Rebuilder’s “Dusty Tracks” is one of those beat tapes that you know you’re going to be playing for months and months down the line long after your initial listen all the way through. I implore you all to not sleep on it…

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EsBee sent me a beat tape called “MW (Mid West) Beat Tape” and I think you all should hear it, too. Don’t sleep…

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The next 3 editions of Sabzi’s (Blue Scholars & Common Market)  ongoing “Townfolk” instrumental series are from March and April. They all refer to parts of and areas surrounding Seattle so here’s “RAINIER”, “EXIT 163A” & “DELRIDGE”. Don’t sleep on ANY of ’em…

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▲b.east▲’s “black.gold” beat tape is finally here! It’s 31 slaps of pure rawness (did you really expect anything else?) and if you sleep on this one then I question your commitment to Sparkle Motion (if you’ve never seen “Donnie Darko” then that last sentence will read like absolute nonsense to you). Maaan, listen to the damb beat tape and fire up Netflix! Or womaaan. Either or…

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▲b.east▲’s next single from his upcoming beat tape “black.gold” is called “feel.itwhenit.hits”. Just a couple of issues. First off, the beat tape was supposed to drop today (4.21.2012) and it still hasn’t as of yet. Secondly,  ▲b.east▲ keeps writing “Sunday” everywhere…uh, the 21st is TODAY. Which would make it Saturday. Just HOW high did ▲b.east▲ get on 4.20 anyways? *Shrug*

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Once again, I was going through my SoundCloud stream on my iPhone and I saw SWARVY posted up a  beat from something called the “SHiNER LP”. I go to his Bandcamp and go figure, he has a brand new album for sale with a promo mix available on Bandcamp. I added his beat off the “SHiNER LP” from SoundCloud via embed as well called “wetrap”. Don’t sleep…

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bluezr has dropped two beat tapes this month that have managed to fly under the radar thus far. This is why you can’t rely on waiting for submissions. You have to actively go and search for new material from these beatmakers & producers aggressively given there are so many out there. I use SoundCloud, Tumblr, Twitter and Bandcamp to find new music and after checking the SoundCloud stream on my iPhone I noticed a lot of activity from bluezr. I checked his Bandcamp page and lo and behold: “s/t” & “friends” were there and I’d missed them both thus far. Don’t sleep…

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The homie Boonie Mayfield chronicles his live performance, Courtland Urbano’s and others at DJ Low Key’s Denver area beat battle “The Solution”. Then Boonie goes to get a tattoo, did you know that Boonie Mayfield used to be a B-Boy? Then homie goes on the radio. See what happens in the next episode of “BOON DOCUMENTED”…

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The Alchemist made an album with Curren$y last year called “Covert Coup”. On 4/20, The Alchemist released the instrumentals. Don’t sleep…

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Peruvian beatmaker Mimi Lopar released a beat tape made from Bossa Nova, traditional electronic music sounds, Spanish children’s records and cartoons. The final product is a unique experience contained in a beat tape titled “Infraviviendas y cuentos de baja resolución” (“Substandard housing and low-resolution tales”). Don’t sleep on this…

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TerribleFolly dropped a dope ass beat tape a couple of weeks back (which a couple of features on it) called “Ret·ro·gres·sion” that I didn’t hear until yesterday. In any event, this jawn is nice. Don’t sleep on it…

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Ivy-League Zombie is comprised of Tut-Piece and Roku and this project “Cheap Sake; 100 Yen” is made up of two different beat tapes. Tut-Piece has a beat tape/mix titled “Tozai” and Roku’s is called “Genshu”. Together they run about 42 minutes long and contain a gang of beats. Don’t sleep on this…

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This is the promo video featuring the lead single off Dead Horse Beats’ upcoming beat tape/instrumental project called “Vespers”. “Vespers” is sampled entirely of gospel samples and instrumentation. Dead Horse Beats will drop “Vespers” on June 1st, 2012. Don’t sleep…

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Here’s a brand new beat tape courtesy of the homie Elusive. If you’ve been a regular PIK reader/frequenter then you should know who Elusive is. The 7 slap beat tape called “ILLUMINATION KNOCK” is not to be flexed with. Don’t sleep on it…

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Here’s what had happened…Myke Forte & Mac Real have been talking about this damb collaborative beat tape for like forever on Twitter. All of a sudden I saw a link to it on Twitter yesterday afternoon. You can download “The M&M Beat Tape Vol. 1” right here. Don’t sleep on it…

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Here’s another beat tape that’s hosted on AudioMack (which apparently is owned by the same folks that run DJ Booth hence the similar music player). This project was made by Heart Beat and it’s called “LIMBO”. While I prefer AudioMack hosting beat tapes over sites like DatPiff (please stop doing that, beatmakers/producers…) I really need for AudioMack to develop an embed code for WordPress that works. Don’t sleep on this…

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Nero Augustus dropped this ill 29 slap beat tape on a new music site (or at least one I’d never heard of until earlier today) called AudioMack. There are no embed codes so I have to link you to the page where “Sheepscapes 2” is so you can stream it at your own leisure and even download it (downloads are easy, quick and direct). Don’t sleep…

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Here’s a new 10 beat collection from Tom Dice packaged together as the beat tape “MIKE NEEDS MUSIC”. Don’t sleep on it…

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