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March 21st 2011

The Right To Copy

One of the things I most like to find in my inbox is a new beat tape from 100 Akres aka Freshnerd aka Keith Mitchell, and that’s just what happened earlier this evening. One of the most prolific producers I know of, Freshnerd has been releasing these beat tapes on an (almost) one per month steady flow, focusing on a specific artist or album with each tape, flipping the original tracks to produce short (2:30min is a very long one) wicked beats. From July 2010 up to today he managed to release eight of these beauties, from Cyndi Lauper to Janet Jackson via David Bowie, always titled “The (artist’s name) Beat Tape”.

On his latest beat tape “The Blankety Blank Beat Tape” however, the artist’s name is not mentioned, and not by mistake. As Mitchell writes:

“What up folks, you’re probably wondering about that title and the anonymity. Well, I’ve been getting several emails asking if I’ve had permission from the artists to use their samples….I get a funny feeling these emails are from a certain association thats more than likely about to send me a cease and desist (or eight). Anyways, I’m sure the artist of the new beat tape will be able to spot that these samples are from his album (or maybe not). Either way, I’ll keep delivering freshness to your ears regardless of outdated copyright laws.”

I’m not that sure the emails he’s been receiving do indeed imply on some lawyers workin their way to him, since I myself was thinking about sending the Freshnerd a mail with the very same question. Either way, copyright laws truly are outdated and quite senseless, and surely beat tapes like these, offered for free download, and flipped so bad (meaning good) should not be seen as a threat of any sort by the artist sampled (or more precisely, their record label), let a lone as a theft. If anything, the opposite should be the case.

Support free sampling! Everything human is a sample. Every invention is a remix. Every behavior practiced by anyone is a cover version of someone else. Enjoy this free beat tape, see if you can identify the artist flipped here, and grab 100 Akres’ other tapes too, as they are all smashing.

March 29th 2011

Digging Digi

Though he’s been active since 2004, I only first stumbled upon Italian producer Cristiano Crisci AKA Digi G’Alessio’s music in Grillo’s latest Bubblegum Beats mix on Space Invader Radio. Then today I saw Finest Ego’s post about this EP, and was immediately captivated.

Disco Zambra’s beats are a perfect fit to my tastings. Fresh, crispy beats, with a lot of ounce to the bounce, full of sizzling electronic beeps and bubbling with groove. Apparently Digi G’alessio has released eight albums in the last two years (!) under this name, experimenting with different sounds and styles, but here he seems to focus on a very specific feel, making the album’s sound very coherent, almost as if it was just one long sweet track. It’s all for free, btw, over on Bandcamp.

Very happy to have found this great music today, as it’s also led me to other nice producers also releasing on Overknights recordings, all for free too. I especially enjoyed Free’P’Hop by Low’N’Zac and Manuele Atzeni’s B4TS (Beats For The Sleepwalker). Oh, and while you’re at it, you might also wanna check out Digi’s The Yellow Book album, out on Plynt records (free download, you guessed it).

&amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://digigalessio.bandcamp.com/track/disco-zambra-pt2” _mce_href=”http://digigalessio.bandcamp.com/track/disco-zambra-pt2”&amp;amp;amp;gt;disco zambra pt2 by digi g’alessio&amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://digigalessio.bandcamp.com/track/disco-zambra-pt3” _mce_href=”http://digigalessio.bandcamp.com/track/disco-zambra-pt3”&amp;amp;amp;gt;disco zambra pt3 by digi g’alessio&amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;gt;

March 29th 2011

My People

Liking what Greymatter is going through lately. I mean, been enjoying his music for quite some time, but it seems like he’s really stepped it up a notch recently. Late last year saw the release of his immense remix of Glory on Stac’s Turn The Lights Out: The Remixes / Vol. One, and now this one.

Also nice to hear again from Dekata Project, whose 2009 track At Least We Can Dance was one of my favorites at the time, especially it’s Hint and Roska remixes which I was spinning quite a lot. This time around they got yet another sweet tune, with Yvette on the vocals as before, once again proving to be perfect material for a remix.

Greymatter is treating us here to a beat heavy, somewhat trippy, fat bass’d remix, that feels big and dancey, but remains soulful and groovy, perfect balance. This limited time free download celebrates Dekata Project’s new single “My People”, out 4th April 2011, which will also feature, besides this remix, remixes by Toby ioi and Zed Bias (part of the Dekata Project himself). Check out the single preview mix on soundcloud.

