Jamaal Jones ( “GarageBeats Production”, One Beat At A Time” & “One Beat At A Time (Leftovers)”) dropped his first beat tape since starting college @ The University Of Washington where he plays WR for the Huskies. It’s called “Soul Maschine” and I’ve been waiting to hear this since Luigi-Bo87 first tweeted about it. Jamaal Jones doesn’t disappoint. Don’t sleep, B…
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Oh No’s upcoming release “Ohnomite” is comprised entirely of nothing but Rudy Ray Moore’s Dolomite samples from his original soundtracks and film scores drops officially on June 5th, 2012 via Five Day Weekend/Brick Records in association with Stones Throw Records. This single “3 Dollars” features DOOM. Don’t sleep on it…
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Here is a video containing a 10 minute snippet of Dimlite’s upcoming album “Abscission” featuring outtakes from Dimlite’s “Grimm Reality” LP. This digital release will drop in June 2012 on Ripl Music. Don’t sleep on it…
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Chicago’s Invy Da Truth and Detroit producer Chanes will be releasing a collaborative album called the “YUCK LP” in the near future. YUCK is an acronym for Young Undisputed Caged King regarding Invy. Here’s the first single from said project, “Loyalty”. Don’t sleep on it…
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Terracotta Blue has returned with a brand new short beat tape called “Solace”. I wish it were longer but I’ll take what I can get. Don’t sleep on it…
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Here’s some brand new shit from my peoples Black EL x Durkin called “Thelonious”. New music from them is on the way this summer so don’t sleep…
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Sivey has beats for sale you bastards. If you want Sivey to make your jawns fresher than they previous was then please direct your availability and pricing inquiries to Sivey @ siveybeats[at]gmail[dot]com. Serious inquiries only. Time is money and none of us have either to waste. Don’t sleep…
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It’s time for yet another ill beat submission to the Roy Ayers Project. This jawn comes courtesy of Chicago’s Raj Mahal and it’s titled “Come Into Spirit”, a flip of the Roy Ayers/Ramp classic “Come Into Knowledge”. You can hear “Come Into Spirit” 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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In keeping with this morning’s theme of live instrumentation and musicianship, I present to you all STINO’s (“Raw Tapes”) latest project “TRIO” where he plays guitar with Dylan Coleman on bass and Alejandro Santiago is on drums. “TRIO” goes from hard rock, dips into trash metal and goes right back to Jazz and occasionally flirts with elements of Soul & Funk. If you grew up listening to actually music like I did then you’ll appreciate it as well. Don’t sleep…
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Andras Fox hails from Melbourne, Australia and he dropped a new album three weeks ago via This Thing Records & Tapes called “Daydreaming” consisting mainly of simple, chilled out instrumentals he made on his beloved Akai MPC. Don’t sleep on it…
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Today the UK’s Billion $ Quartet released a brand new tape called “Languages” on the unsuspecting masses. Here’s your wake up call, world at large. Don’t sleep…
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Out of Philly comes Columbia Nights, consists of Hayling and John E Daise on production who are both musicians who employ live instrumentation in their compositions in addition to the vocal stylings of Sarai Abdul-Malik. Here’s the latest release from Recordbreakin’ called “Dawn | Dusk”. Don’t sleep on it…
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The Netherlands based duo The Jazzment (MARWZ & NBC) previously dropped the beat tapes “Lonely Soul” and “After Soul” and raised more than a few eyebrows Stateside. Yesterday they dropped their new beat tape “Bipolar Outflows” and it’s raw. Don’t sleep on it…
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HIT + RUN compiled a 29 slap beat tape/compilation featuring selections from beat culture luminaries such as The Gaslamp Killer, Knxwledge, Mndsgn, Daedelus, Mono/Poly, Sweatson Klank, Computer Jay, matthewdavid, Kutmah, J,Rocc, Jeremiah Jae and many more. Don’t sleep on it…
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Team PIK’s Shaq has just released his debut project on Cult Classic Records called “Revolution”. If you’ve had the privilege of seeing his growth, range and versatility over these past 19 projects (he’s only 19) then you can do nothing but get exited at the prospect of what he’ll accomplish in the near and not too distant future. Don’t sleep on it…
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I just saw Thesselonious post this link on Twitter and I looked thru PIK to see when I posted this because I don’t remember doing it. It turns out that I missed it due to my involvement with “The Smooth Grooves Beat Tape” and some other PIK business that had me swamped. I’ll make amends for that today by finally posting Thesselonious AKA P.Kaye’s beat tape dedicated to the production genius known as Prince Paul, “Prince Paul Saved My Life”. Don’t sleep…
