Homework 90 - Otis Reflips

Homework 90 - Otis Reflips


Seeing as a million and one rappers have flocked to the instrumental of the recent Jay-Z and Kanye West collab; we figured it'd be a good homework to let the producers get in on the action too.

The single from the pair utilized parts of an Otis Redding song "Try A Little Tenderness", many were quick to critize chop; many were quick to do stan remakes.

Well of course we want to do things a little different so rather than remaking the track; we want you to use the same parts Kanye did as your source material; but then the gloves are off!! feel free to manipulate those bits of music however you see fit.





RULES
Create a fresh beat from Otis Reddings "Try A Little Tenderness" with the twist of using the same parts Kanye used for his track "Otis", you are free to do whatever you like with the samples providing those are your only source material.

DEADLINE
Beats are due 2nd October (thats a week's time) by 17:00. submit the mp3 entries to homework@louisden.com streaming in the lab from 18:00 at http://louisden.com/live

LINKS/RESOURCES
Download a WAV of all the chops here - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5308110/Louisden_Homework90_OtisChops.wav (right click and save target as)

Louis Den Lab Session #89 - Sonnyjim Remixes (Highlights)

As promised (and a little later than expected) here are the highlights from the last Louisden lab session w/ myself, Myke Forte, Sonnyjim and Redbeard; all edited down into a managable serving and in delicous HD!

Louisden Lab Session #89 (highlights)


If you'd like to watch the whole stream then peep the previous post from this homework which has it embedded; or check out ustream page out at http://louiden.com/live.

new homework round the corner! stay tuned!

Louis Den Homework 89 Video Blog

Hopefully we'll be getting into the pattern of posting these each week explaining the goal of week's homework, makes it a lot easier for heads who dont want to read the wall of text that is a homework blog, plus should help get some new faces involved!!

Here's me in the lab w/ Sonnyjim breaking down the goal of this weeks homework (due 4th September!), props to Redbeard handling filming duties....Share / Repost / Tweet and all that good stuff! (direct link to video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5BBmn56OUw)



Louisden Homework 89 Video Blog


Download Headsplit Acapella here: http://db.tt/43c55sH


good luck!

Homework 89 - The Psychonaut Headsplit Remix

NEW HOMEWORRRRRRRRRRRRRRK! rejoyce!! aite so I've been mad busy with a gang of life ish for the past few months; tried my best to keep the ldbb blog updated with various bits but for the most part I've had to take a bit of a backseat.

Yes the league is still happening; We'll hopefully be ready for dope ass beat 3 to fall around the same time as it did back for the 2009-2010 league so get cooking in the lab!! before all that though We'll ease back into LDBB runnings with some homeworks! lets goo!.


Homework 89 - The Psychonaut Headsplit Remix



EATGOOD Records artist Sonnyjim has recetly dropped his ill "Psychonaut LP" which features production from M-Phazes, Illmind, Dag Nabit and Louis Den's Kelakovski, Pete Cannon and Eyebs; plus gang of others. The album is a joint release from EG and Australian label Obese (orchestrated from Sonny's tour out in Australia a couple years back) plus theres features/production coming from a few Oz artists.

To peep the LP head over to Sonnyjim's Bandcamp page and also take a look at the videos for the tracks "The Psychonaut" (prod DJ IQ) and "Flying To The Moon" (prod Kelakovski).

To celebrate the release of the album we've managed to prize an acapella off the project to let you guys give the remix treatment to. The original track "The Headsplit" is produced by Illmind and similar to our "Trading Standards Remixes" homework from a while back the best remix (picked by Sonnyjim in the stream) will get released via EATGOOD on an upcoming project, not bad eh?

If youd like to get busy with a remix then download the remix kit here (right click and save), included is the Acapella and a snippet of the original track so you can hear how the vocals are supposed to fit.

The track itself is 91.99 BPM, remember if you are new to remixing then do your homework with lining the vocals up!! the goal of a remix is to make your beat fit the vocals rather than the other way round; we'd only expect you to mess with the vox themselves if you are gonna draw from some dub/glitch influences but essensially if it's a straight up blap then get the BPM right!!

