I just add 'em, as I hear 'em, if I like 'em. That's it.
There's no need to over complicate this description shit.
Pt. 2

Lofi Rap Remix Pt.2

boomBappp

RAW BEATS vol.III

Tapehead

✯𝕭𝖆𝖉𝖀𝖌𝖑𝖞✯

RAP USA-UK

Instrumental: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/ojays-crooklyn-instrumental

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals and scratches from ‘Crooklyn Acapella’ by The Crooklyn Dodgers (Special Ed, Buckshot, Masta Ace)

Visuals: https://youtu.be/XfAU77At4aw

This is a rework of the first beat I ever made back in 2016. I made it the day I got my hands on an MPC2000, which I had to collect from Angel tube station in London. I remember sitting on the train with the MPC on my lap, getting looks from strangers, and just being so excited to even own one. I was a month away from starting university, and wanted to learn how to produce in my free time whilst away from home. For the past 5 years I had completely immersed myself in old school hip hop (particularly east coast), listening to every artist I could find, educating myself with Stretch and Bobbito shows I found on tape and youtube, and my heart was completely set on learning how to make beats in this style.

I'd prepared myself for weeks by watching hours and hours of MPC2000 tutorial videos on youtube, so I knew exactly how to use its basic functions to chop samples and sequence them. I knew that hip hop beats were made by sampling genres like jazz and soul, so in the weeks before actually buying an MPC, I went around charity shops looking for records from these genres, and found a few, but none stood out to me. My Nan was kind enough to lend me some of her old soul 45s, which was such a blessing. It was her copy of 'A Prayer' by the O'Jays that I ended up using for my first beat: I made the whole thing using this one record, I didn’t know much about breaks records back then, and manged to find drums in this song that I chopped to sequence myself. 

I remember how much I enjoyed the whole experience, from the excitement and anticipation of chopping up the sample, to the creative joy of actually sequencing it all and putting the beat together. It really was different and I'd never enjoyed anything as much before in my life, and at the time I was just excited to keep doing it, and to keep progressing.

Im too excited to finally have reworked this beat, I’ve tried doing it a few times but was never happy with the new drums I added, but this week I had another go and finally had something I was happy with. I was always happy with how the Crooklyn acapella flowed over the beat, so I kept that mostly the same, and just focused on mixing and mastering it better. 

Hope people enjoy this one, the beat means a lot to me and I’m glad to finally share an improved version. Peace!

Original upload: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/crooklyn-kids

Brooklyn's The Borough

Instrumental: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/relaxed-instrumental

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals and scratches from 'Relax Your Mind Acapella' by T-Max

Visuals: https://youtu.be/FvWxa4CYFaI

It's always nice when you get 2 flips from a sample which gel together. Here I filtered both flips to act as a bassline for the beat in different parts of the track, giving the sample more weight and flavour by combining the best bits of each, it's something I've been trying to do in most beats I make now and I definitely focused on it here, trying to give the track more variation and progression as well as building the vibe of what made the sample stand out to me.

When I made this beat I knew I'd need a laid back acapella to go over it. I tried a few Masta Ace verses from the acapella LP but I wasn't really sure. I tried this acapella from T-Max and was gassed with how his flow sounded, it fit well with the drums and sounded very very different to the last remix I did with the acapella, and it fit the laid back vibe of the beat perfectly. I was considering making the drums laid back but I decided to make them hit hard, partly cause the sample didn't have much low end so I needed the drums to fill out the mix. 

Peace and thank you for listening!

Relaxed

Instrumental: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/watch-your-back-instrumental

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from 'Rainbows Acapella' by MF DOOM as Madvillain

Visuals: https://youtu.be/DTGcv762Tzk

Original upload: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/drainin-them

I remember when I originally flipped this sample I thought it had a real wild west vibe to it, the guitar just had that feel to me and I flipped it in a way that chopped it up even more, cause the notes had that short staccato quality to them which I wanted to exaggerate in the beat. 

I originally wanted to put 'Rhinestone Cowboy' over this beat for that reason, but I couldn't get the flow to match well so I started looking at other DOOM acapellas, cause I thought he'd fit the beat well regardless. I tried loads of acapellas, chopping them all up to get the flow right on the beat, and even though they fit, I still wasn't 100% sure. For about 2 days this week I was set on this track being a remix of Money Folder, cause I thought the subject matter fit the cowboy sound well, but after working on the mix for 2 days I wasn't really feeling it anymore. I didn't initially think Rainbows would sound good over this beat so I didn't actually try it until that day, and was immediately way more excited about how that sounded, cause the notes DOOM sings fit really well with the notes on the sample, and in my opinion the subject matter actually fits the vibe of the beat well too. It also worked out well that DOOMs laid back 'singing' style contrasted against the staccato sample, so both of them stood out to me in a way that both complemented each other. Even though it took a bit of experimentation I ended up happy with how this one turned out, hope people enjoy it too.

Peace and thank you for listening!

