Fresh off his 6 impressive beat tapes dropped back in 2010 comes Freshnerd of 100 Akres with his newest offering “The Janet Jackson Beat Tape”. I’ve been looking forward to hearing this finished product for months and the wait is finally over. Go peep it here:

100 Akres “The Janet Jackson Beat Tape” [BANDCAMP LINK]

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Fresh from Vandalyzm’s Tumblr comes a brand new jawn from the collective known as Hell Cassell containing Marv Won, himself and Nameless. The title? “Killstreak”. Click the link already, dumbass.

Hell Cassell (Marv Won x Vandalyzm x Nameless) “Killstreak” [DIVSHARE LINK]

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The homie Chanes dropped some of the most impressive releases of 2010 with his instrumental project “Experiments In Instrumentation” and the criminally slept on Moe Dirdee album “M.O.E. (Mark Of Excellence”).  Chanes has started out 2011 with “Basement Classics”, a collection of tracks he previously produced for many of Detroit’s finest that you may have slept on. A project you should look forward to in 2011 is the Marv Won x Chanes “The Last Hope” project. It’s shaping up to be insane, mark my words. If you somehow managed to sleep on Chanes previous to today I’m glad to break that streak of obliviousness. You’re good now.

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Live from the 626 comes the homie Jansport J (“The 2 AM Tape”, “MoveMeants”) with his new long awaited instrumental project “Save My Soul”. You can either download for free via The Soul Dojo or bitch ass Kevin Nottingham‘s site. Or you can cop physical copies from these spots, Store 13 or Jansport J’s Bandcamp. Support this dude because he continues to help keep the artform alive by making quality music. Salute.

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One of my favorite emcee/producers of the past five years is Milwaukee’s own Dylan Thomas. Dylan has just dropped his new instrumental project “Stevie’s Soul Sounds” yesterday via Bandcamp. If some of you aren’t familiar with his previous work then you really need to check out his old instrumental projects “The Vero Project” & “And It Was Good” or his recent production on he & Haz Solo’s collaboration “All Jokes Aside”,  JC Poppe’s “Sleep Therapy”, The House Of M’s “The Alternate Reality Of..” or OneSelf’s “I Of The Storm”. If this serves as your introduction to the production of Dylan Thomas then it’s a damn good one. The sleeper must awaken. Enjoy:

Dylan Thomas “Stevie’s Soul Sounds” [BANDCAMP LINK]

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My DMV peoples, Bloggerhouse favorites and The Scrunchface Show regulars Jazz Addixx (DJ Ragz, MUDD & ST/MiC) all got together @ ST/MiC’s Timeless Daimyo Studios in Charlottesville, VA on the weekend of December 3rd-5th just to chill and make some beats. By the weekend’s close they’d fucked around and made an entire album. MUDD rocked his trusty Ensoniq ASR 10 while DJ Ragz & ST/MiC opted for the Akai MPC 2000 XL and 13 tracks later they had a full project on their collective hands. They also recorded footage of the sessions and the end result is the Gorilla Fist Clothing sponsored new Jazz Addixx release “The Intermission Vol. 2”

The Bandcamp preview link has been provided already but here are a few promo videos shot by the guys themselves (shout out to The Unknown) featuring a few selections from the project, namely “MUDD’s “Radio”, DJ Ragz’ “Around 11” & ST/MiC’s “Mission Airy”. Enjoy & cop “The Intermission Vol. 2”.

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Dallas graphic designer/producer Datahowler has been on my radar since the old Poisonous Paragraphs days and his slaps have been featured on The Scrunchface Show since it’s inception last Spring. I currently am sitting on a few unreleased projects of his but a while back he told me that he was releasing an album of all new material. Shortly afterwards, he announced his Kickstarter campaign for the project titled “Slowdrifter” slated for release on 1.25.11. The following track “Prophet” is the project’s lead single and based on the previous material I’ve heard from dude I can’t wait to hear the full length. Enjoy:

Datahowler “Prophet” [DIVSHARE LINK]

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West Covina, CA representative Jansport J (“The 2 AM Tape”,  “American Gospel”, “High Power Moves” & “Movemeants”) will be releasing his newest effort, a instrumental LP called “Save My Soul” in exactly one week (1.11.11 for the slow). You can see the visuals for the lead single “Forever” which I played on the last episode of The Scrunchface Show below. Don’t sleep:

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Fresh off one of 2010’s breakout albums, Nametag teams up with Ro Spit over a Black Milk slap to deliver one of the nicest singles of the past year with “Celebrate” off the LP “The Name Is Tag”. The video done by Taylormade just dropped and it was well worth the wait. We present to you, “Celebrate”. Be prepared for the new Nametag LP in 2011. I ain’t gonna keep telling y’all shit over & over again. You’re gonna have to begin to retaining the information I continuously bless y’all with:

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M Slago has become one of my favorite producers of 2010 and this single he hit us off with from the upcoming “Rampage EP” has nothing to change that fact. I played this jawn on the the last broadcast of “Bloggerhouse presents The Scrunchface Show” and it banged like Rachel McAdams (or her body double’s) backyard in that GIF that currently has the internet goin’ nuts (no Paul Wall). Here it is for your listening pleasure, “Run For Cover”. Get a damb neckbrace (and just to be safe, wear a condom). Enjoy:

M Slago f/The Rapture, Dow Jonez, Word Life & Money Stax “Run For Cover” [MEDIAFIRE DOWNLOAD LINK]