Its useful if your software/hardware would allow you to freely move the vox around your beat to line it up; if it doesnt you could always bounce out the beat into a multitrack editor and get it right that time!! but dont let an out of time Acca cost you the chance of winning!!

RULES
To remix the Sonnyjim track "The Headsplit", no restrictions or limitations just download the Vox and get it in!! however you are expected to turn in an original beat and not blend it with someone elses material.

DEADLINE
This is a two week challenge to ease back into the homeworks! turn in the beat by 17:00 on 4th September, email your entries to homework@louisden.com ; please attach the mp3 to the email message rather than a download link...it makes things a lot easier for us this way!!.

We'll be streaming at http://louisden.com/live to hear the entries and pick a winner!! good luck!

LINKS/RESOURCES
Hear/Buy the Psychonaut LP
Listen to the full track of "The Headsplit"
Download the Acapella and snippet of "The Headsplit" in a ZIP

RIP Michael Jackson

Dang, 2 years since the King Of Pop passed, Rest In Peace Michael and thank you for the great music!

Figure I'd post a Louis Den throwback and something from our extended fam to mark the event.

First off is the audio reel from Louis Den Homework #24 which was our Michael Jackson challenge, this was one of the toughest homeworks to date as it required producers to dig through Michaels solo catlog and raid it for every single sound available to flip into a beat (thats EVERY sound...drums/basses/synths you name it).

Some ill beats got turned in but a bit of a sleepy studio session meant that there was the traditional lab video to back it up with (that we used to put out weekly back then)..

Anyway, short of a month its great to look back at a 3 year old homework!

Louis Den Homework 24 Audio


Remember, this is a retrospective look back! most if not all the producers here have improved incredibly in 3 years and some may have floated into Louis Den obscurity!!

A requirement of the homework was to break down the process; although some didn't; read below for the process of those that did (I filled in the gaps where I could), this is copied and pasted from the original blog entry on the louisden myspace.

12 ORIGINAL PLAYERS (http://myspace.com/twelveoriginalplayers) I only used "Off The Wall" and "Thriller" as I refuse to own anything with "Dirty Diana" on it! When I started, all I had was a 7" of "Rock With You" so chopped some of the drums and some vocal stabs from there, and eventually layered them into the obvious kick and snare from everyone's fav, "Billie Jean". Once I had the drums rocking, I chopped up some bass notes from "Baby Be Mine" before adding a touch of guitar from "The Girl Is Mine". There's some additional vocal flavour sliced and diced from "It's The Falling In Love". BUDGIE (http://www.myspace.com/budgiefirebeats) sample = lady in my life (thriller) bass = billie jean kick drum looped synth = billie jean kick drum looped kick = billie jean kick processed/ eqed to shit percussion = workin day and night (off the wall) snare = workin day and night or something else on off the wall random hiccups/ breaths = throughout off the wall and thriller CHEMO aka DJ BUM HANDS (lol) (http://www.myspace.com/chemoproductions) Sounds like Liberian Girl from Bad formed the main part of the beat up im guessin the drum hits must have been from Thriller or Bad as they seem to be an 808 kit. (kos) KING JAY (http://www.myspace.com/11i01011) Sounds like "I Cant Help It" formed the main part of this beat. (kos) JIMMY GREEN (http://www.myspace.com/stupidfreshmain) Drums - from Beat It Samples - from The Lady In My Life JOE DAVIS (http://www.myspace.com/emceejoed) I got the hi-hat from billie jean..layered kicks from rock with you..a snare from rock with you layered with a snare from billie jean..bass is from leave me alone..and main melodic sample is from rock with you. JON PHONICS (http://www.myspace.com/jonphonics) Sounds like "I Cant Help It" forming the main chop/loop. (kos) KOSYNE (http://www.myspace.com/kosyne) The kick drums are layered they came from "Get On The Floor" and "Billie Jean"; I stuck a low pass filter on the "Billie Jean" kick to bring it out a little and used another one normally; the hihat came from "Billie Jean" as did the snare which I also layered with a rim from "Liberian Girl". Theres a hipass filter on some pitched down vocals I took from "Lady In My Life" and I took the synth keys from the start of "Just Good Friends" and finally I made my bassline by taking a snip of the "Billie Jean" kick setting loop points (so it repeats) and adding a filter/bass boost. LIKE MIKE (http://www.myspace.com/likemke) Chopped "Human Nature". NIK (http://www.myspace.com/nikmusiq) Kickdrum 1: Billie Jean (Thriller) Kickdrum 2: P.Y.T. (Thriller) Snare: Billie Jean (Thriller) HiHat 1: Billie Jean (Thriller) HiHat 2: Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' (Thriller) HiHat 3: Don't Stop Till You Get Enough (Off The Wall) Main Sample: Off The Wall (Off The Wall) Hits, short parts etc.: All hits and little parts and something else like thats cames from mj's "Off The Wall"! So you really got all I did with the beat...of course there is a lot of equalizing and compression work for drums, the main sample and its hits and little parts! PHOCUS (http://www.myspace.com/phocusbeats) Seemed to take a lot of bits from various tracks, I reckon I can hear the "Billy Jean" drums, elements of "Rock With You" and "Smooth Criminal" but theres much more in there! (kos). PURPOSE (http://www.myspace.com/tragicpurpose) Sounds like "Human Nature" forming the main chop (kos) RAW SOUNDZ (http://www.myspace.com/teklab07) Used the drums from "Billie Jean" and chopped up part of "Lady In My Life"

