Microphone Master

Beats1#2022

Godfather

Kill wit the deal

im innocent - 9_8_25, 4.06 PM

This project started over two years ago while I was archiving my music catalog on SoundCloud. A producer out of Italy reached out after hearing some of my work, and we began collaborating. Around that same time, my grandmother passed away. It was a heartbreaking loss, not only for me, but for my whole family.

I wanted to honor her with a song, so I took one of the beats I copped from Globeats and wrote a track with two of my brothers. One of the first sessions for this project took place in the cottage my folks had built for her to live in, out in Placerville. I recorded two tracks there, and from that weekend the entire Heyoka concept started to take shape.

During my stay, I had a jolted awakening, one of those moments that shakes you out of yourself. Out of nowhere, in the middle of summer, it rained. That mystical, unexpected storm was the spark that pushed me deeper into this project.

My grandmother was a Puerto Rican woman who spent much of her retirement in Arizona. She surrounded herself with Native American art and aesthetics, which probably explains my own fascination with those cultural forms and why they echo through my music. Still, in the midst of creating, I felt both sadness and a resurfacing disconnect from my own culture.

The rest of the songs were written and recorded back in San Francisco. But then life shifted. I put the project on hold to release my first LP and tour across the United States. Shortly after I returned, my other grandmother, the one I had cared for over 15 years, passed away. It was like reliving grief all over again. The project went on the back burner while I sorted through family affairs.

Then, at the start of this summer, inspiration struck again. I revisited the music, remixed and mastered all nine tracks, created the artwork, and finalized the project. Now, I am releasing it not only for others to listen to, but also as a dedication to my grandmothers and as a piece of cathartic closure to a large part of my life.

Spooky (prod. by Globeats)

URBNET proudly signs Japanese beat maker/producer duo BudaMunk & ill Sugi and launches their new album Spirit of the Golden Era on March 25th, 2016. The release will be available on limited edition cassette and digital download.     

Budamunk & ill Sugi - Spirit of the Golden Era  The 90s were, in many ways, the golden era of HipHop music—a time when its expression was still pure and raw. BudaMunk is one of the rightful heirs to that golden era, and together with the younger Nasty Ill Brother Sugi (who has also studied HipHop's lineage) the two artists form an intergenerational sound that honors the soul of HipHop’s remix legacy. Excavating beats from the dusty depths of HipHop’s past, the duo refashioned forgotten beat-styles (like the “boom bap”) to vibrate once again in a manner that is very different from contemporary offshoots of the sound. The “boom bap” was never truly gone—it just fell out of style. But it has returned and found a new home in the aesthetic spirit, vision and composition of BudaMunk and Ill.Sugi. These beats will surely put the diaphrams of your audio equipment to work! 

Budamunk & ill Sugi - Amplified Frequencies [from "Spirit Of The Golden Era" album]

"Colors EP" 2017年11月17日発売
"Colors EP" coming out Nov. 17 , 2017.
Side A
Colors / Yasu-Pacino feat. Budamunk
Side B
City Mind / Yasu-Pacino feat. Keisaku Nakamura & Yotaro

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安心のサウンドがHoney Recordsにはある。

ダビーなアフリカンサウンドから始まりグイグイくるビートとメローネスが混ざるBudamunkとのタッグ。懐かしさも感じるエレクトリックソウルを感じるKeisaku Nakamura,Yotaroとのトリオ。どちらも安心するメロディーとビートで気持ち良い。

アルバムが早く聴きたい！！

grooveman Spot (ENBULL,JAZZY SPORT,77 KARAT GOLD)
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