2007 Dilla mixes by AB0181 and Kosyne

Both me and Andy had created our own personal Dilla mixes back in 2007, chopping it up yesterday he let slip he was going to upload his mix as he figured he'd share, strangely I was on the same page wanting to do the same for the joint I had created back at the same time for the radio show I was then hosting.

It's worth checking both out neither of us feature the same tracks which makes the whole coincidence even doper!

Andy's Dilla Lives! mix is a 35 minute trip through some of his favourite Dilla beats, songs and even a sneaky break here and there (dont forget AB0181 is a sick DJ!! so check for the crispy cuts and live Dilla fx triggered w/ his MP), mine was in the same vein (minus the DJ element....although I was brave enough to try mix a couple joints hahaha) featuring my favourite Dilla productions and remixes for the hour long show that would have aired 4 years ago to the day..

Peep below! be sure to pass onto a friend and cop the tracks you're feeling if you dont already have them, Mixcloud has purchase links next to each joint!

Dilla Lives! by AB0181

Dilla Lives! by Andybr0wn on Mixcloud

BeatsNBars Radio #19 - J.Dilla mix by Kosyne

Beats 'N' Bars Radio #19 Dilla Mix By Kosyne by Kosyne on Mixcloud

(throwback) Dillamation by AB0181 (2009)

Andy posted this on the blog around the same time back in 2009, in a moment of Dillz fueled inspiration he took to the camera to knock up a stop frame tribute to Jay Dee.

Heads were quite receptive to the unique animation which featured J.Dilla produced records stacked up against a climbing flower and it even made its way onto the Stonesthrow front page!

Check it again below if you haven't seen it in a while, still fresh as ever!

Dillamation by AB0181

Sonnyjim & Kosyne - EG Professionals (prod Kelakovski) (dir AB0181)

Heres a new oldie, the music video from the track EG Professionals by myself and Sonnyjim; the track is taken from the "Compilation Vol 1" that was released by EATGOOD Records around 18 months ago.

We got camera supremo AB0181 down to shoot and edit the video to the Kelakovski produced head nodder and whilst its been done for some time it's only recently surfaced; so give it a peep and see what you think.


Sonnyjim & Kosyne - EG Professionals (Dir AB0181)



If you like what you hear; dont be shy you can head over to iTunes and cop the whole compilation which features more tracks/remixes from the EATGOOD camp and production from Kelakovski, Kosyne, Eyebs, Sivey, Shears, Darren Paul & R2ThaBeatz.

Jaisu Beat Tape Vol 8 & Striaght Out The MPC Beat Tape

Den heads AB0181 and Jaisu (Beatfanatic) return with another blazin instalment of the pioneering Beat Tape series; theres some monsters here in the tried and tested sample then blap format, raw sewage in your water cooler face action...



If you're feelin it, be sure to hit the Youtube page up and leave a comment; better yet go and cop Jaisu's debut release "Straight Out The MPC" which see's him collate the favourite beats from the video series with some sneaky new joints for a more than reasonable $5 (I copped mine!) over at Jaisu's bandcamp.

2011 should be a dope year for J, get em son!

LINKS

Jaisu Beat Enquiries (jaisubeatsandbooking@gmail.com)

Jasiu's facebook page

Follow @Jaisu on Twitter

More iddish from AB0181

Follow @AB0181 on Twitter

** plug plug **, we've got an ill lil section on Jaisu in the latest instalment of Behind Closed Doors Vol 2, check the DVD preview out over here, and cop it here.

Jaisu - Prelude To The MPC EP + Promo Vid

Jaisu is finally hitting his blap hungry followers off with a release!, "Straight Out The MPC" is a collection 30 beats spanning his explosive Youtube beat tape series as well as sneaky new treats that have been crafted inbetween.

Before you can get your hands on that though he's dropped the "Prelude To The MPC" EP which features instrumental versions of released joints Jaisu has produced as well as a few sneaky vocal tracks, this and the "Straight Out The MPC" Beat Tape can be obtained from his bandcamp page linked below.

Visual accompaniment to these new releases comes courtesy of the Den's AB0181 who went in to provide a crazy costume changing sequence of Jai in the lab, peep!