Finally, P.L.O from Associated Minds (Den heads my recognise him from Wrapped Up 2009 and Wrapped Up 2010) decided to remake "Beat It" from scratch; right down to the very intricate Eddie Van Halen guitar solo....incredible!! check it out and shouts to the AM camp!.

P.L.O of Associated Minds - Beat It Instrumental Remake

Homework 88 - Louis Got The Jazz

Homework 88 - Louis Got The Jazz



This week the title speaks for itself, JAZZ WEEK!! to expand upon that we're after beats that make use of your jazz crates so dig deep, feel free to bring out those dusty loops or get chop heavy and turn in a synth banger either way we want jazz sampled and influenced beats.

Feel free to get even more creative with it similar to jazz stylings, try 3 bar loops for instance or maybe a different time signature or use a jazz sounding kit for your drums, all not necessary but something you could try to add a little extra to your beat this week.


RULES
This week the goal is to turn in a jazz sampled and/or influenced beat, using extra instrumentation is fine but make sure the sample forms the body of the beat.

DEADLINE
Beats are due 1st May; submit your entries to homework@louisden.com as an attachment and a little description about the beat! we'll try to get the squad together earlier this week!! hit the Ustream for around 18:30 at http://louisden.com/live for it to kick off.

Homework 87 - Mobster Week

Rolling with another challenge!! lets do it



Homework 87 - Mobster Week



This week the goal is pretty clear cut and simple!! We want you guys to get the crime family / mobster / mafia flicks out and get digging through the musical scores / soundtracks!

RULES
Search out your favourite soundtrack/original score to a mobster film and turn the source material into bangin beat!.

No other rules other than the standard den parameters synth work or anything else to fill out the beat (dialog, scratches, one shots etc) all good as long as it doesnt draw away from the source matieral!

DEADLINE
Beats are due Sunday 24th April, we'll be streaming from http://louisden.com/live looking forward to checking the beats...email them to homework@louisden.com no sendspace/mediafire/zshare just attach the beat!!

