‘and if I Am’ mixtape

April 10, 2009 in Beats
Tags: :By Design, clicks n' cuts, electronic, electronic hip-hop, IDM, Lokua, mixtape, Tstewart

“Get yourself together or fall apart…
Make your mind up or let yourself down”
Those words played through my mind as chorus to encourage decision this week. Then Lukid puts this slinky rhythm on it and it’s just nice. Following that :By Design (formerly known as Autolect) brings the track, “Coping Mechanism”. [...]

Thank you for great music, Charles Wesley Cooper III

January 27, 2009 in talkbeat
Tags: Charles Wesley Cooper III, Chicago, electronic, electronic hip-hop, Hefty Records, IDM, Telefon Tel-Aviv

Charles Wesley Cooper III–one half of Telefon Tel Aviv passed away on January 22. From the My Space page of friend and labelmate, John Hughes, the other half of Telefon Tel Aviv leaves these words:
Hello, Everyone.
It breaks my heart to inform you all that Charlie Cooper, my better half in Telefon Tel Aviv, [...]

januarygrooves mixtape

January 23, 2009 in Beats
Tags: Dallas podcast, Del the Funky Homosapien, electronic hip-hop, hip-hop, Left Eye Legacy, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Lisa Lopez, Mid*One, Mike Relm, mixtape, Randy Murphy, rap, RUN DMC, Tim'm West

Celebrating the end of a long U.S. presidential campaign and a new presidental, get to work jamming new tunes for the weekend.
Starting off the mix is Mid*One from his EP, Heaven Send a Synthesizer, presenting a scenario of being the object of unrequited love with, “Wrong Tree”. The EP made my top [...]