Can’t really say much about this collection. It’s SirOJ, it’s a beattape, it’s chill. By now you probably know what to expect from the Slumgillion producer: minimal beats, good grooves, laidback samples and complementary synthwork.

Ok that may sound a bit boring, which this release definitely isn’t. It’s kind of an after hours space-age lounge collection throughout, with a couple of sparkling gems on it. Ranging from jazzy beats to futuristic electronics, you’ve got an hour of really decent music in 30 tracks. My personal favorites are the more downtempo’ish tracks like The Doks, Zwart ~Wit and Who’s Bringin’ It Back.

There’s a small downside to this pack, some MP3’s are in pretty low quality and the volume between tracks varies from time to time. Still, it’s free!

Check out some of the beats below (courtesy of Blunt Guts Nation) and download “Vibe Out” through zShare.

Siroj – baby dork – vibe out by BluntGutsNation

Siroj – 204 – vibeout by BluntGutsNation

Sir oj – thirty two – vibe out by BluntGutsNation

That sparked your interest, but you’re not ready to spend your hard earned cash yet? Well you’re in luck, because Suff has a nice collection of remixes online for free, called “Suff Refills”.

The Refills is 45mins of pure Suffness, only this time he’s put acapella’s of your (mostly US) favorite artists on top of his sample-heavy drums. Whether it’s chilled-out mood’ism, heavy boom-bap or über-funky disco tracks, Daddy matches his beats to the vocals like it’s nothing. A must-have for hip-hop heads and beat-dj’s!

Tracklist:
01 – Slum Village – Look Of Love Refill
02 – Suff Daddy & Morlockk Dilemma – Ich Trinke
03 – The Alkaholics feat. Diamond D – Next Level Refill
04 – Guilty Simpson – Before The Verdict Refill
05 – Dabrye feat. J Dilla & Phat Kat – Game Over Refill
06 – Suff Daddy & Fleur Earth – Wasichloswerdenwollte
07 – Notorious B.I.G – Big Poppa Refill Instrumental
08 – Erykah Badu – Honey Refill
09 – Phat Kat feat. Guilty Simpson – Nightmare Refill
10 – D3CCPT feat. Guilty Simpson – Psycho Refill
11 – Notorious B.I.G – Nasty Boy Refill
12 – Fleur Earth feat. Frank Nitt – Changes Refill
13 – The Alkaholiks – Hip Hop Drunkies Refill
14 – Morlockk Dilemma – Unterwegs Refill
15 -Audio 88 & Yassin feat. Morlockk Dilemma – Isolation Refill

Check out track 13 below and get the 320kbps MP3 package at Suff Daddy’s Bandcamp.

Hip Hop Drunkies (Suff Edit) by Suff Daddy

The mix consists of the more(up) tempo oriented tracks on which Nagano is featured, making it a nice and smooth jazzy 55mins, with some touches of electronica. With all the tracks from different sources packed together it’s easy to observe how versatile Yukimi’s vocal talents are. Whether it’s trip-hop, poppy electronica or straight-up (nu-)jazz, she seems to get into the perfect vibe with ease, adjusting her way of singing perfectly to the style.

Uncle Q does a great job blending all these different tracks together into a great mix which is easy to listen and enjoy.

Tracklist:
01. Koop – Whenever There Is You
02. Ge-ology – Blues Alley
03. Little Dragon – No Love
04. Quartermaine – Mystic Qool Breeze
05. Little Dragon – After The Rain
06. Little Dragon – Feather
07. Shuya Okino – Pieces of You
08. Little Dragon – Forever
09. Koop – Summer Sun
10. Little Dragon – Thunder Love
11. Hird – Love You My Hope (Do Right Remix)
12. Swell Session – The Music in Her Eyes
13. Koop – I See A Different You
14. Jafrosax – Drawn 2 U
15. Little Dragon – Never Never

Get it here (on z-share through thecouchsessions.com)

Yet again this is almost 40mins of offbeat, filtered, bleeped and dusty beats. Add some commercial-snippets and hip hop acappella cuts and it’s a certified Elaquent release. He can downplay himself in the liner notes all he wants by stating that “poor mixing” was done, it doesnt’ matter because this is supposed to be downright dirty.

