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A collection of songs from artists playing Treefort 9. Visit treefortmusicfest.com for tickets, lineup and more!

Treefort 2021

Treefort 2020 - Round 2

Danica. 

https://soundcloud.com/yngntwrk

http://soundcloud.com/defcee

Mixed/Mastered by http://soundcloud.com/norman-3

Link: http://pragmatictheory.bandcamp.com/album/verbal-architecture

Benjamin Earl Turner & Defcee - "Danica" (prod. Sev Seveer) #PRAGMATICTHEORYFAMILY

Track 05 from High Cross Society.
Mixed by John Hendicott

Buy the single here:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/every-time-i-look/id751093481?i=751093525&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

High Cross Society are a lighthouse of originality in an ocean of also-rans, a coming together of some of the UK's finest live musicians which has resulted in a truly unique album. This is an album that bucks the current trend for disposable pop and brutalist dance tracks, choosing instead to create something more cantabile and palpable. Like all the greatest music it sits outside of time - at once classic and contemporary, this will sound as good in 20 years as it does now.

The project was born when Lazy Habits and Joshua Whitehouse (More Like Trees) joined forces after meeting and writing together at Local Posse sessions - an improvisational night set up by Joe Driscoll. Their initial two songs would quickly became eight and at this point they drafted in multi-instrumentalist mastermind Fjokra to play piano and head up the production elements and preparation for what would now be a full band. A band that includes Local Posse drummer and member of the Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate band - James Breen, Lazy Habits percussionist Steve Abunab and classical double bassist Lachlan Radford (More Like Trees). In the studio they were joined by the 'Habits Horns' (Luke Fabia on trumpet, Ben Thorpe trombone), Fjokra's electric bassist S.E.B, 2X UK beatbox champion Reeps One, and the unbelievably dulcet vocals of Josh Bevan. Top all this off with production taken care of by the award-winning John Hendicott and you have something very special.

The album drops in December with artwork from Yeff (a.k.a. Reeps One). There will be a short tour, details of which will be announced soon. For interview requests, and promo please don't hesitate to get in touch at:

highcross_society@hotmail.com

Every Time I Look

This is what happens when you let your kids watch too much television.

Recorded by Joseph Chilliams.
Mixed by Saba and Sev Seveer.
Cover art by Allen Arango.

[Defcee]
All I listen to is hardcore rap and Mary J. Blige. I lied.
It’s just SOS Band, Patrice Rushen when I’m high.
Spell out forget-me-not in butterfly stitches,
and ya lady doin’ the same with buttonfly kisses. (OLD SCHOOL.)

When I rhyme, breaks boom-shake ya backbone.
When you rhyme, the shit’s duvets and bathrobes. (DRIZZY)
These dudes make all this loose change for cashflow.
Too fake til I room raid your trash, though. (Broke as Hell.)

Hit the mic like the heavy bag. Eugene Levy swag.
Rob Gucci at needlepoint in Kanye’s yeti mask. (Brr.)
Built from the same grain as Galactus. I’ma eat Earth more,
but still bring you a warning like I’m riding a silver surfboard.

Marvel Comic chronological.
Your shit don’t make sense UNLESS I’m high. That’s chronic logical.
Got ‘em runnin’ out like my father’s follicles.
You can’t fight the truth, private school, especially when I’m Papa Doc’in’ you. 
(B. RABBIT!)

[Joseph Chilliams]
I heard somebody tryna murk me. Arrivederci. 
I’m ‘bout to pop out like my nipples perky.
Like a seismic wave shakin’ the stage.
I’ll probly faint the first time The Rock shakes my hand.

He taught me how to climb out that cage.
Slip out the ‘hood like a Jedi. 
You know Joe be so sad-eyed.
Reaction time like Obi-Wan Kenobi with red eyes. 

On the Red Eye in one summer, you dumb fuckers.
So my mama never suffer like suckatash.
Everybody eats. I’m scrapin’ the bucket last.
I’m hungry and horny enough to fuck and trash.

At R. Kelly fanbase like piss stains.

Vidiots (feat. Joseph Chilliams) (Prod. by Sev Seveer)

Ben E, Chali & Kweli - Supernatural Lock Down (Mr Doris & D-Funk Rework).
2 Dogs Recordings.

