Here's some chimney pot chutney for your tastebuds.

Music for backwards skydiving.

Endless love to the head boppers.

Music and Lyrics by Halloomi
Vocal Sample on track 1 of https://soundcloud.com/mazrahmusic
Backing Vocals on track 3 from https://soundcloud.com/ellyjdevon
Cuts on track 5 from https://soundcloud.com/dan-sterling
Artwork by Max Wilson

Rooftop Radio

For my brother Dan Sterling, in ever-loving memory.

Shouts to:
Max Wilson - for the artwork.
Seldom - for the wisdom.
Rhubarb Azlan - for the sample on track 5.
Sterls - for the voice memos, tracks 1, 2, 6 and 10.
Chinn Fisty - for the natter on track 5.
The infamous DJ Dazzy Dan - for the extract on track 14.
Deia - for everything.
and all of you for listening.
Peace and Love and Grief and Music.

Make Lemonade

Walls Of My Room

Staring at love, loss, health, wealth and more - through the tiny circle eyes of modern technology.
A collection of raw atoms, rogue molecules, cells and source code patterns.

Artwork as always by the unfathomable Max Wilson.
Shouts to K.O.G for the beautiful chaos on Track 11.
Additional Vocals from the magic of Maz McNamara on Track 18.
Sending Love.

BUY MERCH

Feed These Machines

Welcome to the city of beat cops and loop robbers,
where rent prices sky rocket, giant corporations squeeze enormous profit, and all Hip-Hop music has been criminalised until further notice.

A recent set of headlines has been stirring up fear amongst the city locals, as a whole host of record label C.E.O.'s have each been discovered dead,
all under the same mysterious circumstances...

Without rap music in the mainstream, it's a tough place for fans of the genre to find inspiration. Luckily, in the depths of the underground, there's one weathered pensioner who keeps the beat scene alive: Doris Flem, 80 year old beat maker. Her previous cassette tapes - passed around the streets for years - have created a huge buzz among Hip-Hop connoisseurs. She now emerges with her first official release, in collaboration with producer/wordsmith Halloomi.

The result is a 24-track album, bringing us a slice of Flems' city life, and the musical world surrounding her. The story follows real characters from Doris's world, including her long-standing street-beat dealer Jacket Jo, the temperamental Chief of Police Ray Simon and the head of Codala streaming service Martha Stiggs.

'The Beat Tape Murders' takes us on a tour of all four corners of the city, from the big label boardrooms, through The Beat With Two Hooks (the die-hard locals favourite pub) The Scrapstore (the city's longest standing record shop) and even into Doris's very own attic-room studio.

Musically, this release reflects the gritty underworld of a city torn apart by government laws and big business.
The instrumentals weave crusty samples, plucked and chopped from crates of obscure Jazz Fusion, Prog-Rock and Funk, over Flems' staple, spine shaking drum breaks.

The result is a sonic smorgasbord of sharp, gloomy beats, that lay a fitting bed for Halloomi's storytelling on top.
The wordplay is masterful, witty and graphic: an invite to immerse the listener in the story as it unfolds throughout the album.

Halloomi says:

"I first caught wind of D when I noticed her ad in the paper - it said something like "Rapper Wanted - Concept provided - Paid in knitwear..."

Once we started a back and forth, she sent over some batshit crazy instrumentals. At that point I knew I had to jump into the project with full force.

Flem's totally wack with computers, and super tricky to get hold of, but man - she's an outstanding presence in the underground scene, and it's been a huge privilege to work with her on this."

The album was released independently on October 4th 2024, alongside a limited run of cassettes, prints, jigsaws and stash pots.

Beats by Doris Flem
Words by Halloomi
Art by Max Wilson

The Beat Tape Murders: Burn After Listening

Sterling

Bob Ross

Moonbeams

Security

We Speak

Owls Speaks (Interlude)

When Somebody Loves You

12:03

Intro

For Dan

Alone Again

Animals

Mary

Tony

Lucky

All Jazz

Bird Flu

Sit With It

Cable Tied (Interlude)

Screen Grab

Shadow Puppet

Plug Me In

Power On

Burn After Listening

40 Floors Up/Down

The Beach

Anonymous Tip

Codala #3

An Opposite Robbery

Tonight's The Night

The Beat With Two Hooks

Martha Stiggs

Jacket Jo

Cadet Ford

We Want Flem

Sound Check

Everyone you were right this beat didn't need snoop on it.

Snoop's Mansion

FREE DOWNLOAD: https://halloomi.bandcamp.com/album/the-egg-tape

Vocals by Esme Storm
Artwork by Ellie Purdy


Waking With The Moon

^ Free download ^

Dormant - in a state of minimal metabolic activity with cessation of growth, as a reaction to adverse conditions.


Check out more flavours from: https://soundcloud.com/officialosirus

Sand Grains (Prod. Osirus)

Thought I'd upload this oldie - to say thank you to all the mega magic elephant hoomans that make my world paradise  !

Mastered by the furiously talented https://soundcloud.com/j-azlan
(If you haven't checked his latest EP yet then what are you doing!? - here's a link: https://rooted-records.bandcamp.com/album/key-avenue-blues)

Shouts to Bill Evans for the sample, and to https://soundcloud.com/officialosirus for winging it my way!

Endless love to all you cats!

Stampede

Time flies, and shit gets hectic sometimes. 
But we can always reflect on fond memories from the past, to bring peace and joy to the present. 

Big thanks to my sonic saucepot https://soundcloud.com/j-azlan for mastering this track, as well as providing the bass and acoustic guitar parts.

Piano clip sampled from "Lucky To Be Me" a piece by the outrageously influential Bill Evans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdpCj886TAA

Memories Made

Trip

Wildflower

Base Camp

High Definition

Flight Patterns

Here's an oldie from the sconnie vaults.
Beat by Azlan.

Paradise Beach (prod. Azlan)

Halloomi (v)

“All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song.” - Satchmo

Booking: halloomitunes@yahoo.com
 

Check the Family:
https://soundcloud.com/dan-sterling forever
https://soundcloud.com/rooted_records
https://soundcloud.com/maya_moon
https://soundcloud.com/officialosirus
https://soundcloud.com/mazrahmusic
https://soundcloud.com/dur-brain
https://soundcloud.com/binbagwisdom

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