@hightopsfeed: word say no more g I've added it to my list of ones to do, can't lie this defo isnt one I would have thought to do

The Upload

wit tha flava

a throwaway from april but it grew on me somehow

doesn't matter

[slowed motions]

Art remember

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/41IFWwfQmazoGRI0Uok0Fl?si=388814988411445d
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/lifetime-impression-instrumental/1585999527?i=1585999528

Instrumental for: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/lifetime-impression

I had to go all out when I mixed this beat. The drums are all layered so thick, there’s about 4 hi hats, 6 kicks, and 6 snares which are all mixed together to give the drums weight. The way I chopped this sample left some vocals in for split seconds, which sounded like scratches because of them being right at the end of a chop and cut off, like how a fader cuts out a scratch when the DJ spins a record back. I thought this sounded cool but it only happened once in each 2 bar loop of the sample, so I decided to add some of my own scratches from a few break records I have. I used ‘Super Seal’, and recorded some scratches of snares and the famous ‘yo’ sample at the BPM of the beat. Layered with the drums this sounded crazy to me, it gave the beat a different vibe, I’ve definitely said before how much I love how scratching sounds, and it was cool to incorporate it into this beat in a more permanent, less obvious way, not just something for the hook. I also layered the sample 3 times, 2 filters, one high one low, and a standard mix, which I layered, soloed etc throughout the track. This was unbelievably long to do without quantization (which is how I flipped the sample originally), so all 3 had to perfectly match each other, which took hours to sequence. I fully kept giving up but knew the beat needed the layers on the sample to really do it justice (especially the groove that’s added by filtering the lows), so I just stuck by it, and sequenced each chop individually, so I was hitting the pad at the exact right time, which ended up with the beat sequence being 30 tracks on the MPC (they’re usually 15 or so). It was definitely necessary to do this, because the contrast of the smooth flows of the low end to the scratches and samples really gives the track variation, and gives it a lot more presence throughout, definitely was worth the time and effort.

Peace!

Lifetime Impression (Instrumental)

NÜ & Kayli Marie - afraid of change [now on Spotify]

Japanese Hip Hop beat
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Fuji

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/59zSt2aPBMk6PGULiFiSie?si=9544ffca413a4fdc
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/dont-sink-instrumental/1588134483?i=1588134484

Instrumental for: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/dont-sink

I’ve still been listening to a lot of funk and disco since I made this beat. It started by digging through songs to sample but then I was just enjoying it so much I immersed myself in the genre for a bit. This beat samples a disco song, and originally when I first chopped and sequenced it, I pitched down the sample by -90 on the MPC (which is a lot), to make a really grimey sounding beat. However when I revisited the beat this week after listening to a lot of disco, I decided to completely change what I did; the sample sounded too distorted for how pitched down it was, and because of that it was basically impossible to mix it well. Whilst experimenting with how to fix it I decided to just do the inverse of what I’d done, and pitched the sample up by +90 on the MPC, and worked out completely new sequences for the melody and bassline. This made a way more upbeat track.

Peace

Don't Sink (Instrumental)

check full-length visuals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj5fiRqK4Xs

spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6wf9djJK72IYE4PHx7Jfmo?si=_NMPiowgTqewIq3kGdFYBw
shop my drumkits: http://upperclasslofi.sellfy.store

free EP download: https://upperclasslofi.bandcamp.com/track/nature-tape-i

Back in 2019, my parents gifted me their old VHS camera and I took it to the woods near the village where I grew up to try it out for the first time. I digitalised the tape a couple of weeks ago and really liked the footage, so I watched it in a loop on one side of the screen while producing beats on the other, and this little tape came out within just a couple of hours.

I kept it very minimal, only sampling recordings of me playing my vibraphone along with adding a simple drum line and a few bass notes. It was very enjoyable for me to go back to making beats in a much more simple way like I used to around 5 years ago, and the meditative & introspective vibe of the music blends really well with those amateur documentary-style visuals.

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SPOTIFY

NATURE TAPE I

(os la podéis bajar! hay un botón de descarga aquí en Soundcloud)

una de lofi con Ter

might make this private depending on how it does but i loved the sample.

fly me to the moon / 달로 나를 날려 보내주세요

some lazy ass beats i made in like 10 mins.

had to cut kanye verse short since there was some weird ambient noise

two words throwaway

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)

Dripping Desire - Dj Def Dealer 618.mp3

Very Hyman.wav

It's the D R E on D M T

Beatmaker / Emcee
Contact: tapeheadloops@gmail.com

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

Peace

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