PROD. HIGHTOP

product of the age 

Produced, mixed and mastered by Hightop

ninetyseven

Production credit: Hightop 
https://soundcloud.com/hightopsfeed

Mixing credit: me

Image credit: mostlyflowers

Two-TwentyFive In My Mind

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3N4mXEuOzbonkxJS035ngB?si=dNMU0N_eSROJY3skso1GpA
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/new-scapes-single/1661580001
Bandcamp (HQ Download w/Acapella): https://tapehead.bandcamp.com/album/new-scapes
YouTube Visuals: https://youtu.be/9xASBnbjW-M

Lyrics by Tapehead
Beat, mixing and mastering by @hightopsfeed

Think it's best to keep it simple here. I've got a crazily addictive personality. As I'm sure you can tell from this track, that gave me mad problems in the past. Luckily I'm over that now, and making music with Hightop is a big part of what helped me to self reflect on the mic, and change how I was living for the better. Now I channel that side of my personality into music, and have been sober for over 4 years. 

This track is basically the 'magnum opus' of me talking about that side of my past on the mic, and was the last track me and Hightop made at university, which was a while ago now. We've always been crazily happy with how it turned out, we were trying to work out ideas in the studio for a track, and as soon as he played this chord progression I got that feeling you get when you hear a crazy sample, and had to start writing straight away. These lyrics were written all in that night and I wrote them fairly quickly. Since that we touched them up a little bit, but the core structure and ideas defo remains the same. 

This is one of the oldest 'complete' track we have, there's loads of newer stuff which we'll be dropping very very soon.

Really hope people enjoy this one, thank you for listening!

New Scapes - @hightopbeats x Tapehead

Prod. Hightop
https://soundcloud.com/hightopbeats
https://soundcloud.com/hightopsc-sides

Hmmm (DEMO) [Prod. Hightop]

Shadow / Flowers On The Backseat (DEMO) [Prod. Hightop]

whats the vibe ( prod.prodbystone)

Bank (Rich Phase)

Instrumental for: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/check-the-rhemix-hightopbeats-x-tapehead

Collab with  @hightopbeats  , he drops beats every Monday, very very unique style trust me every week the vibe is completely different, very versatile producer. He also normally plays all his melodies himself which is crazy to me as a sample based producer. For this collab I sent him my flip from the 'Calm Piano' beat off my most recent beat tape, and he then flipped it completely different, chopped up my flip and reversed etc to make it way more chill. 

We then went back and forth adding drums, working out the arrangement etc, was a dope workflow and will defo be doing this fairly regularly. We've got a lot of collab stuff on the way full stop: Ive got mad lyrics over his beats: once my albums released the next big project will definitely be a full length album where I'm writing over his beats. So excited to share that all I feel like I've been sitting on it way too long.

We did drop a track together last year called New Scapes: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/new-scapes

Loads more on the way hopefully towards the end of this year. 

Peace, thank you for listening!!

Check The Instrumental (@hightopbeats x Tapehead)

Badman Things

DOUBLE U

WORK

Proof Of Concept

Lul Jam - ARP (Prod. HighTop)

Music Video: https://youtu.be/ir4m7MfG6Bg?si=9AW8k4wqtM3eqOAk
Instrumental: https://youtu.be/lCTfbv84S-s?si=hp8i5GrPXV_bIRwT
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7EI8kF9p43QnLGY3YWbWP0?si=483867d2cb8044ff 
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/whatever-prod-hightop/1792793700?i=1792793703
Bandcamp: https://tapehead.bandcamp.com/track/whatever-prod-hightop

Hightop really snapped on this beat, it was crazy cause he dropped it in the lead up to Christmas 2024, and I had the busiest day ahead of me, I think I only managed to write the hook as soon as I heard the beat, then had to be out, then got back with 30 minutes to write before I had to be out again, and just got the whole song written asap cause I had so many ideas and just wanted to be playing the beat on repeat. Was really on my mind the whole day. This is defo one of my favourite verses I've written I really rate the abstract kind of lines but feel like it does get to the point.

And man if that wasn't enough Distant then came through in the new year and absolutely snapped on the video, craziest one we've done imo. As soon as I made this track I knew I had to change up the mask for the video and I'm gassed with how it looks. I work in a theatre so we just shot there after hours, the way the lighting was reflecting off the lens of Distants camera was so crazy, gave the visuals this really hazy smoky feeling which is exactly what I wanted to happen I just didn't think it would be this crazy.

Yeah mad love to Hightop and Distant on this one, really proud of the track in every way. Hope you enjoy!! Thanks for listening.

Lyrics:

Caught up in your path
Man I swear this is the last
Made it out the dark just to pack it up and spark
I ain't even got the heart
Sold it for a laugh
Hold my soul in your palm, you don't even know

Feelin' cold and alone, you don't need me though
It's a dream, it's a dream, I'm believing though
Seen it all through a screen I don't even know
Easy way to deceive, now I'm feelin' broke
Spit it out cause the beat hit my heart where it hurts
Push play, but I gotta work through this in reverse
Goin' backwards, never makin' tracks good
Never took a life but it feels like you're taking mine it's such a lie
Such a lie outta time, take mine
What it's like, all my life
Change my whole mind
Change my whole grind
Try and face what I'm like
Need to change what I'm like
That's a must

Swear this is the last
Made it out the dark just to pack it up and spark
I ain't even got a heart
Sold it for a laugh
Hold my soul in your palm you don't even know

You don't even know
Why I'm feelin' low
I gotta dream I spose
What's this even for
Now I need it more
Leave me needing more
Can't you see the score?
See it's really now or never
Get this shit together
We should never be together
It's just me myself whatever
Whatever

whatever (prod hightop)

Casual and Andre coming back on a freestyle, first of a few, beat produced by me 

Where to find me
Insta - Hightopkeenan
Twitter - @Hightopk

Where to find Casual
Insta - @Casuallyrelaxing
Twitter - @Casuallyrelaxin

Where to find Andre
Insta - @Chicodre 

Our socials
Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/calmstudios
insta - @calmstudios

Andre, Casual - Calm Freestyle #1 (Prod. Hightop)

Andre - Calm Freestyle #2 (Prod. Hightop)

Where to find me
Insta - Hightopsfeed
Twitter - @Hightopk

Where to find Andre
Insta - @Chicodre

Our socials
Soundcloud - @calmstudios
insta - @calmstudios

Daydreaming

Andre - Daydreaming (Prod. Hightop)

Mainly on YouTube under @hightopbeats + @hightopsstudio