Filed under: Beats, Electronica | Tags: 80s, beats, cassette tapes, Electronic, free mixtape, Hip Hop, Synth, tape deck
Sonic Youth‘s Thurston Moore once said “I only listen to cassettes”, and I cannot really claim to have the same level of dedication and indie cred… But I do remember listening to tunes on my old tape-deck, and who doesn’t enjoy a little nostalgia once and awhile?
100 Akres is a beat-tape label, which puts out some consistently neat cassette tapes, as well as their digital download releases. Recently I got an email telling me that there was a free mixtape hidden somewhere on their website…
Anyone is one the tracks off of the hidden tape, a majority of my trip-hop collection comes from sampled jazz and soul tracks, but Anyone seems to shy away from that trend, bringing some neato 80s synth sounds into the mix. Give it a download, then while you listen, try to find the rest of the hidden tape at 100akres.com
A special post for the weekend… I love me some Fatboy Slim but the original sample is pretty dope too.
There’s no simpler way of putting it: Midnight Smack‘s Tight Schedule is dope.
Sampled obscurities combined with a deep, hip-hop beat is the infallible recipe for success with trip-hop- another example of a track so good that it doesn’t need lyrics to make it interesting.
Midnight Smack – Tight Schedule
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/midnightsmack/
Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop | Tags: beats, future beat, offbeat, sample based, Trip-Hop
Normally I don’t post on weekends, but I thought I’d share this…
hi. i make beats. i love sega. nintendos dope too, but i grew up on sega. batman is my favourite superhero. i dont quantize my drums. my kungfu movie collection is over 400 films easy. and i rep Gill Breathing. that about sums me up.
one love,
-eQ
Filed under: Beats, Chilled, Electronica, Hip-Hop | Tags: Electronica, Flying Lotus, future beat, Hip Hop, instrumental song
There’s something about the crackly-popping sound of an old vinyl record that I really dig, so when Innobushu‘s Moonlight opened with 90 or so seconds of the sound, I already knew I was in for a treat.
However, it’s not the lo-fi vinyl crackle that makes this a neat track, Moonlight‘s instrumentation is a great mix of synth leads and lo-fi jazz/soul samples. The highlight for me would be the syncopated drums which Innobushu pulls off perfectly- odd enough to be interesting, yet still rhythmic enough to bop your head to- this is possibly the greatest challenge when it comes to making future-beat, and in Moonlight it’s really tight.
Soulful and atmospheric, Moonlight is more than just a ‘beat’, it’s an instrumental song. Check it out:
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/innobushu
Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop, Vocals | Tags: beats, debut ep, french, french hip hop, german metal, Hip Hop, hip hop artist, hip hop instrumentals, independant, instrumental hip hop, Rammstein, sample based, Trip-Hop
When I was about 13 years old I loved the german industrial-metal band Rammstein. I loved them so much it inspired me to learn German… until I found out I was head-banging along to graphic lyrics about gay sex. This isn’t something I’m against; It was just a little shocking for my 13-year old self. Then I looked at the cover of my favourite album- an image of the band shirtless and oiled up, standing in-front of a giant flower… it was never the same.
I did see Rammstein live many years later and they were amazing… but something about the muscular front-man in make-up, adorned with feathers and tight black leather just haunted the back of my mind… Mann gegen Mann
Meine Haut gehört den Herren…
Now the reason I bring up Rammstein is not because of their deceptively homosexual lyrics, but because I haven’t ever loved a foreign band so much as to want to learn the intricacies of their language since I was 13 and head-banging away to German metal…
This time in French; NÉBULEUSE(s) is an album title I’m not even going to BEGIN to try and pronounce. My French is a bit rusty these days (read: ‘non-existent’), but that didn’t stop me from getting into talented French hip-hop artist Don Da None, who self-released his debut EP Nébuleuse(s) for only €3 in November last year.
Don Da None‘s lyrics flow so well that it makes me wish I could speak French. There’s a sophistication in the way he speaks which compliments the amazing self-produced beats very well. Borrowing samples from rare soul and jazz records, Nébuleuse(s) would work as an instrumental album in it’s own right… In-fact, I have an instrumental copy of Le Bas Coté to give you!
Don Da None – Le Bas Coté (Instrumental)
You should also check out the rest of his debut EP here:
http://dondanone.bandcamp.com/
Filed under: Beats | Tags: beats, Flying Lotus, french, future beat, Hip Hop, sample based, Trip-Hop
The underground trip-hop community may seem like a never-ending sea of sampled beats and bedroom producers. And for the most part, it is! Albeit a glorious one full of unique rhythmic gems. Every now and then, in this new-age of internet distribution, a funny thing happens…
I had just purchased Zerolex‘s 2.z EP (off of bandcamp for only €1!) when no more than an hour later I got an email from Zerolex himself pointing me towards his music. I clicked the links he provided, stared at the album art for awhile thinking “Wow, this looks very familiar” until I realised he was currently playing in my iTunes.
All Over Again is the first of two tracks off of his more recent release on Combien Millie Records, which is available for free download. There’s some great future beat style trip-hop elements present throughout his tracks, and some really diverse and interesting sounds being used as well- check it out!
Download:
Bandcamp:
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PS:
If you are an artist/label/promoter/enthusiastic fan feel free to drop me a line any time at fucktheradio@dubcage.com I’d love to hear from you!
And make sure you show facebook.com/ftheradioblog some love!
Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop | Tags: beats, Hip Hop, independant, instrumental hip hop, sample based, Trip-Hop
Mattron‘s personal tape is the best dollar I’ve spent all year.
Wonderfully crafted trip-hop in its abundance, Pants Morgan Money Tape is set to make my iTunes’ ‘top played’ list any-time now… Warm and relaxing, the 14 tracks all sit perfectly in the middle section of the imaginary ‘musically stimulating’ and ‘easy listening’ Venn diagram.
Fans of hip-hop will appreciate the meticulous effort put into crafting these beats out of various samples, ranging from odd-ball synth sounds to contemporary jazz snippets- Mattron makes creating great instrumental hip-hop seem Ea$y.
Download:
Bandcamp (rest of tape only $1):
Soundcloud:
