instrumental

  • Brainfeeder’s Gaslamp Killer embarks on his most ambitious project yet, delivering an album worth of tracks that features an array of glitchy and textured hip hop instrumentals that feature an array of sounds, styles, and musical guests. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • 2012

    pro habitat by ahnnu There are a lot of instrumental beat tapes floating around the internet these days. Despite the abundance of music in this style, it’s pretty common to find either a strong Flying Lotus, J Dilla, or Madlib influence on the typically short tracks. However, Ahnnu seems

  • BADBADNOTGOOD pulls together a pretty, uh, swag remix of Soulja Boy’s “Pretty Boy Swag.” Dig it! Also, check my review of their last album here.

  • 2012

    By clicking play on the widget above, you won’t be listening to a song. Instead you’ll be listening to a sonic painting. The reason I make this distinction is because the music was not written simply to be a pleasantly arranged series of notes. Instead it is a

  • 2012

    [audio:http://www.stonesthrow.com/jukebox/karriem_moogy.mp3] Multi-instrumentalist and hip hop producer Kariem Riggins has a new collection of instrumentals dropping on Stones Throw later this year titled Alone Together, which is kind of the culmination of two collections of instrumentals titled Alone and Together. Alone is currently

  • ambient

    Deconstructionist by Giles Corey If you ask me, Giles Corey/Have A Nice Life mastermind Dan Barrett is one of the most talented and enigmatic songwriters out there right now. I was blown away by his last full length, 2011’s Giles Corey, so of course I was going to

  • 2012

    Straight out of Dublin, Ireland, KaraKara is a producer specializing in instrumental hip hop beats with a prominent old school video game aesthetic. The artist took to his Bandcamp last weekend to release Bully, a collection of sixteen old and new tracks recorded in one sitting on his 22nd birthday,

  • 2012

    Just got tipped on this track by the 405, and it’s a deadly little banger from Falcons. The dude is a Canadian producer, and he’s got plenty of sub bass hits and weird, breathy vocal samples that make this beat a fun experience. Lots of fun sounds bubbling

  • ambient

    Right not there’s a recurring trend in beat production that involves employing loads of amtmospheric effects, delicate samples, and moody melodies and chord progressions. Dude’s like Clams Casino are certainly at the forefront of this up-and-coming style, and thanks to Tri Angle Records, music like this kinda has

  • 2012

    LONELY HOUSE by mark przybylowski Mark Przybylowski is a Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist with musical cruses on ambient music, folk, and jazz. All these styles come together on the simple, quaint, and very delicate instrumental compositions that appear on his new Lonely House Cassette. The seven tracks here are extremely touching, managing