Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop, Jazz | Tags: album, beat, beats, Chilled, future beat, Hip Hop, instrumental hip hop, Jazz, music, sample based, Trip-Hop
To celebrate his 20th birthday, Shag promised (and delivered) a new beat tape. If you dig tight sample-based trip-hop do not hesitate- Shag consistently releases fantastic stuff, with a variety of moods and noises to keep you entertained from start to finish.
Grab it here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?vtt25g7f1eslhom
Filed under: Beats, Dance, Jazz | Tags: Acoustic, funky beat, Hip Hop, hip hop instrumentals, instrumental hip hop, Jazz, jazzy beats
Ape Tit is a funky beat duo out of Denver who utilize real instruments in their production to create jazzy hip-hop beats. Electric Elephant is an older release (it hit bandcamp back in May this year), while Make Love To YOU only appeared on Soundcloud a week or two ago.
Less words, more music:
Filed under: Beats, BRILLIANT, Chilled, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Vocals | Tags: beats, blues ballads, Brilliant, Chilled, Hip Hop, Hypnotic, Jazz, melbourne australia, music, sample based, Trip-Hop, vocals
Shaping up to be the release of the year, you better believe I’m tagging Alta‘s Stay Awhile debut BRILLIANT (the lucky 7th tag earned this year).
From the seductive slowness of the eponymous opener Stay Awhile to the cheeky musac samples in Elevator, the overall progression of the record effortlessly moves from dreamy sample-heavy blues-ballads to solid trip-hop sounds in Next and Bees.
The most impressive element of Alta‘s sound is the way beatmaker Julius’ sample-heavy beats marry with vocalist Hannah’s organic soulful voice to create a fresh-yet-familiar vibe within the tracks. The only thing I dislike about this album is that when I listen to it on my iTunes, Alta Mira by Björk always comes on once it’s over and that song drives me fucking nuts; but, assuming you won’t have the same problem, I highly recommend you take the time to give this release a download.
Filed under: Acid, Chilled, Jazz | Tags: Acid-Jazz, Chilled, Jazz, music, Trip-Hop, \
Indigo High with some proper decent acid jazz out of Chicago. Just listen to those keys.
Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop, Jazz | Tags: beat, beats, Hip Hop, hip hop instrumentals, instrumental hip hop, Jazz, sample based, Trip-Hop
Ta-Ku has been kicking-ass after ass with his consistent high-quality beat-releases, and the 50 Days of Dilla project is possibly his most ambitious and successful yet. 50 Days for Dilla vol. 1 was released digitally under HW&W in March with the vinyl following two months later in May as HW&W‘s first official vinyl release. The vinyl sold out within 6 hours of its online release and I managed to bag the second-to-last copy.
Vol. 2 was released online on July 24th and for $10, the remaining 25 tracks of the project can be yours… Or you can hang-out for the vinyl (they’d be crazy not to release one after the last response).
The remaining 25 beats are brief (none break the 3 minute mark, as with the previous volume), however I wouldn’t want to attempt a feat like producing a beat every day for 50 days, so the length is easily forgivable. The quality is of a standard which can be expected from an established producer like Ta-Ku, the drums swing just right, the samples stutter and glitch to neat effect… and the overall feel of the record is something I could have constantly on in the background without a worry. The Dilla inspiration is clear and present- somewhat overpowering in-fact. I would have liked to see a little more deviation and stylistic twist from Ta-Ku considering his past proven skills with glitchy electronics, however this is not the aim of the record- as a tribute album, it works quite fantastically.
Filed under: Hip-Hop, Jazz, Vocals | Tags: Hip Hop, hip hop artist, Jazz, sample based, vocals
The mysterious Doppelgangaz duo produce some killer hip-hop and are on their way up the ladder- their music has been featured on the front-page of bandcamp, and I can foresee some favourable reviews coming their way.
I know normally on this blog I feature largely instrumental tracks, today I’m posting Here We Go which has some pretty dope flow and lyricism as well as tight, jazz-sample-based production. If you are into rap, I recommend checking the rest of their tracks. As whole, the record flows quite smoothly from start to end.
Filed under: Beats, Chilled, Electronica, Hip-Hop, Jazz | Tags: Acid-Jazz, bass, beats, Chilled, Deep, downtempo, Funky, Hip Hop, instrumental hip hop, Jazz, jazz bass, music, Trip-Hop
Desmond Cheese‘s beats are dope. Saw the Signs Pt. 2 is an instrumental cut off of a release he did with Mr Bill about a year ago, and it’s got all of the best ingredients: jazz, bass and essence of sex.
You could do just about anything with this music playing and it’d instantly give it a totally new groovy vibe. Seriously, you could be eating a taco or something, and some hottie could walk past you and think nothing of it. But if you were eating a taco with this music on the hottie would be dtf.
Enjoy 🙂
Desmond Cheese – Saw The Signs Pt 2
Filed under: Beats, Chilled, Hip-Hop | Tags: album, beats, cascade records, France, french, french hip hop, future beat, Hip Hop, hip hop instrumentals, instrumental hip hop, Jazz, mellow, Trip-Hop
Cascade Records has overtaken Warp and Ninja Tune for me when it comes to exciting new releases; the Paris-based label is constantly supporting underground gold- and their latest release with Resistant Mindz is no exception.