Shout out to Jus Like Music for putting me on to this one!

May 26th 2011

If you’re going to San Fran

It’s been a while now that I’ve been enjoying the quality sounds coming from Frite Nite records. This young San Francisco based label is home to quite a few artists who are constantly pushing the Beats/Garage/Bass scene’s sounds forward with releases by folks such as label head Salva, Boogie don B. Bravo, Lazer Bass head NastyNasty and Ango (who seems to have a new EP coming soon), to name a few.

To this fine list you can now add Comma, whose colourful Colortronics EP was released two days ago for digital download on Bandcamp and in a special edition of 100 purple cassette tapes.

Comma comes up here with 5 fresh sounding bass heavy tracks, big on the synths, laden with a slow addictive groove, high on the production values, and with a touch of experimentalism. You also get two remixes, a hot and rather trippy one by Om Unit and a fat shiny beat by Darkhouse Family.

Loving the sounds of this EP right now, my personal favourites being opening track Ken Griffey Jr. with it’s nicely chopped vocals and fuzzy bass, and the hypnotic Mezcal Hologram.

While you’re at it, head over to the Frite Nite bandcamp and grab yourself some freebies off the Frite Nite Trax series!

May 29th 2011

THE one

Hold on, Let me catch my breath for a sec.

Jon Phonics hasn’t just popped out of nowhere. He’s been around for a few years now, producing beats and collaborating with many MC’s out of the UK hip-hop scene (perhaps you remember his Half Past Calm series?), but it seems to me like 2011 is when it all fell in to place for him, and his beats hit that very sweet spot.

Bruck Out/The One, released 24 May, sees Jon Phonics at his prime, his production sounding extra tight, and with this track, The One, doing it oh-so-f*n-right. You can also find Bruck Out on there, and a couple of remixes by Naive Machine and Lady Daisy, but, all due respect, as far as I’m concerned this could have been a one track only release, hell, it could have been a one track only album.

As you can see I’m pretty well excited about this tune, it’s BIG and may as well be amongst the 3 best new tracks I’ve heard this year. It’s all about the boogie here, the bass is wide and bouncy, there’s all these layers of naughty synths and dubby bleeps going on all around, and the sample is quite perfect too.

It’s just great, okay?

&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://chakrasounds.bandcamp.com/track/the-one” _mce_href=”http://chakrasounds.bandcamp.com/track/the-one”&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The One by Chakra Sounds&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

Also been enjoying other beats out lately by the man, such as AM and Mutual Attraction, both released for free download on Bandcamp. Go get ‘em!

&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://chakrasounds.bandcamp.com/track/am” _mce_href=”http://chakrasounds.bandcamp.com/track/am”&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;AM by Chakra Sounds&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://jonphonics.bandcamp.com/track/mutual-attraction” _mce_href=”http://jonphonics.bandcamp.com/track/mutual-attraction”&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Mutual Attraction by Jonphonics&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

May 31st 2011

MPC Sweatshop

Just last month I wondered out loud on twitter how on earth does Ta-Ku manage to produce so many (great) beats so frequently. One reply I got (by someone I don’t know) suggested he’s got himself a beats sweatshop in the Philipines, with 30 philipino ladies working round the clock in a small room full of MPCs. Funny as that may be, I really cannot find any other explanation. April alone saw the release of two albums by this gifted Australian beat maker - the Day & Night EP and the 24 album via Joe Kay’s Soulection, which, looking at it’s bandcamp page now, I realize had it’s 13 tracks produced in 24 hours (!!!)

As if that was not enough, today Ta-Ku adds 15 more beats to the pile, with his Scraps album release (it’s Free!). These apparently are leftover beats, stuff the dude just had lying around on his HD. You know what they say, one man’s trash is another man’s gold.. These may not be the best beats ever, but damn, most beat makers out there would treat these as their best work.

Big up Ta-Ku! Can’t wait till your next release, somewhere round next week I presume.

&amp;lt;a href=”http://takuakaflip.bandcamp.com/track/sheldon” _mce_href=”http://takuakaflip.bandcamp.com/track/sheldon”&amp;gt;Sheldon by Ta-ku&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; &amp;lt;a href=”http://takuakaflip.bandcamp.com/track/talk-to-me” _mce_href=”http://takuakaflip.bandcamp.com/track/talk-to-me”&amp;gt;Talk To Me by Ta-ku&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;

June 04th 2011

Look - It’s the Nineties!

