Soul Starr has dropped three dope ass beat tapes in the past month or so. They are called “Korner Stone (ol’Beetz)”, “OrigiNahLitY” & “Soul Travel.p1” respectively. All are part of a 12 part series of beat tapes Soul Starr is currently working on. If you were sleeping before then your should be up, alert & aware by now…
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Space Ghost’s new Astro Nautico release “You’re There” just dropped. Don’t sleep on it ya bastards & bastardettes…
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The homie DJ Soko of The Left teamed up with The Find Mag to make the 40 mix of new standout Hip Hop named after his 12″ single “Stand Up”. “Stand Up” consists of tracks by and featuring Houseshoes, Guilty Simpson, Apollo Brown, Hassaan Mackey, Kaimbr, The Purist, Sean Born, Gensu Dean, Rashid Hadee, Show & AG, Slaughterhouse and more. Go directly to Mixcloud to hear “Stand Up” since Mixcloud won’t embed on PIK. Don’t sleep…
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MoGiLLaH sent me this new beat tape he made that features chris∆re & Sir Froderick on it called the “STAY THIRSTY EP”. There is absolutely no reason to sleep on this jawn…
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Rookie Round finally returns for their second go round with the new compilation/beat tape “Volume Zwei”. Soul_UP, Ben Bada Boom, Beatfux, Beatinyo, Enzo Eyeris and Emrou all contributed slaps to this 12 beat collection. Don’t sleep on it…
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Focus… was one of Interscope/Aftermath/Shady/G-Unit’s famed in house producers, part of the greatest assembled group of production talent in the past 15 years at a major label (do the knowledge if you think I’m exaggerating). Focus… just dropped 7 new R&B instrumentals on his Bandcamp last week that you shouldn’t sleep on, so DON’T…
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Here’s the title track from Calvin Valentine AKA G_Force’s “Red Eye Flights” project featuring Sam Trump & N. VS. If you haven’t become familiar with Calvin Valentine between FRSH SLCTS, Potholes In My Blog & Producers I Know then we just haven’t done our damb jobs properly. Don’t sleep…
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Suhov x Mil drop a brand beat tape/instrumental project via SunSide Records on July 20th, 2012 called “Dusty Hungarian Soundbytes”. It features unique 70’s and 80’s samples from dozens of obscure sources/vinyl including soundtracks, freaky Hungarian beat, Jazz, Disco and Funk records. Here is a 6 track preview of the 28 slap project. Don’t sleep on it…
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Soulection Radio Show #85 features appearances from Tim Parker of YSK (You’ll Soon Know) that you’ll be familiar with if you frequent NTS Live who also played a set. Joekay and Tim Parker played tracks by artists as diverse as Scullious, Chesslow Junior, Frank Ocean, Duncan Gerow, Color Plus, Machinedrum, Devonwho, K15, The Stuyvesants, Wizard, Salva and Sango. Since I can’t embed Mixcloud on PIK (still don’t know why) go here to listen to the 3 hour show directly from the site. Don’t sleep!
