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old school

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

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from 'Trouble In The Water Acapella' by De La Soul and DJ Honda

Visuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2auRPCFGxv0


I’ve been listening to a lot of disco recently, 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 that I wanted to put this acapella over, because it fit the really melancholic vibe of the sample. 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, but it still fit the trouble in the water acapella crazily, I think it works because De La Soul have always experimented and innovated beyond conventions, so this different approach fit their style well.

Because I pitched the sample up so much this was unbelievably long to mix, the high pitch gave it so much next resonance which was too harsh to listen to, so it was a real challenge to lessen that without losing all of the highs and making the track sound muddy, because that completely clashes with the vibe its going for. I think it came out OK, its definitely an interesting outcome, I’m not really sure how I feel about it. Also the record I took the acapella from is pretty beat up, which made this even harder to mix, there’s tons of vinyl crackle which sounds awful (especially on some S sounds in the vocal) and basically gave the vocals the same problem as the sample. I cleaned it up as best I could and I think they both sound good together, not too muddy etc, but I’m for sure going to buy a copy of the acapella in better condition in the future, and do a cleaner mix of this track, but for now I’m happy with how this turned out.

200th upload

Don't Sink

who got tha flava'?

Cortez

loveu

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Highland

f*€k(prod.Kona)

literally the worst constructed beat compilation. I have no snare variety.
i hate this one in particular its so bad holy shit
1. Intro (literally just the black cat intro)
2. Indian Music I think (reloh singing)
3. Confused
4. Biting Knxwledge (unorignal)
5. Tyler Flip 😐 
6. Pogo
7. Light w/ @risene
8. What the fuck 
9. Chinese Song
10. Loop #7375
11. Outro
Cover Art by Kaeru
Aesthetic Inspired by Lain, Suicryo, Onryu, Pablo, $P0KKY, I forgot. @sephiraware

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Original photo Captured By Cognito For #CultureCaptureChamps

13 track beattape, free for everyone. 

download at https://taikunlofi.bandcamp.com/album/doom

"the villain never dies."

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9eCh4G18e8

**** v4 updated the master, RC-20 compression, double tracking, best mix <3

*** v3 updated the mix, wider, fat kicks, new break// updated vocal stem panning

DOOM...

DOOM... [full tape out now on bandcamp]

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Shoe Fly Pie

back to honshu [japan mix]

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from ‘Meat Grinder Acapella’, ‘Raedawn Acapella’, and ‘The Time We Faced Doom’ by MF DOOM/Viktor Vaughn

Visuals: https://youtu.be/9BO7hPGEwj8

I can’t think of anything to say about DOOM that hasn’t been said before, all I can do is thank him for inspiring me and countless others. There’s no doubt that I would never have thought about making music if I hadn’t heard his work, the way he approached Hip Hop was so unique and interesting, it really made it clear that anyone can do music if they want, no need to feel constricted by ‘rules’ or trends or anything, just do your own thing. Ontop of that, his workrate was crazily inspiring to me, I just couldn’t believe the amount of music he had out under different names, a lot of it released really close together too. When I first discovered DOOM and really looked into his discography I must have almost exclusively listened to his music for a year, it was that crazy to me and there really is that much of it ( I also was playing a lot of MF GRIMM, Quasimoto and Monsta Island Czars as a part of looking into artists he was affiliated with). 

I reworked these beats this time last year and just dropped that instrumental, but I’ve learnt a lot since then about mixing and mastering, so I thought I could improve on it a lot after relistening. The main thing that made me sure I wanted to use these beats though, was the way both creepshow flips blended together when I layered them, cause I knew it would elevate the potential of this remix, which I always thought was solid conceptually, cause DOOM really fits the comic style of the creepshow sample well. When I first made the beat years ago I had Meat Grinder over it, then when I reworked it I changed it to a Viktor Vaughn acapella, so for this upload I wanted to combine the two, updating the Meat Grinder remix and then having Viktor Vaughn over the switch up. What got me the most excited though was how I managed to fit ‘The Time We Faced Doom’ over the beat at the end, seeing as that’s the intro to my personal favourite MF DOOM album, it felt like a nice way to end this tribute.

Here's the older versions for comparison:
https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/change-the-beat-creepshow-mix
https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/meat-grinder

Really hope people enjoy this one, all I’m trying to do here is honour DOOM as an artist and pay respect to the music he made, and just show how much he always has, and continues to inspire me.

Peace

DOOMSDAY

Places

when roses cry

DMX-Who We Be

LUNCH TIME FEATURING GOTTI BENZ (OFFICIALLYONYOUTUBE)

Wu Tang Clan - Protect Ya Neck (1993)

Feat. Method Man
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/method-man-official 

Ali Shaheed Muhammad
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/alishaheed 

#methodman #lukecage #netflix #marvel #adrianyounge #alishaheedmuhammad

Luke Cage

Bulletproof Love (From “Luke Cage”/Soundtrack Version) [feat. Method Man]

Watch Now

HOW HIGH ft METHOD MAN

R.I.P. to the greatest to ever hold the mic.

villain.madley

some phonk inspired and old school shi
original cover photo courtesy of @aidenleft
much love to everyone that helped me with this project!

Free download @ bandcamp: 
https://nahmama.bandcamp.com/album/late-night-lawson

Tracklist:
0:00    1. Intro
0:29    2. Sixty Racks
2:21    3. Till The End
4:23    4. Keep A Stick On Me
6:14    5. GIMM_K
8:42    6. Slowed Up (Interlude
9:36    7. Darlin'
10:49  8. Beer Run (Interlude)
11:32  9. DAZED
14:00  10. Your Love
16:09  11. Drake n Josh
18:05  12. Push To Start
21:07  13. Loaded V2

Late Night Lawson EP

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