So here’s a video of me making an Eskibeat. The phrase ‘eskibeat’ came from ‘Eskimo‘ which is the name given to arguably the first ever Grime instrumental.Continue reading
Category Archives: Hip Hop
Making a Grime Beat with a Twist of Jazz
This video shows me making a Grime beat with a twist Jazz! This is following on from the reception I got from my older video showing me Making a Grime Instrumental from Scratch.Continue reading
Simplicity and Limitation
There is power in simplicity and limitation! That’s something I’ve been reminded of this week…Continue reading
Making an Old School Hip Hop Beat Sampling Ren and Stimpy
So here’s a video showing the making of an old school Hip Hop beat sampling Ren and Stimpy. When I say sampling Ren and Stimpy, I mean the Ren and Stimpy theme song. It’s one of my favourite cartoons (and in fact one of my favourite shows) ever!Continue reading
The Making of ‘Tinnies in a Backpack’
In this video I show you the making of ‘Tinnies in a Backpack’. This is essentially a Hip Hop beat at 93bpm but to put a different slant on the whole beat making process, I decided to use what could be considered deep house production style techniques, a little bit like I did in my first grime influenced track.Continue reading
Making a Soulful Old School Hip Hop Beat
In this video I show you how I went about making a soulful old school Hip Hop beat.
This video shows how I made my song ‘Opened Out’ which features on my first ever release The Bog Standard EP. Putting this together was a lot of fun, I could play with Soul and Jazz samples all day long.Continue reading
The Future
I couldn’t do an EP about time travel without looking into the future. That’s what ‘The Marvelous Adventures of the Wayback Machine’ is supposed to be about.Continue reading
The Making of Cider Attack
I created a video showing the making of cider attack. Otherwise known as ‘Cyder Attack’. I explain the reason for the song and my rather obscure spelling of the word ‘cyder’ in my blog post Cider Rap.Continue reading
The Old West
I also had a look back at The Old West, in studying for The Marvelous Adventures of the Wayback Machine. By ‘The Old West’ I mean the American Frontier, or 19th Century western USA, or the ‘Wild West’ as some might call it.Continue reading
How To Freestyle Rap
I made a video on how to freestyle rap. Following on from my post Why Should Every Rapper Freestyle I created this video giving you a powerful tip in learning how to freestyle, or in other words learn how to improvise and rap and craft lyrics on the fly and off the top of your head.Continue reading