This is the lead video from the upcoming Mello Music Group physical release of the collection of Oddisee’s critically acclaimed “Odd Season” series dropping May 17th. Just to be clear, I gave you all fair warning way back in March. Even before anyone sent out any press releases about it dropping. Next week, do the right thing and cop it. Oddisee. Tranqill. Ci’iy Life. Go here because it refuses to imbed…
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About a month ago ST/MiC told me about some work he was doing with Fly Definition Music, in particular Elusive. Elusive is a well respected producer whose worked with and produced for artists like Planet Asia, MURS, Eligh, Asop, Luckyiam.PSC, Scarub, Self Jupiter, Abstract Rude, P.E.A.C.E, Aceyalone, Casual & Royce Da 5’9″. His career goes back more than 15 years and he just dropped an impressive instrumental LP on Fly Definition Music. 26 hot ass beats for only $8.99? It gets no better than that. Go cop “Beat Placement” right damb now!
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Depakote’s new instrumental album “Suicide Watch” is finally available for purchase. If you remember, I just recently posted about it while dropping all of Depakote’s back catalog for those that may have slept. All caught up now? Good! Now go listen to Depakote’s album on the Fly Definition Bandcamp and buy it for only $5.99!
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The second single from the May 17th release “Brown Bag Season Vol. 1” is “See Again” and is produced by marink. Download the single here and be ready to cop the LP next Tuesday.
Brown Bag All Stars “See Again” (prod. by marink) [HULKSHARE LINK]
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Beatrock Music’s crew The CounterParts just dropped a video for their new single off their last LP. The jawn is called “What We Do”, is produced by Fatgums and features cuts by Gammaray. The visuals are below, it’s refreshing to hear a song about actually enjoying and appreciating making Hip Hop:
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Illregular Instrumentals Skeem Price “Precise” single produced by Captain has just hit Bandcamp and the video is just below. Here it is:
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Last year, Rocky Rivera dropped her debut “Rocky Rivera LP” and this is the long awaited video for one of my favorite jawns from it, “Girl Like Me”. The song is produced by 6Fingers and features Raka Dun of Los Rakas. The visuals are courtesy of Erica Eng and the video features quite a few familiar faces. It’s just below:
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This video is for the lead single from Snza’s upcoming EP “The Sky Is Falling”. The song “Call U Snitch” is produced by Keelay (Keelay & Zaire). Don’t sleep. Greater Good! Respect to the the director Court Dunn.
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Last year, Latvia producer/beatmaker Beatowski was featured on The Scrunchface Show quite often after “Beat Tape Vol. 1” & “Beat Tape Vol. 2” dropped in late 2010. I’d lost track of Beatowski during the Scrunchface Show’s hiatus so I wasn’t able to play any of it when it dropped back in February as I was planning our Dilla tribute show. I forgot to post it since my bitchass 15″ PowerBook G4 had a serious kernel panic & I moved this folder to an external USB Firewire drive. I found & listened to this last night after the disappointing Celtics overtime loss. Here it is, Beatowski Beats “Beat Tape Vol. 0”. Enjoy…
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Shag has created an incredible ongoing instrumental series dating all the way back to December 2009. I personally didn’t catch on until he dropped “Vol. 6: Beatnik” in December 2010 and I was impressed to say the least. Shag dropped “Volume 7: Palette” & “Volume 8: Take-Out” in January and February then nothing in March or April. I figured that he was young and he decided to focus on school or what have you. Then he came back with a vengeance a few days ago with “Volume 9: Separation”.
I guess he went through a break up? In any event, it makes for great music. Shag is a teenaged producer with a job as a cashier and a ton of potential so let’s do what we can to help homie cop a Native Instruments Maschine, shall we? Donate to his PayPal @ garsidetogo@gmail.com
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http://official.fm/tracks/243541?size=artwork&width=425
Munoz offers us a 48 minute mix of his Brazilian sample sources. If this official.fm imbedded player works like it should you can just go ahead and play it here. Thanks to Munoz & everyone @ HypeDog Hip Hop.
