Placeholder

United States

Somewhat unknown beatmaker Placeholder, produces experimental electronic beats, influenced by future garage and deep house.

Placeholder’s productions typically comprise of pitch bent soulful vocal hooks over warm synth sounds and bass. The chopped and screwed vocals are arranged to sound melodic and compliment the beat.

The dude has yet to release a full album, having only released 2 tracks on soundcloud, and an EP in 2012 “Brothers”, as well as a track featuring on the “West In Dust” (2012) compilation.

The Brothers EP is an experimental deep house and future garage release, which illustrates the off pitch vocals and wonky synths over smooth beats. Lastly, the current tracks on the dude’s soundcloud are of an ambient nature suggesting an expected shift in style of production in his upcoming releases.

Cop Brothers EP here: http://www.beatport.com/release/brothers-ep/900136

Some dope Placeholder tracks to peep:

http://soundcloud.com/pplaceholderr/faint-forever

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B.Lewis

San Francisco, United States

B.Lewis is an experimental electronic hip-hop beatmaker, residing in San Jose, California.

Synthed out, boom bap hip-hop beats are significant of B.Lewis productions. Similarly to other beatmakers in the same category, the dude makes use of dope samples when creating these tracks. However, what makes B unique is his drum patterns and offbeat yet somehow melodic sounds. The dude has a bunch of  these beats available for download on his bandcamp page, each release different in its own  right.

The lushness of the synths, combined with the bass heavy hip-hop kicks and carefully selected samples, mesh creatively and form the B.Lewis sought after style of production.

The dude’s latest release is a full length album “Finding Incandescence” (2013), which dropped in April, and is available for download on his bandcamp for $8 USD or more.

Peep B.Lewis’ bandcamp page here and cop some releases: http://blewis.bandcamp.com

Some personal favourite B.Lewis tracks:

http://soundcloud.com/blewie17/my-reigns

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I kicked a cloud once

Berlin, Germany

Enigmatic, Danish beatmaker residing in Germany, “I kicked a cloud once”, produces experimental electronic hip-hop beats of an astral sort.

I kicked a cloud once appears to be a solo project, by illustrator and photographer, Rasmus Johansen. The dude’s productions are in the form of space age synth sounds, intertwined with raw 90s hip-hop drum patterns. The I kicked a cloud once project is fairly new, and has been running for 2 months now according to the dude’s soundcloud. Although a fairly recent producer on the scene, the homie has released some fat analog hip-hop beats of the 5th kind, and is clearly ahead of his time.

Yet to release a debut album, I kicked a cloud once has a boatload of dope beats worth a listen.

Scope some of them here:

http://soundcloud.com/ikickedacloudonce/crystal-something

http://soundcloud.com/ikickedacloudonce/but-does-it-float

http://soundcloud.com/ikickedacloudonce/milk-and-cookies

http://soundcloud.com/ikickedacloudonce/untitled01

Free Mix:

http://soundcloud.com/ikickedacloudonce/throwaways-mix-free-download

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Card On Spokes

Cape Town, South Africa

South African Jazz musician Shane Cooper, produces experimental electronic hip-hop beats, under the alias “Card On Spokes (CoS)”.

Bassist for the jazz fusion band “Closet Snare”, as well as one half of a new alternative beats collaboration project with DANk, the dude’s productions are infectiously melodic, and unique. The crunchy analog synths, chords, and glitched out sounds significant of the Card On Spokes beatmanship, suggest experimentation through pushing the boundaries of different genres.

Card On Spokes released an EP in 2011, “In You Go”, his debut and only release thus far. This release, along with his Red Bull Studio mixtape, displays the warped out electronic hip-hop sounds infused with elements of jazz and funk, associated with the CoS style of production.

The collab with DANk, “Seafood ∆∆∆”, where CoS is referred to as “Datsun Brown” involves more of an acid trap, bass heavy, synthed out hip-hop sound, still influenced by jazz in certain elements of production. Both CoS productions are dope in their own right, and are different takes on similar genres in music.

Cop In You Go here: http://www.amazon.com/In-You-Go/dp/B0060I13K2/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321862742&sr=301-1

Peep some dope CoS releases here:

http://soundcloud.com/red-bull-studio-ct/card-on-spokes-dont-eat-that

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Insightful

Oakland CA, United States

Insightful is a Callie-based beatmaker that produces experimental electronic hip-hop tracks.

Synthed out, and packed with heavy sub-bass, Insightful’s fat beats are versatile as they make for headbobbing listening, and are club bangers in their own right. The dude has released a few albums on his bandcamp page, that range from experimental hip-hop to slowed up electronica. More often that not, his beats include tripped out vocal hooks that compliment the sub-bass and space age sounding instruments.

In terms of his releases, some standout ones are:

Fondle Package (2013), an electronic hip-hop remix release

The Shy Lanterns Glow (2012), an experimental hip-hop album

Both albums are available as pay as you want downloads on the homie’s bandcamp page: http://insightful.bandcamp.com/

Latest Insightful track:

http://soundcloud.com/insightfulone/forgive-the-fog

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Featured artist: Lapalux

Britain, UK

BRAINFEEDER artist Lapalux, produces future experimental electronica beats.

