November 19th, 2009 by niwa | posted in .nl, beats, downtempo, electronic, hiphop, triphop | no comments »

I almost forgot, during our little break I also managed to crunch out 3 new tracks. You can check them out below:

no need to rush by niwa

Slow soulful but rough track. I couldn’t resist cutting up the (well-known) sample and adding some boomin’ drums and sizzlin’ distortion on it to push the groove.

shut up and just ask me by niwa

Another sexy soulful track, but a bit more uptempo with a touch of disco. Didn’t even realize this was sampled before until I reached the end of the track ;)

properly prepared by niwa

Some oldschool 90′ish bpm boom bap downtempo tune. Broad pads, simple soothing melodies and some nerdy speech cuts. “Don’t you like beats, doctor?”

All these tracks (and more) are also on:
-soundcloud
-last.fm
-myspace
-thesixtyone
-hyves
-my own lil’ site

Enjoy!

November 17th, 2009 by niwa | posted in beats, compilation, download, downtempo, electronic, hiphop, release, soul | no comments »

We’re still up on the backfill from our summer break, and since we tipped you before on Elaquent’s marvellous releases we can’t forget vol. 3 of his ‘In Colour’ series. While a lot of artists seem to get a little bit numbed an dull on their releases after their first bomb, the Canadian beat-creator just keeps on getting bringing the same dopeness on this ‘tape’ (as he calls it) with old and new beats, as he did before.

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.

November 16th, 2009 by niwa | posted in download, free music, soul | no comments »

Ok everybody’s bitching about the gloomy, grey and darker days of autumn. In the end, ofcourse, you are the one that defines the gloomyness. So here’s a bit of slick neo-soul’ish stuff. Invite your best friends over, light some candles and let the red wine flow.

Like I said, this is a slick EP. No rough beats and samples this time, but easygoing instruments and sweet vocalism. With almost ten albums behind him, Zo! is no newcomer to the music-scene and it is to be heard music- and production-wise. Lovely clean sounds on all instruments (which the multi-instrumentalist played himself) make this teaser for his upcoming album “Sunstorm” a really sweet laid-back release.

Being connected for a while now with Foreign Exchange the featured artists on the 7-track EP are not surprising in the least, but they are certainly enjoayble: Yahzarah, Carlitta Durand, Sy Smith, Phonté and Darien Brockington deliver beautiful verses over Zo!’s light productions. Ofcourse the man himself leaves room enough for amazing solo’s (check for example My Flame) and funky basslines.

Get the EP here (through Foreign Exchange)

November 13th, 2009 by niwa | posted in beats, compilation, download, downtempo, free music, hiphop, jazz, soul, triphop | no comments »

After I saw a guy walking past, wearing a “J Dilla Saved My Life” shirt (yea they still sport those. . .) I remembered a release from last year that I want to share with you.  Not to diss the lost US prodigy but to show that the world holds more great beat-creators. This time it’s a little compilation from my neighbouring country Belgium:

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.

October 20th, 2009 by niwa | posted in .nl, download, free music, hiphop, release | no comments »

After the Sandmania cassettes and Sandies Blends CD’s, Spinnin’ resident DJ Sandman has now set out to take over the internet with a new series of mixes called Sands Online Blends.

As usual Sandman lays down the new hip hop bangers mixed with the hottest tracks you missed out on.  This goes side to side with the occasional sampled original thrown in and dope timeless music for all us not-so-narrowminded peeps. Ofcourse all of this freshness is smoothly blended together, making this yet another Sands mix you won’t skip through!

tracklist:

1. Jay-Z Feat. Nas – Success
2. Art & Ron – Can’t Stop Talkin’
3. Marco Polo & Torae – Coney Island
4. Rustee Juxx feat. Sean Price – Wipe off Ya Smile
5. Alchemist feat. Snoop Dogg, Pusha T & Jadakiss – Lose Your Life
6. Drake feat. Lil’ Wayne – I’m Goin In
7. The Clipse feat. Wale – Forever Fly
8. Bishop Lamont – Grow Up
9. Lil Wayne – Mrs. Officer
10. Emily King feat. Lupe Fiasco – Walk in my Shoes
11. Freddie Cruger feat. Lin – Pretty Little Thing
12. Alice Russell – Hurry on Now
13. Jay Electronica – Exhibit A (Transformations)
14. Suff Daddy feat. Miles Bonney – Late Night Stuff
15. Suff Daddy feat. Kissey Asplund – Late Night Reprise
16. De Javaanse Jongens – On You
17. Mr. Beatnick feat. Ahu – I know all the Bitches
18. Pacific Division – Shut Up
19. Common – The Corner ‘09 Pt. 2 (Beatnick & K-Salaam remix)
20. Rich Girl feat. Bun B – 24’s
21. Paper Route Gangstaz – Bama gettin’ Money (Diplo remix)
22. Wham! – Careless Whisper (No Homo)

Download the blend for free here!

And here are some more older mixes (right-click -> download):
- Spinnin’ Mixtape 1
- Spinnin’ Mixtape 2
- Sandies Blends: Cherry Blend