The Italian production duo BQ:RAM haven’t released any new original material since their well recieved critically acclaimed 2010 LP “Blue Sand City” dropped and lo and behold on Bandcamp I see they dropped a new EP called “The Day Before I Loved You”. I’ve had this jawn queued up to post Saturday morning hoping that I’d post everything on Sunday but that didn’t happen. I instead spent hours on Tumblr writing the Celtics’ eulogy. Y’all get to hear it bright and early on Monday morning…
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P.SUS of Digi Crates Records started his own label called Traveling Sound and Mr. Troy’s “T.A.P.E” is his latest release that you shouldn’t sleep on. I would’ve posted this 10 slap collection up this weekend but that just wasn’t gonna happen after both the Boston Celtics crashed & burned in Miami and Manny Pacquiao got Rondo’d by Bob Arum on Saturday night. Don’t sleep…
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Suhnraw just dropped a brand new beat tape with an apt title if I ever heard one, “Raw Sh_t”. Do me a favor and don’t sleep on it after the completely bullshit weekend I just happen to have had…
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Tarik Sabar dropped a few beat tapes & instrumental projects in 2012, most namely “spacetime” and “The Goods 1 & 2”. Don’t sleep on any of them. Download where available…
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Knxwledge just dropped yet another beat tape today while I was on another Twitter rant. It’s the 3rd part of his ongoing “karma.loops” series. Do me a favor and don’t sleep on “karma.loops.prt3”
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It’s time for yet another ill beat submission to the Roy Ayers Project. This jawn comes courtesy of Algerian beatmaker/producer O.B.G. and it’s called “I Don’t Know”, a flip of the Roy Ayers classic “Bonita”. You can hear O.B.G.’s “I Don’t Know” here and if you’d like to submit your own Roy Ayers inspired composition, reinterpretation, slap, blap or flip then take the time to first read the site’s beat submission guidelines. Afterwards, you can feel free to submit your creation to RoyAyersProject[at]gmail[dot]com. Good luck and don’t sleep!
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Clearly with the whole Artbeat Montreal/Alaclair/Alaiz movements all currently going on the Montreal area there’s a wellspring of talent and creativity there to fuel their thriving beat culture scene. Montreal’s BUeLLER has been featured on PIK quite often in the life of this blog and here’s his latest beat tape “Inner Circle” (which is tagged as “innerCiRCLE_BUeLLER”). Don’t sleep on it…
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Here’s a new beat tape from SourSoul I didn’t post up because….well, frankly speaking I wasn’t in the right state of mind at the time. This beat tape also has an appropriate title given my current state of being, “Mind Clutter”. Don’t sleep…
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The new Obba Supa collaborative LP is out on Sichtexot today in digital format (duh) and on vinyl (also…duh!). Producer Hey!Zeus and emcee Teknical Development dropped the opus “FOR: AM” with guest appearances from Ray Vendetta, BadFX, REMI & Radimo gets busy on the saxophone AND the muthafuckin’ flute. Yeah. I’m clearly still in some pain here. You can just tell. Don’t sleep…
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This beat tape has an appropriate title, “warming up EP”. I was still seething with rage following watching my Celtics piss away an opportunity to put away the hated Miami Heat at home last night so I was late to the party today. I will build up to it, I promise. Either way, here’s bluefa’s “warming up EP”…
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You’ve heard of 8-Bit. You’ve heard of 16-Bit. You’ve even heard of Chiptune. Well, this beat tape, “Music De Llama Vol. 5: The C64 Sessions” consists of beats/slaps/blaps all made using the sound libraries of the legendary Commodore 64. I had both a Commodore VIC-20 and a Commodore 64 as a kid and I programmed BASIC do this beat tape is near & dear to my heart. Don’t sleep on it…
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The DMV is loaded with talent. Skai Nine is a Maryland beatmaker that just dropped this beat tape called “Hodgepodge” a few days ago. Don’t sleep…
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This is the latest video from Blame One’s last full length “Endurance”. The jawn is called “Classic Hits” and it’s produced by Jsupreme. For those who don’t know the homie Blame One is a vet in this game. Want proof? Here’s some. Don’t sleep…
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Here are two collaborative albums that Akello Light did with Flick Brown that I didn’t even know existed until about 90 minutes ago. Now I’ve heard them both and I wanna share with the rest of the class. Here are “Pure Frailty” & “Love Diaries”. Don’t sleep on them…