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If there’s one thing that covering or documenting the worldwide beat culture has taught me is that you cannot rely on submissions alone. You have to go out and be proactive, oftentimes search for what’s been put out/coming out yourselvf. Scour the internet, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Tumblr and other blogs. Keep your damb head on a swivel. That’s how I encountered Dr. Kwest’s beat tape “LWBTTHR” which dropped almost two weeks ago. Don’t sleep on it…
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SIMARA (Sinjihn) dropped a mix on SoundCloud where he mixed the theme music from several Tekken levels from all over the history of the classic fighting game’s run and mix those tracks with contemporary songs. Don’t sleep on it…
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Blacc Slimm (“The Cause Effect” & “Life After Blacc Slimm”) just hit me up to tell me he dropped a new beat tape called “I Need Water”. It’s only about 15 minutes long spanning 8 beats but that just increases it’s overall replay value in my opinion. Don’t sleep on it…
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Johnny North of Soulful Chemistry is back with two solo (or soulo) beat tapes “10 IN A DAY: Vol. 1 & Vol. 2”. Do me a favor and do not sleep on them…
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Nate O.G. (no relation to the homie Edo G) found a way to honor J Dilla and Motown/Tamla simultaneously. He created a new beat tape called the “Motor City Soul Tape Vol. 4”. Don’t sleep on it…
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Connecticut’s Color Plus who has been featured on Outlier Records in the past dropped two beat tapes so far in 2012. One in February and another just last week. Don’t sleep on “Fuzz” or “Cerulean Dream”…
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This Japanese compilation titled “ENCNTR” is on pigeondust’s Bandcamp but it features production from pigeondust, Yagi, Bugseed, Osurek Bertop, Honks Burry, DJ Tamo, Stuts, Rigly-chang, Crooked Human & Voldmars. Don’t sleep on it…
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This reminds me of the Trip Hop aesthetic of the mid to late 90’s that Bjork, Esthero, Amel Larrieux and Martina Topley-Bird brought to the table. If you sleep on Frameworks “Vanish EP” in the words of Morgan Freeman may God have mercy on your souls…
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Infamous Reptar just dropped “NO NAME, Just Beats” about a month ago and he’s already back with some unadulterated rawness in a short beat tape titled “#Juice”. Don’t sleep on it…
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I saw Big Face Villain’s beat tape “The Good, The Bad & The Villains” appear in my Twitter timeline last night and I after I heard all 21 assembled tracks I had it all queued up to post earlier today. I spent the day with my nephew so I waited for lil’ man to knock out before I posted it. Family comes first, after all. Don’t sleep…
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Ali The Son Of Abdul is back with the the sequel to his February beat tape. Do me a favor and don’t sleep on “RAJA II”…
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New beat tape from mononome (not to be confused with memotone) called “The Secret Melody” all made directly from vinyl on his MPC 2500. Don’t sleep…
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LMNtlyst is a multi instrumentalist/producer/engineer that crafted some extremely versatile and interesting compositions/beats and then compiled them all in this opus he titled “Popcorn Earworm”. Don’t sleep on it…
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Last week, Caoutchou Records sent me an advance copy of Digi G’Alessio’s “The Purple Book” and told me that it dropped on June 16th, 2012. In France it IS June 16th so I can finally share “The Purple Book” with the rest of you. Don’t sleep on it…
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Le Premier Sens’ new compilation “New Beats On The Clock” features 24 beatmakers, including Oster, Sizeman, Neemah, Dajaz, Lo.Swing, Blanka, Fei Long, Rize, Absoul Project, Inglorious Beat, Shabs, Dysflow, SmokedBeat, Derfa, Lexblends, Tayreebs, Le Singe Batteur & several more. Don’t sleep on it…
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Here’s a new beat tape from XLOVE where he shows off his musical side. Don’t sleep on “Love Xe Jones”…
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FRSH SLCTS dropped the first in a series of singles from the upcoming Othello x 14KT LP “Taking L’s”, “Bang!”/”Top Spillin'”. This jawn is called “Bang!” and you shouldn’t sleep on it…
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TZariZM of Doxside Music Group teamed with cRITICAL of Creative Juices Music to make “Quarantine”, a 6 song collaborative EP where TZariZM makes two appearances on the bars side of things and Madness of Critical Madness shows up as well. Don’t sleep on this…
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Bluesteady Triptik consists of 3 beatmakers named Bonbooze, Gsq & Irhu. They formed like Voltron and made the beat tape “Journeying” for HHabitat Records. Don’t sleep on it…
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Melbourne, Australia is home to two young beatmakers named Octo and Leagues. They are both featured on this 19 slap split beat cassette tape on Moontown Tapes. Only 30 of these tapes will be made and the “Octo/Leagues Beat Tape” just dropped yesterday so get ta coppin’. Don’t sleep…
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Australian beatmaker Turtlenecjk made a beat tape culled from Music he made himself called “Loop de Loop” and released it via Moontown Tapes. Don’t sleep on it…
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Here’s another beat tape that was supposedly dropped on January 1st, 2012 and was posted tonight on Strictly Beats but had ZERO likes on Facebook so I suspect it’s actually new. 3rd Floor “Back To The Basics”. No SoundCloud. No Facebook. No Tumblr. No info whatsoever. Don’t sleep, I guess…
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Here’s Grimeshine’s beat tape “rip.mpc”. It first dropped back in February and it has 30 slaps on it but I never heard it until I saw it on Strictly Beats tonight and gave it a listen. Don’t sleep, kids…
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