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2015. február 28., szombat

Stüssy x Soulection Compilation

Collaboration shows how much underground music and clothing brands can strengthen each other. Here in Hungary BP Clothing usually do cool stuff with underground musicians. They can get support via clothes, while the clothing brand gains more customers: fans see what their idols wear and want to engage more with their favourites.
So clothing and music give their audience to each other, it is the exchange of publicity.
Previously I wrote a blog post in which you can listen to Ninja Tune's unreleased tracks under the name of Puma Trinomic shoes.
Now it is time for another compilation of a collab by underground label, Soulection and clothing brand called Stüssy. Stüssy was founded in 1980, check their site if you are curious - but I think you may know their hats at least.


About the music: it is future and contemporary instrumental hiphop beats. Some of the artists you may know from Jakarta Records (e.g. IAMNOBODI, Ta-ku). So if you like Jakarta Records and my compilation, you must listen to this Soulection playlist. Cool, fat kick drums, dozens of claps and tinklings. Downtempo feelings from the first sound to the last bars.

Click on this pic, listen in peace and download the Stüssy x Soulection compilation for free:


Jefe


2015. február 15., vasárnap

Ghetto funk mixtape (February 2015)




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I put some free ghetto funk tracks into a mixtape. I can't write too much about them. I haven't written on the blog for 10 days. I listened to a lot of contemporary hiphop beats and today I needed something that is anything but hiphop or house. So I decided to make this mixtape, I didn't think too much about it, mixing is wretched but I hope you'll like the tracks.
Since all the tracks are free on their producers' SoundCloud page, you can get these songs if you don't like my selection. Just search for them:
• Funk Ferret,
• Second Hand Audio,
• Statik,
• PHIBES,
• JPOD,
• .kiz,
• The Funk Hunters,
• A.Skillz.



For separated tracks:




Jefe

2015. február 4., szerda

Adventures in hiphop #2 - Mixtape (February 2015)

This is my second mixtape called Adventures in hiphop #2 (here you can download it if you prefer offline format).



This time I selected some instrumental hiphop music. If I used tracks which include vocal those are not rap or singing. They are snippets from a movie (Wrong Cops) by me or used as samples by the producers. I hope you find it a fine selection. Of course the mixing is far from perfect, while in the first Adventures in hiphop mixtape I selected slower tunes this time they are a little bit faster, they don't have too much intro/outro and that was a new challenge to find the beats matching or making smooth transitions. Anyway I did my best, next time it will probably even better. This time not all tracks are free, I bought most of them on vinyl or in digital format. If you like some of the artists, you can find them in my blog because I wrote about almost everyone on Hangolo (some of the links are older, so prepare for Hungarian language and sorry for the missing pictures!): 20syl, Gramatik, Summer in jakarta mixtape, Beat Power, Herma Puma, Souleance, Yuzame netlabel, Mr Thing, Kidkanevil, Tall Black Guy, Bluestaeb.


Jefe

2015. február 1., vasárnap

Funkanomics

Funkanomics are three German guys, who make great (more or less ghetto) funky tunes. Recently I read an interview with them. They were asked about producing own tracks and they said: „You used to do gigs to promote your tracks. Now you’re doing tracks to promote your gigs.”


Their works are diverse, they made remixes of German contemporary popmusic (Marteria), classic disco (Odyssey), rock (Status Quo) or funky rap (JBrown & The Mic Smith).



Last week I listened to their first  mix in 2015 called Chillax 4th. While they are playing great chilly instrumentals/tracks they use some of the biggest dudes from hiphop in the vocals: Snoop Dogg, Naughty by Nature, Wu Tang Clan, Sean Paul, Nate Dog & Warren G, Beastie Boys. And then some giants of classic funk: Stewie Wonder, The Jackson 5, George Benson. Chillax 4th is an awesome selection, every 2nd minutes you think that this is the climate of the mix. And after every 2nd minutes you realize you were wrong.
The mixing is smooth: besides the beat matching there are some moderate scratches and loops. For a beginner like me it can teach a lot and it is also good to notice that professionals could have some problems with matching two songs (around 16:20).
While you can get used to the atmosphere of these chilly vibes and the old school hiphop vocals, you can also listen to some Eastern eggs: around the last quarter of the mix there is a Marvin Gaye remix by Tapesh which is actually a deep house song. It is a great example how you can change the genre from chilly hiphop to the more dynamic house (did you notice the change in tempo at 57:20?). Right after that: Don’t Worry Be Happy? Wtf? What a choice!

Since the Funaomonics has three members it could be expensive to invite them to Hungary. Although I am sure they rock the party and could make a memorable gig for those who like dancing, nodding and smiling at the same time. If you like what °u heard, follow the Funkanomics on social media (SoundCloud, Facebook) or go to a party where they show up.


Jefe