A great compilation with some fantastic post-hip-hop/trip-hop etc. sounds from a plethora of talented artists, including FTR faves Broke, Repeat Pattern and Ackryte (above), there’s some real special creativity running through the grooves of this record, and I can’t wait to get my hands on it!
Filed under: Chilled, Hip-Hop, Jazz | Tags: Acid-Jazz, beats, Chilled, Jazz, jazzy, music, sample based
This suave jazz record makes me want to don a sleek suit and fedora combo, go out- order a scotch rocks and eye beautiful women across the bar while leaning on a billiards cue.
Yeah, it’s that specific.
The whole album is out for free here. You can also order physical CD and stream the album on the band-camp page linked below.
Filed under: Beats, Jazz | Tags: Acid-Jazz, instrumental hip hop, Jazz, jazzy beats, music
Have I posted any Haz Solo yet? No?
Here ya go, some jazzy beats:
Soundcloud:
Filed under: Beats, Concrete, Electronica | Tags: beats, Concrete, edgard varèse, Electronic, electronic funk, french, frnech hip hop, frog legs, Funky, hip hop instrumentals, instrumental ep, instrumental hip hop, instrumental song, Jazz, sample based
France is the home to most of my favourite artists… Daft Punk, Plasticines, Edgard Varèse… the list goes on. I don’t know what they put in the frog legs over there, but something makes them good at producing groovy music.
Take 7even Sun for example, who has put out two completely free and awesome electronic-jazz albums that are scrumptiously funky. With a third on it’s way on the 28th of March, get into him now so you can say you dug him since his older albums.
New New Jack is from the first EP titled Abstractly Concrete which was released November last year. Filled with a great mix of sample-based jazz and electronic funk, 7even shows that he possesses more musical ability than simply stringing a few sampled loops together without any creative attention to detail.
His second free instrumental EP titled Concretely Abstract was released late Feburary 2012, and builds upon the same production styles and sounds used in Abstractly Concrete (no surprise there, due to the similarity of the titles, think of it as all the same project). The third EP will be titled Abscrete and is due out on Number 24 Records later this month.
Bandcamp:
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/7even-sun
Filed under: Beats, Chilled, Jazz | Tags: beat, future beat, Hip Hop, Jazz, jazzy, mellow, sample based, Trip-Hop
A delightful trip-hop/future-beat style track from Denmark’s JONGPADAWAN. I’m not sure I’ve ever posted a Danish artist on FTR before, however if Afternoon Croissant is any indication of the quality of music coming from the Danes- I’ll be looking there more often.
A nice mix of smooth jazz and deep percussive elements, heavy compression is any trip-hopper’s friend, and JONGPADAWAN has executed his production techniques very well. The track avoids being a tedious sample loop by gradually switching up the beats, switching in and out different instrumental elements (a smooth tenor sax dips in and out as the beat goes on) and a suave French vocal sample keeps things sexy.
A debut EP is on the horizon with Greased Up Records announcing their first public EP release will be with him- release date TBA. Until then, enjoy Afternoon Croissant.
JONGPADAWAN – Afternoon Croissant
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/jongpadawan
Filed under: Acid, Electronica, Jazz, Psychadelic | Tags: Acid-Jazz, Jazz, Psychedelic, sample based
Ogdah‘s groovy acid-jazz price Mood Swinging is so cool!
The drums are glitched to perfection- it can be very easy for over-zealous producers to overdo the effects but Ogdah utilizes his stutters and gates with rhythmic musicality. The samples are awesome (especially the one that opens the track), and the acid-jazz feel really grounds the track into something that is pleasing to listen to.
Also, it’s more music from the Netherlands!? WHAT IS UP WITH THAT PLACE?
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Filed under: Jazz | Tags: Acid-Jazz, beats, dream sequence, independant, Jazz
Mononome is a cut-and-paste style beatstrumental composer from Greece. His Dream Sequence EP was released on the first of December last year and I’ve been patiently waiting for a chance to post it since.
The track Enthusiasms (Couldn’t Ask For Anything More) is funky while at the same time mellow. A neat acid-jazz track to listen to when you go to one of those groovy bars where none of the chairs match and the graffiti on the bathroom wall is both witty and legible (although that is very specific… you can listen to the track pretty much anywhere). The whole EP is available for free off of his bandcamp page, check it out.
Download:
Mononome – Enthusiasms (Couldn’t Ask For Anything More)
Bandcamp:
http://mononome.bandcamp.com/album/dream-sequence-ep
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/mononome
Filed under: Chilled, Hip-Hop, Jazz | Tags: Acid-Jazz, Jazz, Los Angeles, sample based, Soothing, Trip-Hop
Amai is yet another trip-hot beatmaker from Los Angeles. I don’t know what it is about that city, but it sure has an amazing knack of producing great experimental electronica artists. Fans of Flying Lotus, Daedelus, Nosaj Thing etc. will recognise the familiar LA tinge that Amai has in his rhythms and odd-ball sample re-triggering.
Counting Raindrops is a jazzy trip-hop piece that is cemented nicely together by smooth tenor saxophone, LA trip-hop style drum rhythms and neatly chopped up female vocals that fit ever-so nicely into place together. Download it here, or find the entire EP for fee at his bandcamp page.
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