Friday 30 January 2009

Louis Den Beat Cypher 03 - February 12th 2009

Ok people, we're back!; I would have blogged this a while back but I did put the word out through other various channels and didnt want this to disappear off the front page...but the time is nowww!.

We're doing this AGAIN!, thrid time round trying to make everything bigger and better with the addtion of a BEAT BATTLE as well as 4 unique producers and PA's from some of the countries illest performers and upandcomers


I see plenty of myspace profiles from Midlands artists..plenty of them trying to sell beats, network or just out there as producers!! Well I know (normally) producers are background/humble people who probably would rather stay in perfecting their craft then hit a jam up with beat cd's but..

THIS JAM IS FOR EVERYONE BUT ESPECIALLY PRODUCERS!!



You understand that hahaha!...so when you do drag yourself out to a jam and all you can think about is beats or wonder who in the crowd makes beats or if there are other producers to build with...just remember here at the Beat Cypher THIS IS THE VERY PLATFORM FOR THAT...so do come out!!! dang; I'm happy just doing our Louis Den Beat Battles and linkin my producer buds on the regular but I want the whole beatmaking community to vibe/benefit from this which is why the outlet came about and why we're all trying to keep this going.

Emcee Vocalist?
This jam is for you, half the bill are local artists perhaps you could get put onto new talent, touch base with a new producer? theres plenty of producers in the crowd they'll be beat CD's/Phone numbers/Email Addresses/Phone numbers floating about ready for you to make new links.

Producer??
Vibe of the local talent! get new ideas; talk to heads..BUILD!; they'll be artists to link and connect with; ask the more established producers on the showcase for tips/ideas; yes its dog eat dog but theres enough of the pie out there for the talented cats that want to get somewhere reach out!!..join the beat battle!...not competitive?? sign up to the open beats; get those beats aired on a nice sound system ask for feedback..get better! connect!.

Fan / Beat Head
EVERYBODY should fall into the category! well along with hearing amazing beats all night you'll get to see the cream of the UK's talent in the form of the PA's and hear all the latest and greatest treats spun by DJ CRO! so all this and a party to boot!.

SO...

SPREAD THE WORD
Swipe this blog entry!, copy and paste it; take the e-flyers!, change your profile pic; hit up friends you know on the sites you're signed up to and get them to come to the beat cypher or pariticpate in the battle!, bring heads out with you..build participate and enjoy!!, swipe the links at the bottom of the post with links to the flyers etc..

Send the louis den press release to any contacts you have they may be interested or of use to the night!, again links at the bottom of the post!.


GET NOTICED!
You interested in getting on the beat cypher in some way??, well of course theres the traditional sign up routes (open beats/beat battle/on the spot open mic etc). But if you want to be showcased/profiled how about you come out to the night bring a few heads with you and hit up a familiar face of the LouisDen / EatGood team for more info! (Kos, Cro, Kela, Sonnyjim, Redbeard)!! remember we cant put EVERYONE on at once and we need a good turn out to keep doing them! its a cycle!!.


aite!! thats me done haha sorry for going off, this is just how determined we all are to make success of this!...now for the traditional swipe!..



Louis Den Beat Cypher 03
JON PHONICS | PERCY FILTH | WINCHESTER | RAUL SUPREME
KYZA | PENTALK | JYAGER






ON THE BEATS
This time round we've got JON PHONICS, PERCY FILTH, WINCHESTER and RAUL SUPREME providing the blaps all playing beats straight out the equipment for the beat cypher and for the PA's.

ON THE MIC
The mighty KYZA (Dented Records) due to release his new project SOS hopefully airing some new tracks out for Birmingham (and I think his first solo PA in Brum too!).

The newest YNR signee JYAGER who hit the first beat cypher back in Oct 08 to back SIR SMURF LIL' this time he's out reppin himself for a solo set.

Brum mic heavyweights PENTALK, consisting of CASEY, PERGE and the Mobo award winning SOWETO KINCH, expect a few mics to take a beating in the process!...

all this plus the usual OPEN BEATS round where we'll play your blaps to the crowd for feedback!! bring bangers..sleepy beats wont get reloads!!...

and somethin a little special.

