produced by Lewis Parker
Lyrics by Jacky Danz

01 Comin wit da hitz

Instrumental with my personal touch, aiming for an honest sound and flow.

Shadow

A hitting boombap instrumental beat with a moody guitar line.

Into Focus

the worst pt. 3 - demo

Exclusive track off Stu Bangas new instrumental album "War Journal"

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No one confronts the abyss better than Chris Orrick. The Michigan ex-factory worker formerly known as Red Pill has spent the last half-decade documenting industrial decay, familial pain, and struggles with addiction better than almost anyone inhabiting this poisoned soil. It’s somewhere between Charles Bukowski and Michael Moore, or maybe Atmosphere if he couldn’t ignore the arsenic in the air. 

As Orrick tells it, “Portraits,” his latest album for Mello Music Group is a return to form. 

“I tried to strip everything down to what I think I'm best at: simple, concise portraits of who I am,” Orrick says. “Whether that be finding myself through self-portraits, portraits of everyday workers, portraits of the current political moment or portraits of myself told through the eyes of people I encounter daily.” 

From the corroded arteries of the blue-collar heartland, Orrick emerges as one of the most incisive and savage critics of Trump’s America. If the American dream is dead, he unflinchingly lays the blame on avaricious corporations, crude demagogues, and structural racism. There’s nothing polemical about it: just warm-hearted, sad-eyed, gin-flooded depictions of a life where there are few right answers but a litany of wrong ones. 

The Michigan native is an acerbic poet, but too unpretentious and sarcastic to ever call himself that. In his love letter to his long-time girlfriend (“Lazy Buddies”), Orrick fantasizes about the pair decamping to a town an hour outside of Paris, where they can blissfully split a bottle of cheap wine. Then he mocks himself for being a little corny. But that’s part of its charm—through his ruthless honesty, we can see ourselves as we actually are—prone to idle delusions, indolence, and self-obsessed. 

“Portraits can often be overlooked, but there are so many details in the face that tell innumerable stories about what the person portrayed might have been feeling or going through,” Orrick continues. “I'm trying to find those details, within myself and within America today." 

On “Anywhere Instead,” he grouses about how most days he doesn’t want to leave his bed until noon, staring at his phone, wishing for imminent death. It’s a nothing matters, gallows humor that anoints him a laureate of existential dread. He captures the terror of the void, the ambiguity of not knowing where or when your next direct deposit will hit. He’s wise enough to understand how little he understands, allergic to cheap irony or forced symbolism. As he points out on stories, “not every story has a meaning, not every moment has a reason, sometimes you just let the music play and tell you what to say.” 

It’s obvious how loudly the music speaks to Orrick, who is rarely short of opinions or serrated observation. The somber piano-based melancholy and rugged drums of “Portraits” thump via a gifted arsenal of producers including Nolan the Ninja, L’Orange, Exile, Apollo Brown, and Onra. Only two guest rappers appear, Fashawn and Orrick’s partner in Ugly Heroes, Verbal Kent. Orrick carries the rest of the weight and you sense the Atlas burden he shoulders. 

But for the all the poignant complaints, there’s a soulful profundity at the core of the album. It goes further than stress over bills, nicotine and liquor compulsions, and a search for deeper revelation. If you can hear a song like “Mom” without slightly crumbling, you might be iron-born. It’s a eulogy for Orrick’s late mother, dead at 45 without seeing her children grow up, without the opportunity to take pride in her son’s ability to realize his dream—however flawed it can occasionally seem. It’s here where you sense the power of these Portraits. They capture the pain that too many of us feel, that manifests itself in so many distinct ways. For a little while, we understand the raw f&cked up complexity of what it means to be a human being in a lunatic world. The portrait is personal, but it’s all of us too. 
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Portraits Mp3

Lazy Buddies

Chris Orrick -  Lazy Buddies (prod. Apollo Brown)

