Thursday, June 4, 2009
Quick Hitters:: DJ Moves & The Gestalt Collective
Free music is fun. Even the most curmudgeonly member of Metallica would likely take a break from preparing their latest fan-targeted lawsuit to download a free album. The fans get music, the artist gets heard - it's a pain free process, like the opposite of that sad R.E.M. song with all the people in cars talking in subtitles: everybody wins. Talking about just such an album yesterday, Yash Kapoor's My Meditation, got me in the mood to spread the word about more free Canadian hip hop goodness. So let's do that.
Anyone at all familiar with Canadian hip hop will have heard DJ Moves name at some point. Getting his start in the best rap group to ever come out of Truro, NS, the legendary Hip Club Groove, Moves has gone on to collaborate with MC's aplenty, all across Canada, and he has to be one of the hardest working DJ/Producers in this country's underground hip hop scene. It's nice to be able to give someone like this some shine, and thanks to the kind folks at Neferiu records, you can check out Moves' new instrumental EP, Instrumental Cripple, for free.99. It's a quality, six song effort that shows a mature slant on hip hop production, from the middle east flavour of A B-Boys Prayer, to the jazzy Passive Forces, and the more traditional hip hop sounds of Pride and Ego. If you're at all into instrumental hip hop sounds, this is worth checking out.
Ryan Stinson is otherwise known as RDS, a producer from what I assuming to be the booming hip hop metropolis of Swift Current, Saskatchewan. Ryan and those he's affiliated with have released a free EP called Scrimmage One:
The plan with the Gestalt Collective project is to take music that may never see the light of day and expose it to the greater good. One main objective of this is to get everyone that my crew and I are affiliated with more exposure.
Well if you have music that you don't want to see the light of day, herohill is certainly the choice for you! I keed, I keed, but we do cover some rather, shall we say "undiscovered" Canadian music here on the hill. Anyway, Scrimmage One is a nice little collection of songs, the most enjoyable of which, for me, is That's It Y'All from Spesh K. and featuring guest shots from Moka Only and Sadat X (who continues his cross country tour of underground cameos). Ira Lee offers up a couple tracks in his oddly enjoyable style: Jon Kills Garfield, which is a diss track aimed at Grand Analog's Odario Williams, and has to be the harshest Canadian diss record I've ever heard, and Tom Cruise, which is, in fact, about your favorite alien-loving nutter and mine, Tom Cruise. There's also a track from Chadio, and I was hoping it was this Chadio (who might actually be Chadeeo), but it turns out it is not. Oh well, check this out all the same.
MP3:: DJ Moves - Pride and Ego
GET ALBUM:: www.neferiu.com
MYSPACE:: www.myspace.com/lowpressurerecords
The plan with the Gestalt Collective project is to take music that may never see the light of day and expose it to the greater good. One main objective of this is to get everyone that my crew and I are affiliated with more exposure.
Well if you have music that you don't want to see the light of day, herohill is certainly the choice for you! I keed, I keed, but we do cover some rather, shall we say "undiscovered" Canadian music here on the hill. Anyway, Scrimmage One is a nice little collection of songs, the most enjoyable of which, for me, is That's It Y'All from Spesh K. and featuring guest shots from Moka Only and Sadat X (who continues his cross country tour of underground cameos). Ira Lee offers up a couple tracks in his oddly enjoyable style: Jon Kills Garfield, which is a diss track aimed at Grand Analog's Odario Williams, and has to be the harshest Canadian diss record I've ever heard, and Tom Cruise, which is, in fact, about your favorite alien-loving nutter and mine, Tom Cruise. There's also a track from Chadio, and I was hoping it was this Chadio (who might actually be Chadeeo), but it turns out it is not. Oh well, check this out all the same.
MP3:: Spesh k - That's It Y'all f. Sadat X & Moka Only
GET ALBUM:: www.zshare.net/download/54046762464ae20e
BLOG:: www.gestaltcollective.blogspot.com
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