OPEN BEAT BATTLE JUDGED BY JEHST!
not just Jehst! but the crowd too haha, yeahhh this time we're gonna try our hand at a beat battle so if you think you've got beats to be one of the illest in the crowd! then register now at http://www.louisden.com/beatcypher ,we'll be keeping track of all the entrants from now until the beat cypher itself..the 10 best beatmakers will go into a random draw to determine the participants for the actual beat battle which'll have EAT GOOD / LOUIS DEN prizes....big.


Please do come out and support...£3.50 so do come out...and as you can see this is doesnt come out of nowhere so we need the support so we can keep putting these on!.

see you there!


Louis Den Beat Cypher 03
JON PHONICS | PERCY FILTH | WINCHESTER | RAUL SUPREME
KYZA | PENTALK | JYAGER
OPEN BEATS | OPEN BEAT BATTLE (register at http://www.louisden.com/beatcypher)
£3.50 before 9PM, £5.00 after
18+ only (ID maybe required!)

HOSTED BY REDBEARD, SONNYJIM & KOSYNE


LINKS / PROMO









LARGE FRONTLARGE BACK
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PRESS RELEASE (PDF FORMAT)
Download Here or copy and paste link below.

http://www.louisden.com/beatcypher/Louis Den Beat Cypher 03 Press Release.pdf



I WILL SEE YOU THERE!.

.KOS

Panned Kraklez

I truly think Wizard & Scizzahs have lost the plot, this is bonkers...I wish I could tell you what this is about but I can't; all you can do is watch hahaha.

(check for the parts where they both come out of character from catchin too much joke).

Episode 1


Episode 2


Episode 3


Episode 4


Episode 5


Episode 6


when you've figured this out...tell me?!!

.kos

Thursday 29 January 2009

Louis Den Street Fighter 2 Blaps - Video Up!!

For those who cant be bothered to go check the blog!, video is below!!..


Louis Den Beat Battles Episode 39 - Street Fighter 2 Sounds



Full blog here!, you should read it and drop a comment!.

Monday 26 January 2009

Homework 41 - "Please Dont Sue Us!"

New Louis Den Homework entitled, "Please Dont Sue Us!"; details over at the myspace blog..take part make blaps and build!.





"Please Dont Sue Us" Homework Louis Den Myspace Blog

Thursday 22 January 2009

"Behind Closed Doors" is so close you can smell it!

This me and Andy's (Ab0181 aka Prolifik) pet project; a little over a year ago we decided we wanted to collab on some beat/film projects; ldbb was a few months in and he already expressed an interest in coming down to Brum from Edinburgh to film an ep but I thought nahhhh lets do somethin bigger!. The first project we did was 2007's "Wrapped up".

Many phone convos later we decided on a Beatmaking documentary magazine was the way to go and after various linkups and road trips we've got the cream of the footage almost edited down and ready to go....

A DVD is coming! and hopefully subsequent volumes..stay tuned!, I'll leave you with Andys words and a snippet of our "Diggin With Darren Paul" segment.


Behind Closed Doors is finally touching down! Well, in web promo format at the moment.

As from today, there will be weekly uploads of sections from myself and kosyne's first DVD project together: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. Documenting what makes the UK's leading underground beatmakers tick.

In this snippet, we follow Darren Paul on a mission as he gives some insight into what digging for records means to him, what he is looking for and how much to spend.

THIS IS A WEB PROMO (the quality is quite reduced) , SO IT ONLY CONTAINS PORTIONS OF THE FINAL PRODUCT WHICH WILL BE AVAILABLE TO BUY IN FULL QUALITY ON DVD.

More info on the dropping date will appear here very shortly. i might even make a video about it.





Support it when we drop it!, quantities may be limited!

Wednesday 21 January 2009

New Louis Den Homework - "SOAPS & SITCOMS"





Homework for those who dont know is what we call the weekly beatmaking challenges over at Louis Den Beat Battles (home being our myspace http://www.myspace.com/louisdenbeatbattles.