LINKS/RESOURCES
Heres Amazon.com's top 35 mafia films, its a great start!
http://www.amazon.com/Top-35-Best-Mafia-Flicks/lm/2XQQ18U67JUEG

Homework 86 - 2.5 Seconds Of Funk, SP1200 Week

Yoooo! been a minute since the last few challenges; apologies for the stop start but I've had a few things going on which would have made it hard to get to the lab the last couple of weeks! rather than set a x2 week challenge (which people normally sleep on as they think they've got forever to do it) here we are..Tuesday and a new challnege for this Sunday, maybe the more of you on it will get me in gear to kick this league off eh?? heh..

Ok so the last hardware battle we did was a while back with Homework 67 - DMX Week and we're continuing this on with another (and probably more so) legendary sampler adopted for hiphop.


Homework 86 - 2.5 seconds of funk "SP1200 Week"



This week we want you guys to go back in time and virtually equip yourselves with the legendary Emu Sp1200 if you dont know get to know (Vintage Synth // Wikipedia). This iconic machine was behind many a classic hiphop record and formed part of the production arsenal from some of hiphop productions heaviest hitters (Q-Tip, Pete Rock, Dr. Dre, Large Professor, Da Beatminerz, Easy Mo Bee and countless others!!) as we dont have real SP1200's to dole out you guys are going to have to improvise but this still can form quite a fun challenge.

To cut a long story short you are going to have to make a beat as if you were equipped with one of these badboys and heres how.


RULES
The goal of this weeks challenge is to make an SP1200 inspired beat, to get as near as possible to the constrainsts of this machine you will be forced to use the original factory discs that came with the machine which featured pre-loaded sounds to form your own kit and get busy programming.

The total sample time of the SP1200 could not exceed 10 seconds, the unit had 8 velocity sensitive pads (as opposed to the MP's 16) and x4 banks of sounds; meaning you had 2.5 seconds per bank to play with (dont forget you still would have to count in the drums too), thats why producers would do all sorts of tricks like the decay repeat, or the 16 levels equivalent to pitch notes and the classic sampling a 33 record in at 45 and then slow down.

While we dont expect you to get crazy chop/reassemble happy we'll approximate all this by stating the following.

* Only use the drum packs provided for your drum sounds
* for samples you can choose whatever you like but total sample time cannot exceed 10 seconds
* not mandatory but extra hiphop points to anyone who makes use of a bitcrusher/ring mod/or samples in at 26Khz / 12-bit to attempt to replicate the crunch (I know its not the same but hey)
* extra extra points if you find this challenge laughable as you own an authentic SP!! heh..kudos!! turn in a beat!

Synth's are okay but dont go crazy; whilst it wouldn't be impossible to MIDI up a keyboard back in the SP1200 hey day and add encorporate that into a beat; this challenge is more about fancy chop skills and bringing the best out of those stock drums so save a bassline or a little lead dont go all Jean Michel Jarre on us.


DEADLINE
Beats are due Sunday 17th April, we'll be streaming from http://louisden.com/live looking forward to checking the beats...email them to homework@louisden.com no sendspace/mediafire/zshare just attach the beat!!

LINKS/RESOURCES

download the SP1200 kit here (originally sourced from the sp1200 forum)

peeace....keep it crunchy!

Homework 85 - Birthday Beats

Okay we're back with a challenge! its been a month or so out the game (lots going on! including a trip to the US for bcd #3...theres a blogpost coming soon on that), the league is still happening for all those wondering just be patient.

Right now for this weeks task!


Homework 85 - Birthday Beats



The goal of the challenge this week is to make a track built from a sample of whichever song was the top charting single from the week and year of your birthdate! maybe you now know about the group or song in question...but at the time you wouldn't have had a clue being fresh on this earth!!

You have a choice of either the UK or US top single and theres links to the wiki pages of the top selling singles so you can figure out what your choices are.


RULES
This week the goal is to make a beat using the #1 charting single of the same week of your birth date, you can go by either the UK top 40 singles or the US billboard charts (links below). VST's and your own built up elements are cool but make sure the sample forms the body of your track.


DEADLINE
Get the joints to us by Sunday 27th March, email entries to homework@louisden.com ,as usual we'll be streaming from http://louisden.com/live between 18:00 and 18:30 GMT so get your beats in! do your bit to ensure a healthy turn out so we can get the challeneges crackin full steam!!

