HAZ SOLO dropped a beat tape consisting of nothing but Herb Alpert material as it’s sample sources and no one told me. I feel as if I’ve failed myself for not knowing about this beat tape sooner. Well better late than never will be the theme of my following two posts before it turns midnight. Don’t sleep on “Crumblin’ Herb”…
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On June 26th, Australian producer/beatmaker Kaligraph E will drop a 9 slap beat tape on Bandcamp (via The Find Mag) and alsorelease it as a limited cassette tape (via 100 Akres). Here’s a 3 minute mix highlighting all 9 tracks (the last being a remix from Vanilla). Be on the lookout for the “DONE GOOD EP” in only 12 (or 11) more days. Don’t sleep…
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HAZ SOLO & Noah Deeakil teamed together to make a collaborative EP as HAZ | NO with assistance from ILLingsworth and Rockwell Knuckles. It’s called HAZ | NO. Don’t sleep on it…
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Back in Spring 2011, 9th Wonder & LRG first showed the trailer for the upcoming documentary detailing a year in the life of producer/professor/Hip Hop cultural advocate 9th Wonder. I missed when 9th Wonder came to Harvard & screened it and I’ve been slapping myself about it ever since. Now Kenneth Price & 9th Wonder want to shoot a follow up film called “The Harvard Fellow” about 9th Wonder’s year long fellowship where he’ll spend a year living in the Cambridge/Metro Boston area. If you support/donate to the Kickstarter you will receive a copy of “The Wonder Year”. So get to donatin‘. Here are the first 8 (why not 9?) minutes of said documentary so don’t sleep…
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If you’re not familiar with Computer Jay then you should probably slam your hand in a car door. Either that or drop down & get your Google on. “Savage Planet Discotheque” features Shafiyq Husayn of Sa-Ra Creative Partners and Jimetta Rose. I’m glad to see Computer Jay will be releasing some new material soon. Don’t sleep…
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Here’s another jawn from House Shoes debut project on Tres Records dropping this Tuesday (June 19th, 2012). Quelle Chris of Crown Nation teams with Guilty Simpson over another Shoes banger and the end result is “Nails”. Don’t sleep…
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Sango’s “Da Rochina” is an instrumental project where he uses classic Baile Funk tracks as source material. Don’t sleep on this. I remember those Baile Funk mixes Diplo & Switch used to drop back in 2004-07. Don’t sleep…
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devonwho will drop his new beat tape/instrumental project “perfect strangers vol. 1” on June 16th. Until then here’s his lead single off of it called “makinglists”. Don’t sleep…
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Hip Hop’s own Randolph & Mortimer Duke (Google the reference youngins) Dres and Jarobi are back in business and they enlisted the homies Sadat X and Will Tell on the beats for the new song & video “3 Kings”. Look out for the evitaN LP dropping later this Summer on BumRush Music and don’t sleep!
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The homie 14KT made a video for the track “Blessed” off of his latest instrumental release “A Friendly Game Of KT”. If you don’t have it yet then what you waitin’ on? Don’t sleep…
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The homie Tall Black Guy drops his highly anticipated new project “Tempo Dreams Vol. 1” on June 18th, 2012 via Bastard Jazz Recordings. This is a ridiculoid ass single from it called “Sparkling Adventure”. Pre-order it right damb now on iTunes. Don’t sleep…
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Local product STB. AKA stan the beatsmith made a beat tape titled “They Shootin'” inspired by the popular anime series “Slam Dunk”. This shit bangs so don’t sleep on it…
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Three beatmakers from a small city in the Russian Federation called Chelyabinsk got together and spilt up a 12 beat tape evenly. There are Cardio Rhythm, UAP & Delime and this is their collaborative beat tape that they dropped back in March, “SPRING BEATS PART VAN”. Don’t sleep on it…
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Ukrainian beatmaker Quali dropped the beat tapes “Movement” & “Sunshine Jazz” in the past few months. They seem to be perfect for warm weather listening and hopefully the Summer gets here soon as Boston won’t even get up to 75 degrees until next Monday. Don’t sleep…
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So…back in December Blu & Exile dropped their follow up to “Below The Heavens” direct to Bandcamp. Well, guess what? Blu x Exile “Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them” will be released on September 9th, 2012 fully remastered with bonus tracks and instrumentals via New World Color/Dirty Science/Fat Beats. Expect a single/vinyl EP to drop this July. I knew that would happen sooner or later. Feel like a dick for having spent $15 on it now, don’t cha?
