I’ve been up on k-os since his first release “Exit” and had a love-hate relationship with his penultimate release “Atlantis: Hymns for Disco” which has since become 100 percent love. Though I’ve passed up his latest release on my trips to the record store, his latest mixtape “The Anchorman” has me fiendin’ for more.
I came across this sample in a short burst of cassette fever I had. Having picked clean the vinyl at the goodwill spot I turned to the tapes and wound up with this gem.
This week’s selection comes with a music video concept. Go ahead and press play and then start reading the story after the break.
It’s funny to me the twists some of my beats take. This one started out innocent, but got real dark once I put together the verse part. If you imagine the song is about losing a loved one, then the intro that repeats as a chorus would be like remembering the good times and the [...]
Perusing okayplayer.com yesterday, I ran into an awesome music video from a dude named Fresh Daily. More research on him revealed that I have been missing out. Dude is seriously dope; plus I love the throwback style he’s rockin’. Check out the video and get the free download for “Thanx,” his song dedicated to his [...]
Earlier this week my friend, the great slam poet Matt Blesse, e-mailed me a youtube link to a Native Guns song and asked “don’t you have a beat with this sample?” Why yes, I believe I do. This week’s beat goes back to that three-month period where I had a blue MPC 1000. It was [...]
I decided that I’m sitting on too much unheard music, so welcome to my new weekly “Beat Of The Week” post. I’m also working on a page to add to the site that’ll act as a player for all the beats of the week. For the first entry I present “Come Home” which is largely [...]
Three great albums already behind them, Murs and 9th Wonder endeavored to create a fourth instant classic with “Fornever” and totally fell flat. I will stand behind every album they’ve done up to this point and tell you to your face that if you haven’t heard the two together you need to go sit in [...]
I’ve been seriously slacking in the beat making department lately. So I decided that as soon as I got home from work today, I’d pick out a record, listen for a sample, then make a beat while exporting out each step of my process to give you a glimpse into how my mind works.