sum nyc tyoe shi right here bro i fw it 🔥🔥🔥

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2eI0R64DEMhcDjDJSOC88Y?si=2c70467dd1eb46a9
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/scars-instrumental/1579972136?i=1579972137

Instrumental for: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/artifacts-chat

This is a rework of the first beat I ever recorded a song over back in December 2017( https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/scars ). Recording over this beat back in 2017 was a huge moment in my life, in terms of working out what I really wanted and who I wanted to be. I was bugging back then, but that experience opened a lot of doors mentally, and helped me rediscover a passion which I was losing. This beat was actually really difficult to remix and remaster, the levels on the original flip are really really bad so it took a lot of work to get it to fit with the sound of my newer drums, which are mixed in a very different way. I think it paid off though and I’m a lot happier with how the beat sounds, especially the way I layered the sample in the chorus to give the track a bit more variation, because it is just a 2-bar loop, so I decided to filter it for most of the track and bring in the highs occasionally, so the loop didn’t get boring.

Peace.

Scars (Instrumental)

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

hotbox

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/57jDdmkuvhUoXeRegnEFyC?si=1b2a8b9977344fa0
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/dead-on-earth-instrumental/1592352003?i=1592352004

Instrumental for: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/dead-on-earth

I made both these beats back in 2018, sampling the movie ‘Day Of The Dead’, which in essence is a movie about hell on earth. I’d seen Night Of The Living Dead and Dawn Of The Dead a few times before, but I never really knew about Day Of The Dead which didn’t do as well as those other two. It’s the final film in the original trilogy of zombie films by George Romero though, so I figured I’d check this one. (I’d only say check it if you rate the other two) The movie is absolutely bugged, maybe the goriest film I’ve ever seen, it genuinely shocked me the first time I watched it it was that next, but what really stood out to me was the soundtrack, from the first opening theme I started paying attention cause the sounds were hitting crazily, and after I watched it I looked up the soundtrack straight away to see what I could sample. The whole soundtrack was crazy to me, not just one theme, the whole score for different scenes and moods in the film was mad atmospheric and emotional, I must have made at least 5 beats out of it over the next few days.

At the time I was in a very different place, I was very deep into production having been sober since December 2017. It wasn't easy staying sober at first especially seeing as my housemates still got waved, especially in the evening when I would normally have smoked into the early hours. I knew I wanted to stay sober because of how much happier I was, but it helped to distract myself from the vices that were around me, so each evening I was watching all the films that I used to enjoy watching before I started smoking and pushed that past-time aside in favour of getting high. The evening I watched Day Of The Dead was crazy and the soundtrack really did connect with me, I was spending mad time reflecting on the way I used to live, and these beats were completely born out of that reflection, I wanted to express those negative feelings and memories through the music so I was flipping the darker parts of the soundtrack with most emotion. The best way I can show that is through the lyrics that I originally wrote over the first beat: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/without

Now all these years later, it feels really nice to be able to revisit these beats and make a proper remix with them. For the video I decided to use visuals from the film, which I thought would make sense seeing as most of the beats are sampled from the soundtrack. I tried to make a cohesive video that acts as a miniature version of the film, mainly focusing on the characters finding the ‘hell on earth’, trying to escape it underground, and ultimately getting trapped and overrun. I hope people enjoy this one, it’s definitely got a unique vibe to it, and I had a lot of fun reworking these beats and making something out of them.

Thanks for reading and listening

Dead On Earth (Instrumental)

92.0 Bpm
Artwork by Mode2
Added vocals: Shabaam Sahdeeq 

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Contact: tapeheadloops@gmail.com

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

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Dead On Earth (Instrumental)

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