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Lofi,chill beats and trap I vibe to(part 2)

Remixes

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Beautiful vibes

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

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead.
Vocals from ‘The Love Song Remix Acapella’ by Da Bush Babees, Mos Def and De La Soul.

Visuals: https://youtu.be/JskhIFkB-Hk

This beat was LONG to flip, took me multiple days of working on it for 8+ hours until I was happy it. I’d sped up the sample on my turntable to flip it around 90 BPM (originally it must have been 70 something), and based on the way I chopped it, it was looping at around 94 BPM. It was just one of those samples where it was from a more freeform part of a song which wasn’t necessarily constricted by one BPM or time signature, so even though my chops were looping at 94 BPM, certain notes and areas were out of time, which just took absolutely ages to fix. Essentially I had to listen to the track over and over across several days, working out which chops were out of time, and then chopping them up into one, two or even three more pieces depending on the issue, so I could sequence it myself and slightly adjust the timing to match the BPM and time signature of how I wanted to flip it. It was definitely worth it in the end, I was really happy with how the beat turned out. 

After the length of time it took to flip this beat I was mad grateful that the first acapella I tried over the beat was this one, I had a feeling it would match the tone of the sample. I have no real knowledge of music theory, so it’s always a nice surprise when the key of an acapella happens to be the same as a sample I flip for a beat. This is definitely the best that’s ever come together for me, it feels like every note Mos Def hits in the chorus is in key with the note of the chop which is playing in that moment, I’m just glad I happened to buy the record with this acapella a few days before I sat down to mix and master this beat, which kept it in my mind as a possibility to remix. I think it came together really well, as well as the acapella matching the beat tonally, I think the whole atmosphere, vibe and lyrical content that Mos Def went for perfectly blends with the beat, making it sound a bit less like a remix and more like an original song, which is always mad.

I’m also too happy with how the visuals turned out. There isn’t a video for the remix of The Love Song, so I initially tried using the video to the original, but it didn’t really fit because Mos Def actually spits a completely different chorus in that. This forced me to be more creative, and I was just watching other Mos Def music videos on mute with my beat in the background, seeing which ones fit the vibe best. I ended up choosing the visuals from UMI Says, which I chopped up in Davinci Resolve to play over my remix in a way that made sense. I think this really leveled up the visuals, its mad how well they both work together, but it does make a lot of sense given the themes of both tracks, I’m just happy to have been able to put this together.

Love

Instrumental: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/dont-mind-me-instrumental

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from ‘Money Folder Acapella’ by MF DOOM

Visuals: https://youtu.be/a81-toGlUWk

Back when I first flipped this sample I put the acapella from ‘Strange Ways’ over it cause I thought the beat fit DOOM’s style. Looking back though it’s clear that the vibe of the beat doesn’t really fit what DOOM’s talking about on that track, so I switched up my approach for this rework. I thought ‘Money Folder’ fit it way better, DOOM has a sort of carefree attitude on that track which I think goes with the beat, has a sort of go with the flow kind of vibe. I’ve been wanting to make this one for a long time now, I actually first put the Money Folder Acapella over this beat at the very start of the year when I was working on my first DOOM tribute track, and then left it for time as a rough concept idea. Now after spending this year really dedicating myself to music, I felt crazily motivated to revisit this idea and do it justice. I really am too grateful and humbled by all the support I’ve been getting throughout the year, and I’m now more than dedicated to keeping on and growing/improving as much as I can. To me this beat gives of that vibe of contentment and focus: knowing what you want to do and being in a blessed place doing it. It makes sense to me that I set up the ideas for this remix at the start of the year with that focus and grind to music in mind, and am now revisiting and releasing it after spending the year doing what I set out to do, if that makes sense. 

Peace and thank you for all the support and feedback, hope people enjoy the vibe of this one!