Jaisu - Prelude To The MPC Promo Vid by AB0181



I think you can agree that they're both killin it!! Go bag them treats now!

Jaisu's Bandcamp

'Like' Jaisu on his Official Facebook Page

Follow @Jaisu on Twitter

Pre Order Behind Closed Doors 2 NOW!

Behind Closed Doors Volume 2 will be dropping next week!, however you can pre-order copies of the DVD and its limited edition box set "The BCD Box" NOW!, all you have to do is head over to - http://tinyurl.com/copbcd2 , dont miss out!! when the boxes are gone..THEY ARE GONE!.

LINKS

Pickup BCD2 NOW from the BCD2 Mini Site

S-Type Making a Blap In Logic

Brand new(ish) (sorry I slept) heat courtesy of S-TYPE here as he steps through making a banger in Logic, its not one of those over the top instructional video's (in those the beat seems to be less banging the more talking there is anyway!!) more S-Tizzy just going through the process allowing you to see the construction.

Video comes from S-TYPE but is hosted on AB0181’s youtube channel, the source of many louisden goodies!!, baaang.





Oh while we’re on a type tip be sure to check his new joint with Justus League affiliate Joe Scudda, From This Day (taken from the Not Your Average Joe mixtape) features Carlitta Durand and baaangs the hell out.

LDBB fam Wizard also scored production on the same mixtape on the track “Playing With Me”…go on boys!.

LINKS

AB0181’s Youtube Channel

Joe Scudda’s Bandcamp (peep the Not Your Average Joe Mixtape)

S-Types Bandcamp

Round and Round we go

Shouts to AB0181 (get subscribing to his Youtube channel) for the sterling camera and editing work, if you missed Louis Den Beat Cypher 07 you missed what was for me the best one yet, proving that alot of the under the radar cats are bringing serious heat that should be worrying the bigger names

Round 1 (Apatight, Naive, Dock Mini & Knox Brown)

Round 2 (Apatight, Naive, Dock Mini & Knox Brown)

Bonus - Open Beats with S-type and Jaisu

Louis Den Beat Cypher 6 (FS Green, Sir OJ, Shears, Urban Monk) - Round Two

Gotta get this out there for anyone whose been sleeping!...If you havent noticed we've now changed the front page on LOUISDEN.COM (which should be your main point of entry to our sites/blog) and we've got an even more obvious button linking you to my man AB0181's Youtube channel which is the ONLY other place on the tubes you can get LouisDen content other than the ldbb one (which gets updated every now and again!).

Round 2 from the Cypher a couple weeks back which featured FS GREEN, SIR OJ, SHEARS and URBAN MONK. Crazy beats all night and in a similar fashion to Round 1, theres plenty more heaters in round 2..So yeah follow all the heads on twitter, subscribe to Pro's youtube and spread some comment love!!.

FS Green (Twitter | Web)

SIR OJ (Twitter | Web)

Shears (Twitter | Myspace)

Urban Monk (Myspace)

AB0181 on Twitter | On Youtube

Louis Den Beat Cypher 6 (FS Green, Sir OJ, Shears, Urban Monk) - Round One

Here it is the first round of beats from the beat cypher last week which featured FS Green, Sir OJ, Shears, Urban Monk. The first round of beats is always a tense one as it always sets the tone of the night Urban Monk came with a nice opener, Shears some gangsta ish, OJ with a soulful synth banger and FS finishing it off nicely, check the videos out for an exclsuive Sir OJ/FS Green intro and outro beat and always we got the best man for the job AB0181 on the cam...BANG...more videos coming.

FS Green (Twitter | Web)

SIR OJ (Twitter | Web)

Shears (Twitter | Myspace)

Urban Monk (Myspace)

AB0181 on Twitter | On Youtube

Dready Beats @ Louis Den Beat Cypher 6

Heavyweight producer and Birmingham export (dont get it twisted!!) swung by the Beat Cypher last week to judge the beat battle and play some exclusive blaps!, check the footage out below (courtesy of Louis Den badman on the cam AB0181), Dready played nothing but bangers (and some ultra exclusive stuff you had to be there to witness lol) but yeah amazing beats..peep game.

