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

Beat Tape / Free Music Monday

What up people; just about to get into the cutting room for LDBB 31, hopefully it'll be up by tomorrow at the latest; its gonna be the last LDBB for a minute but further explaination (on the way) should clear up any questions.

Right on to some free beat tapes, I feel I've been slackin on the blog game so im tryin to step my game up with some free music / beat tapes!!, ga'head download, BUMP and enjoy.

First up is LDBB favourite and general badman with the blaps ILLmind!, with a free mixtape in conjunction with DJ Dub MD entitled "Blaps, Rhymes, & Life", theres some baaaad (meaning good) stuff on this tape with meezy handling all the production and appearences from the likes of 50 Cent, LL Cool J, Kool G Rap, Supastition, Heltah Skeltah and more!, check the blurb direct from the man himself..

"Blaps, Rhymes & Life" is the exclusive new mixtape project from Dub MD and one of the most accomplished producers in Hip Hop Illmind. A producer that balances both the mainstream and underground successfully, working with a full spectrum of artists from Heltah Skeltah to 50 Cent, Little Brother to Black Eyed Peas, the list goes on. This new project features some of the artists Illmind has been working closely with over the past year or so including the likes of 50 Cent, LL Cool J, Heltah Skeltah, Skyzoo and many more.

Lookout for Illmind dropping his brand new studio album currently "Untitled" coming soon, along with his highly anticipated group album as "Fortilive" with Mushmouf and Slo-Mo and his exclusive collaboration project with North Carolina's Supastition and make sure you check out his new beat-tape "New Blap City" + limited edition T-shirt which is available right now, cop them @ http://www.illmind.biz.

Also keep your eyes out for Dub MD's exclusive new mixtape project for the purest called "Hip Hop Renatus" which features the whos-who of underground hip hop emcees (44 MC's / 34 Tracks) doin what they do best over the greatest hip hop producers of all-times instrumentals, out next month for exclusive free download!


Illmind - Blaps Rhymes & Life Mixtape


01. Get Ya Ass Up! (Intro) (Produced By Illmind)
02. Heltah Skeltah - Everything Is Heltah Skeltah (Produced By Illmind)
03. Brooklyn Academy - Raise Ya Hands (feat. Jean Grae) (Produced By Illmind)
04. Fresh Daily - Get Over (Produced By Illmind)
05. D. Black - The Come Up (feat. Skyzoo) (Produced By Illmind)
06. 50 Cent - Make A Movie (Produced By Illmind)
07. Supastition - Thankful (feat. Kil Ripkin) (Produced By Illmind)
08. Naturel - The Bullets (Produced By Illmind)
09. K.O. (K-Otix) - 48 Seasons (Produced By Illmind)
10. Torae - New Blood (feat. Skyzoo, Emilio Rojas & Fresh Daily) (Produced By Illind)
11. Fortilive - The Come Up (Produced By Illmind)
12. Broken English - Different World (Produced By Illmind)
13. Skyzoo - Lyrically Inclined (feat. Wale) (Produced By Illmind)
14. Naps N Dreds - Do What I Should (feat. Copywrite) (Produced By Illmind)
15. Quan - Geez Like Deez (feat. Rapper Big Pooh) (Produced By Illmind)
16. Naturel - Resurrect (Produced By Illmind)
17. 8th W1 - A Fool's Lullaby (Produced By Illmind)
18. Faro-Z - Clap Ya Hands (Produced By Illmind)
19. A.P.E.X. - One More Time (Produced By Illmind)
20. LL Cool J - Queens (feat. Prodigy, 50 Cent, Kool G Rap, & Tony Yayo) (Produced By Illmind)
21. Wannabe? (Outro) (Produced By Illmind)


DOWNLOAD: http://www.mediafire.com/?4mhm2mxyzrt
LINK: http://www.illmind.biz



Now we got the super dope Symbolic One from the Strange Fruit Project of Music Box / Art Of One Mind fame, as previously mentioned he recently dropped his solo production album "Music Box" which has some stompin beats and ill features and should be checked out, here he drops his 4th Quarter beat CD of fresh beats straight out the lab...holla at him for rates!.


S1 - 4th Quarter Beat CD

*unofficial cover by MEDIUM.
01 Mr Porter Intro
02 Elevation Intended
03 Supa Negroid
04 Jackin Midgets
05 Mike Jackson 08
06 Crayola Music
07 Lucy Live Long
08 Pum Pums n Drums
09 Benny Twins
10 My Neighborhood
11 For Life
12 The Day Before
13 Hood Dreams
14 Hey Miss Parker
15 Million Dollar Deal
16 Get Tha Dough
17 My City Cries

DOWNLOAD: http://www.zshare.net/download/19390583ef9cc227/
LINK: http://www.myspace.com/symbolycone


Next up is DJ GRUMBLE with the excellent "FREESTYLE TOOLS VOL 2", continuing on his series of free beat tapes comes 22 dope blaps with an unmistakable boom bap bounce!, get at him on his site for prices!.


DJ Grumble - Freestyle Tools Vol 2

01 deep fried
02 super cheddar
03 taxi cab
04 makin moves
05 wu tang financial
06 metamucil
07 promise
08 grumbz blues
09 caveman
10 pan handle
11 fanfare
12 bright side
13 on the rocks
14 air
15 traffic stop
16 late night flute
17 tribal
18 vivid dream
19 rodrigo
20 time passage
21 cuz i like it
22 get em grumbz

DOWNLOAD: http://72.29.84.167/%7Egrimelab/dj_grumble_-_freestyle_tools_vol_2.zip
LINK: http://www.grumbs.com



And finaaaaaaaaly, last but by no means least is LDBB resident WIZARD!, with his newest mixtape "Yes I Do Rap", featuring production from Kid Eight, Kelakovski, Raul Supreme, Scizzaz and more as well as guest appearences from Sonnyjim, Apatight, Kosyne and more; so yeah its a regular LDBB outing, check gutter mouth wiz on the mic!.


