I discovered this project on Bandcamp a few hours ago and I haven’t been able to stop playing it. This shit is SO damb good  (I did rewind “Frozen” about 10 straight times…) I can’t believe that: 1) I haven’t heard it yet 2) I can’t believe more people aren’t talking/writing about it 3) That I haven’t heard of either the producer or vocalist before. In any event, Portland based producer Roane Namuh and singer/songwriter/vocalist Reva DeVito dropped this project way back on Valentine’s Day (February 14th) and it took almost 4 months for me to finally find & hear “Cloudshine” but better late than never (“Candy” is the jawn, too). This project is 8 tracks long but if this jawn dropped between 1998-2000 it would occupy the same place in my heart that Res’ “How I Do”, Esthero’s “Breath From Another”, The Controls “One Hundred” and several other similar albums occupy. Don’t sleep on this…

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Goodman’s “Get Lifted” is some live shit. So live that I played it twice straight through and forgot to ever post it up on PIK. Here it is. Don’t sleep on it…

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Max Tannone (“Jaydiohead”, “Mos Dub” & “Ghostfunk”) just released a new remix/mashup project where Hip Hop’s most rebellious and radical voices are coupled with Punk Rock’s most rebellious and radical bands.  The finished product is “Mic Check 1234!” and it’s not to be slept on…

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Canadian production duo Steely Chan has just released a brand new remix/mashup project where they took Golden Era Hip Hop classics and remixed them using the music of Dutch Soul/Funk band Lefties Soul Connection. The end result? “Left Of The Golden Era”. I dare you to sleep on it…

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Here’s a beat tape Kyson dropped back in March via his Bandcamp called “Free Saturday Beats”. Don’t sleep on it…

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Dr. LaFlow dropped two beat tapes in the past two weeks called “Cheeba Mist” and “Dank Seasonings” respectively. If you sleep on this you’re a Class 1 Grade A dumbass…

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Malcolm Lee made a beat tape called “The Vibes” that you should definitely be listening to right now. I’ll just leave it at that at the risk of being repetitive like the damb radio…

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Romanian Hip Hop producer Ortega dropped this insane beat tape called “HOME MADE PORN MUSIC VOL. 1” last month that I didn’t hear until this weekend. I don’t need to rehash the story as to why you just seeing and hearing this now again, do I? Didn’t think so. Should I tell y’all to not sleep on it or do you get it already?

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XLOVE dropped this beat tape three days ago and I was going to hold off on dropping it until after the Boston Celtics beat the Miami Heat. As we all know, that never happened. Here’s “CHP///SCRW VOL. 1”, don’t sleep on it…

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Stanley KubrixXx has dropped two beat tapes so far in 2012 and is about to release a third soon. Before that one shows up on PIK you should get familiar with “Instrumentals Vol. 1 & Vol. 2” first. Don’t sleep…

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Hungrarian Hip Hop producer Suhov recently released a collection of 12 instrumentals from several Hungrarian Hip Hop album he did production for (obviously since these are the instrumentals and his name are on them). Yeah…that’s pretty much all the information and insight I can offer. Just listen to the beats already and stop reading this bullshit…

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