Watch Your Back

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

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from 'Question (Extended Raw Rhymes Version)' by MF DOOM and Kurious

Visuals: https://youtu.be/lxUNK3th8yA

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. There’s something about DOOM in this period which is just different to me, 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.

This acapella is the Extended Raw Rhymes version of Question from the deluxe version of the album. I've actually tried to remix this a couple of times, and each time I went straight to the main verses and skipped DOOM and Kurious freestyling at the start. For this beat I thought it fit a kind of stripped down freestyle vibe cause it has that rugged feel to it, so I tried their freestyles over this beat and was immediately bugging out and have just been mad motivated to work on this throughout the week. The freestyle just sounded right over the beat to me, DOOM's flow is so crazy cause he's not really trying too hard, just coming at the beat with mad style and aggression which works crazily, and is definitely something that I hear all over Operation Doomsday. 

This beat has always had 2 flips, so I thought it would make sense to switch the beat up when DOOM and Kurious finished freestyling and started their verses from Question. I didn't want to remix the last verse because I think it's too emotional for this kind of beat, and I've already got an idea for how I'll be remixing that in the future. 

Really hope people enjoy this one, peace and thank you for listening.

For anyone interested, here's the original mix on this beat: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/one-love-1

Who The ? Is You

Instrumental: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/when-i-die-instrumental

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from ‘Suicidal Thoughts Acapella’ by The Notorious B.I.G.

Visuals: https://youtu.be/P6gDNFEKKKc
 
I don’t think I’ve actually ever remixed this acapella before, it’s such a serious verse and subject matter so I’ve always been hesitant about working with it cause I wouldn’t want to do something that didn’t work. I had a few other beats that I was trying this verse over, all of them were sad piano melodies, but I felt like this one fit the acapella best. Originally I don’t think the beat was super sad, I actually originally made it to celebrate finishing a coursework deadline, but I pitched it down to fit the tone of Biggie’s vocals better, and with this verse ontop it really brought out the sadder side to the melody I flipped for the beat. 

I remember when I first heard this track when I was younger it sounded pretty over the top, and I didn’t really understand what made it so powerful, but it was definitely hard to listen to. Now I’m older the track still stands out, but I get why Biggie made it, and it for sure wasn’t to be shocking or over the top, you can tell he was just using lyrics and spitting as therapy to the fullest, really going deep on it. That’s something I can relate to crazily, whenever I write lyrics I’m always looking at the negatives just to come to terms with what I’m feeling and express the emotions to get them off my chest. I’ve never felt like Biggie did on this track, and it’s sad to hear he had suicidal thoughts of course, but in my opinion, it’s mad inspiring and positive that he made a track about it, 100% way better than keeping the feelings inside and not speaking on it, and to be honest, without that inspiration I’m not sure if I ever would have been as vivid and honest with myself in how I write my own lyrics. I wanted to try and build on that emotional release in the beat I chose to remix this over, and really went all out on the low end to try and emphasize the weight of what he’s saying, and how hard it must have been to actually write and record too. Hopefully that shows in the remix, peace.

Here's the original mix of the beat for comparison: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/proud-to-be-alive

When I Die

Instrumental: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/freestyle-instrumental

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from ‘Freestyle Acapella’ by Masta Ace

Visuals: https://youtu.be/mitXyIvjWdU

Always love remixing Masta Ace acapellas, and I was very lucky to find the acapella LP whilst out digging recently. I’ve always thought this acapella would be a great one to remix, cause the fact that Ace is freestyling means that the style is really open to interpretation and could work in different ways on different beats, cause it’s more of a raw verse showing skills rather than a polished song which was written with a specific beat and vibe in mind. I chose these beats cause they both feel like ‘freestyle’ beats to me, by that I mean they’re beats which aren’t too focused on one specific emotion, and are more just about capturing that East Coast Hip Hop vibe, which always fits Ace super well, and I thought with this acapella in particular it would work well. 

Peace and thank you for listening!

Original mixes of these beats:
https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/come-get-it-rmx
https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/underground-science

Freestyle

Here's another sneak peak for you from the forthcoming Hello LP all made on the MPC60 with my man Glad2mecha on vocals.. Note this is a rough mp3 version, hope you enjoy thanks in advance for taking the time to listen!



Too Much - ft Glad2mecha

Produced by: Parental for Akromégalie Records
Written by: Pete Flux for Pete Flux Music LLC
Recorded by: Tommy Gunz at Eastwood Studios, Atlanta, GA
Cuts by: Venom for Marvel Records
Mixed by: Parental at Akromégalie Studio, Paris
Mastered by: K-Def (K. Hansford)

Order on:
Akromégalie Records - https://fluxparental.bandcamp.com/album/traveling-thought
HHV.DE - http://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/pete-flux-and-parental-de-kalhex-traveling-thought-354968
Ughh - http://ughh.com/pete-flux-parental-traveling-thought/PFP14EP/
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/traveling-thought/id804077903

Traveling Thought

Science

Haus & Baum proudly presents the second installment of the already legendary LE FLAH Tape Series! This time's featured beatmaker is INVHIDE, who delivers on point traditional boom bap beats with jazz samples, made with the Sp1200 and s950 classic combo, and is hailing from Lausanne.

