I’ve been neglecting Remix Tuesdays as of late, so allow me to share this dope remix with you: a crazy 8-bit remix of Finale’s stellar “One Man Show”. This is what you could have received if you beat Super Finale. Of course, a Casual guest spot is always welcome. His voice and flow plays off Finale’s nicely – I think I might actually like this more than the original. We’ve been on a videogame kick lately, huh? Dunno how that happened.
01 Intro ft. DJ Premier
02 Double Barrel featuring cuts by DJ Revolution
03 Smoke ft. Lil Fame of M.O.P.
04 Party Crashers
05 But Wait
06 Lifetime featuring cuts by DJ Revolution
07 Rah Rah Sh*t
08 Danger
09 Stomp ft. Guilty Simpson
10 World Play
11 Hold Up ft. Masta Ace & Sean Price
12 Coney Island
13 Get It
14 Crashing Down ft. Saukrates & S-Roc (Bonus Track)
I like the cover, don’t get me wrong, but I kinda wish it was this. Regardless I’m excited for this. Guest list is promising too: Guilty Simpson, Masta Ace, Sean P, Fame AND Premo? Damn.
Plus: Another installment of Double Barrel Tuesdays, this time Tor goes over Marco’s beat for Heltah Skeltah “Insane”.
Blu flows over “Love Line” off Exile’s instrumental album Radio. If you heard anything off Blu’s HerFavoriteColor mixtape, you’ll have a feel for the vibe off this one: effortless, rambling rhymes, a mellow, jazz-tinged beat.
Exile mentioned in an interview a few months back that Blu had been recording versions of several Radio tracks, so perhaps we can look forward to a mixtape of some sort.
Another video from one of my favourite producers working right now, LA’s Flying Lotus. It’s a fantastic video collage of classic sci-fi flicks set to music from 2008 album, Los Angeles. Watch it.
Seriously rivalled only by the infamous “thugginest” interview with NORE (we’ve linked to this twice already, but it never gets old.) HipHopGame’s latest interview with two–time Beat Drop honouree Alchemist is about a week old, but it’s so damn entertaining that I’m posting it anyway. Alc drops knowledge on getting weed delivered to your room, making beats with pots and pans and the greatness of matzo brie.
Here’s a selection of some of the best parts. On producing:
HHG: Can you take us through the making of an Alchemist beat?
A: Usually I turn the lights down and I’ll put on a record. First I usually stand on my head and I get the blood rushing into my brain because it gets the ideas rushing more. So I’ll stand on my head and I’ll wait for something to catch me on the record or my face is so purple that I have to stand up. It’s good. It’s almost like a high. I’ll find a sound and I’ll go from there. I pretty much just zone out and there really isn’t any method to the madness. I’ll find drum sounds anywhere. I’ll bang pots and pans into the microphone or smash metal cans. I can make my kicks. How did I make a kick? Oh yeah, I remember, I made a kick by turning the record player up really loud and just banging on the turntable and you get an 808 sound. It’s pretty fresh. I stole it from watching Numark on stage with Jurassic 5. I’ll make the kicks myself. It’s pretty much just acting like a complete asshole.
Here’s a great interview with the heads of two great record labels, Pedro Winter (aka Busy P) of Ed Banger and Chris Manak, aka Peanut Butter Wolf of Stones Throw. There’s some interesting back story behind both labels and Busy P’s answers are all in charmingly broken English (the title of this post being the best example).
Particularly interesting: Pedro explains how Slum Village ended up remixing Daft Punk’s “Aerodynamic”.
Pedro, how did the Daft Punk remix by Slum Village/Jay Dee occur?
Pedro: You all probably know the classic “Raise it up” from Slum Village. This beat was insane at the time. Jay Dee as usual came up with an avant-garde beat. I did not notice the sample at first sight, but a friend of us was there and say, “Hey hey hold on, isn’t it a Daft sound?” And fuck yes! It was in fact a sample from Thomas Bangalter’s solo project for his label Roulé.
Instead of loosing our time and react as ass holes and ask for money or shit, I propose to the Daft boys to take care of it and ask a remix in exchange of the use of that sample. I met Dilla in Miami and he was of course up for it and was really friendly. He is from Detroit and electronic music never scared him. We were so happy with the result and the shout out. It was a simple and nice adventure. I feel really lucky to have met Jay Dee it was 8 or 9 years ago.
Lessondary member Che Grand adds a tight verse to a Jay Electronica’s demo for “Hagler” off Scratches & Demo Tape Vol.1. The result is unsurprisingly dope. These two should hook up for a genuine collaboration; their voices complement each other nicely.
Over the beat for Eminem’s “Crack A Bottle”. We posted about JoJo a while back and it’s been a minute since I’ve heard anything by him. This kid is a beast, insanely talented and really deserves a fucking deal.
