms out of them. As a result, it never fails to bear fruit of a mind-stretching and exploratory manner.

We've put together an enviable rollcall of names for our next west coast outing. Pie2K, Ahwlee and Pink Siifu are all seasoned beatmakers with a stockpile of Soundcloud and Bandcamp treasure between them. As well as being half of Lab Waste, Giovanni Marks (aka Subtitle) runs Get Crev Labs and has unleashed oddball verses for labels like Alpha Pup. 5 Chuckles sees Ras G, and rapper/prankster The Koreatown Oddity join forces for heavy doses of interstellar rap while Jamma Dee is exhaling new life into the new jack swing and funk of the early 90s.

It's a different form of recycling that forms part of the backstory for next week's LA broadcast though -- the litter-ridden areas of the city itself. Despite passing a new initiative that will feed $5m into hopefully revamping Downtown, some parts of the city still receive no clean up services. A report from late last year stated that only 35% of the community's streets receive regular garbage care.

Rap Vacation is a digital/cassette label out of Santa Ana with beatsmith connections to Italy and Iceland. Michael Lundy, also known as Former Boys, is head honcho and is also spearheading an incentive to jump start some action. In return for making things clean on one of his organised sweep-up runs, volunteers gain entry to the next Boiler Room that's in town. All proceeds from their Bandcamp will be going towards further litter-battling deeds too. A worthy cause with an equally worthy reward.