Anyway this weeks challenge is to flip music from soap or sitcom tv programs, full details, rules and how to submit are in our latest myspace blog entry!..

new videos on the way and a full blog about the next beat cypher event on the 12th.

Soaps & Sitcoms Homework Blog.

Tuesday 20 January 2009

Yancey Boys Instrumentals!

CHAIRRR!..





Available now from the stonesthrow digital store!!

Dont get me wrong Illa J did the damn thing with these beats; but with the instros now out you now have the option of jammin out to them vintage Dillz blaps, reason Im diggin it so much is that these beats are from the same era as his Umaah beat tape Vintage which is that classic Jay Dee sound.

Wax out soon apparently....hmm to wait or not to wait.

LINK:http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/jdilla/yancey-boys-instrumentals

Wednesday 14 January 2009

The beat battles are BACK!.

For all those wanting to get on some beat battle action; we've got the first homework of the new year for all of you over at the ldbb myspace, this weeks challenge is the flip music from the Steet Fighter 2 soundtrack; links are provided so.. GET ON IT, deadline is this Sunday 18th Jan..

FIGHT!

LINK: Louis Den Homework 39 - Street Fighter 2 samples


hit the blog up with comments as well!.

Readbeard presents Tha 40 minute wonda!....FREE DL.

Beastin on the blogs today!, heres the last one for today; gotta tell you about my boy REDBEARDS free promo "THA 40 MINUTE WONDA", clocking in at a suprising 40 minutes check out this Eat Good promo as it serves as a perfect introduction Redbeard one of the mc's on the EAT GOOD RECORDS roster (for those who dont realise the EAT GOOD / LOUIS DEN link...well pretty much all the EAT GOOD music comes out of the Den! and a lot of it happens to be over connected Louis Den producers) so you will be into this!.

Production credits include R2ThaBeatz, Roeg Du Casq, Percy Filth, Wizard, Mikee Lazy & More!.


REDBEARD - THA 40 MINUTE WONDA


01 Tha 40 Minute Wonda Intro
02 Ninja Scrollz Part 1
03 Strong horn 5 Minute Session
04 Highgrade ft Sonnyjim (Twist Face Mix)
05 Suka Ducks ft Kosyne
06 Aston Villainz
07 Birmingham vs Ipswich ft Sonnyjim,Kosyne & Jimmy Davis (Snippet)
08 Mind Gamez
09 Point Blank ft Sonnyjim & Kosyne
10 Digital.Visual.Direction'z
11 This 1'z 4
12 Home From Home
13 Tha Good Tha Bad & Tha Bearded
14 Faith (Remix)
15 Track Record ft Kosyne
16 Tha 40 Minute Wonda Outro

LINK: http://sharebee.com/d1fc7e77
MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/redbeardthabeardedwonda


The full length LP THE BEARDED WONDA will be dropping on EAT GOOD RECORDS soon.

.kos

Super Exile Wednesday

I first got put on to L.A badman on the beats Exile via an MP3 blog (SCREEEAMM DOWNLOADING ILLEEGAL!!!) hush your noise it was because of me getting Emanon's (Emanon is the group of rapper Aloe Blacc and Exile on the boards/the occasional verse) "Waiting Room" off a blog which led me to cop the real CD and in turn find out about Exile.

Annnyway way back in 06 he dropped his producer album "Dirty Science" on Sound In Color which featured Blu and led to the pretty much impossible to find in physical media "Below The Heavens", "Radio" his new LP is a concept album of him only sampling stuff he's found on the LA airwaves...a brave concept but the bits I've heard have been great and it sounds like one worth picking up.

Heres a few promos.


EXILE ON VIMBY TALKING ABOUT THE NEW RELEASE


FIRST VIDEO OFF RADIO "WERE ALL IN POWER"







"Radio" is out Plug Research now digitally on CD 20th Jan. I'll be picking it up;

.kos

Vibe Article On Dillas Estate



* Ma dukes..(dillas mom)


Read up on the latest regarding J.Dilla's (RIP) estate, seems things havent really been right since dude passed and its quite a sad article regarding the state of affairs of Dilla's beat catalog, royalties and benefit dough..

