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2015. május 31., vasárnap

IAMNOBODI – Elevated [2013]

It is time to recommend IAMNOBODI because his tracks appears on this blog from time to time. This guy is from Berlin and he releases his music at Jakarta Records and Soulection.

Here you can find a taste of his music from 2014.

Brothers – on the Summer in Jakarta compilation (listen to it in my mixtape)

When you know it – on the Stüssy x Soulection compilation (my previous blog post)

Intermissions for Syria – on the For the People compilation (my previous blog post)


Let’s check the roots of his music out! In 2013 he released Elevated, an album including 10 future tracks. This is definetely a fine future music LP.  If you are not familiar with this kind of music – what I doubt if you’ve been reading my blog recently – this can be your stepping stone.  No vocals, just dreamy instrumentals, catchy and dominant drums with claps: (e.g. Life in Pictures): this is somewhere between the boom bap hiphop and the electronic chill out music. Listen in peace:



If you like what you’ve jus heard, follow IAMNOBODI on Soundcloud, Facebook or check more tracks from him on Bandcamp.


Jefe

2015. május 28., csütörtök

Various Artists - For The People

Source: YouTube
'For The Poeple' is an album, and it is a charity project as well. It is a compilation of the essential German hiphop producers' unreleased insturmentals. All of the artists are tested beat makers, you will know these kind of tunes: chilly sounds while the drums are full of heavy kicks, using great samples, chops, voice themes. For you to know, this compilation is Brenk Sinatra's idea, and if you buy this album, they will give all the money to refugees from Iraq and Syria. More background from their bandcamp site:

"My old friend Aras asked me one day if I could perform at the charity event he organizes for the refugees in the Kurdistan Region for the people who are on the run from IS fighters in Iraq ans Syria. [...] As I realized that performing there wouldn't be possible because of me being on tour with the Betty Ford Boys, I wanted to find another way to support this project with something bigger than just a performance. I started calling the homies and everybody was immediately down to support "FOR THE PEOPLE" with an unreleased instrumental." - Brenk Sinatra

I ordered this record and unfortunately it hasn't arrived yet, but I couldn't wait for the post to share this awesomeness with you. Listen in peace!



Some thoughts about some tracks:

  • Dexter: Voyage - smokey living room with a big sofa
  • Dramadigs: SaltLampCity - voice sample from The Warriors, can you dig it at the end?
  • Shuko: So Hard Why You Wanna Love - using sample from T.I.'s Why You Wanna
  • Fid Mella: Space Apes - a call for dub and reggae
  • Ghanaian Stallion: Something With Soul - very strong Gramatik influence
  • Suff Daddy: Dog Days - unmistakable tune from the Darth Vader of German beats
  • Brenk Sinatra: Moon Balloon - do you hear that tunes similar to Jean Jacques Perrey's E.V.A
  • Saiko: Ybab & Farhot: My Brothers - old school boombaps
  • IAMNOBODI: Intermissions for Syria - this is something different from IAMNOBODI but it is still very great.
  • Torky Tork: Orakel - it could be the OST of Utopia


Jefe


2015. május 18., hétfő

Phil Weeks

Phil fuckin' Weeks comes to Budapest this weekend: Lava Lava guys made a big shot. Max Graef was the only one whom I waited more than Phil Weeks. So, better get ready for something special this Friday at Corvintető. Phil Weeks is a real talent in electronic music. He mixes the disco side of house music with the love of sampling from the hiphop culture (hail to the Akai MPC 3000). So here is this guy from France who makes music for dancefloors, pumping the beats in your vein and you can't deny you enjoy all the tunes you hear. Monsieur Weeks owns a record label called RobSoul. I don't want to write more superlatives about his works. Simple amazing. I embed some of their stuff from various sources (YouTube, Spotify, Soundcloud).



First of all here comes some beat sampling videos - for the advanced listeners:



If you are still here, you can have some easier stuff to enjoy:



Aaaand if these made you like Phil Weeks, go and listen his latest beats:



Last, if you prefer sets than separated tracks, I recommend this:



Follow Phil Weeks on Soundcloud, Facebook, Spotify, YouTube.


Jefe

2015. május 6., szerda

DJ Slow - State of high (2015)

DJ Slow in one the most influential hiphop producers in Hungary. His essential beats made Akkezdet Phiai vocals unforgettable for a generation of mine and this May he just put another cool work on the table. This monster album called State of high has 27 tracks, and if you are familiar with beatmakers you know you can get full length - ca. 3 minutes long - tracks and a lot of awesome one-minute-long sample tracks. Of course I won't write of the tracks one by one, I just highlight my favs.

You can listen to fat beats with some Hungarian folk music samples in the first track Worldizmine. Then Pastone part2 is myterious. Biolin is a crazy mix of beats & classical violin (it is a well-known piece, but I'm sorry I don't know who conducted this sample). Go to Juan and you'll get a lobby music of a hotel in Florida from the 80s - nice guitars. :) Fullaza is a high class beat with a groovy bass guitar, while Sand brings you to the sea shore and it can remind you Gramatik's Portoroz in July.

Slow is on the same side in the hiphop area like Suff Daddy and other German hiphop producers at Melting Pot Music. If you liked my blog post about Beat Power or Souleance, you will definetely love this material as well. Unfortunately vinyl edition has not been released... soon I hope fine records will be pressed with some of these tracks because it would really deserve that format. You can download the album for free, or you can buy on cassette too (again, back to the contemporary German hiphop culture! :) )



Jefe

2015. május 2., szombat

Asagaya - Light of the Dawn

I listened to Asagaya at the first time in a Jakarta compilation album. Track called Washy P is still one the best tune on this list (besides Ta-ku). So, according to the LP cover of Light Of The Dawn, Asagaya is a Japanese man convinced to be the heir of a cherokee chief and the album tells his story, his travels - his music is chamanism and chaos. Great intro, for me it has too much mannerism but it is okay. We understand that this is very important for the artist - but you'll also get this from his music.




This album was produced by Guts, and it sounds crazy. Something in the way could be a great intro - but it is an outro. It doesn't matter, I will defineteley use this track as an intro in my sets. The album has a lot of great vocals. E.g. awesome and catchy hiphop beats like Suncat, Washy P, Penguin Beach and Women The lyrics are easy to remember - they are not difficult - and it needs some time to make you like them. There are more soulful, funky stuff with trumpets and female vocal: Elusive Delusive, The Nature Creature. Redneck Parade has very intense RJD2 impressions. Armenian Princess is like a western OST, a call for Ennio Morricone fans. In the Mountain of Bliss is a great shaman blues ballade, somewhere next to Captain Beeefheart and Katie Melua.

I like very much this vinyl. It is diverse, hiphop, blues, shamanism, I guess there are more and more music that uses native American motives (e.g. see Romare).

If you like what you just heard, gon on here:



Jefe