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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 posted in albums, beats, downtempo, electronic, hiphop, triphop | no comments »

Last year Tokyo Dawn announced that they would re-start their label and, although it took a bit longer than planned, they kept their word. After Comfort Fit's 2nd album (check the previous post) it's time for Portformat to drop his ...
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 posted in albums, beats, downtempo, electronic, triphop | no comments »

The German beat-wizard known as Comfort Fit has returned after 5 years to drop his sophmore album called 'Polyshufflez' on Tokyo Dawn Records. And what a return it is. Whereas his 2005 (free) release consisted mostly of sample-based material, Polyshufflez ...
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 posted in albums, beats, download, free music, funk, hiphop, jazz, soul | no comments »

Yet another beat-tape? Hell no! J. Rawls (known best as one-half of Lone Catalysts) drops an oldschool 50mins compilation of pure unadulterated hip hop beats.  You may have thought he would go fully instrumental after his 2 Liquid Crystal Project ...
Thursday, May 7th, 2009 posted in albums, beats, download, downtempo, hiphop, review, triphop | no comments »

While I was checking online statistics about downloads and plays of the material we review at thebeats.nl I made an interesting discovery: Polish people like beats, old hiphop and downtempo! In itself this may be not such an eye-opening fact, but ...
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 posted in albums, beats, download, downtempo, free music, hiphop, release, triphop | no comments »

Recently I had an epiphany while I was listening to Powell's Beatnicks Tape #02: If this is #02.. there must be a #01 (doh!). And there was. German MPC/Microkorg handler Hubert Daviz was the man for the freely downloadable volume one, ...