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This is a beat tape Montreal’s Shash’U dropped first thing in 2012. Just posted it today. Clap for me. Don’t sleep…
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For those of you that weren’t paying attention back in December 2011 when Leonard Dstroy’s insane nine part beat tape “ADHD (Attention Deficit High Definition)” first dropped for free download on the Elm & Oak site and on SoundCloud then here it is on BandCamp finally. Look out for “ADHD Deep Thinkers Remixes” dropping on June 29th, 2012. Don’t sleep…
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On December 27th, 2011 Leonard Dstroy (“Higher Vibrations” & “Inner Exit”) dropped his most recent release via Elm & Oak Records called “ADHD (Attention Deficit High Definition)”. It was insanely ill as was but on June 29th, 2012 Leonard Dstroy is going to drop the ADHD Deep Thinkers Remixes” on all of our bitchasses. Here’s a promo video that will make you hope the next 16 days just fly by. Don’t sleep!
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aiSHO celebrated reaching 5000 followers on Twitter by dropping this 5 slap, 15 minutes beat tape called “5KBeats”. I dare you to sleep on it. I double dog dare you. Nah, I TRIPLE DOG DARE YOU! Don’t sleep…
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Montreal based beatmaker/producer Nik Brxvkn dropped this beat tape “Revelation ReUP” more than a week ago on his label Overthebreaks Musique. Don’t sleep on it…
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Here’s the promo video for the homie Antman Wonder’s upcoming beat tape “Memories Of The Future” that you’ll see on PIK as soon as it’s done. Don’t sleep on it…
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Dirty Tapes just dropped the brand new DINK/TUAMIE split beat tape. This tape is 40 minutes long and TUAMIE has Side A then DINK has Side B. The Bandcamp page provides 3 previews per side of the 20 minutes of niceness you should prepare yourselves for. You can purchase a copy via the Dirty Tapes Bandcamp and only 150 limited edition copies will be made, each purchased cassette will be unique. Don’t sleep…
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German beatmaker/producer apfel dropped his first (and possibly only) beat tape of 2012 last month. Ladies. Gentlemen (and low lifes), feast your ears on apfel’s “Beattape 4”. Don’t sleep…
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French beatmaker Chilly M’ has been making slaps for less than a year and this beat tape “BE@T’s” is promising provided the fake scratch effects get dropped forever from his production arsenal (I ABHOR that sound). Don’t sleep..
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The homie & Beat Fanatic fam !llmind just dropped a 10 blap beat tape consisting of slaps he made back during the era when he posted his beats up on the UGHH Forums. Don’t sleep on “!LLMIND presents: THROWBLAPS! (2000-2002)”…
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Last month E-Prosounds dropped “Reality Tunnel Vol. 1” and here’s his re-up “Think Twice”. Don’t sleep on it…
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Dirtybird B. is back with his latest beat tape on Moon Is Half Records called “i found my way EP”. It’s dope as can be expected based on the previous Dirtybird B. material that’s been featured on PIK since I took over operation of it back in October 2010 and transformed it into the unstoppable beat culture juggernaut of a site you now see before you. Don’t sleep on it…
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The homie Luigi-Bo 87 (AKA Buff Swagwell) just dropped another beat tape called “Thank God For The Maschine (Draft Batch #2)” that you should all hear made on his Maschine using Komplete 8 Ultimate. This is also the same cat that introduced the sounds of Munoz, Kaytradamus, Jamaal Jones, Lakim & The Creative Aspect amongst others to me when he was a part of the the very influential beat culture blog Hypedog Hip Hop (which I heard will return this year). Don’t sleep and yeah…Thank God for the Native Instruments Maschine (and the Maschine Mikro).
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Last night I was ranting about how underwhelming the new Avengers vs. X-Men series has been and Has-Lo asked me if I’d heard the new Castle project. I hadn’t. I went and did so, it’s called “Kill The Editor!” and it’s dope as hell. Castle for the unfamiliar is an emcee/producer that you should really know about. Like now. Don’t sleep…
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Those rambunctious rapscallions over @ BTG (Bridging The Gap) Music Group keep sending me these beat tapes from the collective 83 Sound. I’m not sure how many members it has or if they have individual pages yet but there’s no shortage of dope beat tapes coming from them, I’ll tell you that much. The “OC THE KIDD BEAT TAPE” is no different, don’t sleep on it…
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And here it is via Waajeed’s Bling 47 site (that you should already be subscribing to), the highly anticipated second part of Waajeed’s “WAAJEED 2008 BEAT TAPE: Part Two”. Don’t sleep on it, sleepyheads...
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AllMusic editor Greg Heaney interviewed Jeff Bubeck, the owner of UHF Records who unknowingly bought a storage locker full of records that once belonged to the late great J Dilla before his basement flooded and he ultimately moved to California. You can see storage locker 30 and it’s contents with your very own eyes before Ma Dukes received his beat tapes and notebooks. J Dilla “Rebirth Of Detroit” dropped today as well. Don’t sleep…
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