Hit up Dready on Twitter

AB0181 on Twitter | On Youtube

Louis Den Beat Cypher 05 Beat Battle

Props to AB0181 he's been working hard behind the scenes to get these vids up from last weeks Beat Cypher, we carried on tradition with the Bucks Fizz Beat Battle. Here's the fist semi-final between Budgie and Jon Phonics, you can add your comments on who you think took it in the comments below or on the direct video page

Budgie vs Jon Phonics

The second semi-final put Jeekay against Jaisu, watch how it go down...

Jeekay vs Jaisu


CLICK HERE FOR THE FINAL and don't forget to subscribe to AB0181's page as he'll be dropping more exclusive footage from the night, Louis Den League '09 sign up started too so get involved HERE (forum sign up required). Enjoy the vids and leave a comment

The GET YOURS challenge!!

Last week Prolifik aka AB0181 dropped this little promo for our Behind Closed Doors project..

GET YOURS?


and yesterday Polish beat head skeet007 dropped a response on youtube.

GOT MINE!


haha truly excellent!!, so with skeet007 leading, we encourage all other BCD heads to rep with their copy of Behind Closed Doors backed with one of their beats!! see how many responses we can get!!.

you can see who else has bagged a copy of the project by checking the BCD Tracking Google map...take a look!.

Behind Closed Doors Copy Tracking Google Map

Jaisu the man the myth..

BAAAAANG...a sick beatmaking video from courtesy of our man Jaisu, check him out as he re-flips a Dilla sample making use of alternative parts of the track, also look out for 5:30 in where he's gettin the kick drum placed just right super spidey hads rockin the stop/play/undo at MP crashin speed!!.



pff REDONKULOID...

best to ever do it AB0181 on the CAM/editing.

PLUG PLUG..to hear x2 exclusive Jaisu bliddaps check out the BEHIND CLOSED DOORS project...copies ARE going!! get one or miss out!.

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

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS - NOW AVAILABLE!

Yes, we've told you a hundred times over the last little while, but it is now official. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IS AVAILABLE TO BUY!
good times! After a year of filming between Glasgow, Birmingham and London the final product is signed, sealed and can be delivered! Head over to http://www.louisden.com/bcd to get your copy now! Especially since we have only pressed up a limited first run of 300 (all hand-numbered).

So...Volume One is done and dusted (complete with exclusive beat CD) and we are already looking forward to Volume Two. Support the movement people, 2009 is shaping up to be a big year already! in the words of diddy LETS GO!!!!

A!.

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

Beat Cypher 03 Prelim report!

Thanks so much to everyone who made it out!!! the rep grows bigger..Phonics killed it, Raul killed it, Percy killed it and Winchester killed it too!

Worked real well this time round seeing as everyone had a proper distinctive vibe! Kyza did the damn thing as it Pentalk and Jyager, the Open beats were sick; shouts to everyone who made noise!! crowd were real receptive!....for those of you who missed it...SLIPPPPPPPPPIN' we had the scot crew come from one end the hastings lot from the other lol wots your excuse????.

hehe..

big apologies to Wiz who didnt get drawn for the beat battle, luck of the draw partner I really wanted to put you on but at the same time I had to keep it fair with the random draw..how the game goes :(

but massive props to Shears to killin the beat battle!! and the other entrants Mr Brown, Sivey and Jeekay for gettin the crowd moving with their beats! we had Sivey and Shears drawn first and then Mr Brown and Jeekay second very nice stuf indeed.

Ohhhhhh and the Dilla flips were too much!! respects paid!, great beats!.

So yeah! thank you so much to EVERYONE that made it down; the Beat Cypher feels real good and positive right now and everyone whos ever shown love; performing, open beats, or just turning up!! have all played a part..PROPS!.

vids to follow!!...and beat cypher 02 featuring Darren Paul | Jaisu | S-Type and Reog Du Casq are for sale right now!!!! hit the shop up!.


finally props to Andy (AB0181) who got last weeks Dillamation featured on the Stonesthrow front page!! (just remember where he dropped it first heheh).

"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!

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!.



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and yes its beautiful.