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In 2010, TeV95 introduced us to his “Crime Loops” series’ debut. 2011 was the year he blessed us with the re-up “Crime Loops 2”. It’s 2012, which means TeV95 is back one mo’ ‘gin with “Crime Loops 3”. Don’t sleep on it…
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I heard L!STED’s beat tape “The Crystal Ship” after I saw it on Beat Tape Co-Op earlier via their Twitter link. Don’t sleep on it…
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Lo.Swing dropped this beat tape titled “Type.C: Experiments” that I didn’t hear until today when I found it in…guess where? You guessed it! The Strictly Beats comments box. Don’t sleep on it…
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Beats At Will’s Mr. Chief features Knox Money and Beedie on the lead single from the Red Hot Chili Peppers inspired project “”Chief And Friends Love Chili” dropping on May 26th. Don’t sleep on it…
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The Find Mag uploaded an incredible beats/instrumental mix to Mixcloud from Japanese beatmaker/producer Bugseed this morning called “In Bloom”. It features slaps and compositions from AbJo, Letherette, Lone, TightMike, Emtre, Damage Is Done, Stephen Farris and more. Go to Mixcloud to hear Bugseed’s “In Bloom” since for reasons I’ve yet to determine as of yet Mixcloud refuses to embed on PIK. Don’t sleep…
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STB. AKA stan the beatsmith. just dropped a beat tape consisting of source material from the score and soundtrack of the anime series’ “Full Metal Alchemist” and “Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood”. The end result is called “The FMA Project”. Don’t sleep on it…
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Down Pat sent me this beat tape via Facebook (I’d suggest that no one do that, it’s as good an idea as sending me a DatPiff link). I gave it a listen and here it is. Just for the record? Email all your future submissions to DartAdamsIsABastard[at]gmail[dot]com in the future. I HATE Facebook, B. Don’t sleep…
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Genius Jones sent me his new beat tape “The Black & Green EP” a while back but I took yesterday off (you have to take time off if you listen to as much music as I do for mental health reasons) so I didn’t post it. You can check out “The Black & Green EP” on PIK right now. Don’t sleep on it…
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The homie Johnathan Kim shot me this beat tape/instrumental album by SOulspeak called “Sketches Of Floating Lives”. I listen to it while I watched the Lakers blow a commanding lead versus the OKC Thunder. Needless to say, both were extremely enjoyable experiences. Don’t sleep…
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In commemoration of Candace Bailey’s birthday, the homie Madden Miles made a beat tape dedicated to the former Nickelodeon and current G4TV hostess. Feel free to enjoy “The Candace Bailey Beat Tape” and don’t sleep…
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I checked on Je$u$’ Bandcamp and SoundCloud because I got sent a link from some dude named Jesu$but he was rapping. I was thoroughly confused until I saw that I’d missed a beat mix from the Je$u$ I’d been previously familiar with called “DIGGNSACK ” and on his SoundCloud page Je$u$ hath provided us with a zip file of remixes called “HOLY SHIT”. Don’t sleep…
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FANGTSHIDA is a supergroup/collective consisting of emcees and producers from Chicago and Portland that formed like Voltron and producer G_Force AKA Calvin Valentine happens to form the head. The arms, legs and torso of FANGTSHIDA are N.VS, Cody DeCamry, Sam Trump, Rio, and DaiN. The self titled debut was shot to me via Twitter by Calvin Valentine with JUST enough time left for me to hear the entire 10 track opus before writing these words and posting it up on PIK @ 1:45 PM EST. Don’t sleep on this jawn…
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Chicago’s Del Kamaud Choc finally dropped another beat tape after a long stretch of one shot beats and singles on his Bandcamp called “Blue Tam”. I don’t think you should sleep on it…
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Suff Daddy (“EFIL4FFUS”, “Hi-Hat Club Vol. 2: Suff Draft”, “The Gin Diaries” & “MPM 5×7 Box Set”) has dropped his new album on Melting Pot Music, “Suff Sells”. You can purchase his album directly from his Bandcamp or from German iTunes, Amazon, MPM Site and HHV.de. It should be available on the US iTunes store and Amazon after June 1st, 2012. Don’t sleep…
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Jon Phonics has done it yet again. Here’s a ridiculous instrumental called “WEEKNIGHTS” he dropped yesterday that I’ve been playing like mad on my iPhones since last night/this morning (days tend to bleed together for me). Don’t sleep on it…
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heRobust dropped a 4 song project where he made some ridiculous remixes/refixes of songs in a way that only he could do. Don’t sleep on it…
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