Track taken from the 2008 Trading Standards Mix CD by Sonnyjim.  

We recorded this back in '07; Dented Records artist Skrien was in Birmingham for a radio appearence w/ Kelakovksi and decided to hit the lab with me and Sonny, Taharka also rolled through and we spot wrote this on the night.

The Mix CD is now out of print but you can still get the MP3's courtesy of iTunes or Bandcamp, start here for your options.  http://www.eatgoodrecords.com/store


Sonnyjim - Trying To Live ft Skrein, Kosyne, Taharka (prod kosyne)

Patented Bounce

Last year I dropped a Foreign Exchange Refix on my Birthday.

This year I wanted to up the ante and put out a mini project of sorts; mainly for selfish reasons of trying to push myself creatively, have a fire underneath me of a birthday release date and finally to have my own project out there for people to take notice of (enough bigging up everyone else and pushing their projects...the dot connecting can take a back seat ha!)

So here it is (unfortunately a day late!) my "Birthday Tape", 7 brand new tracks courtesy of my MPC, MicroKorg and a wee bit of laptop for tracking and adding sprinkles. Some ideas are a bit more developed than others, maybe an obvious sample here and there but it's what I felt like rocking with at the time...give it a listen.

I've added some dashes of birthday related skis for comic relief and to tie the concept in a bit more.

Enjoy. Drop me a line if you wanna work or have any questions about any of these joints..

kosyne@louisden.com
Twitter @Kosyne
Instagram: @KosyneMusic

big up Dan "Dirty Robot" for turning round the artwork quicktime (worth every penny!) and the Louis Den squad Myke Forte, Mr Figz & Raul Supreme for keeping me motivated....Kela please come home (lol).

shout outs JND and Ralph Rip....lets go..

Curveballs

Ronz!

Fashion Kids

Wallace

Fruit

Congrats Yo

Had an idea for a track to depict money changing hands quickly took me ages to start it but once I did the rest came pretty smoothly.

184 from Brighton hooked me up with a beat CD and decided to lace one of his joints for the original; seeing as the track didn't really get out there too much I asked Kela to remix for the EATGOOD compilation we dropped back in 2009

Kosyne - Tale Of The Tenner (Kelakovksi Remix)

For those who dont know, DP quit making beats for religious pursuits in 2009; damn shame as he was one of my favourite beatmakers! but shouts to him if it's he's on a better path as a result.I wrote a tongue and cheek look at rap music was looking like in the UK (at the time) to a Fel Sweetenberg beat; any emcees will tell you that sometimes a beat sparks an idea and you end up writing to it full well knowing you can't use the beat in question and it was the same deal here so I kinda had the track written but nothing original to record it to so I could claim it as my own, just had the raps laying about until I remembered a DP batch from '07 he made just for me with a load of Nottz inspired sounding beats and this was one of them (I gotta do something with the others !!)

When we came to putting the EG Compilation together I decided to dust off the raps and fit them to this beat; came out nice! if you want to hear more then check the EG Compilation in full here - http://www.eatgoodrecords.com/discography/various-eatgood-compilation-vol1/

Kosyne - Sell Out (produced by Darren Paul)

Track from SONNYJIM's Guest Verses & Granola Breakfasts mixtape, this ones called One Two One Two.

Listen to the rest of the mixtape over at EATGOOD Records.
http://www.eatgoodrecords.com/news/sonnjim-guest-verses-and-granola-breakfasts-vol2/

Sonnyjim - One Two One Two (produced by Kosyne)

Made this back in 2008 for our Louis Den special paying tribute to the mighty J DILLA. 

Thank You (Louisden Homework #17 Beat)

I laced Sleaze with a remix to his track "The Real" which features my EATGOOD fam Sonnyjim and West Coast battle vet NoCanDo. Got a chop goin and laid some some trademark slappy slap, see what you think!

Shouts to Sleaze who is currently on lock; hold your head homie oh and salute to pappa Chemo who did the original. If you'd like to peep the original ver peep Sleaze's sophmore album "Arkitectoniks" on bandcamp - http://sleazedadon.bandcamp.com/album/arkitectoniks

Sleaze ft Sonnyjim & NoCanDo - The Real (Kosyne Remix)

Remix I knocked up for Sonnyjim's Psychonaut Remixes project.  I got dibbs on the acapellas and decided I wanted to give this one a go (Eyebs killed the original)

Got a nasty beat block putting this together and didn't actually arrive at this until my third attempt at it, crazy piano chops are a little hudmo inspired and drums accidently a lil kevvy, I like how it came together anyway!

Peep Sonnyjim's Psychonaut LP on his bandcamp here (out 1st Nov) - sonnyjim.bandcamp.com/album/psychonaut-remixes-lp and check the Zone One video black & white style redubbed with my remix - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJZkXIjnw3Y

Sonnyjim - Zone One (Kosyne Remix)

A beat for my Grandad, Everal Brown, finished it up shortly after he passed a year ago and it ended up on Chemo's compilation "My Mate Makes Beats Vol 1" available here - http://www.kilamanjaro.co.uk/products-page/cd-vinyl/my-mate-does-beats-t-shirt-cd-bundle/

bump with a whiskey & ginger...

rest in peace! x


Everal's Remedy

Get your free download here
https://kosynemusic.bandcamp.com/track/foreign-exchange-come-around-kos-birthday-refix

Today (April 10th) is my birthday!! whoop whoop!  The weekend just gone had me wondering what a semi-house treatment of one of my favourite Foreign Exchange tracks would sound like.

One thing led to another and before I knew it I was time stretching and chopping the hell outta Nicolay's lush rhodes from the original version of the song (got it on wax thank you!) and up to my neck in unfamiliar BPM territory! (this is my first go at something like this)

Figured I'd lay down a self imposed deadline of my birthday to turn it in and save the track from 4 bar hell! Here it is, enjoy/share and big up Nicolay, Phonte and of course Darien Brockington for inspiring the treatment.

cheers!



* artwork contains elements from vectortuts+
* song contains elements and reinterpolated portions of "Come Around" performed by The Foreign Exchange ft Darein Brockington (2004 BBE)

The Foreign Exchange - Come Around (Kos Birthday Refix)

Hello, my names Darren aka Kosyne (said like cosign) but prefer simply "Kos"; I make beats with FL Studio, a MPC2000XL and rap sometimes into a microphone and record it.

I'm behind the LOUIS DEN producer network www.louisden.com which includes weekly beat challenges and live hiphop production events as well as the spin off BEHIND CLOSED DOORS hiphop production DVD magazine which me and my man AB0181 (http://youtu.be/AB0181) create.

I'm also part of the Birmingham hiphop label EATGOOD RECORDS, check us out! we've put some nice music out www.eatgoodrecords.com.

Thanks for checking out the material; drop me a line if you want to ask me anything.

http://twitter.com/Kosyne
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