For good or for worse, we all know they’re coming back. Actually, they are almost here now.

There are some things I like about the retro motif of culture, and some I don’t. When it comes to the Nineties, the decade that probably shaped me the most, I’m even more passionate about the things I like, and those I don’t: Bandanas, for instance.

Now, one thing in the that decade that I both loved and hated at the same time was Crystal Water’s “Gypsy Woman”. On the one hand, it’s groove, the verses’ vocals and, of course, those keys - are just plain awesome. On the other hand, that La Da Dee La Da Da thing could freak me out.

Such a monumental 90’s icon could not be left out as a wave of retro washes over us. Souleance had just unleashed their edit of this tune unto their soundcloud page the other day, and that reminded me of Ossie’s refix that was put up there 7 months ago. Ossie adds this Garage flavor to the tune, while Souleance take to the groovy side of it and fatten it up. Both edits bring out the fun in the track, and both were free DL, though Souleance’s are limited to 100 downloads, which flew by in less than a day (you can see my comment on their track, begging for a DL link..)

Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (Souleance RE EDIT) by Souleance GypsyWomanRefix - Ossie by Ossie

June 17th 2011

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Been keeping an ear on KRL since last year, when I first heard his The Recession Beats EP, dude had this smoothness and soulful touch to his sound which I liked a lot. Now it seems things are working well for the Wolf Music member as earlier this month saw him release a great tune called Chase on the Wolf EP 8 alongside music by Greymatter, Medlar and Chicago Damn, and also producing a solid remix of J. Phlip’s Fever on Pets Recordings. But to top that, he just gave away a freebie three days ago over at Feel My Bicep, a sick remix of perhaps last year’s biggest hymn, Aloe Blacc’s “Dollar”.

So many remixers have tried their way with this song, yet KRL delivers arguably the best of the lot as he takes the song into the 4x4 deep, flipping the vocals, adding a big bouncy bass, some epic keys, arpeggiated synths and lots of delays, making this big song even bigger, proving beyond doubt summer 2011 is in full swing.

Lovin this right now.

Grab the free download over at FMB.

Boombaptist - The Creamixes

I was first Boombaptized sometime last year, when Boombaptist released his Boombaptism beat tape. I ain’t a Christian, but my Boombaptising was a spiritual experience non the less.

Boombaptist (when producing) aka Thesaraus Rex (when rapping) aka Andrew Thaggard (when being human) hailing from Austin, TX, has possibly been my favourite upandcoming beats producer since the very first note I heard from him, and lately it seems he’s starting to draw the attention his beatcrafting skillz desreve.

His brand new EP The Creamixes is a collection of some of his favourite remixes he produced during the last year, seeing him flipping beats and lyrics by Pharoahe Monch, Erykah Badu, D’angelo, M.O.P and more, with his unique melodically rich fat beats and signature bump’d up sound. Being a remix EP, there are way more vocals and rhymes being spat on these beats than we’re used to hear from the Boombapster, but that don’t mean the quality doesn’t stay high throughin and throughout.

It’s a free DL (though you can pay too if you’d like!) that comes complete with a smashing cover art, and you’d better get a move on it and cop these jams before his split 7” with Dibiase drops, featuring his official Guilty Simpson remix, afterwhich you’ll be able to say you were head nodding to his beats way before everyone else.

&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://boombaptist.bandcamp.com/track/simon-says-boombaptist-remix-12-single” _mce_href=”http://boombaptist.bandcamp.com/track/simon-says-boombaptist-remix-12-single”&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Simon Says (BoomBaptist Remix) 12&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; Single by Pharoahe Monch&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://boombaptist.bandcamp.com/track/on-and-on-boombaptist-remix” _mce_href=”http://boombaptist.bandcamp.com/track/on-and-on-boombaptist-remix”&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;On and On (BoomBaptist Remix) by Erykah Badu&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

Posts tagged "free download"

The Right To Copy

Digging Digi

My People

If you’re going to San Fran

THE one

MPC Sweatshop

Look - It’s the Nineties!

Boogie Down

Luq Out!

Boombaptist - The Creamixes

A True Obsession

The Range - The Big Dip

Gem Drops Two

Stavrogin - Halves

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