Place Of Retreat

Lonely Place

Chris Cross - Lonely Place

Boom Bap Back Like It Never Left Vol 1

https://open.spotify.com/intl-pt/track/3BnzH8cPwXxJTF5l3MWCjn?si=2eaea2927dc748f8

051122 ( now on spotify )

Ill Al Skratch 'Funky Piano' Remix: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/drop-the-sound

I first tried to flip this sample when I was working late. I couldn’t get anything to work so I left it, was a bit frustrated at the time but I held onto the sample cause I knew I had to have another go. There was too much potential to give up on it, just needed to have another listen with a fresh perspective.

Very very happy to have gone back to it to make this beat. I actually flipped the second progression of the beat with the more upbeat feel first, then filtered that to see if I could layer any other chop over to have the filter act as a bassline melody. Always love when that works out, cause the more subtle piano chops worked perfect ontop of the filtering, really lost my mind when making this one. For me when piano based beats are good they’re hard to beat, just something about that instrument over drums is great to me. The way the filtered melodies blended with the more subtle keys really gave the beat a lot of depth and emotion, and I was then crazy motivated to keep on with adding a bit more layering to give the track more variation. Had to make the string chops a  bigger part of the instrumental, couldn't just have them at the end like with the remix.

Peace and thank you always for listening. Mad happy with how this one turned out defo proud of it, hope people enjoy it too.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1zuhT9Vn0zPevLJDsPBTH6?si=fc61ef8872bc4f95
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/piano-sound/1688385205?i=1688385206
Bandcamp: https://tapehead.bandcamp.com/track/piano-sound

Piano Sound

Blue Check (Prod. FUYU)

Took quite a while to flip this one, luckily the acapella sounded right over the beat straight away, they both have a nice full sound which made them blend well. I feel like Jungle Brothers are pretty underrated considering how many great albums they put out since the 80s, this album especially is dope cause they really managed to stay fresh, some real standout tracks from 1997 on the album, especially the track with Q Tip and De La Soul. Hope people like the more positive upbeat vibe of this one, thanks for listening!

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from 'Brain Acapella' by Jungle Brothers

Visuals: https://youtu.be/RSIwPSKMhoY

Brain Flames

KY Baccroadz

This beat was pretty long to flip cause of the way the hi hats were in the sample, loads of 16 and maybe even 32 note rolls, which made it a bit tough to sequence whilst keeping a consistent tempo. I had to really experiment with what drums I used cause some sounds would clash with the drums in the sample, defo glad I took my time with it cause I'm really happy with how the drums ended up sounding on this one. 

The beat has that kind of vibe which I thought would fit a pretty grimey acapella, this one from Onyx is too dope, one of my favourite songs of theirs and definitely my all time favourite album from them, 100% in my top 20 Hip Hop albums, just such an enjoyable listen all the way through. I didn't remix all the verses for this one, the middle two are great verses but the flow wasn't quite geling with the drum pattern like the first and last verses, so I decided to just remix them this time round. I have remixed those middle verses before, another one which I'm still proud of, very different vibe though so it was cool to tap into more of the hardcore feel for this one. Here's the link to the other remix: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/lifetime-impression

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from 'All We Got Iz Us (Evil Streets) Acapella' by Onyx

Visuals: https://youtu.be/srF5v-PWMSM

All We Got

Thought the title fit well here, the flow of the beat fit well with the flow of the acapella imo. Always loved this track since I heard it dropped on a Stretch & Bobbito show, such a cool feature from Jeru on the record, his intros and outros to the track have a real dope vibe it's hard to pin point why but they just give the track a lot more flavour to me. Hope people like the vibe of this remix, very different to the original: I also left out the first verse cause that has a bit more of serious vibe which I didn't think fit the carefree style of this beat. Peaaaceee

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from 'When I Flow Acapella' by Walkin' Large ft Jeru The Damaja

Visuals: https://youtu.be/wIKhFJZzck0

Flow

Rebuild The World

Listen 2 The Player Across Various Platforms 

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/smoke-face-player/1748017564

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3DMYXpZfAGO12bJgDnTEND?si=yPM3FxewTVujJLR5A5uY6A

YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCmjfqlbqSaXid3uqACMvG9w?si=JlmioW_wInhtMhDk

Nothing But Bars

Beatmaker / Emcee
Contact: tapeheadloops@gmail.com

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Underground Airplay

Trying to give something back to Hip Hop - really appreciate any comments or feedback.

Peace