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P.U.D.G.E. has had quite a busy 2010. He dropped “L.A. Series #1 10x10x1” with Dibiase on All City Records followed by “One Hand Band”, “Don’t Touch My Drumset”, “Idiot Box” on Ramp Records then “Pudgesnacks Vol. 2: I Didn’t Know!!! U Rap???” in addition to a couple remix projects. Now here comes P.U.D.G.E. to bless the good boys & girls of Earth with a brand new project called “theraPeutic”. Merry Christmas to each & every one of us. Enjoy:

P.U.D.G.E. “theraPeutic” [BANDCAMP LINK]

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Courtesy of fellow Bostonian & the man who brought you “…Of Heroes & Villains”, “Dirty Jordans” and the Super Chron Flight Brothers “Cape Verde” comes a Christmas themed beat tape entitled “Red & Green” comprised of beat made from source material provided by Christmas albums. Stop sleeping on Willie Green. Stream or download and enjoy:

Willie Green “Red & Green” [BANDCAMP LINK]

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In the mid 90’s, the Boston Hip Hop group Relentless broke up and went their separate ways. Later on, they formed a new crew, different groups and a new indie label called xnr inc. (xtensive nterprises inc.) after Tomax & Xamot’s corporation in the “G.I. Joe” cartoons. The spelling was to insure they wouldn’t be sued by either Hasbro, Sunbow Productions or Marvel Comics later on. One of the groups on said label was called Realm Organization and they were going to name their album “Life Analysis” since “Realm” is an acronym for “Relentless Everlasting Analyzing Life’s Meaning”. In 1999, they secured a deal with a local indie label and they began recording the “Life Analysis” LP while crew member DYS was making noise in the scene, ultimately becoming affiliated with local legends Krumbsnatcha and later freestyle champion and former Concrete Click member KT and his K-Munications label.

In the Summer of ’99, the main studio of xnr inc. & home of the crew’s main producer Buctayla located at 487 Mass Ave in the South End of Boston was one of the less than 200 rent controlled units left in the city thus the vote for keeping rent control failed miserably. The tenants of said unit were given weeks to vacate their home of almost 25 years. This greatly affected the crew as Nasarok eventually also moved and it affected Buctayla & Nasarok’s ability to finish the album. Eventually, life intervened as Nasarok moved to Hawaii & Buctayla and Cardi teamed up to focus on production now that they both had children to support. Crew member DYS was incarcerated at the time so everything was in a holding pattern for years with the crew. Fast forward to today.

With the wonders of modern technology, Buctayla & Nasarok have been able to not only recover some of their old finished tracks from the original 1999 “Life Analysis” sessions but record brand new material to go with it. The result? Realm Organization “Life Analysis 1.5: The Reboot”. In the future, expect the full release of the 1999 opus “Life Analysis” as well as a few instrumental projects from Buctayla’s MPC circa the same era in addition to DYS’ mixtape “Live From 617” in January. This site is is called “Producers I Know” and there is no other producer I know better than he. He’s my brother. Don’t sleep:

Realm Organization “Life Analysis 1.5: The Reboot” [BANDCAMP LINK]. All tracks produced by Buctayla for Hellsenda Productions

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The collective known as Eight boasts a membership full of some of the illest synth heavy blapmakers around, including Thriftworks, Insightful, B. Lewis & RIL (or ril). If for some reason you slept on the $1 Bandcamp opus “8” then you have NO excuse whatsoever so not download the free re-up titled “8.1”. The bottom line is here are 16 ill slaps from 4 of the nicest cats in the game. Recognize and realize.

Without any further ado, here are the links for both projects. 16 slaps for $1? You can’t beat that deal anywhere. You can hear and download “8” & “8.1” at the Eight (Thriftworks x Insightful x B.Lewis x RIL) Bandcamp. Don’t sleep…and stop being greedy! © DMX

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Bloggerhouse favorites IMAKEMADBEATS and the entire Doxside Music Group decided to continue their dominance of 2010 (which included the epic Bloggerhouse sponsored “Dare Iz A Doxside Mixtape”) by closing out the year with two amazing EP’s, “Daylight EP” featuring the vocal talents of the respected emcee Butta Verses and the “Nightlight EP” featuring the monster himself Midaz The Beast. Typically, cats just decide to lay low in December and let the past 12 months of work speak for them. Not the Doxside camp, they simply don’t believe in resting on their laurels (though it would be a much earned rest after the 2010 they’ve managed to put together).

After hearing these two projects your eyes should be open wider than homie in that scene in “A Clockwork Orange”. Be on the lookout for IMAKEMADBEATS, TzariZM, and the rest of the Doxside Music Group in the near future. Don’t sleep. Sleep is the cousin of Death.

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The homie Jomac from the DMV was on our recent exclusives show edition (Scrunchface Show #30) and after hearing his slaps it was clear that I had to do a post on this cat. That being the case, the place is here and the time is now. You wanna hear some live boom bap Hip Hop shit? All you need to do is check out Jomac’s bandcamp and his Soundcloud. Afterwards the sleepers must awaken (no Muad’dib/Paul Atreides).

Between November and December, Jomac has been on an incredible run with back to back mindblowing projects in “Beat Mix 3” & “Days Explained…Beat Set 1” uploaded to Bandcamp. If you can find a way to sleep on these jawns then you simply don’t have a soul. No fuckin’ way around it, B. Listen to these jawns, download ’em, rock ’em in your iPods and hit this dude up for work. You want that live shit? Here you go. Act like you want it…

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