The Upload

Remixed and remastered
Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from ‘C.R.E.A.M. Acapella’ by Wu Tang Clan 

Youtube: https://youtu.be/tuGQCfQWVmc (I did edit a video with the visuals from the music video, but the video got blocked and taken down straight away.)
Instrumental : https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/ways-of-the-world-instrumental
https://tapehead.bandcamp.com/track/ways-of-the-world-instrumental

I flipped this sample early March 2018, I’d just finished writing an essay for university about the Black Star track ‘Thieves In The Night’, and was just gassed in general. I’d chosen this module where I knew I’d be able to write about Hip Hop, and in my free time I was always making beats or listening to Hip Hop, so I felt completely immersed in the culture, and that feeling is definitely where this beat came from. I really felt like I’d gained a new understanding of the Black Star track which has always meant so much to me and makes me bug out every time hearing it, and I just felt like expressing that musically. The song is one of the maddest reflections on society and negative states of mind that trap people, so it was the introspective/melancholy vibe of the sample that made me know I wanted to flip it. I was also pretty set on putting this verse over it, there aren’t many Black Star verses out there, and at the time I didn’t have many 12” acapellas, and Deck’s lyrics fit perfectly with the mood. 

I definitely rushed the original mix for this beat, at the time I made it the floppy drive on my MPC wasn’t working, so I couldn’t save beats and had to record a final mix out into audacity the same day I made them. The sample sounds nice but the drums aren’t layered very well and don’t really fit in the mix. Also the vocal is a bit quiet, so since I dropped it I’ve been a bit disappointed with it and wanted to rework it ( https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/life-is-hectic-2 ). It was such a nice sample that I got multiple flips out of it, I originally picked two for when I uploaded this remix, bringing the alternate flip in for the outro after Deck’s verse. For this rework I decided to try and combine them both together, using the main loop for the highs, and filtering the second loop as a bassline to layer under it, giving the track more variation without drastically changing the loop throughout Deck’s verse, which I tried when originally remixing this but it was too jarring. I think the two melodies work well together, it gives the beat an interesting vibe, and I think it works in adding subtle variation to the track. One night while I was working on this my brother was watching an episode of the Sopranos in another room, and I had soloed the beat without the C.R.E.A.M. verse to see how the bass levels sounded on speakers, and the dialogue of the scene was fitting mad well with the beat. I had to ask him what episode it was from, and ripped the audio from a clip on youtube to use as an outro at the end of the track, chopping out the dialogue which I thought was relevant to the track. 

Peace and thanks for listening.

Ways Of The World

REWORK OF https://soundcloud.com/tsuki_uzu
https://soundcloud.com/tsuki_uzu/who-am-i-ep-3
https://soundcloud.com/tsuki_uzu/who-am-i-ep-3
https://soundcloud.com/tsuki_uzu/who-am-i-ep-3
https://soundcloud.com/tsuki_uzu/who-am-i-ep-3
https://soundcloud.com/tsuki_uzu/who-am-i-ep-3

april. [rewrk_]

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Preorder 10"Vinyl - 300 copies: fanlink.to/wuntwo

Wun Two rummaged in his archives and we are very happy that "Old Fruits" is now seeing the light of day. At the production time of his well-known lo-fi classics Penthouse & Ships, his sound was heavily influenced by J Dilla. And you can also hear that clearly at this upcoming release. And now enjoy these ten old tasty fruits on the new album by wun two.

wun two - banana

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0hgPKLvkDJjYT3QpQkBv0d?si=e640c12a34ad456f
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/who-the-is-you-instrumental/1606144794?i=1606144795
Bandcamp: https://tapehead.bandcamp.com/track/who-the-is-you

Instrumental for: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/who-the-is-you

These beats were mad fun to make, they were actually done as a sample challenge with friends, it was a Japanese funk album (I'll be finding the sample for a beat breakdown for sure), and I took these chops from a song that stood out to me. Originally they sounded nothing like this though, I was trying to flip them at the normal pitch and it sounded OK, but I wasn't really happy with it, so I decided to try pitching it down. I experimented a bit and eventually decided to go crazy and pitched it down as far as the MPC would let me, which really brought out the bass of the sample and made it into something completely different, so I chopped it up again. I was then able to get these two flips out of it, and was very happy with the outcome, I love making heavy beats like this and 9 times out of 10 it's a result of pitching a sample down loads, like what Havoc did with Shook Ones Part 2. Really looking forward to doing a breakdown of this one to show what I mean, until then: peace!

Who The ? Is You (Instrumental)

90.0 Bpm
Artwork by keo_xmen
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Spotify: spoti.fi/2t219f0
Apple: apple.co/2LLdKej
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cover art by my friend @roi-u-alcocat

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dont rap over any of my beats please.

Some REAL hiphop shit. I fuck with the mpc 60, 2000xl, and 2000 classic, and an s900

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