This is DOPE. Great idea to extend the Battle of the Beatmakers event into a full-fledged producer retreat. Proud to say I was a judge on one of the early battles. Love to see the growth!
Check out the official website to get the full breakdown. The two-day event includes a producer conference (tomorrow) and of course, the big battle on Saturday night. Shouts to all the producers in the city on tha griiiiiiiiiind…!!!
Dubbed as Canada’s Official Producer Competition, this year will be no different in living up to the hype of being the forefront event focusing specifically on the development, growth and exposure of up-and-coming producers from coast to coast. The Top 32 producers chosen for Battle of the Beat Makers 2012 main event will compete through five highly intense rounds for the coveted title of 2012 National Champion.
Advance Tickets: $20 (19+ Event) *Qualifying Producers will have access to the event.* Hosted by: Trixx, One of Toronto’s top Comedian | Music by: DJ P P-Plus Guest Judges: To Be Announced Venue: The Opera House | 735 Queen St. East., Toronto (Closes Intersection Queen St. East & Broadview Avenue.) Date: August 25th, 2012 | 8 p.m. – 12 a.m. | 19+ Event
Lyve‘s beats are so proper! Like…old school boom bap but still new sounding. Not a lot of producers can walk that fine line like he can. Here’s the blurb from ELMNT himself:
ELMNT – All Figured Out (Prod. Lyve)
All Figured Out is the latest free offering from Toronto emcee ELMNT. With production by Lyve (Tona, HighDEF) this release of All Figured Out serves as the leading single off the “Stara-Nova mixtape”, a collection of ELMNT’s favorite cuts to date.
Stara-Nova mixtape is the first of three forthcoming projects set to be released in the following months. Following this tape will be the release of “Dorian Grey”, a collaboration EP with Juno nominated Emcee/Producer Muneshine.
“Peace. Wrote this last summer at the HighDEF headquarters. Ironically we were trying to piece together a joint & kept being interrupted by Century Room’s shitty DJ doing his warm-up sets to some industrial night Canadian artists purged over for, probably in hopes to fool themselves into quasi-stardom.
Anyways, L’s were smoked, not a fuck was given, life was lived. All Figured Out.”
Now I wanna watch Zodiac again. I’ll let Karla tell it tho:
Jeremy Rose has recently been working under the moniker Zodiac. As he’s gearing up for his self-titled EP due digitally on September 24 and on vinyl October 8, he happily delivers his first single titleCome featuring Jesse Boykins III. Zodiac is responsible for producingThe Weeknd‘s ‘What You Need’, ‘Loft Music’ and Side A of ‘The Party And The After Party.’ Below is the tracklisting for Zodiac, & more:
∀ – VSE06 Zodiac
1. GirlGirlGirl 2. Come ft. Jesse Boykins III 3. So Soon We Change 4. Loss Config. 5. 138
digital out Sept 24th, 2012 physical out Oct 8th, 2012
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Official viz for one of the stand-out tracks off the must-have album that is Ian Kamau‘s One Day Soon. Directed by RT! and starring Toya Alexis and her son Lyric!
Black Bodies: from the album ‘One Day Soon’ available here..
Behind the scenes look at Era‘s “Mount Olympus” music video featuring Shi; the song that ISN’T on No Handouts…??? Never got that one (especially since they’ve been pushing it). Ah well….video soon come.
Check out the teaser for JD Era’s new video “Mount Olympus” Ft. Shi Wisdom Directed By Footage
