freakin' boom bap shit

Songs I like

mundayFunday

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5pd7l4hS43AjLAVV1uFlyk?si=17e6832ca3da4121
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/whatever-you-say-instrumental-instrumental-single/1581629483

Instrumental for: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/whatever-you-say

I was going for a positive vibe with this beat, trying to express the more carefree attitude to life which I find through making and listening to music.

Thank you for all the support, I hope people enjoy the vibe of this one - peace!

Whatever You Say (Instrumental)

Floating

A chiller song than what I usually upload so I hope you all enjoy it.
Bandcamp Link: https://thedruidmusicofficial.bandcamp.com/track/strollin

Strollin'

Bandcamp link: https://thedruidmusicofficial.bandcamp.com/track/moving-through-the-darkness 
Artwork: @ynotcreates

Moving Through The Darkness

Download link: https://sadruidmusic.bandcamp.com/track/tag-on-your-back
Artwork: Ynot Creates

Free Download

12 - MRDolly - When The Birds Come Out

Yoooo 200K streams thank you all!!!!!

Debut Album Out April 26th!! https://linktr.ee/tapeheadlinks

50 Cent Remix Album: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/tapehead-remixes-50-full-album

MF DOOM Remix Album: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/doomsday-tribute-tapehead-remixes-full-album

Full Length Crime Side Album Out Now! https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/tapehead-enter-the-crime-side-36-chambers-remixes-full-album

Extended Version: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/crime-side-extended-mix
Crime Side Remix: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/tapehead-crime-side-remix

Behind the scenes of how I made this beat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOv3jo2zljI

Thank you so much for 100K streams: happy to say that the instrumental is now out on Spotify (and other streaming services):
https://open.spotify.com/track/7E7XrsH9croPa5CCiRy0DB?si=e9841bdf0b7a4d96
https://music.apple.com/us/album/crime-side-instrumental-instrumental-single/1577843527?uo=4&app=apple+music

Beat by Tapehead
Vocals from 'C.R.E.A.M.' acapella by Wu-Tang Clan

Instrumental now available:

https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/crime-side-instrumental

Crime Side

Nightlife

Underground's My Style

Black Rain

*UPDATE (Dec 2016)... Hey just to let you guys know, I have been locked out of this account for a few years & just got it back. Really appreciate all the comments & re-posts from you all and it's really blown me away to be honest!! As I said I don't normally mix Hip Hop but I will post another mix on here sometime soon for sure...  Also, if you like a bit of Underground House then head on over to my real DJ account >>> https://soundcloud.com/djricardo THANKS!! :)

Old Skool Hip Hop Mix.. Tracks are from 1993 to 2001

Tracklist.

1.  Notorious BIG - Kick In The Door
2.  OutKast - Aquemini
3.  The Roots - What Goes On
4.  Junior MAFIA - Get Money
5.  Mobb Deep - Hell On Earth
6.  OutKast - Mainstream
7.  Royce Da '5"9 - Boom
8.  Nas - Nas Is Like
9.  A Tribe Called Quest - God Lives Through
10.D-12 - This Is How
11.2Pac - Do For Love
12.Notorious BIG - Juicy
13.N.O.R.E. - Nothin'
14.Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See
15.Snoop Dogg - Ain't No Fun (Feat. Nate Dogg)
16.The Roots - Work
17.OutKast - Liberation (Feat. Cee Lo Green / Erykah Badu)


Feel Free to leave feedback. I don't normally mix hip hop so your thoughts would be appreciated :)

1 Hour Old Skool 90s Hip Hop Mix

Feels Right

Put It On

Dedicated to Josie, 30/12/2019.

Instrumental: https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/never-give-it-up-instrumental

This day last year my Dad’s Mum passed away. I’ve been sitting on this beat for a while, and I’d like to release it today in her memory. Losing her was hard for the whole family, she was a genuine, kind, good hearted person, and was close with all of us. The weeks between her death and the funeral were all about being there for each other and coming to terms with what had happened. The funeral was emotional, of course, but for me it was overall a positive experience. In celebrating her life I was filled with a different kind of energy that motivated me to live mine to the fullest potential. I wanted to honour her memory and make her proud, knowing that she wouldn’t have wanted me being depressed and not caring for myself; I was completely motivated to do my absolute best to live my life better than I ever had before, and have been ever since. This translated into every aspect of my life, my focus on university work strengthened and my attitude to health and fitness completely changed. (I’d been going to the gym in December 2019 but it wasn’t until January 2020 when I started to really push myself and make some progress). This motivation obviously included making music to the best of my ability, doing what I loved, which she always emphasised as the most important parts of life.

