Download: Mecca 83 - The Life Sketches Ep (DOPEEEE!!!!!!!!)
No, I haven't posted in a while and No I probably won't for a while (will explain in a later post), but I recently received an email, and a very interesting email at that.
Mecca 83/Rise/REdefinition is a producer (or beat technician, remixer and semi professional crate digger) with one of the best sounds I've heard in about a year. So many producers try to imitate and never manage to develop themselves into something they should be, unique!
Check out the free mix-tape he sent me! Trust me, you don't want to miss this if you love real music. It's reminiscent of AFTA1, Elaquent (Less compression and more music though), J Dilla type sound.
P.S hopefully something big should be coming from this site soon (when I say soon, I mean as soon as I've done a load of other stuff and got some free time).
Alternate Covers For Some Classic Albums
Joe Buck (AKA. ArtilleryDS) created some amazing alternate covers that I found today. They feature 7 album covers recreated in highly stylised versions. You can check more of ArtilleryDS at his site and download the rest of the covers after the break.
The covers are part of a collaboration series from ArtilleryDS, Damu and Redefinition Records called The Redefinition Series. In teaming up with Damu and Redef Records, ArtilleryDS's images will now have sound added. Damu will be remixing selected songs from the albums that he is revising art wise.
Here's Madvillain's Madvillainy cover.
Revisions Cover No 7 by Joe Buck
What I wanted to do here was capture the wild, awkward, unorthodox nature of this album. When you get Mad Lib on the beats and MF Doom on the mic there is bound to be tons of inspirational content for use in graphics. I illustrated the famous MF Doom mask adding on my swirl horns (which are a part of my W.BAU painting series), throwing in a brass knuckle crown and a set of gold fronts. I surrounded the illustration with visual excepts of Dooms lyrics all topped off with my trademark vintage 12″ album cover theme. From Rainbows to Drano this is a great album.
Check The Read More Link for 7 More Covers
10 Dope Sampled Beats From YouTube
Thought this would be a cool idea. Go through YouTube every now and then and find 10 dope sampled beats from random or unknown producers. I'll start off with this lot.
Click Read More For The Rest
Showcase: Alphanumeric
I don't usually feature random artists that contact me (most of the features I've found myself), but I decided to listen to this guys beats, listen to the 2 previews from his upcoming project "Alphabytes".
About Alphanumeric:
Aged 20 and from Australia. His setup consists of FL Studio 9, Lots of Wax, a turntable and a keyboard.
Cream Of Beats - Free Beat Tape
I featured an article about a month ago of an artist called Cream Of Beats. He managed to contact me earlier today;
I was browsing the Beat the breaks.. blogsite and found this one! Nice work bruh!! Also saw a video of mine. It's super clean in here compared to most other blogsites! Almost like shopping in Home Depot and then checking out Lowes! Even the artwork (the Lowes sales women) looks good! I like this! haha!
Click read more for the rest of the article and the download.
Mixtape: AFTA 1 - FORM
I Originally saw this on Abnormalisdope!
This album is crazily dope! It's some ambient rnb/mellow hip hop stuff! It's only $7 if you buy it through the link provided below, which is cheaper than the iTunes version.
Showcase: Knocks Drop Zone
If you've ever wanted hot Drops for your beats (Tags), this is a dope site to get them, he charges $10 for 3 tags, or $5 for 1, and you can get custom tags as well. They're very high quality.
Check it out at knockshouse
Tutorial: Sites To Showcase Your Music
I've compiled a list of what I think are the best lot of sites to upload/showcase your music.
They're split in to two groups, "Profiles services" and "Upload Services". Hit the Read More link to continue the article.
Video: Cream Of Beats
This is just a random producer I found on Vimeo, it's funny and his beats are nice at the end. I think this defines most producers at the moment though "Everything that you see here, is broke". Click read more to see the video.
Showcase: Sites To Get Samples
I thought I'd showcase a few sites where you can download samples, they're in a variety of genres, but most of them are updated frequently and are all good quality. Click Read More to check the list.
