Last year, Shuko & F. of Audiotreats dropped the instrumental project “Cookies & Cream” on SoulSpazm Records. This year, they’re dropping the sequel “Cookies & Cream 2” on German beat culture label Jakarta Records this July. Here is the lead single & video “Best Friends”. Don’t sleep on it…
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The homie Hezekiah of 3Crates Productions shot me a folder titled “Beats: June 2012” in my Gmail inbox. Enjoy peoples…
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Omen & the ELO (Elaborate Music Orchestra) made an album inspired by the Blaxploitation Era soundtracks of the 70’s featuring Smoke DZA, Jae Millz, Pill, GLC, Diggy Simmons, Mickey Factz, Teedra Moses and more. Listen to “Black Hero Theme Musik” right here and don’t sleep on it…
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HashFinger finally dropped his monthly beat tape with about 10 days to spare before the month was finally up. It’s pretty short but that’s just fine with me. Here’s “JUNE.12”. Don’t sleep on it…
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I have every single Jaisu beat tape imaginable. Both released & unreleased. I have so many Jaisu beats that he & S-Type have their own section in my beats collection. Here is his latest outing, the 20 slap opus called “2 Stacks”. I have the original version of “2 Stacks” and they BOTH bang. Don’t sleep on this…
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On July 17th, 2012 Theory will release his new project “Filtered Soul” via the Backpack Theory label. Here’s a promo video for said project. Don’t sleep on it…
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This is audio from a live performance Black Milk & band (Daru Jones, AB, Malik Hunter & the homie Bill Sharp) run through quite a few joints live on both sides of this vinyl for a total of 45 minutes of incredible music. If you’ve never caught Black Milk live then you’ve done yourself a serious disservice. Make up for it by listening to this then copping it. Trust me
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Sir Manley dropped the second installment of his incredibly dope “Evolution Of A Beat Maker” series. This one contains 4 streamable mixes full of beats from 2008 that are each between 15 to 17 minutes long. If you can sleep on this then you probably hate water, food, breathable oxygen, sex and money too. Don’t sleep on “Evolution Of A Beat Maker: Leftovers Vol. 2 08” dammit!
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What had happened was one of my favorite producers Dert made a collaborative LP with Theory Hazit on Humble Beast and it’s easily one of the best albums of 2012. It’s called “Thr3e” and here are Dert’s instrumentals for these same jawns. Don’t sleep on them. As you can see, I don’t sleep at all…
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Four new remixes from the homie Idasa Tariq for the doggest day of Summer thus far. And we’re only two days into it. My air conditioners have the air in my apartment so conditioned that it thinks that blond hair & blue eyes are the official standard of beauty. The air in my apartment is so conditioned that I’m pretty sure it would vote for Romney if it were a person. In any event, “The Remixes Vol. 1”, download that shit…
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Falside dropped his brand new Summer beat tape/instrumental project via Producers I Know & our peoples over @ Potholes In My Blog called “East Toast”. Seeing as how it’s hotter than Kate Upton doing the Cat Daddy on Martin Luther King Boulevard I think that’s the perfect title. Salute to Has-Lo & Cesci as well. Don’t sleep!
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Keith Edward’s debut beat tape with 95 Labs just dropped today (on the hottest day of the damb year) and it’s appropriately titled “Seasons”. This melanin in my skin is doing me NO favors right now. The back of Yaphet Kotto’s neck would get sunburned outchea today. Don’t sleep on this, it’s ill…
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French multi instrumentalist/beatmaker Superpoze’s new EP dropped yesterday but it was too goddamb hot to keep my laptop on all day so instead went out & entered a sweatbox & listened to rappity rap & talked to people face to face (NAH, REALLY!). In public. Outside. At night. Here’s “The Iceland Sound EP” complete with remixes from Zerolex, Samba De La Muerte, & Les Filles Et Les Garçons.