SIDE A
01. Aqua
02. Look Alive
03. Rough Beat #1
04. Organ Crawl
05. Watch It Smoke
06. Rough Beat #2
07. On&On

All tracks have been mastered by FANU.
fanusamurai@gmail.com


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LE FLAH
http://www.facebook.com/LeFlahGetsBusy
http://www.soundcloud.com/le-flah
http://www.mixcloud.com/le_flah
http://www.instagram.com/le_flah

INVHIDE
http://soundcloud.com/invhide

STUDIO SIRUP
http://www.studiosirup.ch

HAUS & BAUM
http://hausundbaum.ch
http://www.facebook.com/HausundBaum
http://www.youtube.com/user/hausundba...
http://vimeo.com/hausundbaum
http://hausundbaum.bandcamp.com
http://instagram.com/hausundbaum
http://twitter.com/hausundbaum

download

INVHIDE - 3 Suns - Side A

The Dassler

A collaboration with the nicest German producer @bonesthebeathead! Hope you enjoy!

Maple Syrup & Bones The Beat Head - Midnight Vibes

MC Gels - Dreams Ft. Mc Shinobi & Sa.Mu.Ra (DJ Obsolete Remix)

getdis[$].

uknowhowwedo.

oj and vitamins.

cold steel.

head turning.

our debut compilation. hope you all enjoy.

tracklist:
(00:00–02:35)  kent_williams–now-is_the-time
(02:36–04:13)    sleepdealer–zzz
(04:14–05:53)    kubes–cloudy day tv
(05:54–07:44)   salmonbits–wader water
(07:45–10:13)      GOGDOG–drank_in_my_cup
(10:14–11:55)        oxela–pouring
(11:56–13:24)        fushou–curse
(13:25–14:44)       zchry–dazed
(14:45–16:00)      sirisaacnewton–sinkin'


GOGDOG on the mix. 
zchry with the art.

beat.compilation_1

all my new shit is gonna be on https://soundcloud.com/jippy_dude2 (for now)

i'll still repost the new stuff here, and also comment/operate from this account. thanks for listening

this joint is off the recent beat tape 09:
https://soundcloud.com/jippy_dude2/beat-tape-09
https://jippy.bandcamp.com/track/definition-of-ill

DEFINITION OF ILL

Queens, NY
Produced by Esco
westxside@gmail.com

Nitty Gritty Southside - Tru-Grain (Esco Remix)

Follow on Youtube

The Basement Remix

ΤΗ ΨΥΧΗ ΕΠ ΩΜΟΥ

ΚΙΤΡΙΝΟ

STREAM NEW ALBUM

[TAPE] SUMMER WAVES VOL. I

Lofi Phonk / Trap remix of Pick It Up by Famous Dex ft. ASAP Rocky
also on youtube: https://youtu.be/d3BdBdTBLwk

Geekin'

pre-order cassette & digital here: kadv.bandcamp.com/album/more-jazz-loops

MoreJazzLoops... 
14 instrumental album with 2 bonus remixes. 
old and new beats and cuts with that jazzy funk flavor. 
sit back relax and enjoy the vibes! 

all beats produced by: wa [theBBNZ] 
all cuts performed by: mechs 
mix, programming: wa [theBBNZ], mechs 
cover design: theDscrew
 
sc: soundcloud.com/wabbnz 
inst: instagram.com/babanzdigga 
fb: facebook.com/diggingsolidcrates

kick a dope verse! © 2019

dsc - more jazz loops [snippet mix] [pre-order cassette now]

yes indeedy

Track B4 taken from the compilation instrumental album called 'Boom Bap Overdose' produced by @Remulakbeats .

Get a copy of the 12" vinyl: https://bit.ly/2KUcCXG
Stream / Listen / Download: https://bit.ly/2RN7M2O

Funkypseli Cave Records・2020

Boom Bap Overdose

Narnia

Remulak - Narnia

YO YO 
my second instrumental 7 inch vinyl with some raw sp1200 beats in full effect ready to play!!! 
check bandcamp vor the vinyl!!
thanks for the support and one love!!
https://changkeejazz.bandcamp.com

B SIDE - ROUTE

Photo was taken by : https://www.instagram.com/k.golyadkin.313/
Final touches on the mix made by : https://soundcloud.com/zod-beats

Samarian Gold

J.H. Drums Vol 1 ZIP >> www.patreon.com/posts/j-h-drums-v…source=storefront

https://jordan1852.bandcamp.com/album/cassette-26

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/67FOuNGeUTSoRXIaV6tw0S?si=9GykhDcGRC-qfgnYwOwCdw

Cassette #26 (BeatTape)

Beatmaker / Emcee
Contact: tapeheadloops@gmail.com

<--MPC2000 Classic                     

Underground Airplay

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

Peace