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Fonetik Simbol just dropped a brand new EP called “SunshineEP” featuring bars from Illingsworth, LO., IMMO, S. Creeezy, Kristun & A.J. Brijones. The four tracks also come with the instrumentals so don’t sleep on this…
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Here’s the first part of a documentary that chronicles the formation and recording of Dres of Black Sheep and Jarobi of A Tribe Called Quest’s collaborative project as EVITAN (“Native” backwards). The EVITAN album should drop later this summer on BumRush Music. Don’t sleep on EVITAN. Y’all been warned! © Method Man
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Here’s a new jawn from X.E.L. called “What You Lookin’ For” produced by the homie M Slago of Team PIK. Don’t sleep on it…
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Killer Mike & El-P dropped one of the best albums of 2012 with “R.A.P. Music” and the lead single was/is a monster. Here’s the monster video for “Big Beast” featuring Big Bun, T.I., Killer Mike & El-P in an homage to both “Drive” and grindhouse theater as a whole. Don’t sleep on it…
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The Tay dropped a short ass beat tape called “Japanese Porn” recently that I don’t think either sampled any J-Pop/traditional music nor Japanese porn. Listen to it anyways…
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Svetlana Industries’ Kelpe just dropped his new release “I Felt Fuzzy” today both digitally and on vinyl which you can purchase directly from the Svetlana Industries Bandcamp. This 6 slap release features 3 original tracks from Kelpe and 3 remixes from Team PIK’s Naive Machine, BNJMN & Cupp Cave. Don’t sleep…
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Kae sang over four fLako jawns from his “Leftovers” beat tape and the end result is “Quattro”. Don’t sleep on this…
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Here’s the official trailer/promo video for next week’s J-Dilla “Rebirth Of Detroit” project. Don’t sleep…
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YOOOO! The homie Freddie Joachim just dropped a collection of 19 of his remixes in a handy dandy zip file (and I HATE when people do that usually). Go download “The Joachim Remixes Vol. 5” right. damb. now. Don’t sleep…
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Here’s another video from REKS x Statik Selektah’s collaborative LP “Straight No Chaser”. This jawn is called “Chasin'”. Don’t sleep on it…
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Evidence’s latest video from last year’s amazing LP “Cats & Dogs” on Rhymesayers is the Aloe Blacc guested jawn “The Liner Notes” which was produced by The Alchemist. Don’t sleep on it…
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7even Sun just dropped this collection/compilation of his work with several Statesides cats such as Soulstice, Tasherre D’Enajetic, R.A.G.Z, Mike Onassis BKA Soopa and several others. The highlight of course is 7even Sun’s production so don’t sleep on it…
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Here’s a mix the homie SWARVY did for TheNewPhiladelphia.com and he just posted to Bandcamp last night. I saw this dude perform a live beat set and he pulled off a fuckin’ 65 hit combo like Scott Pilgrim on the entire damb crowd so you know this mix is sicker than a damb turn of the century sanitarium. Don’t sleep!
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Fancy Jancey makes what some would call Space Funk, Lunar Funk, Wobble, Wonky or Chiptune and adds a hard boom bap edge to it. This shit is 10 tracks of straight up rawness that if you were to sleep on it you’d be a worse person then that chick that tried to hide her winning lottery ticket from the people she purchased it with. What happened to her anyways? Either way, fux with that Fancy Jancey “Nebula Womb Child”. Don’t sleep!
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The Sole Glow Collective just dropped this 27 slap monstrosity of an instrumental compilation yesterday. It features contributions from beat culture luminaries such as Ta-ku, MAGGZ, JayLotus, Lo Phi, Melodiesinfonie, tHORAX, Roughsoul & many more. Don’t sleep on it…
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The homie Elusive released another beat tape a few days after the Mr. Brady collab project I posted up just last night. I’m well aware the Josh Koslow appears on trumpet on only two of the 8 assembled slaps but this way I instantly know you bit my post because the ONLY muhfucka on Erf who’d tag/ID this beat tape this way is me. I do that from time to time so I can easily identify all my biters and digital dickriders via Google search. Y’all know I’m smart, right? In any event don’t sleep on “ARRAY”…
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This nice beat tape from Equalibrum called “Parallel” was sent to me last night but I didn’t hear it then because I walked into Cambridge after the Celtics’ rousing Game 5 win last night and didn’t catch it until early this morning. Don’t sleep…
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