Remember Byron The Aquarius? He’s back. In blog form. Here’s a new beat tape titled “T.A.L.K N.O.I.S.E Pre$ents D.R.U.G.S Vol.1”. Don’t sleep…
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asonic garcia’s latest two beat tapes “power UP’s” & “gabi:tape” just dropped this month. “gabi:tape” is available both as a digital download and as a physical tape to drop sometime in the future. Don’t sleep…
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Freddie Joachim is one of the most respected producers of this entire beat culture era, he started off making beat tapes that generated more and more buzz then built his reputation as a producer much in the mold of an Onra, Dela, Eric Lau or Mark de Clive-Lowe. His album “Fiberglass Kisses” features contributions from Carlitta Durand, Miles Bonny (S3), Mar (Full Crate & Mar), L. Santiago & J. Mitchell plus an Eric Lau remix. It dropped October 30th, I told you all about this before but it bears repeating now (no Jack White). Cop it from Bandcamp, iTunes or Amazon. Don’t sleep!
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A lot of heads slept on Beneficence’s 2011 LP “Sidewalk Science” but this time you’ve been warned beforehand. On November 13th, Beneficience’s new album “Concrete Soul” drops on Ill Adrenaline Records. This is a single from it featuring Grap Luva & Rob-O of INI with the legendary K-Def on the beat called “Cold Train”. Don’t sleep on it…
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German production duo JR & PH7’s new SoulSpazm LP “The Good Life” features Sean Price, Roc Marciano, Phonte, Guilty Simpson, Ras Kass, Freeway, Torae, Skyzoo, Hezekiah, Saigon, Median, King Mez, Journalist 103, The Regiment, Chuuwee, Mela Machinko and more. You can stream it here and cop it on iTunes or Amazon. Don’t sleep…
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Joy Daniels and producer Levelsoundz collaborated on what is easily one of my favorite projects of 2012. “Joy After The Rain” harkens back to the seminal classic R&B albums of the mid to late 80’s, the spirit of the standout R&B albums of the 90’s and updates it while creating something wholly original in it’s own right. Don’t sleep on it…
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Urban Waves teamed up with Germany’s Radio Juicy to put together a compilation called “Fear And Loathing In Beats”. This compilation/beat tape features contributions from !ngvar, Armin PaYnE, BEN BADA BOOM, Flitz & Suppe, Hazeem, JayLotus, Phoube, Jimbo Matsumoto, Knowsum, Lazy Jones, Mecstreem, Bud Hello, Melodiesinfonie, Peter Thermometer, SNKA, Toetensen, Mono:Massive, Wun Two, Der Funkbademeister, Je$u$, MettphoniC, Lukitoloko, Figub Brazlevic, JA:KOVA, MCV, BlaZzCo and FunkaHolic. Don’t you dare sleep on it…
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