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The crew over at Illregular Instrumentals just dropped another #RandomBeatTape on us. This one was made by Captain and it bangs just like the previous ones did. Download it from the Illregular Instrumentals Bandcamp right now. Can’t wait to hear the next installment from the crew…
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Panama Red is better known as @redontheMP to me on Twitter. I got his instrumental project a while back on my 15″ PowerBook G4 before it began having Mac OS kernel panics again. I took every folder off of it and moved it to my trusty Eagle Tech Consus external Firewire USB drive and forgot about it until today when, by chance, I had to go digging for the original mp3 from my original Scrunchface Show broadcast. This is dope! Check out Panama Red’s “Unlimited”. Damn, I slept!
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Local producer/beatmaker Chris Girolamo dropped this beat tape as a collection of slaps he made on an MPC 2000XL over the past couple of years. Someone shot me the link on Twitter a while back and I downloaded but the computer I had it on died so I moved everything on it to a hard drive last month. While searching for the original mp3 from last year’s first ever archived Scrunchface Show I actually found this beat tape on my USB Firewire drive and gave it a play. Nice! © Borat. Enjoy Boston Beatdown “The Truth Is…”. Go Celtics!
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While I was exploring the far reaches of the wondrous machination we call the internet at 6 AM I discovered a Bandcamp that belonged to a Brooklynite beatmaker/producer that goes by the handle UBQTS. The first offering I heard was simply titled “The Beat Tape”. After playing it a couple of times I decided to move on to his his more recent release, the Jazz inspired beat tape called “Dig.”. Needless to say, I was impressed and I decided to post them up here.
I didn’t get to post like I wanted to this weekend because I was so busy do other things so I’ll just fix that by spending most of today catching up and showcasing more jawns that deserve some shine. More beat tapes and instrumental projects are on the way, people.
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Washington, DC/DMV resident/beatmaker/producer Doc Battle just dropped a new beat tape titled “KiLL’N” on our heads today. Go to his Bandcamp right now and download it. Also expect to hear ‘Toad Style” on the Scrunchface Show next week. Guest to be announced soon…
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The teenaged Icelandic producer/beatmaker known as Beat Machine Aron posted up his first beat tape/instrumental project a while back called “Just Another Day” that I just recently caught up on via several international beatmaker sites last week. I finally went in on the weekend catching up on some jawns I previously overlooked and this one was at the top of the heap. For only $5 USD you can support an up & coming young talent. Think about it © Special Ed
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More than a week ago, I was swamped with 4 different writing projects and I needed two establish release dates for a few ones on Producers I Know. On Twitter, I got hit up with a post about some cat from the UK named Handbook from Collective Resonance. I RT’d it but I didn’t check the post itself out for days. I heard the mixes posted but I decided to find his back catalog of beat tapes and listen to each myself.
I found his Bandcamp and listened to his 2011 output beginning with “Beat Tape One: Brothers Of Invention”, the “Sundaze EP” and his most recent effort that dropped a few weeks ago, the collection “havefaith”. I liked what I heard so I decided to post it up here @ Producers I Know. Enjoy.
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I stumbled on this new 24 slap beat tape by weirddough on Bandcamp by chance while I was perusing the vast entity called the internet at 5 AM this morning. I liked what I heard and decided to post it here so others could experience it as well: weirddough “elevatormuzik”. Enjoy.
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Last year, Doc Illingsworth of Detroit CYDI sent me a folder of roughs with him rapping on them on Twitter and asked for my opinion. I told him that they were fine and he should continue along his path. He recently sent me a Bandcamp link as he uploaded 5 of those selections in a collection called “Tales Of Illingsworth Vol. 1: GOOD LUCK”. Enjoy.
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Last year, Brooklyn’s TeV95 dropped a couple of beat tapes called “Loop Language” & “Crime Loops” on the masses. This year TeV95 decided to bless us with “Crime Loops 2”. We all appreciate it. Salute.