Recently whilst over in Sydney with fellow funk slinger D-Funk we set about cooking up a load of tasty musical treats. This is the first of a few bits we put together on a nice old skool hip hop tip! It's just come out on limited 7" inch vinyl on the cracking 2Dogs Recordings (along with another mighty fine hip hop mash up jam)... ENJOY

Here is the B side: https://soundcloud.com/mrdoris/slick-drippers

Buy this on 7" vinyl from Juno Records - www.juno.co.uk/products/ben-e-ch…t-down/524375-01/

Check out... @mrdoris
Become a fan - www.facebook.com/mrdoris
Visit my website - www.mrdoris.co.uk

Check out @2dogs-recordings

Check out @d-funk
Become a fan - www.facebook.com/dfunkbreaks
Visit his website - www.dfunk.co.uk

Supernatural Lock Down (Extended Intro)

Around 2008, AMS was in grad school. 

2 years before, he met ESHR, who at the time, was strolling onto the campus of the University of Illinois as a freshman. 

They met at a member introduction for UC Hip-Hop Congress. 

AMS had been part of that crew for 6 years (since 2002). 

ESHR was interested in joining. 

They both rapped well. 

AMS felt a bit old. 

ESHR felt like he was working with an OG. 

And thus, Boombap Savant was born. 

------------------------- 

This was from an EP that we finished around 2008, and then lost track of. 

But, time has a wonderful way of reminding you of things you've made. Especially when you come across the DVD with the project files while cleaning house. 

This is our gift to you, in all of its unmastered and rough recording glory. 

Live from 2008, ladies and gentlemen: AMS & ESHR are Boombap Savant.

The rest of "The After School Special EP" can be downloaded at http://agentmos.bandcamp.com.

12 Credit Hours in the Life of.... -- FREE DOWNLOAD!!!!!!

Sev Seveer:
"This remix was crafted shortly after my homies and I finished mixing AMS' album 'Natural (Self)'. Orginally intended for 45rpm double remix pressing that fell to the cutting room floor. enjoy!"



SEV SEVEER (REMIX) AMS King of the Nerds -  The Wire {unreleased}

So, in yet another trip through the AMS WAYBACK MACHINE...

We've discovered another remix that got finished...but never got released!

Flomatiks (a DOPE producer from South Korea) and I went to college together. We had always talked about collaborating, but never had the chance.

And waaaaay back in 2011, as Natural (Influence) was shaping up, this was one of the first cuts I recorded. After sending the song out to a few producer buddies, he (Flomatiks) asked if he could remix it.

Of course, we couldn't say no.

He finished it, sent it along...and it got lost in the GMail shuffle.

Flash forward: we're cleaning our inbox a bit, and what do we find...still with the "unread" tag on it. Jeez.

Flomatiks turns Amiel and I's little journey into "why is AMS awake at 4 AM" into an INCREDIBLY lush, jazz-noir re-work.

Catch your free download, and thanks for listening!

Insomnia (Flomatiks remix) -- FREE DOWNLOAD!!!!!!

Let's take a sec to think back.

In 2002, I had the distinct honor of linking up with UC Hip-Hop Congress as a freshman at Univ. of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Rap was a talent that was of recent discovery, and was still opening itself up to me at a blinding pace.

2 weeks into being there, I had come to meet with a group of friends and mentors I've known ever since. Some of these people include the musical likes of DJ limbs​, Melodic Scribes, and DJ Bozak​.

And then, there was DJ SPINNERTY​.

Spinnerty was just beginning to "get his feet wet" in terms of making instrumentals, but had one of the most versatile yet distinguishable sounds I had ever heard from a producer.

On a random shot, he tossed me an instrumental with a tag line.

"Let me know what you think of this."

That winter, I rose from a bout of very deep sleep to write a song that carried he and I into a strange little local, turned national, turned international whirlwind.

It went from being a release on Green St. Records in Champaign.
To OM Discovery, vol. 1 in San Francisco.
Unto awards for "Best Hip-Hop Song" in local music magazines.
And then, to iTunes.
Onto playlists for college radio shows around the country.
And, into INTERNATIONAL hip-hop radio show playlists to this day.

Last night, on a hunch, I was unpacking some of the last boxes for my new apartment, and found my pile of rap notebooks extending as far back as my Sophomore year of high school.

As I was digging through them, I found it.

On a piece of well-beaten college rule from 2005, there it was. A bunch of notes, breath control marks, and chicken-scratched chatter from phone conversations under a scrawled title:

"AGENT MOS & SPINNERTY -- 'CITY LIFE' -- GREEN ST RECORDS, 2/17/2005"

"City Life" was the first of over 20 cuts that Spinnerty and I crafted together. He produced nearly ALL of "ILLuminate," we wrote and recorded "Amnesia Lane" during a visit I made to San Francisco in 2008, and our last collaboration, "Perhaps (the Itch)," brought two 5-year separated generations of UC Hip-Hop onto the same track.

But it all started here.

Written on 2/17/2005. Recorded at Pogo Studios, Champaign, on 2/19/2005.

The tenth year anniversary of AMS and Spinenrty's "City Life." A love letter to home.

