MF DOOM Remix Album Out Now: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/doomsday-tribute-tapehead-remixes-full-album

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from 'Go With The Flow (Raw Rhymes)' by MF DOOM

Visuals:https://youtu.be/MHjCxDxCUec

Old mix: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/just-go-with-the-flow

Operation Doomsday is probably my favourite MF DOOM album (it’s hard to say really, Vaudeville Villain is a close second). Being a huge old school hip hop fan, when I first heard the album it blew me away with how innovative everything was, whilst being ridiculously raw and authentically 90s sounding. There’s something about DOOM in this period which is just different, he was making music for the pure love of it, was homeless at some points, and you can just hear that this album was born out of sheer passion to keep on with music to continue what he and his brother started, and what they had planned. It’s always resonated with me.

For this remix I used the Extended Raw Rhymes version of Go With The Flow from the deluxe version of the album. I first remixed this back in 2020 and wanted to update the mix for the album. DOOM just sounds so hungry here with MF GRIMM backing him up, and the style is so authentic and genuine, it oozes real deal hip hop. GRIMMs adlibs make the track even harder to me, you can really feel the sense of comradery between the two, and of course the scratches on the beat are just nuts.

Hope people enjoy this new version of the mix - want to try and release as little of the brand new stuff Ive been making as possible until the album drops - Peace!

Go With The Flow (Raw Rhymes Remix)

Track 4 from the DOOMSDAY Tribute Album: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/doomsday-tribute-tapehead-remixes-full-album

Instrumental: 
https://open.spotify.com/track/2u15R5jB37CQe0LXGEdYIH?si=b6c9d8364a7c4df5
https://music.apple.com/us/album/bad-dreams-gas-drawls/1651521860?i=1651521864
https://tapehead.bandcamp.com/track/bad-dreams-gas-drawls

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals  from 'Gas Drawls' by MF DOOM 

Visuals: https://youtu.be/jJp3q_eCZOQ

This is one of my favourites from the album - the original is one of my all time favourite tracks, so I was very happy with how this remix turned out. Ive always loved how grimey the verses are, and I wanted to emphasise that with the beat. Didn't want to try and re-do a grimey piano beat for this though, instead went for a grand sort of vibe with strings and some crazy echoing keys, I was gassed with how it turned out. Also wanted the bass to hit hard on this so I added some extra layers to make sections of the verses hit harder. Had to chop up the same iconic 'get out of my life woman drums', and went all out as always when layering them to get that fat sound. 

Peace!!

Bad Dreams (Gas Drawls)

Instrumental for: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/bad-dreams-gas-drawls

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2u15R5jB37CQe0LXGEdYIH?si=b6c9d8364a7c4df5
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/bad-dreams-gas-drawls/1651521860?i=1651521864
Bandcamp: https://tapehead.bandcamp.com/track/bad-dreams-gas-drawls

One of my personal favourite beats from the album, I knew I wanted to remix Gas Drawls and I had a rough idea of the kind of beat I wanted to make for it. The first flip I worked out with just the bassline reminded me of the laid back intro to Gas Drawls with the Steely Dan vocals, but I knew I wanted to switch it up in a big way to create some proper atmosphere for DOOM's verses. This sample was perfect for that, the melody of the strings was crazy to me, but it was those echoing sounds which I layered ontop that really made the beat for me, I love adding elements like that to beats and especially in this case I thought it worked perfectly with adding to that grand sort of vibe. The mix ended up really really thick here too, I wanted to make the drums fat so had to layer up the sample too, definitely ended up with a hard hitting sort of feel.

Bad Dreams [Gas Drawls] (Instrumental)

Instrumental for: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/ladies-remix

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2Xb90zbyAvh8bYRuqT2zdd
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/making-love-shadows/1654462882?i=1654462883
Bandcamp: https://tapehead.bandcamp.com/track/making-love-shadows

I think it’s cool how here the beat is initially quite happy sounding and carefree, the piano definitely is not sad melodically. When I was chopping up the sax parts of the sample I knew it would change the vibe. I tried to structure the melodies and layering throughout the beat to give it a journey, with the ‘making love to a shadow’ vocals coming in towards the end as the track crescendos. I will say I’m glad I gave this one more variation, not just one vibe for the whole track, instead fluctuating from hopeful melodies to more aggressive sad ones.

Making Love (Shadows)

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Keep It On

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beat 204 (dorian)

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Keep Movin‘ Intro

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Bad Dreams [Gas Drawls] (Instrumental)

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