Anyway its not an upbeat read but it looks as if things are beginning to get better for it..lets hope we can to hear more of his unreleased gems; until then the heads supposedly riding for Dilla are stopping his mom from using his name for benefit gigs/fund raisers and busy trying to sue Busta over blaps he would have dibbs over originally (see Dillagence)..aw well its easy to talk like this from the outside in lets hope it improves.

LINK: J.Dillas myspace blog

UP BEAT FEEL GOOD BONUS NOTE TO LEAVE YOU WITH

Jaylib, (J.Dilla & Madlib) on Power 106 circa 2004..in depth interview and lots of geekin out with dillz and libz on the Fantastic Four radio show with J-Rocc too.


LINK: http://www.sendspace.com/file/qq6eew

.kos

Monday 12 January 2009

Elaquent Presents - After Midnight (free download)

Elaquent is dOOOOOOOOOOOPE!!! for those who dont know get to know!!, he's put out 3 free download projects in the past (In Color Vol.1 & 2 and Godspeed) and has just dropped his 4th "After Midnight".

I got put on to eQ via Darren Paul a while ago and have been bumping his joints since, (this was around the time In Color 2 dropped..I got part 1 and did my homework), sonn is ill on the beats; dope drums /swing and a video game/sega head to boot! (thats a plus by the way); even had Kelz buggin out for ages as he tried to get his head around eQ's sound!....

Anyway Quelz has even come thru for an LDBB challenge in the past (Jacko sounds) and will hopefully surface again, i'll leave you with the mans own blurb about his project and a download link..

Support it yo..its thats good ishhhh.


After Midnight...
After Midnight. Concept is fairly simple. Laidback vibes. Nighttime music. “play dis only at night”. Something about the nighttime induces different feelings and emotions than the daytime. Jazzy. Soulful. Didnt want to get too left field with it. Want yall to listen to it before sleepytime. Had to incorporate a lo-fi, live type of feeling that lots of music today doesnt have...of course the shit gotta swing. If some of the drums sound off-beat...your senses arent lying, it is. Like I sed in my in colour vol 2 liner notes...perfect is boring.

Feel the vibe and the grooves. Sometimes I dont wanna go to the club. Sometimes I wanna just vibe out and shoot some pool, or just relax. People nowadays are afraid to relax. So, if you havent caught the idea...musically, I wanted to tell a story...12am until 7am....so having said that, enjoy....if possible, play it only at night. Haha.

One love,
-eQ



01. After Midnight
02. The Love
03. All For One ft Mishoo the Drumkit
04. Daylight Savings
05. Tip Toes
06. Too Good (One for Isaac)
07. 2 AM Reflections ft Moka Only & Es
08. Gobstopper
09. Mystery
10. Peanut Butter
11. Take it Higher (Remix) ft Tha Connection
12. Graffiti High
13. Theory in Practice ft O-Phrap
14. High Score (Interlude)
15. 12 O'Clock ft Thesaurus Rex
16. Stars Aligned
17. Sleep Walking
18. Higher Level ft Es & Solar C

LINK:http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?dmz0jmdzonk
HOLLLAatTHEkid:http://www.myspace.com/elaquenthiphop

Friday 9 January 2009

YOU RECORDIN SHEEEUN? - Jaisu Beat Tape #4

Sounds of the MPC powerhouse that is Jaisu...my man KILLLS it with 6 blaps (with their OG Samples) straight out the MPC...raw beats that'll make you wanna slap suttin; Prolifik aka AB0181 on the cam, Jaisu is next up (I swear a lot of the ldbb regulars are) I think me and Pro are gonna make it out mission this year that YOU ALL get the notice/exposure yawl deserve.




damn.

GET YOUR WEIGHT UP OR GET ATE UP!.

LDBB IS BACK ON MONDAY!.

.kos