Production & DJing
[Event] TONIGHT in Toronto: The 2 Year Anniversary Celebration of the Monthly Beat Lounge Showcase
This post is stickied to the top of the site until tomorrow (April 1).
Featuring recent Kitchen faves, Relic the Oddity and Elaquent (aka eQ), this is a must-check for those of you in the GTA/T.dot area who are free tonight….
IT’S THE UNKOFFICIAL (sic) 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF BEAT LOUNGE MONTHLY HIP-HOP PRODUCER COMMUNITY AND SHOWCASES! (ok, we’ll stop yelling now)
The BEAT LOUNGE UNKOFFICIAL (sic) 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
(28th edition)
Thursday March 31st, 2011
The Rivoli (back room)
332 Queen Street W
Toronto, ON
STRICTLY $5 admission BEFORE 10:30PM
NO GUEST LIST
?? after ??
Doors @9:30PM
Show @11:00PM
Sponsored by MOOG Audio
Since it’s inception in November of 2008, BEAT LOUNGE has grown to become a brute force in the realm of local hip-hop events and occurrences (local to Toronto & GTA). Our 1 year anniversary was on January 21st 2010, and now it’s our 2 year anniversary. Wait a minute…
It is what it is, somewhere around this time of year we became a year wiser. It’s round #28 and we’ve become stronger, badder and funkier than ever before. Thanks to a firm community of supporters and loyal troops, we’re still rocking it…
I think they keep deliberately misspelling UNOFFICIAL because the Unknown Funk Hero is one of the driving forces behind this long-running Toronto beat-makers event series.
CLICK HERE to learn more about tonight’s 2 Year Anniversary Beat Lounge event at the Rivoli.
[MP3] Hip Hop Is Read pres. Beanie Sigel – The B.Coming: The Samples
“Released in March of 2005, Beanie Sigel‘s The B. Coming stands as the titular bookend of Roc-A-Fella Records’ Dynasty Era. Recorded between Sigel’s guilty verdict and his trip up north, The B. Coming highlights the meshing of the Philly emcee’s Biggie-like swagger with Scarface‘s patented paranoia rap. Despite the wide array of guest artists, the album is nonetheless a personal narrative of a man in solitude, expressing his existential qualms. Sigel’s diary scripts are well-accompanied by the record’s sound spectrum of 70s and 80s soul and rock. Production highlights include the sampling of Raphael Ravenscroft and Klaus Doldinger‘s wailing saxophones on the respective tracks “Feel It in the Air” and “Tales of a Hustler Pt. 2”, Natalie Cole‘s sweet crooning on “Oh Daddy”, and the string arrangement of David Crawford on René & Angela‘s “My First Love”, lifted by Ty Fyffe for the Rell-assisted “Change”. The album concludes with a harrowing re-imagining of Bon Jovi‘s “Wanted Dead or Alive” as Sigel ponders life on the lam. Enjoy this sample set to one of my favorite albums of the aughts. Turn it up!!”
Co-sign Ivan on this one. The B.Coming was definitely one of my favorite albums and I still think it stands as one of the great underrated hip-hop albums of the last decade.
Download: Hip Hop Is Read pres. Beanie Sigel – The B.Coming: The samples
[Mixtape] Rap Radar Presents DJ Soul – No Idea’s Original 2
Super-dope mix of rare groove and breakbeat soul compiled and mixed by New York’s DJ Soul, many of which have recently been sampled for current hip-hop hits. Who says ‘real’ hip-hop is dead??!