Original version: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/same-game

Don't Mind Me

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from ‘One Love Acapella’ by Nas and Q-Tip

Visuals: https://youtu.be/0CaM6Wp8zDY

I was considering dropping this last Sunday when I hit 1K subscribers, but it wasn’t quite ready, so I decided to leave it until this week. It’s given me enough time to properly arrange and mix this remix, which I was intending on dropping as a thank you to celebrate hitting that milestone, so it was actually nice to have a whole week to work on it after having hit 1k, cause that really put me in the zone to finish up this idea properly and do it as well as I could.

As soon as I started chopping ‘Love’ vocals out of this sample, I had a feeling I’d be remixing ‘One Love’ over it. Honestly, it might be my all-time favourite Hip Hop song, without a doubt top 5, and every time I remix it I want to go all out and make it as emotional as possible really, cause that’s what always stood out to me about this track. The last remix I did called ‘Watch Me Speak’ ( https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/watch-me-speak ) was a remix of the 3rd verse only, and for this one I decided to do the opposite and remix the 1st two verses. I didn’t actually intend this when I made the beat, but I also ended up chopping a melody that used the vocals ‘day’s have gone’, which in the song was talking about a relationship ending, but obviously translates to what Nas is talking about here too, in the sense that being locked up means you’re wasting days that are essentially gone, so it’s cool that it ended up working out like that cause it makes the remix more convincing and effective imo.

There’s a lot of layering in this beat, so much that it definitely won’t fit into a 1 minute short, so when I do a Behind The Beat for it that’ll have to be a normal video, so I might just go in on that one and go in depth on everything to really show the whole process, including drum layering etc. I was so motivated to flip this sample because it had so many nice melodies which were separated and very brief, so I wanted to combine my different flips to make new melodies out of the new melodies I already made and properly extend the parts of the sample which I thought were way too crazy to be so brief in the original song, it’s difficult to write down but hopefully when I show what I did it will make sense.

Peace and thank you for listening! I hope people enjoy this one, I’ve got a lot of music releasing over the coming weeks, including a 4 track EP which will be out on the 18th of February – One Love!

True Love (From The Heart & Soul)

All. Love. In. Complete. Encompassment.

Related Series: "The Duke Of Death And His Maid"

SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/azurenova
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AzureNova/featured
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AzureNovaOST
Bandcamp: https://azureillustrations.bandcamp.com/

#ALICE #thedukeofdeathandhismaid #valentinesday

ALICE

@khloeautumn @na_yr ya'll always keep me going💖💖💖
1. Tryna Beat A Case W/KhloeAutmn
2. Show Me W/Nayr
3.  In The Club
4. I Get Those

DREAMS (TAPE) W/ KHLOEAUTUMN & NAYR

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from ‘Wrong Side Of Da Tracks Acapella’ by Artifacts

Visuals: https://youtu.be/J-sYmg7qlEk

Like the ‘Ill Street Blues’ remix I uploaded recently, this is one of the first remix concepts I put together back when I first started producing. I was too happy with the flip of the sample, and it immediately brought this acapella to mind, so I layered it on top and was mad happy with how they sounded together. Back then I didn’t focus on drums or have any real mixing or mastering experience, so it was very rough and not put together well, but the idea always shone through to me. I actually reworked this beat last year, but pitched it down and only had the Artifacts hook over it because there was so much resonance in the verses, and I had no idea how to mix vocals back then. Now that I’ve been mixing vocals for over a year it felt like a good time to revisit this one and finally do a full rework of the idea, so I decided to have the normal pitch to start and then lower the pitch for the second verse. I also went all out filtering this one, cause to me the sample always stood out for the warm vibe the low end had, and I wanted to really focus and exaggerate that by filtering and boosting those frequencies in this mix.

Original rough mix: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/wrong-side
2020 rework: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/wrong-side-1

Peace and thank you for listening!