City Life (Original 2005 Recording)

Deluxe edition CD available at yogocoprecords.bigcartel.com

CD Exclusives

17. illiterate - Feverish Atonements (Prod. Mr Slipz) 
18. Benaddict - Stainers (Prod. M.KOZI) 
19. Awfer - Drifting Above (Prod. Joe Corfield) 
20. Benaddict - One Of The Same (Prod. Mr Slipz)

Big ups to everyone supporting what we do!!

Yogocop Family

<a href="https://theartistunion.com/tracks/f62388" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Free Download

Concept Of Thought - Methods (Prod. Tom Yum)

For those of you that have been waiting, here's a treat.

"Zero."

Raps by AMS.
Produced by @hookedonmellotronics.

"Strange Days, Stranger Tomorrows."

Coming soon.

#FCLA.

Zero

Kids. (A. Levin, B. Turner, T. Brundidge)
Produced by Sev Seveer (@SevSeveer)

Kids. (Produced by Sev Seveer)

One Day At A Time

Vitamin just came thru one day and we knocked this out, ENJOY! 

Kwote Ft. Vitamin D - Culture (Prod By. Orange Field)

Ways to Go

Welcome to Your Life

Something me and Loose put together for a project that never came. So decided to share it with you all! 

Kwote - My Journey (Prod. Loose Cannon)

The Gold Describes The Everyday Wants Of A Nigga From The Hood But Then He Realizes That None Of This Shit Brings You Happiness.

The Gold

Soft Sounds from Another Planet

Diving Woman

Love Letter prod. By Mr.Tosado

beat: https://soundcloud.com/craniumnoirbeats
first verse: https://soundcloud.com/marvolus-jay

Mass Appeal ft. MARVOLUS JAY (prod. CRANIUMNOIR)

Welp, another one finds it's way out.

"The Unseen, pt. 1."

Raps by AMS.
Instrumental by Sev Seveer.
Recorded at DEATH JUKE STUDIOS.

"Strange Days, Stranger Tomorrows."

Coming in 2017.

#FCLA.

The Unseen, pt. 1

Tracklist:
1. BETH (Prod. Rakim Sarrah)
2. Been There Came From (Prod. Curtis Williams)
3. Talk to Me Again (Prod. beatsinmybackpack)
4. Blind ft. Curtis Williams (Prod. Black Metaphor)
5. Fast Lane ft. Tru (Prod. Tru)
6. Figure It Out ft. Tru & Chriz Vaughn (Prod. Tru)
7. Listening (Prod. Cedric Hearn Jr.)

Greed. 2017.

Before Every Thing Happens. By: Zah Garner

LILSUM 4 THA SUMMER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5rWmXa0OcA&t=54s

@smwun

ASCENSION (PROD. SUMWUN)(VIDEO OUT NOW)

Like & Repost!!

Follow Me On Facebook!

Facebook.com/TheRealNellyNel

Flowing With Spirit (Prod. By Elm Beats)

An Ode to a more simple time when Marshall Fields still existed and you did your Christmas shopping at the Brickyard Mall circa 1993. You most likely bought a House mixtape by Julian Jumpin Perez at a mall Kiosk around this time.

Produced and Recorded by DJ ALO

SILK BOXERS

The Thread That Keeps Us

End of the World With You

Convict Pool

Alone Again Or

Music Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=efqEG_Epyys

Full Tape for £5: laussethecat.bandcamp.com/releases

a track from the tape will be up every week

Drawing by Carlito and graphics by yours truly

Keys by @user-464721574

Vocals by @b-ahwe

Bass by Cheekbones Tricky

6. BELLE BOUTEILLE

Head Over Heels b/w Essentially

Essentially

Years to Burn

Taken from the new 3 track single.
Download it for free now over on our bandcamp page.

http://jazzspastiks.bandcamp.com/album/progress

Progress - Jazz Spastiks feat. Richard Wright

download this song with the rest of the album yo!

http://pragmatictheory.bandcamp.com/album/phonaesthetics

Sev Seveer - "Live From Olympus" feat. Defcee & Wizard Jenkins the Great [For Pragmatic Theory]

bop it up!

We're The Lucky Ones

We're the Lucky Ones

Jubilee

Be Sweet

Hey. I'm AMS. 

Future Cult Leaders of America. #FCLA. Chicago.

I make sometimes nerdy, sometimes deep, often reflective, usually aggressive, punchline-laden, multi-rhyme fueled hip-hop music. This space will be for rough drafts and previews of projects I'm knee-deep in. BAM.

If you're looking for my mixes, find me on Mixcloud (link below).

For all bookings, collaboratons, etc, please contact me at nerdking.music@gmail.com