Hong Kong Express - romantic dream

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)

Skylar Spence made Alive 2020 which I will post later but "Skylar Spence - Fall Harder vs. Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks vs. SAINT PEPSI - Gin City" will not be posted because it gets taken down every time I try to post it. This is the LP for Alive 2021. And this is the rip from Q-Funk514 on YouTube. Cheers. I used Fl Studio to cut the album in parts. So I did you a favor. No Problem.

Enjoy this LP from Skylar Spence!
Also, I don't know the date of this LP so I am putting it as the first of January. 
@skylarspence

Track 9: "Private Caller"

Skylar Spence - Private Caller

Ayer me visitaron los cabros y salió este remix / yesterday my friends visited me and we made this remix
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@Godiees_boombap
s/o to Rick Santino & Dj Ropo

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Rick Santino & Dj Ropo ft. Mauro Dee - Asunto Serio (Treasure Cutterz Remix)

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Catch the Dusk

No Yesterday

soul eater - S!REN x richmnkey x J44p

lyrics:

i wanted to feel
like you weren’t there
permission to vent
oh why don’t you care

i tried to be what you wanted
i changed my skin for the
purpose to be something

covered
in doubt
i whisper
you shout

strung out from being alone
i'll paint the picture for them
you drain my life for control
my misery

i tried to be what you wanted
i changed my skin for the
purpose to be something

soul eater

acid rain

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Thank you, to Le Real for getting me exposure when i first started. Thank you to Henry White a great friend who brought me into the great collective known as Future Society. Thank you to Lucas for being the fucking shit and being an artist I can relate to in many ways. 

This song will be on a possible upcoming release on tencolle
 
Welcome, New Era

P.s. go listen to the new Shiki and Moe Shop song (and a tiny bit of my vocals)its great to know I was involved on something with to great people even if i did very little.
https://soundcloud.com/keyboard-kid-side-stuff/work-it-mahou-gurl-shiki

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