LINKS/RESOURCES

top 40 uk singles
1970s Top Singles
1980's Top Singles
1990's Top Singles

billboard top US singles
US Top Singles

(throwback) LDBB Episode 17 - Reflip A Donut For Dilla (2008)

If you've never seen this you're in for a treat, this is a Den throwback to when we all when through the Donuts crates to make new beats and salute the second anniversary of Dilla's passing.

Mazzie came all the way from Devon to come and rep in the old studio with myself, Kelakovski, Figaro and Eyebs, a definate throwback to the Myspace era of Louis Den!

I went in with the editing on this particular episode splicing in the lab footage with lil Dilla factoids for your amusement!

Peep below..


Louis Den Beat Battles Episode 17 - Reflip A Donut For Dilla

Homework 84 - [re:]Flip Fantastic

Homework 84 - [re:]Flip Fantastic



This week's goal is to reflip a sample......FROM YOURSELF.....that's right we want you to go back into the vaults and redo a sample that you picked yourself from a while back, but theres a criteria.

For the reflip fantastic we want you to only pick samples from beats you made during your first couple years of making beats, we almost want you to remake your first beats to show some growth and proof of the skills gained since your early days, see how your synth/keys game and drums/mixing/arrangement skills have improved over the years.

Soooo! we want you dig out an old beat; get your hands on the sample and start again with the advantage of a few years knowledge.

If you are having trouble finding an old beat, try digging out that old soundclick profile or maybe dust off your myspace (is there an old joint on there??) (and if you're OG louisden enough) maybe in the players of some of the old louisden blogs on myspace or even the 2008 league?.

going back just a year or so isn't good enough though we need you to go riiight back on some indiana jones tip, and don't worry if your chop game was mad weak back in the day, you dont have to recrate that or use the same drums...just approach the SAME sample as if you were to make the beat today....if you can give your beat the remix treatment then even better but its not a strict requirement.

Obviously this challenge is gonna work better for heads who aren't fresh to making beats...but if you are (lets say you've only been in this months) then feel free to sit this one out or redo an early beat just like everyone else (but only if you feel you've improved enough for there to be a difference).

Of course if you want to redo a synth beat over then also feel free if the goal of the homework can still stand (i.e. you've gone from badly composed 1 finger melodies to full on chord progressions...be our guest!!)

RULES
To go through your beat archives and dig out a joint you made back in your early days; you're to redo the beat with your 2011 beatmaking skills, the beat can be sampled/composed but just approach your choice in a way to show some growth from the original blap.

So you either have to

a) reflip a sample from an old beat of yours (remake it with better chops/drums or start over either is fine)

or

b) remake a synth/composed beat from your early days with better drums/arrangement/mixing but to show its the same beat you are remaking you'll have to improve on the elements rather than starting again (i.e. the main melody)

Also so we get a feel for your improvement, let your original joint play out for a few seconds as an intro to your beat! and let us know the details in your email to us (homework@louisden.com) always nice to have the backstory!

DEADLINE
Beats are due 13th February 2011, you got a bit of extra time seeing as its a monday! we'll be streaming from 18:30 GMT in the lab @ http://louisden.com/live as usual submit your joints to homework@louisden.com . Lets get it!

Louis Den Lab Sessions 81 / 82

Dont be sleeping on the LDBB Ustream, we broadcast every Sunday from the lab at around 18:00 GMT bringing you plenty of jokes and bangers submitted for the homework of the week!, heres a little round up of the last 2 joints in case you may have missed them.


Homework 83 - Disco Week




Last weeks homework was back at the Den with myself and Kelakovski; we wanted heads to dig through the Disco crates and see if they could change them dancefloor joints of yester year into some fresh bangers! I got a bit carried away doing the live mutes (hahaha) and accidently cut the wifi off so this joint is in 2 parts.


