Featuring Dustin Busch on stand-up Bass and Grover Beats on the keys with drum beat programmed by Tack-Fu. Recorded by Bob Hall & Mastered by Tucker Burnes. This track packs plenty of swing!

Dust Cutter

Produced by Tack-Fu with a bassline sample from Blockhead (Aesop’s Rock producer) and two different riffs from Hebrew records, backed behind 3 different lo-fi break beats blending into each other. Sev Statik was inspired to write lyrics to friend he had lost touch with. Track #14 from the album "Tack-Fu Presents: The 85 decibel Monks".

Absence Of You - Feat: Sev Statik

A track from MC Angle's release "Definitive Bedtime Stories". Featuring a few Uniphonics musicians behind the vibe!  Ryan Casteel on Bass & Forrest Heusinkveld on Percussion. 
Produced by Tack-Fu. Mixed by John Svec. 

Matter Of Factly (feat. Angle)

Tack-Fu teams up with the one and only White Tornado (Bill Peterson) on keys to make this jazz-funk banger! Mixed and mastered by Iowa City's godfather of electronic music "The Chaircrusher" a.k.a. Kent Williams. 

White Cloud Touchdown

A Tack-Fu & DJ Earl-e collaboration. The basic tracking was discovered a year ago on a mis-placed cassette tape .  Low-Fi drums and a sampled bassline were put together by DJ Earl-e on a Tascam 8-track, but the tracks had not been touched or enhanced at all in 10 years. Tack-Fu decided to blend in a higher fidelity drum track and started to sample bird calls and whistles along with a sweet harp sample to compliment the nature/organic vibe. "Tar" is for the gritty analog hiss and dirty vinyl samples, "Feather" refers to the bird calls. Mastered by Tucker Burns. 

Tar and Feather

A unique track that contains vibes and a drum loop from a sample library catalog, combined with original contributions from Tack-Fu (Bass) Mr. Payne a.k.a. Robbie Reverb (Guitar) and Saul Luberoff (Flute)    Mastered by Tucker Burnes. 

Vibe Kit

A track arranged over two years via the magic of studio recording. Basic drum tracks by Cassius, bass riffs added in post. Shawn stepped in the studio with 3 sax takes, the best of the best was edited in. Grover Beats XL on the keys to top it off with a nice background vibe. Recorded, mixed down, edited, and mastered in 4 different studios. From the "Tack-Fu meets Grover Beats XL" project. CD release coming soon!

Thumbprint - (feat. Cassius Goens III & Shawn Raja Akbar)

Tack-Fu teams up with fellow Dusted Wax Kingdom artist Darkside to produce an uptempo head nodder "Dog Day Bossanova". It's a teaser track from the Dusted Kingdom net label release "Sliced Beats". You can download the whole project from FREE. Just follow this link ---http://www.dustedwax.org/dwk370.html  --- to get the whole 16-track instrumental can of "Sliced Beets"

12/26/18

Dog Day Bossanova (feat. Darkside from Argentina)

This track features the collaboration efforts of Mr. Payne (Robbie Reverb) on guitar and keyboard, Brian Lewis Smith (Koplant No) on Trumpet, Dustin Busch (ex-Illinois Jonny Fever) on stand-up bass and Tack-Fu (85 decibel Monks) on the programed drums. Mixed by Jethro (Bad Fathers) and Mastered by Colin Ritchie. 

This track took two years to assemble, mix and master...but the results are excellent! This is a great example of how many artists from different genres can lend their talents to make some great music. 

Hello 10 Spot

Combine the following elements:  two drum breaks in unison, the sound qualities from a stand-up bass, a porno funk guitar, and keyboard additions that could have been lifted from Beck’s classic release “Odelay”…and what do you get?  This joint!  Produced by Tack-Fu, guitar and keyboard contributions by Robbie Reverb, mixed by Jethro and mastered by Mr. Payne. 

Napoleon TNT

Turn your clocks back to 2008. I recieved a special request re-mix offer from the hip-hop group "Diagram of Truth". The deal was this..."pick off anything you dig from previous releases...we'll do whatever it takes to make it happen...and we'll promote the shit out of the re-mix you provide no questions asked." I returned the offer with a quick, "Bet!"

They sent me 3 previously released albums and demos. I found one track that really hit me in the soul. I did some digging around, and found a beat in the archives that kind'a fit the vibe to that track. It was a joint called "Addiction". However, I needed to reach out to my 85 decibel Monk producer/collaborators to take their track that other level.

Props to Mr. Payne (Robbie Reverb) & Talvain Jones for stepping up to the plate with change-ups and extra ideas to blend in. Vocals by Withope, John Charles, and Voice. Enjoy! 

 

Addiction (85 dB remix)

Mr. Tack a.k.a. Tack-Fu runs a hip-hop record label (Tack-Fu Productions) and an audio production company (85 decibel Monks) in Iowa City, Iowa. Three of his independently released CDs have featured underground heavyweights DJ Vadim, Braille, Mars Ill, Sev Statik, Blueprint, and Illogic. Several instrumentals produced by the production company have appeared on many popular cable television shows, (MTV’s “Cribs,” VH1’s “Behind the Music,” & Comedy Central’s “Mind of Mencia”) educational documentaries, and independent film since 2005.

The 85 decibel Monks were formed in 2001 as a production team consisting of several producers and musicians from the Iowa City area. The collective's main focus nowadays is writing underscore music for visual presentations. This shift in priorities, from selling CDs to licensing music, has moved Tack-Fu’s style from a loop based boom-bap foundation to more of a jazz / funk orientated brand of hip-hop.

Half musical visionary and half ambassador to the musical collective, Tack simply states, “My goal is to complete tracks, adding my work to the work of others until the sonic painting is mixed and mastered. It's a tedious process, but time is needed for the tracks to develop and breathe." He concludes, ”If jumping through hoops is required? So be it."

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