Wrong Side

Laidback

Squidward’s Tiki Land Remix | Trap Instrumental Beat ( Tiki Tiki )

Instrumental: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/top-illin-instrumental

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from ‘Gazzillion Ear Acapella’ by MF DOOM

Visuals: https://youtu.be/xXRrNEMQA6o

This flip took a while to get right, I was trying to be more creative with the way I flipped the sample. It was crazy on it’s own (and I kept longer chops to use with the vocal flip that comes in second), but for the main flip I wanted to make a melody from chops in-between the vocals, which is always fun and gives the beat a very different vibe to the original sample. It also took a long time to layer both the flips I made, but I'm definitely glad I persevered with it.

I felt like the finished beat ended up having a cartoonish vibe with an upbeat melody, so I immediately went to DOOM acapellas which I thought could fit over it. I chose Gazzillion Ear because DOOM is really having fun on that one, loads of cool punchlines different flows and switchups, which I thought would work well here. It just feels like the kind of beat made for an emcee to show skills over without being too serious, just demonstrate some lyrical skill and technical flows. It was long to get the acapella to fit over the beat though cause of how abstract and varied the flows are, so I had to chop it up into loads of different pieces (basically for every line), just to get it to fit in the right places over this beat. I think it was worth it though, I can’t really imagine many other artists over this kind of beat, and I always love remixing DOOM.

Hope people enjoy this one, thank you for listening! Peace

Top Illin'

Self created beat with vocals of Nas from the track "N.Y. State of Mind".

N.Y. State of Mind (SmokingBeatz Remix)

MF DOOM Remix Album Out October 31st!

Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from ‘My Favourite Ladies Acapella’ by MF DOOM

Visuals: https://youtu.be/BJ-gIGHvQys
2021 remix: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/ladies

I haven’t really thought about remixing this track again since the last time but when I was making this beat I was hearing the acapella over it straight away, whilst I was making the different flips and working out the layering I kept finding myself spitting these verses from DOOM in my head, and I began to structure the beat around how it could fit the verses. Again this is really going for the emotional side to what DOOM’s talking about, but in an even more aggressive way. For last year’s remix it was more subtle with the piano being a lot quieter and subdued, the vocals too. This time the sample has way more aggression and weight to it, conveying that pain in a very different way. This made me sure I wanted to remix the track again cause I’d be doing something different, whilst still focusing on the side to the subject matter which I find most powerful personally. I think it’s cool how here the beat is initially quite happy sounding and carefree, the piano definitely is not sad melodically like the time before. When I was chopping up the sax parts of the sample I knew it would change the vibe though, and I thought that was perfect to layer when DOOM starts moving away from the positives of the Ladies and towards the negatives. I tried to structure the melodies in this way throughout the remix, with the ‘making love to a shadow’ vocals coming in towards the end as the track crescendos, I thought those vocals were a good fit with this track, speaking on the empty ‘shadow’ relationship that drugs ultimately bring. I’m definitely happy with how this turned out, I can’t decide if I like it more than what I did last year, they’re so different to me which is ideal honestly. I will say I’m glad I gave this one more of a journey, not just one vibe for the whole track, instead fluctuating from hopeful melodies to more aggressive sad ones, to mirror how DOOM seems to be happier when he’s first meeting the Ladies, but with time begins to point out their flaws and reflects on the negatives. 

Hope people like this remix, definitely let me know how you feel about it when compared to last years, would be really interesting and helpful for me, I’ve been thinking about it a lot since I’ve been working on this.

Peace!

Ladies (Remix)

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 "Til I Met You" by Platinum Hook - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9w_DZElXLk

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now on spotify

Suicide Doors

Rashad & Confidence - The City (Mr. Troy Remix)

I like u [demo]

a lot of people seem to like this so imma make it a serious post lmao // 15 song beat tape will be out sometime this week

why is it like this?

thanks for waiting!

dl on bandcamp: https://jbarada.bandcamp.com/album/that-december-tape

Tracklist, samples, and BPM:

