Instrumental Hip Hop - recommendations please!

sqwol · Post by **sqwol** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:22 pm

glitch hop :

Telefon Tel Aviv
Machine Drum
edit
seven ark
delarosa and asora

bluenote · Post by **bluenote** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:07 pm

Blue Sky Black Death.

Really good production duo. Check their 08 album "Late Night Cinema"

j-sh · Post by **j-sh** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:13 am

if no ones said it yet

S A M I Y A M !!

myspace.com/samiyambeats

deeps · Post by **deeps** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:40 am

Most of the stuff mentioned on here seems to be more experimental than instrumental hip hop!

Names to check out:

Odisee
Ohmega Watts
Ayatollah
Maker
Toshinori Kondo

lewisr · Post by **lewisr** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:58 am

captaindboom wrote:cinematic orchestra

yeahh man

absense · Post by **absense** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:43 pm

S'all about DJ Shadow ...the original and best

charlie_g · Post by **charlie_g** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:24 pm

Agree with Sqwol. Good instrumental hip hop is,

Telefon Tel Aviv - Farenheit Fair Enough
P73 - Matrimonioids
Aus - Curveland
DJ Nobody / P73 - La Correcion Exchange
El Fog - Out Woods
Flying Lotus - Rickshaw

Best instrumental album by a mile is the BEATKONDUCTA thing on Stones Throw - 1, 2 and 3. Don't know if it's already been mentioned, but this is proper music!
It's got hip hop, soul...music from various influences. Check it.

Genevieve · Post by **Genevieve** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:10 pm

deeps wrote:Most of the stuff mentioned on here seems to be more experimental than instrumental hip hop!

Well, when you get rid of the arrogant rapper, you're allowing the DJ/producer to do a lot of more musically progressive and interesting things.

It's time for rappers to reduce themselves once more to being nothing but musical instruments who contribute to the whole song rather than the central focus of the songs. I'm sick of rappers these days. Yeah yeah, I love my Alkaholiks, King Tee, Digable Planets, Aceyalone, Apani B Fly Emcee and so on as much as I've always loved them, but hip-hop is still a genre of largely untapped creative potential that's been held back by rappers for decades now.

I first got into hip-hop when I was 9 years old, bought 'Wu-Tang Forever' in 1998 (was born in 1988 but hadn't turned 10 yet) and I've explored everything since then, but the most musically interesting hip-hop around these days isn't vocal centered. It's not necessarily instrumental, as much as the rappers taking a stepback and give the music room to breathe.

Anyway, fuck rappers and their egos. It's time for the producer and DJ to take back the more prominent/important role in the genre since they're actually about the music, not about the self importance of what they have to say. 'Hey guys, I need beats to easily rap over with a formulaic structure so I can spit knowledge, I don't care if that tremendously limits the genre, it doesn't matter anyway, since it's all about what I have to say. Bah!

djslate · Post by **djslate** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:20 am

I love that this thread keeps resurfacing.

I have so much love for the instrumental beats. Keep repping everyone.

whygohome10 · Post by **whygohome10** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:07 am

Onra - My comet

great tune and fairly new. available on digital and vinyl

Pallms · Post by **Pallms** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:25 am

J Dilla
Dabrye
Harmonic 313
Flying Lotus
MF DOOM
Madlib
Prefuse 73
DJ Shadow

alfie · Post by **alfie** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:47 am

carlos nino

boogiemeister · Post by **boogiemeister** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:20 pm

Elliot Lipp
Joey Beats
some Alias stuff
GB
The Earl
DJ Signify
MHE aka MRR/ADM
also check the Equinox label out of Germany. They have lots of really dope releases. DJ Sept, Arcsin, Deckard...
and of course Bully Records. Standard for instrumental Hip Hop/downtempo shit

rÃ¼s · Post by **rÃ¼s** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:09 pm

Quantic - The Fifth Exotic

bigbasha · Post by **bigbasha** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:28 am

not reading the whole thread b4 i post but my little secret lately is Trick Daddy - Shut Up Instrumental

ruckspin · Post by **ruckspin** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:13 pm

dunno if it's been said already but check
http://www.myspace.com/seemorebeats

serious instrumental material there. co-produced by tarqwin smythe aka planas aka landlord

tealeafdancah · Post by **tealeafdancah** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:11 pm

louis bordeaux !!
Ras G
waxolutionists
full crate
fs green

tomb · Post by **tomb** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:58 am

bluenote wrote:Blue Sky Black Death.

Really good production duo. Check their 08 album "Late Night Cinema"

maker
skyrider
jel

this blog is no emcees just instrumentals
http://strictlybeats.blogspot.com/2009_ ... chive.html

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