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You into Daft Punk? Sa-Ra Creative Partners? Onra? Devonwho? Flying Lotus? Dam-Funk? Then you needs to fux with Trailer Limon’s “Special Dedication: The B-Sides” then! This project dropped back in March and I didn’t get hip to it until this past weekend. I slept hard. Don’t be like me, be better than me. Stop sleepin’, y’all…
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The Scrunchface Show @ Bloggerhouse Live #42: The Grap Luva, D-Man & Has-Lo Edition (5.6.2011) Tracklisting *
Unspoken Heard f/J-Live & Grap Luva “Trackrunners” [THE OPENER]*
Grap Luva “Beats And Rhymes”*
Sound Providers f/Grap Luva “Who Am I?”*
Kombo f/Grap Luva & J.Rocc “Time 4 A New Horizon”*
InI (Rob O) “Microphonist Wanderlust”*
Pete Rock f/Grap Luva & Kev Brown “Collector’s Edition”*
Pete Rock f/Grap Luva “Revenge”*
J.Rawls & J.Sands (Lone Catalysts) f/Grap Luva “Check The Clock”*
Grooveman Spot f/Grap Luva “Gettin’ Better” off “Change Situations” [Amazon/iTunes/eMusic]
yU f/Grap Luva, Finale & OP Swamp 81 “Brainwash” off “Before Taxes” [Mello Music Group/Amazon/iTunes]
SKYWLKR “Applebee’s And Weed” off “Strawberry Cough: The Instrumentals” [Bandcamp]
Sunclef “Droski” off “The Tesser∆ct” [Bandcamp]
Sunclef “Samolero” off “The Tesser∆ct” [Bandcamp]
fLako “YeahYeahYeah” off “The Mesketet” [Project Mooncircle/Amazon/iTunes]
0hbliv “Fate Fer Breakfast” off “Monoatomic EP” [Bandcamp]
DJ Primate “Down & Dirty” off “The Beast Tape 2” [Bandcamp]
Aspect One “Luminary Ominous” off “RANDOM: Beats from the MPC 03-07” [Bandcamp]
Dibiase “Rockout” off “Sound Palace” [info[at]mrdibiase.com for details]
Black Milk “3 Stacks 13” [EXCLUSIVE]
Black Milk “The Practice Beat 14” [EXCUSIVE]
Jaisu “Life On Mars” [EXCLUSIVE]
Ta-Ku “Great Start” off “Day & Night EP” [Bandcamp]
Mike Gao “Worthy Unworthy” off “Sun Shadows” [Alpha Pup/Amazon/iTunes]
D-Man “Criolas In Yoga Pants Make Me Glad Dad Didn’t Rock A Condom…” off the upcoming PIK LP “Son, I Had Crazy Visions!…” *Drops 6.1* [EXCLUSIVE]
Grap Luva @ Dilla Day 2008 “Nag Champa (Live)” [THE CLOSER]
*Get ta diggin’ for all these Grap Luva classics. For others visit Grap Luva’s Tumblr. The exclusives come courtesy of my hard drives & the artists themselves*
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On tonight’s edition of The Scrunchface Show we’ll have the legendary producer Grap Luva. We’ll talk about his past music, coming up under Pete Rock’s tutelage, things you didn’t know about the InI “Center Of Attention” LP and all about his upcoming Redefinition Records project. Grap Luva will appear alongside new Producers I Know member D-Man discussing his upcoming PIK release that drops June 1st. We’ll also be playing exclusives and slaps from heads like Black Milk, Jaisu, Dibiase, Ta-Ku, 0hbliv, Aspect One, fLako, Sunclef, SKYWLKR, Mike Gao, DJ Primate & expect to hear some Grap Luva classics to begin the show off…
Listen to the show here live tonight from 10 PM- Midnight EST: http://bloggerhouse.net/scrunchface-show-listen-now/
For the past 40 shows you can stream them here @ http://scrunchface.bloggerhouse.net/ or download them as podcasts from iTunes.