1. bread and butter // welcome 
sample: monday morning by bread and butter
95 bpm
2. dissolve
sample: dissolve in sepia - derek austin
90 bpm
3. adjustments
sample: closed circuit - kaitlyn aurelia smith and suzanne ciani
85 bpm
4. things
sample: these are the things - semulations
88 bpm
5. fly away
sample: future prospect - adrian baker
89 bpm
6. dream
sample: dreamflower - tarika blue
94 bpm
7. innocence // showers at 12
sample: innocent - fransesco de masi
96 bpm
8. lies
sample: nancy's trust - les baxter
88 bpm
9. stars
sample: turn out the stars - bill evans trio in amsterdam
92 bpm
10. rainfall pt 2
sample: i want to talk about you - ryo fukui
80 bpm
11. summertime
sample: i'm tired of running around - young ladies
102 bpm
12. sunrise in the grenadines
sample: acquarium - arawak
94 bpm
13. vice
sample: penthouse - georges rodi 
99 bpm
14. saying goodbye
sample: grace - ronnie laws
88 bpm
15. goodnight // last call
sample: 雨のケンネル通り - epo (i have no idea how to format this or what it means lol)
102 bpm
16. bs 1
sample: mais cedo ou mais tarde - osmar milito
90 bpm
17. bs 2
sample: can't hide love - jimmy smith
94 bpm

that december tape (OUT NOW)

sample: it could happen to you - the poll winners

vocals 1: i used to love h.e.r. - common
vocals 2: barry bonds - kanye west

honestly if the compression isn't fixed this time im done with it lol

we used to talk every night

From the Trumendous RMX EP released 2010 by the Tru Comers (Limited to 100 copies)
Comin Tru Records 2010

Lord Finesse - Soul Plan (Tru Comers Remix)

Introducing a new series by Jarren Benton "The Bully Freestyles"

The Bully Freestyles - The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson (Cover)

The third installment of "The Bully Freestyles" by Jarren Benton

The Bully Freestyles - Come As You Are by Nirvana (Remix)

The fourth installment of "The Bully Freestyles" by Jarren Benton

The Bully Freestyles - Enter Sandman by Metallica (Remix)

In The End - Linkin Park Remix | The Bully Freestyles - Jarren Benton

The ninth installment of "The Bully Freestyles" by Jarren Benton

(JB)
Rest In Peace to Chester, life can really stress ya
Feeling low don’t wanna take extreme measures
Pistol on the dresser, we don’t need the lectures, 
Know you’re hurting please Lord relieve the pressure

Trying to reason with the homie say he on the edge
He said he down bad, I had to loan him bread
Ain’t gotta pay me back my nigga hold ya head
I know you feeling low but nigga know you’re blessed
He looked at me and laughed said you don’t know the half
He say he sick of living life’s a fucking drag
I told him yeah I get it, you know that’s a fact 
Don’t let it get you down just keep on pushing back. 
He looked at me and smiled and said my nigga bet
He dapped me up, he hugged me turned around and left. 
And then I call about my niggaz death, 
A self inflicted pistol wound inside his flesh

Damn-

Why the good ones gotta go, you had all of the love
Left his babies a note
They can’t comprehend death nor the shit that you wrote
How you tell a 3 year old his daddy is gone
Traumatized see the pain in his mamas eyes
She just heard that her son just died
Ain’t not words to be summarized,
She was unadvised of your pain she felt undermined. 
What the fuck could I say to give you hope to live,
Should’ve told you I love you before you left the crib, 
Now I’m haunted by things I wish I should’ve did
Got your message but I forgot to check the shit
Still hear your voice it’s deep inside my head
Grab the phone just to hear the message that you left, 
Got a chill as I listened to your last breath,
Hear the pain in your voice and this is what he said.

(LP)
I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter


I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know

I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter

(JB)
Rest In Peace to Chester
 life can really stress ya
 feeling low don’t wanna take extreme measures,
pistol on the dresser, we don’t need the lectures,
know you hurting please lord relieve the pressure.

The Bully Freestyles - In The End by Linkin Park

Starting off the holiday season right with this one. Special thanks to the homie https://soundcloud.com/daexic.

cold winter night w/ Zan

Underground Jazz

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