Wizard - Yes I Do Rap

01 Yes I Do Rap
02 Bangin' Raw Shit (Featuring Scizzahz) (Produced By Kelakovski)
03 Cheezy
04 Murderous (Featuring Ezerin) (Produced By Wizard)
05 No (Produced By Prolifik)
06 Posse Ish (Featuring Sonnyjim, Apatight & Kosyne)
07 1Night Stand (Featuring Scizzahz & Natural)
08 Barz
09 Rock That Shit (Featuring Kanasu Barz)
10 KFC (Produced By Raul Supreme)
11 Get 'Em (Remix) (Featuring Tai) (Produced By Wizard)
12 It's Over (Featuring 777 & Joe Gutta)
13 Myspace Exclusive (Featuring KidEight)
14 Hounds Of H-Town (Featuring Scizzahz) (Produced By Scizzahz)
15 Whoa! (Featuring KidEight & Kosyne) (Produced By KidEight)
16 Bombardment Of Scum (Featuring Scizzahz & Vecks) (Produced By Vecks)
17 Superheroez (Featuring Ezerin) (Produced By Ernie Twig)
18.Played Out

DOWNLOAD: http://sharebee.com/ff688fea
LINK: http://www.myspace.com/wizardbeats


I aint done yet!, more coming!.

.kos

Just heard an ILLmind break on "My Name Is Earl"

It plays at the end of "Stole Pops HD Cart" episode, just seen it on E4..hahaha, did a little searching and found out what the break was..


I Just Want To Celebrate - Rare Earth




he used it at the start of


"Sirens" by Little Brother



Ok now to make this a bit less geeky heres a pic and vid of the dooohpe Nadine Velazquez (who plays Catilina) to balance out the nerdom.







yeah..?

Music / Beats Tuesday

Alright, so while the latest LDBB episode is uploading to myspace...(seems to be taking forever) I figured id update the blog with some goodies..

First off is a beat tape from a cat called Devon; I found his page through Okayplayer and he's got a little download up on his page entitled "2088 Archives", anyway; dude seems to be on that good shit..so check it out, in his own words..

"download it, enjoy it, tell ya moms to download it, tell her to enjoy it.

this is a collection of older/quasi-new beats and songs. im currently working on an album that i'll drop this fall. this was just some shit i wanted to share so people could rock music away from the page. if you know me, you probably have these tracks already. haha.

enjoy and read the info please."


Devon - 2088 Archives Beat Tape


LINK: http://www.zshare.net/download/16382981fe82baec/
Devons MySpace


*note..at the time of writing this zshare was all kinds of messin up...but im guessing it'll be okay soon enough.

Ok, next up we got Torae, if you dont know bout Torae then slap yourself him and Skyzoo put out that dope 12 with Primo last year "Click b/w Get It Done" and he followed that up with the Daily Conversation mixtape....anyway he's just dropped a little free ting called "Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself", which is collabos, freestyles and unreleased beats,judging from the tracklist the guests appearences look pretty tasty and the production resume is off the meat rizzy too (Khrysis, 9th Wonder, Madlib, Marco Polo, Illmind and more!!)...GO GET!.


Torae - "Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself"


01. Heard It All Before w/ Emilio Rojas (Prod by Khrysis)
02. Merchant Of Dreams w/ Skyzoo & The Embassy (Prod by 9th Wonder)
03. The Takeover ft. Kil Ripkin (Prod by COS)
04. Uncomfortable (Prod by 9th Wonder)
05. Shake It Off w/ Tanya Morgan & Kam Moye (Prod by Brizzo)
06. Crash (Prod by Khrysis)
07. No Where No More w/ Eternia & Ms. Davis (Prod by 9th Wonder)
08. Higher Learning (Unreleased) (Prod by COS)
09. Told You That w/ Chaundon (Prod by Khrysis)
10. I Dont Care w/ Nefew
11. T.I.M.E. (Prod by Vega & Suede)
12. 3 Kings w/ Skyzoo & Chaundon (Prod by Analogic)
13. Lick The Balls
14. Best Out w/ Skyzoo & Draftpick
15. Good God (Prod by Marco Polo)
16. New Blood w/ Emilio Rojas, Skyzoo & Fresh Daily (Prod by Illmind)
17. Broken Dreamz ft. KoMika (Unreleased) (Prod by Vega & Suede)
18. Rise Up (Unreleased) (Prod by COS)
19. The People w/ ESSO
20. Hip Hop w/ Punchline & Stick (Prod by Madlib)
21. Getting Money w/ Magnif of Lawless Element (Prod by Magnif)
22. Promises w/ Kil Ripkin (Prod by Vega & Suede)
23. Its All Over w/ Supastition, Dan Jons & Finale (Prod by DR)

LINK: http://sharebee.com/76f2a1eb


M-Phazes / Emilio Rojas Videos
If you check the forums out you'll know a lot of us are a bit nutty for aussie beatsmith M-Phazes, S-Type posted this up which is worth a look, its M-Phazes at the 2nd Annual "Beasts Of The Beats" showcase...Pete Rock was there to give feedback and seems rightfully blown away by what he's hearing...shouts to Pheezy's rep givin it the "air production" hahaha.






And to keep the M-Phazes link there he's putting a joint project out with frequent collaborator Emilio Rojas (aka Raks One), the project is to be titled "Phaze One" (see what they did there eh eh eh??), heres the first video from the project.


Emilio Rojas - That Time (prod by M-Phazes)



Aite...back in a sec..download, digest enjoy..