Homework 82 - Stax Of Soul



The aim of Homework 82 was to flip samples from the iconic "Stax" catalog, no Kela in the stream that week as myself and AB0181 had to do some sneaky overseas to Berlin to begin filming for BCD3! we still decided to get busy with a ldbb stream which we did from the hotel equipped with the room's ethernet and some dope German beer.

This weeks homework is still open and we'll be streaming from the lab at the usual time of 18:30, read a few posts below to see the theme and if you wanna get down! submit beats to homework@louisden.com

Homwork 83 - Where I'm From

Homework 83 - Where Im From




RULES
This week the goal is to flip a sample by an artist who is from the same home town as you; you're to go through their catalog to find something to get busy with and build a fresh beat using sampled elements.

We'd define where you are from as from the same city (or nearest city) as you, try and get a local name rather than using a tenious link of "they are from the same country as me" this can either be where you are living now or where you grew up depending on the crates quality!

but this should be an interesting challenge as the geogrpahy will limit your samples!

any genre is cool but obviously make it interesting...and let us know who you flipped!! maybe let the break ride out at the start!

DEADLINE
Beats are due Sunday 6th Feb, gonna try make the stream for 18:30, really sorry if you guys wait wait and wait some more doesn't always go smooth heading to the lab!

right Im off to dig through some Ozzy Osbourne and UB40 ish!!

Homework 82 - Disco Fever

This weeks homework was an idea I had floating about for a couple of weeks; when we asked for suggestions after last weeks stream Evil Needle came with suttin similar so we're running with it for this weeks theme.


Homework 82 - Disco Fever



This week the challenge is to flip Disco joints into new bangers! house DJ's have been doing it for eons and hiphop has been borrowing from Disco crates from day dot, so lets get it.

RULES
This week the you have to turn in a beat that uses samples from Disco music, usual rules apply; VST's, Drums etc can be from your own stash of libraries and instruments just as long as the sample forms the main part.

DEADLINE
Get the joints to us by Sunday 30th January, email entries to homework@louisden.com ,as usual we'll be streaming from http://louisden.com/live between 18:00 and 18:30 GMT so get your beats in!

Homework 81 - Stax Of Soul

What up! been a minute since the last homework dropped; Xmas and New Year has passed us by and its time to get back to business! the LOUIS DEN 2011 LEAGUE is coming, please beleive; if you dont know already; pre signups can be located at the louisden forum - http://louisden.com/forum with a proper announcement coming soon.

New Year New Homework, lets get it!

Homework 81 - Stax Of Soul



Founded in 1957 as Satellite Records, the label became known as Stax in 1961, given that makes it a cool 50 years old this year we'd like you guys to dig through the catalogue and turn in some ill beats.

Artists birthed from the label include Otis Redding, William Bell, The Dramatics, Isaac Hayes, Eddie Flloyd and a whole gang of others!

RULES
To create a beat using the extensive "Stax" catalogue, get over to the wikipedia page, youtube / spotify; research and give the catalogue a listen; try your best to source your samples from good rips OR better yet go for a real life dig!! cant beat it, usual louisden rules apply; feel free to use your own drums/vst's to bulk up the beat; just make sure the sample forms the main part! *** be sure to research the albums you are digging from to make sure they are from the Stax catalogue ** submit beats to homework@louisden.com.

DEADLINE
Beats are due Sunday 23rd January, so thers no session this sunday (16th Jan) you've got the whole week to get cooking!, see you in the stream @ http://louisden.com/live

LINKS/RESOURCES
List of stax releases - http://staxrecords.free.fr/covers.htm
Stax Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stax_Records

Homework 80 - Bigger Than Hiphop

New homework! thanks for holdin out for the week break;

Homework 80 - Bigger Than Hiphop



RULES
This week is all about branching out; theres no theme to beat except we want you to display your beat skills outside of a traditional "blap" not to say anyone is generic in the least! but more that this week is your carte blanche to step out and hand in literally whatever you like for your homework...be it jazz, soul, drum & bass or ghettotech!