Track list:
01. Average White Band – Overture
02. Kool & The Gang – Summer Madness (Live)
03. Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes – I Miss You
04. Ace Spectrum – I Don’t Want To Play Around
05. Les McCann – Sometimes I Cry
06. The Montclairs – Do I Stand A Chance
07. Bunny Sigler – Half A Man
08. Kenny Nolan – A Song Between Us
09. Andy Bey – Tune Up
10. Smoked Sugar – Keeping Up My Front
11. The Bar-Kays – If This World Was Mine
12. The Intruders – Together
13. Pete Rock & CL Smooth – Interlude
14. Mike Oldfield – In High Places
15. Steel Pulse – Blues Raid Dance
16. Vado – Large In The Streets
17. Francois De Roubaix – Les Dunes D’ostende
18. Sweet Inspiration – You Roam When You Don’t Get It At Home
19. John Cameron – Half Forgotten Daydreams
20. New Hope – Godofallofus
21. The Warriors – Interlude
22. Baltik – No Registration, Please
23. Brian Bennett – Solstice
24. Michael Jackson – Heartbreak Hotel
25. Melvin Bliss – Synthetic Substitution
26. Kid Dynamite – Uphill Peace of Mind
27. Soul II Soul – Back To Life
28. The Ambassadors – Ain’t Got the Love (Of One Girl On My Mind)
29. Lamont Dozier – Let Me Make Love To You
30. Gringo – Patriotic Song
31. The O’Jays – A Prayer
32. Cortex – Chanson D’Un Jour D’Hiver
33. Caldera – Ancient Source
34. Heart – What About Love
35. Curtis Mayfield – The Makings of You (Live)
36. Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – You Are, I Am
37. Justice – Phantom Pt. 2
38. Flo & Eddie – Keep It Warm
39. Annie Lennox – No More “I Love You’s”
40. Reflection Eternal – Interlude
41. Heaven & Earth – Let Me Back In
42. Joanna Newsom – The Book Of Right-On
43. Ndugu & The Chocolate Jam Company – Take Some Time
44. Lonnie Liston Smith – If You Can’t Take Care Of Me
45. Monsters Of Folk – Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.)
46. Trevor Dandy – Is There Any Love
47. John Legend – Again
48. Aphex Twin – Avril 14th
49. Chris Rock – Interlude
50. Enchantment – Silly Love Song
[audio: http://download157.mediafire.com/hzjsgisktitg/81fjw7kt5tyk4ml/No+Idea%27s+Original+2+%28Final+Mix%29.mp3]
MP3 Download: Rap Radar Presents DJ Soul – No Idea’s Original 2 [mediafire link]
note: the mix is not individually tracked but is one long mix on a single MP3. Don’t complain: do your own legwork and go dig for the individual tracks yourself!
[via Rap Radar]
[MP3] HipHopisRead.com pres. J. Dilla/Jay Dee – Donuts: The Samples
Since I just got back from the Dilla Suite For Ma Dukes screening, it seemed apropos to post this from the homie, Ivan at HipHopisRead.com:
“Just over five years ago, James Dewitt Yancey, a.k.a. Jay Dee, a.k.a. J Dilla, celebrated his 32nd birthday by releasing his magnum opus, Donuts. Sadly, his life was cut short just three days later due to complications from TTP and Lupus. There’s no telling how the hip hop landscape would be different if Dilla were still around. What we’re left with instead is a Tupac-like surplus of stashed away, sometimes incomplete works – many of which Dilla labored over in his last months of life.
Much like the various records that Dilla picked up with his heat-seeking fingertips, the music on Donuts is so wide-ranging, so diverse, I can’t help but call the album his magnum opus. Donuts is an incredible record, filled with beautiful soundscapes (“Time: The Donut of the Heart”; “Stop”; “One Eleven”; “Gobstopper”; “Dilla Says Go”; “Bye”), neck-snapping grooves (“The New”; “Two Can Win”; “Walkinonit”), innovative, electro madness (“Lightworks”; “Da Factory”), hardcore soul (“Mash”; “Geek Down”; “Last Donut of the Night”) and everything in between – lest I list off the entire tracklisting! It was a pleasure to compile Dilla’s eclectic sample sources, and though I say this every time I release a sample set, this time I really mean it: TURN IT UP!!”
I ain’t gonna lie, I was late to the Dilla party and that’s speaking as someone who actually worked on some of his earliest production projects
Download HipHopisRead.com pres. J. Dilla/Jay Dee – Donuts: The Samples
Previously on The Kitchen:
– The Story Behind the Artwork for Dilla’s Classic Donuts Album
– DJ Houseshoes Presents J Dilla: The King James Version [Mixtape]
[MP3’s] HipHopisRead.com pres. Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers (The Samples)
Top 5 hip hop albums of all time? You could definitely make a case. Learn about the samples that crated it including the movie verbal soundbites! MAJOR props again to Ivan! No string of broken zshare links in his (blogging) legacy! Zing!
Download: HipHopisRead.com pres. Wu-Tang Clan – Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers (The Samples)
Video compilation of the movie sample complied by Ivan below:
[via Ivan at HipHopisRead.com]