Difficult to categorise because of their unorthodox and unique sound, Lapalux productions always seem to captivate the listener, and for that reason, are regarded as planetarybeats.

The dude’s beats are often slowed up, backed by smooth, lady-vocals and layered with complex grinding synth sounds, whilst still managing to sound musical. The distorted drum patterns and other captivating instrument sounds, with the occasional laser, are all symbolic of the Lapalux beatmanship. The dude’s creativity only adds to the listening pleasure of each track, by telling a different story. The melodic, sample-based Lapalux beats are truly encapsulating and possibly an idea of what the future will sound like.

Homie has recently released an album “Nostalchic” (2013), with incredible tracks such as “Without You (feat. Kerry Leatham)”, which features a music video that is just as, if not more creative, than the track itself. Dude has released a future garage album “When You’re Gone” (2012), which is still significant of the Lapalux style of production, differing from traditional UK future garage.

Cop Nostalchic here:

http://ninjatune.net/release/lapalux/nostalchic

Cop When You’re Gone here:

http://ninjatune.net/release/lapalux/when-youre-gone

“Without You” official music video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkWWJ9W5300

Some dope Lapalux tracks to peep:

http://soundcloud.com/lapalux/gutter-glitter-1

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Snubluck

Denver, United States

Snubluck is a far out beatmaker who produces experimental electronic beats with a hip-hop influence.

The unique synth sounds, rolling snares, kicks and trippy vocals are significant of the Snubluck beatmanship. Dude’s productions are so creative and can only be described as the new age. The vocals on his tracks are usually warped out, and chopped up to flow with the immensly experimental beat. The homie also makes use of 8-bit sounds, bleeps and bloops in his productions, only adding to the abstract style of his music. These beats in their vast nature can be browsed through and copped on his soundcloud page: http://soundcloud.com/snubluck

Some standout Snubluck tracks to peep:

http://soundcloud.com/snubluck/soft-sheets-off-the-euphonic

http://soundcloud.com/snubluck/aint-got-no-ft-cslim

http://soundcloud.com/snubluck/lucky-flame-snubluck-x-fl-ming

Cop this dope free remix tape by the dude:

http://snubluck.bandcamp.com/album/remix-tape-vol-4

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JOOB 森本

Bay Area, United States

Joob (kick snare) is a beatmaker from the San Francisco Bay Area, who produces experimental electronic future hip-hop.

The homie’s tracks resemble that of old school hip-hop beatstrumentals, smoothly layered with synth sounds, giving it that new age, electronic feel. Joob also makes use of soulful vocals on top of these hip-hop influenced beats to create a unique, whilst familiar sound.

This style of beatmaship is evident in the following of Joob’s tracks:

http://soundcloud.com/joobkicksnare/bawse

http://soundcloud.com/joobkicksnare/nopales86

Cop the homie’s free EP here:

http://joobkicksnare.bandcamp.com/

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SAMIYAM

Los Angeles, United States

SAMIYAM is a Michigan-born experimental electronic instrumental beatmaker residing in LA, producing glitched-out, hip-hop oriented tracks significant of his own style.

As a BRAINFEEDER artist, the homie has released two electronic hip-hop albums; “Rap Beats Vol.1” (2008), and “Sam Baker’s Album” (2011). Both albums showcase the SAMIYAM style of beatmanship, which is symbolic of boombap type hip-hop layered with fat, grinding analog synth sounds. Each experimental beat is different in its own right, pushing boundaries with weird sample selections, mainly evident in Sam Baker’s Album.

Sam has been quiet on the scene in recent years, and according to his twitter, he is currently working on rap beats for a bunch of different rappers he has sourced. Thus we wait in anticipation for his next release.

In the mean time, cop both SAMIYAM albums here:

Rap Beats Vol.1: http://www.alphapuprecords.com/releasepage.php?UPC=669158510528

Sam Baker’s Album: http://www.brainfeedersite.com/2011/06/28/samiyam-sam-bakers-album/

A few personal favourite SAMIYAM tracks to peep:

An example of the rap beats that SAMIYAM is currently working on:

http://soundcloud.com/ryangordon/sideways-prod-samiyam

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Herrmutt Lobby

Liege, Belgium

Herrmutt Lobby is a collection of programmers and music producers, who design software and hardware to assist them with creating experimental electronic hip-hop beats.

Having recently released their first iPad beatmaking app “Beatsurfing” with Vlek, and released the much anticipated “Haters Gonna Hate” EP (2013), the Herrmutt cats have been fairly quiet, mainly working on developing new beatmaking equipment.

Herrmutt Lobby productions are highly hip-hop influenced, in terms of drum patterns, however, their artistically complex beats comprise of far out sounds which can only be regarded as ‘space-hop’. The experimental nature of their productions means that their beats are very creative and self-expressive, resulting in each beat serving as a new experience for the listener.

Cop “Haters Gonna Hate” (2013) here: http://www.eatconcrete.net/shop/

Some Herrmutt tracks to peep displaying the space-hop creative sound are as follows:

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