If you want a more complete review of the man E and his works, check out our previews review “elaquent: massive free downloads!“.

Get ‘Elaquent – In Colour vol. 3′ (MediaFire) here.

Infiniteskills (Eric P., LuiGi & Pat Gonzalez, the laid-back.be inhouse production team) collected a total of 12 tracks from 9 Belgian beat-producers including themselves, and put out a 12″ through Rush Hour at the end of 2007. With most of the physical copies gone they decided in 2008 to release the mp3s for free!

If you want to take a break from all the glitchy cut-up electronic stuff, you’ve got 37mins of chilled out bliss right here. Soulful sampled loops and drums with the occasional fat synthy bass is what these Belgians are all about.  Don’t mistake the smoothness of this package with softness, the drums keep rolling steady all over the sampled foundation.

A lil’ extra is also included in the package: a promo video containing some nice diggin’ footage stylishly put together and a couple of US cameo’s!

Tracklist:
Eric P. – Is this the end?
Versatell – Clap ya hands
Ame – I Hope that I
LuiGi – Hombre
Dyno – Autumn love (feat Kissey Asplund)
Flo – Love jones
Lefto – Michigan 1963
LuiGi – In my life (in memory of “le mich” van vlasselaer – RIP)
Versatell – Gamble
Pat Gonzales – As I Am
Eric P. – Turn it up
Mr Critical – Almost lost you (in the mist of my mind)

Get the release here.

Don’t confuse Tweed Prison Tapes with a mixtape, it’s more like one of those old blends you would make at home on your tapedeck, putting your favorite tracks of that period together. Some are blended, some are just put after each other.

Divided into 4 parts and laced with funny vocal excerpts, the Tapes combines stuttering beats with straight-forward boom-bap and freakishly harsh funk. After listening for a couple minutes you’d think ‘Nice shit.. although I’m missing MF Doom on these beats’, but that void is filled by some dope Dutch and English guest appearances: MT Vessel Steam Supreme, Benman The Bathtub Pirate, Foreign Beggars, Emcee Surya, Dr.Shoshi & Funk E-Technician.

Tweed Prison Tapes may sound chaotic at first, but it’s in fact just plain wild.

Get it here, and go here for more free music released under the Bathtub Piracy Recordings moniker.

vinyl covers

The release saw daylight in 2003 (U.S. 2004) through Groove Attack and features almost the complete TDR artist roster, including:

• Comfort Fit
• Prymer
• Saine
• Looza
• Blaktroniks
• Krii (also known as Resound)
• Anthony Baggette

It’s hiphop, it’s soulful, it’s groovy, it’s musical. It’s for those who want more than just loops on a beat. The whole thing just oozes of intelligence and conciousness, on both the musical and lyrical side. Packed with beautiful samples and played recordings the tracks range from laidback downtempo (’That Day’, ‘The Waves’ and ‘Summer In The Hood’) to dystopian angsty beats (’Pimp Knowledy (Krii remix)’, (A)part From Footsteps’ and ‘Known’).

Even while netlabels have evolved rapidly over the years, in form and quality, this release still holds the #1 spot for me for it is one of the best mixed compilations out there. Making tracks from different artists sound like they belong together is a bitch, but Practice Avoiding Mistakes makes it feel like it was no thing. Being the first ever ‘netlabel’ that saw daylight, Tokyo Dawn placed the bar on a height that has yet been

Download the MP3 package here, or buy the LP here.

After the majority of easily gotten 60’s and 70’s US records had been sampled and re-sampled, it was only natural that producers would dig into the hardly explored world of eastern, asian and african music. This has delivered a lot of pleasurable productions by, for instance, Madlib and Oh No. But what is a better way to start diggin’ than going through your mom’s and pop’s records? Although the western guys got their hands on some nice records, the cultural natives always take it up a notch.