Show us what you can do when we free the walls! this is a non genre specific homework but it would be nice if you cooked something up specially rather than that 2 year old dubstep beat you had laying around!

DEADLINE
Beats are due Sunday 19th December, email to homework@louisden.com

Homework 79 - Space Week

Ok caving into chatroom pressure here, yeah of course its a dope idea but we weren't sure when to drop it and the ldbb heads have spoken so here it is!


Homework 79 - Space Week



This week we want you guys to flip samples from anything pertaining to Japanese culture; so composers, artists, groups, TV shows, anything originating from the country; we'll accept anything from Japanese War Drum flips right down to J-Pop to anime (if you can pull it off hahaha), so go nuts!!; obviously this is a sample based challenge so synth happy producers need to dig in the crates!

RULES
This week we want you to turn in beats that can fall into the theme of "Space", you can go the sci-fi route by flipping TV/Movie themes from sci-fi shows/films or you can turn in some futuristic synthed out space age funk, either or but its got to sound out of this world!

DEADLINE
Beats by 5th December please!! as usual email them to homework@louisden.com, and yes the league is coming but we took a hit with my laptop going caput the other day; going to take a while for me to get back on my feet so please be patient, if you can't wait then just jump on the homeworks to sharpen up!

Homework 78 - Big In Japan

We've just come off a short 1 week break, so apologies to anyone who was fiending for their Sunday stream fix; we've had a few things to sort for the upcoming Louis Den event in Birmingham so we had to get those worked out!!

We mentioned this idea in the last stream and was something that came up in the forum's homework suggestions thread so we figured we'd give it a go!.


Homework 78 - Big In Japan



This week we want you guys to flip samples from anything pertaining to Japanese culture; so composers, artists, groups, TV shows, anything originating from the country; we'll accept anything from Japanese War Drum flips right down to J-Pop to anime (if you can pull it off hahaha), so go nuts!!; obviously this is a sample based challenge so synth happy producers need to dig in the crates!

RULES
We want beats made utilising Japanese samples; whether its the intruments, influence or artists themselves.

DEADLINE
Beats are due via email to homework@louisden.com by 18:00 GMT on 28th November 2010, good luck!....PS the league is coming soon, more details on that this week!.

Homework 77 - Moms Playlist

Homework 77 - Moms Playlist



This week the homework is entitled "Mom's Playlist", this week we want you guys to dig for samples from songs typically found in "Mom Crates", okay now this is a bit tricky as its up open for interpretation; see YOUR mom's crates might be kinda deep; especially if what your parents played to you shaped your interest in music and the obvious stuff that would stand out to make beats from we aren't really looking for.

Typically your average "Mom crates" would have cheesy easy listening, light modern pop, 80's stuff, crooners that sorta thing, the cheesier the better although like we said its open for interpretation but really though we want you to get busy with the type of stuff your mom/parents would bump.

RULES
Ok so this week you have to make a beat utilizing samples from music youd find in your mom's record collection; if nothing springs to mind we're thinking the typical sort of stuff a mom would cop (pop/crooners,80's etc) try find some mom themed compilations for name checks!, obviously twisting your own sounds into your beat is allowed but the body has to come from whatever you've sampled..

DEADLINE
Beats are due Sunday 14th November, get busy! as usual submit to homework@louisden.com

Homework 76 - Reggae Week

Homework 76 - Reggae Week



This week you guys have to dig through your Reggae crates and flip a banger from em for Sundays session; If you actually want to turn in a Reggae flavoured beat then thats all good; but dont feel you have to all thats important is the source material, let the sample ride out at the start (or let us know what you sampled) so we can get a feel for the work you did, standard louisden rules apply and nothing more is required!

RULES
Create a Reggae themed beat or simply flip a beat making use of a Reggae sample/artist.

DEADLINE
Beats are due Sunday 7th November! session start 18:30 GMT at http://louisden.com/live, email entries to homework@louisden.com you know the deal by now!

good luck, looking forward to getting the beats!