Entries tagged: Instrumentals

Onra - The One ft. T3 from Slum Village

June 21, 2010

New video off Onra's Long Distance album. While mostly instrumentals, this song features T3 of Slum Village.

Tags: Other, Instrumentals

Onra - Long Distance

April 29, 2010

Onra - Long Distance

Onra is an amazingly talented producer from Paris.  He made some noise a few years back with his Chinoiseries album, which was a bunch of beats derived from old Chinese and Vietnamese records from the first half of the 20th century.  

He's about to drop his new album Long Distance in May, which is heavily influenced by 80's RnB and funk.  Don't sleep.

Tags: Instrumentals

Madlib Medicine Show No. 5: The History of the Loop Digga

April 29, 2010

Album cover of the year?

Tags: Mixtape, So Cal, Instrumentals

F.A.M.E. - Truthpics

December 29, 2009

F.A.M.E. - Validity

F.A.M.E. - Truthpics (Early Catalog Selections)

It's still Xmas round these parts. Teeko (of 4OneFunk) dropped this in our inbox this morning...a dope selection of boundary-pushing music that blends funk, hip-hop, electro all into an expansive instrumental soundscape. 

Be on the lookout for F.A.M.E. (Teeko, Max Kane, & Malaguti) in 2010! Fresh Analog Music Experience is that next shit.

Tags: Bay Area, Instrumentals

DJ Khalil - GTA Chinatown Wars Beat Tape

November 29, 2009

DJ Khalil - GTA Chinatown Wars Beat Tape

Soul Assassins dropped this ill DJ Khalil beat tape yesterday. Worth the download!

Tags: Mixtape, So Cal, Instrumentals

Sid Roams On The Lost Art A&R, Current Economics, Zombie Musik

October 22, 2009

Unkut.com caught up with Sid Roams recently to talk about the lost art of A&R, how the current state of music economics affects producers, etc.  Check below for some excerpts.  They've also got an upcoming instrumental album coming out titled Zombie Musik.

I thought that the Big Twin album had a consistent sound, even though they were four different producers on there. How did you manage that?

Me and Joey were overseeing the whole project and we were picking all those beats, so we were picking stuff that really fit together well and actually making sense as an album. I think that the age of the A&R is really over. There was a time when there were talented A&R’s that were able to actually see an album through from Point A to Point B and really get it down in a cohesive way. But the era of those A&R’s is basically over. Now instead you have rappers that are trying to do that themselves. Not to discredit anyone out there, but there are some guys who can do it and some guys who can’t. For us, the fans, you can really tell when somebody kinda ran out of steam and couldn’t figure out what beats to pick anymore.

More after the jump...

Tags: So Cal, Instrumentals

Superseal 3D - White Vinyl

October 6, 2009

Superseal skipless record is back...with 3D cover art by East3...and the vinyl is white...and it's limited to 200...ever. That means you better buy it.  Exclusively sold at DJ Qbert's Thud Rumble.

Tags: Bay Area, Other, Instrumentals

REL - Orchestration

July 22, 2009

REL of Distortion 2 Static is dropping his instrumental album Orchestration on July 27th.  Get it next week!

Tags: Bay Area, Mixtape, Instrumentals

Digging (in the crates)

June 19, 2009

This is a dope 1 minute film narrative on crate digging by California College of the Arts (San Francisco) student Justin Holbrook.  The beat is maney!

via [CrateKings]

Tags: Bay Area, Other, Instrumentals

Drift - Nosaj Thing

May 26, 2009

Nosaj Thing's highly anticipated debut album Drift dropped today...in digital form.  CD/vinyl comes out on June 9th.  

These these future blaps will have you impressed.  Please support our good friend.  More details @ Alpha Pup Records.

Tags: Other, So Cal, Instrumentals

Still going strong. (Instrumentals)

April 17, 2009

Adrian Champion Presents: Stars & Stripes - The White Stripes Reimagined (Instrumentals)

Stars & Stripes is still going strong.  Did you download the album instrumentals yet?

Tags: Adrian Champion, Instrumentals

J. Bizness - Reason: Beats & Pieces

April 16, 2009

Trigger - J. Bizness

J. Bizness, Los Angeles winner and national finalist of Red Bull Big Tune 2008, readies the release of his debut hip-hop instrumental album. The album titled, Reason: Beats & Pieces, is out in June.

Tags: So Cal, Instrumentals

Slept On: Sid Roams

April 14, 2009

Sid Roams - Fine Wine

We figured we should start up a series of posts on music and artists that are slept on.  With the blogs becoming increasingly saturated with the same major label backed content, we thought we'd post up some stuff that's come out in recent years that has flown under the radar.  

We're kickin' it off for the beat fiends with Sid Roams...more info after the jump!

Tags: So Cal, Slept On, Instrumentals