Behind Closed Doors 2 in Amsterdam!

Doin the 'Dam thing..
What up people, been a minute since some blogging / homework action on the louisden front but dont get it twisted we've been very busy!...since we dropped Behind closed Doors Vol 1 myself and AB0181 have been carefully planning the next installment off the magazine and the weekend just past saw us visit to Amsterdam to officially start work on Volume 2. We dont want to give too much away on the planned features but with what we captured over the weekend I think we're well on to making more than a worthy sequel, we'll leave you with some teaser shots from SOME of the action!.









Oh and if you've no idea about the dope Behind Closed Doors project then scoot over to the mini site here (www.louisden.com/bcd) we're down to the last few copies so order NOW if you wanna own a peice of hiphop beatmaking cinema history lol....forreal tho if/when we do repress the project it wont be in the hand numbered DVD/Beat CD form it is now so once these are gone they are GONE!!.

Behind Closed Doors +Feedback!

What up, its been a very hectic couple of weeks and I still havent written a little peice on the "Behind Closed Doors" project; I'll probably post a little bit on my myspace its just one thing after another at the moment tho!! as im on the beat cypher grizzle too!

But yeahhh! THANK YOU SO MUCH everyone who ordered a copy, we appreciate ANY sort of feedback so if you got a minute do join in on the Behind Closed Doors Vol 1 thread over at the louisden forum and let us know your thoughts, Myself and Pro already have ideas swirling in our heads re: Volume 2 but really we gotta push our product fall back and take all the feedback onboard before we get rolling with it!.

SO!! if you havent already ordered a copy I suggest you do!! head over to http://www.louisden.com/bcd and click BUY!.

Ok...back on it!!, BEAT CYPHER 04 blog coming...NEW HOMEWORK..MONDAY!.

.kos

Beat Cypher 03 - Round One

Ok theres plenty more to come but I thought id get the ball rolling with the first installment!! the intro took me the longest time to put together hahaha but I was mad inspired of Andys ILL work on DVD 02 so I felt i needed to up it a gear.




more coming soon!


.kos

"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!

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

WRAPPED UP 2008 - CHRISTMAS BEATS (JAISU,KELAKOVSKI,KOSYNE,METABEATS, P.L.O & S-TYPE)

What up YAWL...Merry Christmas!!!...I know its droppin a day later than I would have liked but my Christmas was a bit complicated this year and couldnt really get on the net to up the videos (although I did try and managed to drop the Welsh one first hence that gettin 300 somethin views currently!!).

Anyway If you've been following Louis Den for the past year or so then you'll remember last Christmas we did the Xmas wax swap with the boys in the scotland myself (Kos) and Kela swapped records with S-Type & Jaisu and made a beat from a christmas record..we then dropped them on my youtube channel and Prolifik (Ab0181) respectively..Well since then a lot has happened!! me and Pro have a beatmaking doc underway, we've linked a few times for beat geek outs and I even managed to get the boys down to SMASH the Louis Den Beat Cypher that took place earlier this month.

WELLLL of course it being Christmas Pro was already gettin hit up as soon as Dec hit asking him if he was gonna drop another xmas vid...so we knew it had to be so heres how we did it!.

To make it even better than last year I connected with the mighty Mayor from Welsh indie hiphop label Associated Minds...banged a few messages back and forth and got a couple of their producers (Metabeats & P.L.O) down for the project too so this time round we've got 3 camps of producers all exchanging xmas records, rather than squash it into rushed video we dropped em country by country so you get a better feel for everyones process!.


WRAPPED UP 2008 WALES


WRAPPED UP 2008 ENGLAND


WRAPPED UP 2008 SCOTLAND



I did the final edits / gfx for the vids with each camp filming theirs seperately but Prolifiks youtube is gonna be the future spot for a lot of collab/louisden related stuff as we're all pushing the same team! PLUS...this whole wrapped up thing is a joint effort/concept with myself, Prolifik and Mayor all ironing out the ideas earlier on in the month to get this to you!.

Props to Mayor for handlin the welsh side of things I know it wasnt easy getting the camera crew, Metabeats & P.L.O all together to shoot/dig and getting me the vid sent (xmas eve!!)...

Pro for handling ish the best he could despite being in spain for xmas!!

and yeah yourselves for being part of / fans of Louis Den or just vibing off the movment!! heres to a dope 2009!

MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM ALL OF US!....
peace & beats!.


LOUIS DEN
www.louisden.com

PROLIFIK (AB0181)
http://www.youtube.com/ab0181

ASSOCIATED MINDS
www.associatedminds.com

6 Way Jam

No...

this..

In the lab with Budgie, Jaisu, Kelakovski, Kosyne, Leatherface & S-Type working a combination of an MPC,Microkorg, FL Studio & Reason, this was shot the day after the Louis Den club sandwich unfortunately Sivey had to bounce early in the morning so thats why he wasnt about.

Filmed by badman like Prolifik.





Niiiccce!.



yes its nerdy
and yes its beautiful.

Homework 21 Video - Club Sandwich

DAMNN SONNN WE ON FIRE...didnt think it'd upload this fast, ok then continuing with todays updates..the LDBB Club sandwich video is now up, check the blogs for a very special LDBB episode directed by Prolifik aka AB0181; the goal of this challenge was to flip 3 samples into one track a little like the 3 layers of a club sandwich make 1 tasty treat hahha..more specifics in the myspace writeup.

Im beastin' with the dotcom game right now with the dual blogging..GYEHHH (maximum thuggery & nerdom!)

Louis Den Beat Battles Episode 21 - Club Sandwich

hit the blogs up to tell us your favourites..or take it to the forum if it sparks discussion!.

oh and finally..props to Prolifik..the video turned out SIIIIIIICK!!...stay tuned for our secret hush hush vid project...a teaser is already out there and more on the way...whooo the mystery!.