Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop | Tags: beat, beats, Happy, Hip Hop, instrumental hip hop, melbourne, melbourne australia, music, sample based, Upbeat
It’s wet in Melbourne at the moment, and I mean that in the ‘rainy and miserable’ sense… not the “haha- you said ‘wet'” way.
Luckily there’s some summery tunes out there that can always brighten up the cloudy grey weather until it changes radically the next minute.
An artist who seems to specialise in such tunes is Kaligraph E, who’s Done Good EP was released on UK-based cassette-tape label 100 Akres last month. Funnily enough, Kaligrah E resides in Melbourne himself, so I’m not sure where the inspiration for these sunny tunes is coming from- but I’d sure love a taste!
The whole EP is available for a choose your price (with no minimum) off of Bandcamp direct download, so you can grab it there for free if you like! It’s got some neat remixes from Fuck the Radio faves Handbook and Vanilla
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, Hip-Hop | Tags: beat, beats, Hip Hop, instrumental hip hop, sample based
Today’s sounds come from J.S. 315, a producer out of Los Angeles with an extensive back catalogue. Tip Off Pt. 1 is a nice 6-track downloadable set off of his Soundcloud- stylistically clear and concise- If you are into the whole L.A beat scene; especially sounds more on the hip-hop side of things, check him out.
Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop | Tags: beats, Hip Hop, music, sample based, Upbeat
Straight up no bullshit hip-hop beats. Beats & Dreams is a magnificent release from the consistently excellent producer Nu Vintage. As only $1 on bandcamp for 27 tracks, it’s an absolute steal.
Grynd is one of the many tracks which bleed true hip-hop purity. It begs for proper verses, yet holds it’s own as a satisfying instrumental listen.
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, Hip-Hop | Tags: beats, düsseldorf germany, germany, Hip Hop, hip hop instrumentals, instrumental piece, sample based
Düsseldorf, Germany- Lord Leonator uses his experience as a drummer to create rhythmically tight Hip-Hop instrumentals. Nicely composed and reminicent of DJ Shadow style beats, Ja! is a cute little instrumental piece to bob your head along to.
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/ventoleo/
Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop | Tags: album musique, beats, Electronic, Electronica, french, french hip hop, Hip Hop, music, sample based, Trip-Hop
Much like the nouvelle vague du rock français scene that saw the rise of garage-rock bands like Naast and my beloved Plasticines in France, there’s a new breed of underground beat-makers in France seeing the creation of a new-wave of electronica and hip-hop.
Sorg is one such artist at the forefront of the emerging scene, joining artists such as Miqi O, Zerolex and Don Da None in bringing a blend of sample-based, electronic and acoustic instrumentation to trip-hop for a sound which, sounds just as uniquely French as French house does.
Check out Zerolex‘s new album which features both Sorg and Don Da None: http://zerolex.bandcamp.com/album/musique-r-apprivois-e
And if you like what you hear, check out Sorg‘s Preface EP, It’s an underground gem: http://sorg.bandcamp.com/
Filed under: Experimental | Tags: album, amable, avant-garde, beats, experimental, free, free beats, post-trip-hop, Psychedelic, sample based, Trip-Hop, visual
As promised, Amable‘s The Bundle was released today and it’s a neat collection of various experimental trip-hop tunes produced by the Florida-based beat-maker that have appeared all over the net these past few years.
A dynamic compilation of rarities, we’ll be catching up with Amable later in the week for a chat, so make sure you subscribe to the blog and check out the album, released by the quasi-avant-garde label Geweih Ritual Documents here:
http://geweihritual.bandcamp.com/album/the-bundle
You can also check out Amable‘s Spooky Bounce here.
And his soundcloud here.
Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop | Tags: beat, berlin, free beats, germany, Hip Hop, Kyson, music, organic, sample based, texture, Trip-Hop, visual
Out of Berlin, Kyson‘s majestic productions contain a great deal of warmth and comfort. Forest Footsteps is one of several free beats he’s giving away on Soundcloud which have a refreshingly different, yet easily accessible tone and texture to the other sounds I’ve been listening to lately…
Have a listen for yourself:
Soundcloud:
Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop | Tags: beats, dilla, Electronic, Flying Lotus, free, high life, highlife, Hip Hop, music, sample based, Trip-Hop, vanilla
I really love Vanilla, not only the ice-cream but the artist. With a stylistic nod towards artists like Dilla and even Flying Lotus, Vanilla has produced an amazing trip-hop album (approaching it’s second birthday) called Chrometrails available for free off of his bandcamp page.
Proxy rolls along with smoothly flowing sample re-triggering and a beat you can bop your full body along to. It’s broken up with a neat chorus-like break section to give the track a more conventional structure and to avoid ubiquitous repetition in it’s composition.
There’s also two more recent free albums in addition to chrometrails, one of them, a 27-track long monster titled Highlife is also full of gems, however he’s been quiet in the past year or so. I very highly encourage you to check him out…
Bandcamp:
http://vanillabeats.bandcamp.com/
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
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, 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/
