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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 posted in albums, beats, download, downtempo, electronic, free music, funk, jazz, review, triphop | no comments »

For more than 5 long years he was one of my IRC counterparts, chatting away deep into the night, discussing everything from school and relationships to politics and drugs. And ofcourse we swapped music, loads of it. Our own tracks ...
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 posted in .nl, albums, beats, download, downtempo, free music, funk, jazz, release, review, soul, triphop | no comments »

Back in the days when I was a teenager, before beats stuttered, samples came first and the synths came later... Ok the 90's downtempo/beat music has evolved a lot in the last 20 years but that doesn't mean keeping to ...
Monday, July 12th, 2010 posted in albums, beats, download, downtempo, electronic, free music, review, video | no comments »

Derek Vincent Smith, does that name ring a bell? It didn't for me, but I'm glad I ran into the full-length album "Passing By Behind Your Eyes" that Derek has produced under the moniker Pretty Lights in 2009. When I tried ...
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 posted in .nl, beats, download, electronic, free music, release, review | no comments »

Disappearing for 6 months has it's upside as well, because I've got a backlog of free releases and mixes laying around that are just waiting for a couple of scribbles.  This one's from January and I've been in love with ...
Monday, May 11th, 2009 posted in .nl, download, free music, funk, hiphop, jazz, party, release, review, show | 1 comment »

We're not even halfway through 2009, and already it's _the_ year for beats coming out of our country-centered city Utrecht! Kyteman dropped his well-received album "The Hermit Sessions", Keynote Speakerz released their "Remix Record", EP's by Master Surreal and King Jule ...
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 15th, 2009 posted in albums, download, electronic, funk, jazz, review | no comments »

Recently a friend had to drive up north and wanted to borrow some good motorway music. When I was browsing through my CD collection I stumbled upon one of my all time favourites, and also a perfect album for the ...
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 posted in download, hiphop, info, review | 2 comments »

In the mid-90's I never missed an issue of The Source, which is still one of the biggest hip hop magazines around. Back then the music still was a bastard child in the general music magazines/charts/etc and since virtually no-one ...
Monday, January 5th, 2009 posted in beats, download, electronic, free music, funk, hiphop, release, review | no comments »

Happy New Year everyone! May 2009 bring you a lot more dope/funky/chilled beats and grooves. We at thebeats will do our best to provide you with more of what we brought you in 2008. Here's a little download top-5 of ...
Monday, November 17th, 2008 posted in albums, beats, downtempo, review | 4 comments »

I don't need to explain who DJ Premier is, now do I? Great, because trying to write a general article about him would result in a 1000+ pages book. And even if you do know about him, or think to ...