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The physical release of Kaimbr x Kev Brown’s “Alexander Green” LP saw the release of two bonus tracks, the Damu The Fudgemunk “Army Fatigue Rap” remix and on the CD itself a jawn called “Go Green” that they not only performed live on Record Store Day but they filmed a great part of the video that day @ the Fat Beats warehouse/pop up shop. Look out for a gang of cameos including one from me. Visuals for “Go Green” are below. The stakes stay high, but the budget is low:
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This will be the last late pass post of the day. Not because I couldn’t find more late passes, mind you…more because I’m starting to get mad at mayself for sleeping on some such hot shit. Considering that I keep both my ears to the street and my antennae up at all times. How did I miss THIS jawn? It’s actually a funny story, see Elaquent, Luigi @ Hypedog Hip Hop AND the gang @ Rap Ohne Lizenz all told me that it was bananas. So what did I do? I DIDN’T LISTEN TO IT UNTIL LAST NIGHT! That’s when I decided to do this “Late Pass Day” theme for PIK this Thursday.
Now go listen to Sunclef’s “The Tesser∆ct” and realize what an asshole I am. I’ll do this again in the summer. This was fun…
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So I stumbled across an instrumental project from some Russian beatmaker named El Toro AKA Grace Catcher. I really liked the first jawn but then I left the house. When I got home I went to a new site. Then another one. Then I popped shit on Twitter. Before I knew it, the Bandcamp page was no longer on my recent Firefox history. Rather than just go into the history archive and FIND the damb site to hear the rest of the project, I slept on it. I went back in my history and found “Mandala Of LOVE” last night. You do the same. Sometimes, I just ain’t about shit, I swear…
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Jamar Jacobs is one of Hypedog Hip Hop’s Underdogs, he dropped a Valentine’s Day beat tape and I just slept on it. Hard. Like it was a damb Craftmatic adjustable bed, B. I think I even snored, too. I’m a dumbass and I apologize. Now here’s Jamar Jacob’s “The Love Theory”…Enjoy.
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Russian producer Beat-Maker-Beat dropped this ridiculous instrumental project called “Blue Magic (Draft)” that we all went nuts over. During Christmas week someone shot me a link to a supposedly ill collection of blaps by someone called Spacekid. I was up to my neck in Best Of 2010 lists as it was so I blew it off. Months later, I was checking out an interview with Beat-Maker-Beat and it listed his alias as Spacekid. I’m a dickhead. Kate Nash was right about me. Now go listen to BMB AKA Spacekid’s “Paramind”
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This Insightful instrumental project dropped on New Year’s Day while I was writing several Best Of 2010 lists for Bloggerhouse. During this time, I ended up missing out on one of the best instrumental projects of 2011. IRONY! © Faceman. Insightful “The Flowers In My Mind”. How’d I miss this?
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Willie Evans Jr. will be dropping a free project called “Billy Lotion” May 25th to prepare to people dem for the arrival of his High Water Music debut “Introducin'” that’s dropping on June 21st (the week after “Random Axe” but the week before Pete Rock x Smif N’ Wessun’s “Monumental”). Below are two versions of the lead single off of “Billy Lotion”, a jawn called “Forced Grin (Squeeze Zombies)”. It’s essentially a flip of an Aloe Blacc song from his Stones Throw release “Good Things” and the vocal version is dedicated to Squeeze Radio which we lost last year. Salute to Willie Evans Jr., Sucio Smash, Paten Locke, Fresh Daily, Homeboy Sandman, DJ Spinna & Senor Kaos. Shout out to the entire High Water Music fam. Enjoy…
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Last year around this time, Detroit’s own SKYWLKR dropped this incredibly ill beat tape called “Strawberry Cough”. I fucked up and didn’t list it on my 100 best instrumental projects and beat tapes lists on Bloggerhouse. Do me a favor and listen to this jawn then tell me how much of a dumbass I was/am. SKYWLKR “Strawberry Cough”. I’ll be doing this all day…
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