Although I can’t read a word on the website, last year I ran into diggin.pl. It seems to be mainly a review site for (new) releases in the field of beats and related music, and they’ve released a CC-licensed compilation of free music consisting mainly, but not only, of productions out of eastern Europe: Diggin.pl vol.01 – Diggin Deeper.

Though varying in styles, the main focus of the compilation lies on drumbeats and breaks. Starting off with the soulful track “Wstawaj” by Dustplastic which proves beyond a doubt that polish is not just some rugged coalminers language, you’re being taken on a beat-journey that also takes short stops at rock (The B.I.O. Project – Poppy Red), dance (Gong Gong – Kawabata remix) and reggae (Aldo Vanucci – Last Goodbye) stations.

Kixnare and Jon Kennedy provide the complementary boom-bap on respectively “Time Travelling” and “Space-O-Matic”, breaks are presented by Bontone and Baaba and there’s even an IDM’ish track by Lama, called “Innocent Bystander”. The rest of the tracks are chilled easy beats with mind-drifting samples.

The release comes with high-quality covers and an artist description in both polish and English. I haven’t seen vol. 2 around yet, but I’m very curious to see what the diggin.pl guys deliver next.

In the meanwhile you can check out vol. 1 here

“Nivel Del Mar – Sounds for Soulsurfers” was released on Phlow Magazine, an proper weblog about free mp3 music culture. A team of enthousiastic music-lovers/producers digs up and reviews what they think is the best music that is being released through the CC-license.

For this release one of the reviewers, Mo, has selected the best chillout tunes for you with this vision in mind: ‘“Busy times we live in, dude!”, says the weed-smoker while getting laid back to manage all the information, all the news, all the technological developments running like a rush through his data-pipeline. “It’s just sick. How do I stay in touch with all that?!? I need more drugs to come down…”’. It fits perfectly, every track is a total downtempo rush whether it’s sampled, electronic or jazzy, light, heavy or dreamy.

The usual suspects include Comfort Fit, Aphilas and WillBe and are joined by great producers like Nils Hoffman, Crookram, Motown Junkie and many more. This 1 hour and 22 minutes compilation is something you can’t miss if you like damp and dusty grooves.

Get the compilation here.

Skip to my beattape 2 front

My man Lavarock skipped by yesterday to hand me over the new Toni Shift ‘Skip to my BeatTape 2’ Cd. It’s been a while since toni dropped the first BeatTape, so this one is more than welcome. After hearing a small preview with snippets that I really liked, I was anxious to get my hands on the full Cd.

The Cd consists of existing tracks that Toni remixed, together with a few of his own unique tracks. Such as the track ‘Day by Day’ which features Theory Hazit. Word on the street is that Toni and Theory are working on an album together. Not bad for a cat that hails from the east of our little country!

Skip to my beattape 2 back

I did not have the time yet to give this baby the full review, but I wanted to put this one online already to give it the proper attention it deserves.

The tracklist:

01| Intro
02| J-Live – Lyricist (rmx)
03| Green grass, shade trees
04| Come up, the sun up
05| Day by day feat. Theory Hazit
06| Loving you
07| Kev Brown – Work in progress (rmx)
08| Frank
09| Keep it right there
10| Loving me
11| El da sensei – Summertimebluez (rmx)
12| Set the mood feat. Aletta
13| I forgive you
14| Wasting my time
15| Feel the movin
16| A tribe called quest – 1nce again (rmx)
17| Where have you been
18| Jam hot
19| This is what I want to be
20| Open my eyes
21| De la soul – Itzsoweezee (rmx)
22| Self consciousness
23| Grow old
24| Edo G. – Situations (rmx)
25| Little Brother – Whatever you say (rmx)

Download the preview: here

Skip to my beattape 2 cd

For more info:

www.tonishift.com