Nimrod *

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Do The Math 2xLP Gatefold :
http://back2dasourcerecords.bigcartel.com/product/do-the-math-a-tribal-compilation
Sup y'all ?! What a great occasion to wrap up this massive Hip Hop year, with an incredible GEM from the Emerald city. Indeed after Narcotik previously released this year on B2DS here we go again  with one of the most geniune Hip Hop compilation album from Seattle and even out of this Earth! Get ready for feelings of pure DOPENESS with this 1996 sophomore compilation, a real piece of art. Tribal Music Inc. - Do The Math (A Tribal Compilation) soulful, jazzy productions cooked up by Vitamin D & DJ Topspin. Dope, deep & original lyrics performed by the 206 CREW. Emcees, musical synergies at work all the way, from start to finish! A real MASTERPIECE of a hip hop contribution. 

Finally for the first time on wax after more than 22 years,  this  remastered version with the 24 Bit analog additional vinyl mastering by our truly great brother Noiseman a.k.a. Big Noise (B Flatts Producer) This will bring you the illest audio experience ever possible, YOU ARE GONNA DIG IT! 

Essential item in every serious hip hop collection, 2xLP Gatefold edition with insert. more than 50 minutes of sweet music for your Soul and Ears.

Don't sleep on this crazy release, 300 copies pressed only (CD format available and limited to 300 as well)

Track title                                              Performer:

1 Intro                                                    T.H.C .
2 Main Attraction                                   Phat Mob
3 Sho Sum Respect                                Sho Nuff
4 Traffic                                                 Sinsemilla
5 Eye Listen                                           B Self 
6 Who's Listening                                  The Ghetto Chilldren              
7 Earth Girlz R EZ                                Chile & Vitamin D
8 The Truth Hurts                                  Infinite feat Los
9 Interlube                                             T-Dog & D-Uneek
10 N's don't L                                        The Ghetto Chilldren
11 Rap Capsule                                     The Crew Clockwise
12 Do The Math                                    Topspin,B-Self,Samson,S,Poetry,Vitamin D, H-Bomb, Truth,                                                   
                                                               Shahrazad, Blak, Infinite & E Wreck


13 Interlucifer                                        Infinite & C-Note
14 What's It Worth                                 Union Of Opposites
15 Wrong Numbers                                Phat Mob
16 Solider Intro                                      Rob Brewer & Samon S                 
17 Solider                                               Samson S feat H-Bomb
18 Temporary Insanity                           T.H.C.
19 Game Of Checkers                            Narcotik 
20 Game Show                                      Shahrazad
21 The Shining                                      Wordsayer & Blah
22 Schoolin' Em                                    Infinite 
23 Sinsebility                                         H-Bomb
24 Equilibrium                                      The Ghetto Chilldren



Additional mastering : Danny Carter AKA Noiseman (B Flatt Producer)
Graffiti & Handsyles : Nerco Black AKA Piet Pado
Design lay out : Pascal Ross Marquette


Release date : mid January 2019, exact release date coming soon

DONT SLEEP !!!

Peace. One Love

Do The Math - A Tribal Compilation (Snippet mix by DJ Grazzhoppa)

Loopholes

Aim Steady (feat. G Dot & Tone Spliff)

Brutalmusicbeats@gmail.com for any biz inquiry

The Family  - Stu Bangas

° Love for the fusion of technology and creativity.

° Tribute to the artists using the machinery to its full potential.

Akai MPCs (originally MIDI Production Center, now Music Production Controller) are a popular series of electronic musical instruments originally designed by Roger Linn and produced by the Japanese company Akai from 1988 onward. Intended to function as a powerful kind of drum machine, the MPCs drew on design ideas from machines such as the Sequential Circuits Inc. Studio 440 and the Linn's own Linn 9000, combining a powerful MIDI sequencer with the ability to sample one's own sounds. A major influence to Roger Linn's design was his love of rubber pads and how they could be pushed, prodded, and banged; this can be seen clearly in his designs especially from the MPC-60 onwards. Linn also had a passion for squares: thus, no round pads on the MPC Series. Later models feature increasingly powerful sampling, storage, interfacing and sound manipulation facilities, which broaden the use of instrument beyond just drum and rhythm tracks.


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