Illin' in the Basement!!!

Monday, May 23, 2011

Feel the Vibe

Been a minute... the move and getting situated has been keeping me busy. For those of you that checked the "Dub Styles" project my man Josh G produced the track "Q & A." (which was one of the 1st tracks recorded for the project) Now to bring you up to speed... I'm not sure if "Basement Sessions" had officially dropped, but I did some vocals for the "Spacebound" project he did with Jon Wayne and he hit me up to see if I was interested in some beats. I was starting to work on what I was calling "Walkman Redemption" and had just started to get a little bit of an idea of where it was going.

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He laced me with that track and in exchange I dropped some rhymes for a project he was working on. He sent me a couple beats and I picked the beat that was used on the demo version. After I sent him the demo version and the vocals he hit me back with an alternative version of the track which I REALLY think is pretty dope. At the time this joint was going to be used on the "Purple Faze" project he was working on, but was shelved for another project. Time passed, our lives got busy and I honestly didn't think much of the track till I was applying for some jobs the other day and found the tracks in my inbox. I never put any of these tracks up because I didn't know what Josh G was doing with them and didn't want to step on his toes. I hit him up via Twitter the other day and asked if it was cool to put these up and he said no doubt.

Please note: both versions of the song are demos and not final mixes.

Dawhud Feel the vibe DEMO (produced by Josh G) by Dawhud

Dawhud - Feel The Vibe (Alt version) prod. Josh G by Dawhud

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Mr. Kinetik & Rusty Redenbacher "The Professor & The Hustler"

Mr. Kinetik & Rusty Redenbacher dropped another gem in the form of "The Professor & The Hustler." Kinetik recently put out the "Green Hornet" EP with Eratik and has been putting in his 2 cents with the Tornado Alley #ATFU project. Despite being as busy as he is, ill ish is being dropped.

Do not sleep on this joint effort.

I may not be in Nap-town anymore, but I will rep the scene as much as the 206.

Download The Professor and The Hustler here (MediaLink).
Follow on Twitter @MrKinetik and @RustyMK2
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Monday, April 25, 2011

Lifestyles of the Broke and Moving

About ready to head back to the 206/360.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Dub Styles: Walkman Redemption (It is here!!!)

Thanks to Po Safe for the coverart.

This project is long overdue, but IT IS FINALLY HERE. Almost a year ago I let a select few people hear the album, but as the warmer months were wrapping up and I continued to add tracks to the project, I decided to shelve it until the following spring. Honestly, an album with a theme and sound like this would not go over well during the middle of winter while everyone is freezing. Now that I have had the time to polish the project, add tracks and give the it the feel/sound I wanted, I present it to you.

Originally this started as the follow up to "Basement Sessions," but as it progressed I found I had two distinctly different projects. One followed the boom bap sounds of "Basement Sessions" and the other blended reggae/dub samples with 90s b-boy anthems. I wanted the two sounds to blend together, but they ended up just fighting against each other. Finally when realizing this, I decided to totally go with the reggae/dub concept for an entire project and save the other joints for a TRUE follow up to "Basement Sessions." The result is "Dub Styles: Walkman Redemption."

This LP/mixtape is sandwiched within the universe of the "Basement Sessions" LP and serves as the mixtape briefly mentioned on the album. (hence the opening skit being a revisit of what was on "Basement Sessions") I wanted to make an ode to all of the mixtapes I grew up on and felt that I only briefly did that with the original version of the title track that was on "Basement Sessions." This project allowed me to fully expand on those concepts, thoughts and opinions. In this day of Serato laptop DJs and mixtapes that are really just sloppy albums, I wanted to bring it back to the tape hiss. I tried to even incorporate hiss and other elements I remember growing up with when making, listening and enjoying tapes.

To put it simple... dub as in mixtapes and dub as in the sample sources.

This project has also helped me take some steps back and let some DOPE beatmakers put in their two cents on the project. Although I did a majority of the production some of my favorite cuts were produced by other beatmakers. (Dee Supreme, DL Orion, Dr. Peppersauce aka Max Power & Josh G) I'll be honest and say "Come Equipped" was one of the 1st beats I spit over that I DIDN'T make in almost... damn... since I started making beats.

I hope you enjoy this project. I had a lot of fun working on this and I'm actually planning on doing a Vol. 2 because I simply just loved working on it so much. Click the links, DL the project and vibe out.

(you can name the price... i.e. you can DL it for free if you wish.) And don't forget to check out the other projects available here or on the bandcamp page.