When I revisited this beat in November 2020, I realised how similar its musical energy is to what I just described, that feeling of being truly motivated to never give up and reach your full potential is exactly what I felt I had experienced. When I made this beat in May 2019, I was ridiculously gassed off the energy of the sample when I flipped it. Although the sample is from a love song, with the vocals saying ‘Never gonna give you up’, I tried to chop it so the ‘you’ sounded like ‘it’, cause I was really trying to capture the idea and energy of never giving music up in a beat, and I think I achieved that. The whole atmosphere when I made this beat felt like a massive emotional celebration of music and my passion for it. Because of that, I immediately thought it would make sense to put O.C’s Born 2 Live acapella over the beat, as the celebratory aspect of the beat merged with O.C’s verse about death and grief perfectly captures my motivation to honour my Nan, and I just thought the two merged together would encapsulate that feeling well. When I had the acapella blended over the beat I was too excited, knowing it was the one for the beat, and didn’t even consider any other acapellas at all. It’s nice to finally release this beat after sitting on it for so long, but I’m glad I was able to make this with it, and I hope that it might tap into similar feelings that other people may have concerning loss and grief, showing how it can motivate you to honour those you’ve lost, and do them proud.

Rest in Peace
Josephine Wilson
1934-2019

Never Give It Up

Remixed and Remastered.

Visuals: https://youtu.be/_RIBwMIzLHY

Original upload (2017): https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/thank-you

This is an old beat, which had such a positive vibe, and I vividly remember the reason behind it. A few days before I had recorded a verse over one of my beats for the first time at @hightopsfeed studio, and that experience was truly nuts, a real turning point in my life because I was able to finally let out all these pent out feelings about the way I was living onto the mic. Writing is therapeutic for sure and I'd had the verses written for time, but actually saying the words out loud in front of someone else was a different level in terms of the realization it gave me. This definitely stayed on a subconscious level at first, when I rode back home after recording, I was gassed, but it was more of a general feeling towards how positive of an experience it was. It wasn't until a few days later when Hightop sent me the finished mix of the song that I really deeped what had happened, and was crazily inspired to make music on a different level than I had been previously. 

I had found the sample I used for this beat a while back, by pure chance I stumbled onto the same song used by Nujabes for his song 'Thank You' off of Modal Soul, which has always been one of my favourites. I wasn't really planning on flipping the sample myself, I was just interested to have learnt where Nujabes got it from, but after hearing the final mix of my first track I was too inspired, and just wanted to make a beat to say thank you for what the experience did for me, so I thought flipping the sample for 'Thank You' would be the perfect way to do that. I deliberately didnt put an acapella over the track, and dropped the beat after I uploaded the track I recorded at Hightops, just to mark my appreciation for what it did for me in terms of my focus on music and approach to life. I've never thought to remix this beat since, until last week, when I was thinking about what kind of beat could work with this MF DOOM acapella.

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, whilst being ridiculously raw and authentically 90s sounding. There’s something about DOOM in this period which is just different, 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 Go With The Flow from the deluxe version of the album. I was too excited when I had the idea to remix it, because it’s even more raw than how the track sounds on the album. DOOM just sounds so hungry here with MF GRIMM backing him up, and the style is so authentic and genuine, it oozes real deal hip hop shit which I love. GRIMMs adlibs make the track even harder to me, you can really feel the sense of comradery between the two, and of course the scratches on the beat are just nuts, everything is cutthroat sharp, just straight skills.

I love that side to DOOM, all his work is dope to me and obviously he gets ridiculous respect for pioneering alternative genres in Hip Hop through what he did on albums like Madvillainy, but the underground skills heavy vibe of Doomsday will always be special to me, and I’m so glad and honoured to have been able to remix a track from this early period in DOOMs legendary career, when he was completely set on his goal, and had the experience, skills, and passion to do something incredible. So so so inspiring, and I’d like to thank him once again, his influence really was huge on me during the years before I started producing, and I've got loads of plans for more DOOM remixes in the future.

Just Go With The Flow

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