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DOSAGE’s “Ultra Violet” beat tape is one of those jawns I found in the Strictly Beats comment box. Don’t sleep on it. It’s hard to sleep as hot as it is anyways…
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Pittsburgh area producer/emcee Idasa Tariq has been featured on Producers I Know numerous times and he’s back with a new beat tape called “607 Das Heat” for dat ass. Don’t sleep on it cuz I got more Idasa Tariq in the stash for when the sun returns. That’s my word…
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King Mez’ brand new mixtape “My Everlasting Zeal” is finally available for download on Life + Times courtesy of Heather Widener of Herfection. I first became aware of this project via Instagram (isn’t social networking wonderful?) then Twitter where I sort of got to track it’s progress so to speak. “My Everlasting Zeal” features production by Soundtrakk, Prolyfic (they used to produce for Lupe back before he lost all of his 2006 fans), J. Cole, Omen, 1120, Commissioner Gordon and King Mez himself. Just play play on “The Allure” to download it or just go directly to DJBooth.net. Don’t sleep…
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FRSH SLCTS has done it again. The latest project from FRSH SLCTS is the new LP from PRTLND emcee Cassow called “Future Classic”. This 17 track opus features production from PIK regulars Jake One, DaveNotti, TROX, Trumaine, Trifeckta, Hippie Sabotage and Stewart Villain. It also features guest appearances from Freeway, Epp & Smooth. If you can find a way to sleep on this then chances are you ain’t about shit. Ricky’s mama was right about you, ol’ Doughboy asses. Just joking folks. NAH. Not really…
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Jakarta Records is based out of Germany (Berlin & Cologne) and this compilation features music from Blu, Therapy AKA Paten Locke, Raashan Ahmad, Trek Life, Blitz The Ambassador, JR & PH7, Looptroop Rockers & Shuko & F. of Audiotreats among others. You can cop it FREE digitally from the Jakarta Records Bandcamp or physically on cassette from HHV. There are only 150 copies available in total so don’t sleep…
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The fourth edition of the popular Label Love compilation is here! It’s 17 tracks featuring music from a gang of diverse labels, namely All City Records, BBE Music, Brownswood Recordings, Daptone Records, Kindred Spirits, Now Again, Record Breakin’, Tokyo Dawn Records, Tru Thoughts Recordings, and Ubiquity Records. Expect to hear jawns from Knxwledge, Onra, Vindahl, Gilles Peterson, Belleruche, Monophonics, Quantic & Alice Russell, Jameszoo, Columbia Nights and many others. Don’t sleep on it…
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Dimlite just dropped a new beat tape/instrumental project full of leftover/unreleased material called “Abscission” via Ripl Music. Don’t sleep on it folks…
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Here’s a brand new debut beat tape by a cat named Napoleon Suarez with a summer theme. Don’t sleep on “Boy Of Summer” damb it….
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Millennium Jazz Music returns with their Jazz Jousters (Es-K, Blue Buttonz, Diligent Fingers, Gadget, Mr. Moods, Skinnista, Elyon, B 3 N B i, DRTYDRDZ & Joe Davies) roster and delivers the brand new beat tape “Misty: The Jazz Jousters Meet Bob Brookmeyer” as promised. Don’t sleep on it…
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T-Dredz and Atwell Baker are two local beatmakers/producers that are heavily involved with the whole JASS movement here in Boston. They’ve teamed together to create a 34 minute project that will be released later this year by Urban Waves possibly both digitally on cassette tape under the name Gonja. Here’s a preview of what to expect when Urban Waves drops “Nomo Gonja” in the coming months. Don’t sleep on it…
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Starchild dropped this beat tape last month but I just caught it on Beat Tape Co-Op not too long ago and heard it. Don’t sleep on “Cold Turkey Leftovers”…
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock or haven’t been paying attention lately Hermutt Lobby created an app for iPad called Beatsurfing where you can create & build your own MIDI instruments and then play them live. If you’ve never seen the previous Vlek Beatsurfing videos you can catch up right here and you can cop Beatsurfing for your iPad for $11.99. Don’t sleep on it…
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Karriem Riggins is a drummer as well as a producer in the mold of Questlove, Daru Jones & Jon Laine among others (as well as half of the duo Supreme Team with Madlib) who has amassed quite an impressive back catalog of production over the years. In this Stones Throw podcast you get to hear a Karriem Riggins retrospective of his notable works. Don’t sleep on him or his upcoming Stones Throw project “Alone Together” and listen to “Stones Throw Podcast 74: Karriem Riggins Produced That”…
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j23 dropped this admittedly dope project called the “JuanTwoThree Remixes” and just uploaded directly to MediaFire. Do not pass SoundCloud. Do not upload to Bandcamp with 200 free downloads. AudioMack? Eat a dick. Vibedeck? Eat another dick. Straight to MediaFire. Wanna listen first without committing your valuable hard drive space first? No soup for you! If you haven’t already figured it out I’d prefer to stream music before I decide I want to download it. Call me crazy but I deal with A LOT of music files and hard drive space is like gasoline in Kinshasa (No “Viva Riva!”). Don’t sleep…
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Clams Casino JUST dropped a damb instrumental collection/beat tape a few weeks ago. Here he goes dropping “Instrumental Tape 2: B-Sides” on Mediafire and “#BSIDES Instrumentals” because I guess Bandcamp just makes too much sense to use instead *Shrugs*. Download it and I’ll post another downloadable project since I hate posting them and there’s an opening now…
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Cose MP has dropped two beat tapes thus far in 2012. The first “Dark Hour” was dedicated to the old boom bap Hip Hop aesthetic of the Second Golden Era & the Backpack Era of the early to late 90’s. The second, “Summer Nights” was released just yesterday in anticipation of the upcoming dog days of Summer. Don’t sleep!
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The homie Sir Froderick was the one who first told me about multi instrumentalist/vocalist Low Leaf a while back. Then I heard some of her music (“Chrysalis EP”) and saw that footage of her performing live on Knocksteady. Ever since then I’ve been looking forward to her new project dropping. Here it is, Low Leaf’s “GiGA GAiA EP”. The fact that she performs vocals and she plays/make music/beats is mindblowing. Don’t sleep on this…
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Alphonse’s beat tapes have gone in the following order “Come Winter”, “Come Spring” and now “Come Summer” seeing as how it’s June 20th. In September we’ll see “Come Fall”, I suspect? Don’t sleep!
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Here is some live footage of Prof.Logik gettin’ down on his Akai MPD live during an event @ The Crown Station in Charlotte, NC. Don’t sleep on this…
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