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August 12, 2014
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Throwback Tuesday – Gang Starr – Guru and DJ Premier

This week’s Throwback Tuesday features Gang Starr the duo of Guru and DJ Premier

Gang starr – Royalty

That video for sure sums up the hippest of the hoppest royalty beats that Primo could produce showcasing Latimore‘s – “Let’s Do It in Slow Motion” being slightly sped up on the early on samples of the track and then crisp vinyl scratch.  It also helped for sure that Guru has always been a grand master of rapping lyrics and flow.

FK – DWYCK remix

While this isn’t the original at all, FK really does a great job at remixing that original DJ Premier beat and working it out into a more electronic dance like track then the original.  This track is just full of flavoring of modern and old hiphop sounds.

Rekapper – Chaos X Overcircle (feat. Guru & Riow Arai)

One of the original remixes I did in fact one of the first songs I mashed up.  In typical fashion, I only figured out these two tracks worked so precisely together when accidentally listening to both of them at the same time, between my desktop and it’s sets of monitors and my laptop.

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August 9, 2014
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Japan Saturdays – FOGPAK 10 [Review]

Checkout this new release from FOGPAK is a collection of great indie j-pop and EDM groups, often full of lush and busy music, perfect for a slow laid-back mixtape or djmix.

This album being FOGPAK #10 showcasing a more dancier side and funkier side of tunes. Tracks such as Tomggg’s ラブリーサマーちゃん – あなたは煙草 わたしはシャボン (Tomggg Remix)  as I’ve written about Tomggg before.  It also includes lots of fun summer tunes and hidden deeper cuts.  All for the typical bandcamp rate of name your price.  Full of those glitched out wild mix of vocal cuts and crafty lyrics.  Theres tracks on here like Rhytone – Fruit Killer in which entirely have the flavorings of Katamari Damacy and the best of Namco’s game music all themed under “Best Summer Ever”.  The darker cuts consist of quite dramitic chord changes which I can only wonder how that would be the best summer ever, but still consist of complex complete rhythems such as yuLLiPPe’s – Sea Side Hotel or Chanbe’s – サモトラケ.  There’s even exceptionally great rap and hiphop tracks on the second half of the album such as NO.A – Summer Endless (prod. Mellow-D).  And tracks like Fireworks where it easily reminds you of Hydeout Productions oriented beats.   As google translate suggest, they are open for submissions via contacting them on twitter. Continue Reading →

August 8, 2014
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Rekapper – Summer Heat Blues Mixtape – Mixtape Fridays

Mixtape Fridays!!! – http://www.mixcloud.com/rekapper/8-8-summer-heat-blues/

New Rekapper mixtape today full of lush variety of sounds and tracks stuck in my head as of recent.  All sort of fitting that summer mood, between the morning consisting of hiphop and jazz. Which leads to the driving electronic dance music afternoons.  And the chillout and slowdown process to the end of the day and the end of Summer setting the part of autumn.  All as part of this Mixtape Fridays theme.

Tracklist:
1.Mister Magic – Lauren Desberg
2.Do Girls – Theophilus London prod. Cid Rim
3.Preben Goes to Acapulco –Todd Terje
4.Already There (feat. Robert Glasper & Thundercat) – Taylor McFerrin
5.Asobi Track ft.Pigeondust – Bugseed
6.Au Naturale(free style) – Arµ-2 & RachardTheLocal
7.Moon Strut (intro) – Nujabes
8.B(ackr)oom sounds – tajima hal
9.Get.swung.on. feat. E-Dizzy [prod. NAMELESS] – stephmills
10.gold experience – tajima hal
11.Luchini aka This Is It – Camp Lo
12.MyBlack BaBy#^?^#(REMIX) – Arµ-2
13.Colossus – Tyler, the Creator

14.J-EDM (Part 2)

15.春に (muzi9uest Remix) – 泉まくら
16.BLACK MOON RISING pt.4 – TeddyLoid
17.Theme For Scanty & Knee Socks – TeddyLoid
18.LASTER – AVTechNO!
19.カゲロウデイズ – じん(自然の敵P)

20.The Breakdown (Part 3)

21.Ladyflash – The Go! Team
22.東京近郊路線図 – 泉まくら
23.pistachio talk feat.bashou(CBS) – tajima hal&percent c; toshiki hayashi
24.Still talking to you – Nujabes
25.PLS DNT LSTN – Taylor McFerrin
26.ß – Arµ

27.Autumn

28.Continuum – Jemapur
29.The Guitar Song – Kuniyuki Takahashi
30.Synth & Scape [Rekapper Edit] – Hico

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August 8, 2014
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Uyama Hiroto – One Day | In The Sea [Single] – Freedom Of The Son

Uyama Hiroto has released another single on vinyl 45rpm format and digital release over on Roph Recordings’ bandcamp: https://rophrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/one-day

The vinyl seems to be limited format before it sells out although they do seem to have it over on Roph’s site: Roph.net   and likely it will be sold on tribe hydeout productions website, and tower records over in japan.



This is sort of a reworks of A Prayer for Love and Peace, but I would guess that the upcoming album Freedom Of The Son will be everything we have been hoping for, this track is very much so what I’ve been waiting forever to come out of a Hydeout Productions artist.  This track specifically One Day sort of showcases in every way how great Uyama Hiroto ‘s first album was and still is.  It also seems to have those same styling you would have heard on a Nujabes beat.  Factoring that this is a single off of the new album, expect more music like this upcoming, and I hope this contributes to hearing more artists produce music like this too in a Jazzy, Hiphop way.  So let that sax man shine his tune, and hopefully his next album releases in full soon enough :)  Updates to come as soon as I find more information.

July 31, 2014
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The Hai Thursday – Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack – I Don’t Know What You’re Worried About

THT – The Hai Thursday is a new series available here at http://rekapper.com

This The Hai Thursday features Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack‘s latest album titled:

“I Don’t Know What You’re Worried About”

1. Snarl Hideout:

While Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack starts the album on Buddy on his bandcamp, the true great starting track is Snarl Hideout. This is clearly a pun on the amount snare fusion and mashup of glorious sounds to give it that nice super tight snap across most of the percussion to even cause problems for Venetian Snares.  Ultimately this track is the true summer opener with it’s vast amount of quick but pop-ish breakdowns and light electric beach rock driven guitar work in showcasing his inner Texan or Beach Boys.  The bells and the chimes add a great variety of texture on top of the already pleasant drum work to make this the song thick and lush, but it is for sure a track where the mp3-120kbps version doesn’t cut it in the streaming version compared to the full flac.

2. No Fun:

This track is the perfect reminder that no fun should be allow, whether it is in the lyrics or in the melody or in the drum lines, because this is an all serious production.   Who am I kidding… No Fun has the funkiest combination of synths and guitar parts that make it entirely driving music something to enjoy why on the long summer night drive as the sun is setting on the beach side.  No further spoilers on this track allow, go listen to it.

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