Instrumental Hip Hop - recommendations please!

djslate · Post by **djslate** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 6:00 pm

Saw a separate Hip Hop thread and it made me think about which guys I'm listening to at the mo: Flying Lotus being the King right now. I can link up some bad boy mixes later.

Anyone put forth some good, innovative instrumental producers and mixes?

Safe...

datura · Post by **datura** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:31 pm

J Dilla - Donuts
Kaman Leung - Lacriminal
Dabrye - One/Three and Instrmntl

7" · Post by 7" » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:57 pm

Not a big digger of the genre but i do listen to some artists, these are worth the listening:

J Dilla
Shadow
RJD2
EL-P

chu · Post by **chu** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:10 pm

Prefuse 73 earlier stuff
Doom - Special herbs series

d-T-r · Post by **d-T-r** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:13 pm

i would reccomend

edIT

glitch hop though.

d-T-r · Post by **d-T-r** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:14 pm

and:

aim

dj_distinct · Post by **dj_distinct** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:46 pm

I have tons of instrumentals as well as acapellas converted to digital format. What are you looking for?

Jubz · Post by **Jubz** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:54 pm

Dr Who Dat?- Beat Journey

moujah · Post by **moujah** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:01 am

all the ones mentioned above plus:

Wax Tailor ( http://www.myspace.com/waxtailor )

Danny Breaks ( http://www.myspace.com/dannybreaks / http://www.junodownload.com/artists/Danny+Breaks )

DJ Cam ( http://www.myspace.com/djcamrecall )

DJ Parker ( http://myspace.com/djparker ) - a bit more eclectic stuff with vocalists - funk, neo soul, trip-hop, breaks, etc. (he's just going to release his debut album in spring 2008 but I think he's gonna be big. badman dj as well, check the Huw intro and live clip)

BaronVon · Post by **BaronVon** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:30 am

Prince Paul - Psychoanalysis (What Is It ?)

Dr Octagon -Instrumentalyst

Two of my favourites.

chunkie · Post by **chunkie** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:23 pm

riow arai - mind edit

hes got another lp out too
full tracklisting audio clip business on amazon

slim · Post by **slim** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:08 pm

Some of the instrumental stuff off Dub Come Save Me by Roots Manuva is wicked, Aim is pretty good too. Would love to get into instrumental hip hop more, really want to start making it too, but don't really know enough about it.

And FlyLo is obviously some kind of god

djslate · Post by **djslate** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:16 pm

DJ_Distinct wrote:I have tons of instrumentals as well as acapellas converted to digital format. What are you looking for?

Always looking for good instrumentals! Are you talking on vinyl or digital releases? I'm searching for vinyl but if they ain't on wax then digital is cool. You got a list?

Thanks for the tips guys, I have most of the recommendations already but there is a couple I definitely need to check; Wax Tailor, Riow Arai, DJ Parker, Dr Who Dat?, Kaman Leung sounding nice...

In addition if anyone wants to check some live Hip Hop production with most of the tracks released as instrumentals check DJ Mitsu The Beats / Grooveman Spot / DJ Mu-R for some bad boy Japanese beats...

Safe

moujah · Post by **moujah** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:32 pm

speaking of Japanese we forgot to mention DJ Krush

also not mentioned MF Doom, Pete Rock, Cut Chemist, The Herbaliser, Blockhead, Kid Koala, DJ Food and much of late 90's Ninja Tune stuff is lovely as well

anyone knows which producer did the Roots Manuva's albums? or did he produce himself? most of his tracks have brilliant instrumentals

slim · Post by **slim** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:39 pm

moujah wrote:speaking of Japanese we forgot to mention DJ Krush

also not mentioned MF Doom, Pete Rock, Cut Chemist, The Herbaliser, Blockhead, Kid Koala, DJ Food and much of late 90's Ninja Tune stuff is lovely as well

anyone knows which producer did the Roots Manuva's albums? or did he produce himself? most of his tracks have brilliant instrumentals

He produces himself to my knowledge, uses the alias Lord Gosh a lot. Ha, i don't mind his music, but i just remembered what Burial said about The Herbaliser, harsh things.

marsyas · Post by **marsyas** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:09 am

too many to list really.
i used to be well into this stuff, got loads of vinyl.

heres some good not so obvious ones :

Deceptikon - Lost Subject
Eliot Lipp
Sharpshooters - Twice As Nice
40 Winks - Sound Puzzle
Anomaly - The Long Road
EKP - Things You Already Know...
Epstein - Gentle Sin Pueblo
Harmonic 33
VA - The Now Factor

anything on bully records, memphix, headrums.

djslate · Post by **djslate** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:59 am

Thanks for all the advice people, I feel like I've got a load of pressies to go and play with!

andro1d · Post by **andro1d** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:42 pm

Herbaliser and DJ Krush...

MountDoom · Post by **MountDoom** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:25 pm

cinematic orchestra

menacetosobriety · Post by **menacetosobriety** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:40 pm

DJ Embee of Lootroop put out a really nice instrumental EP a few year back

'Embeetious Art' EP

Would definitely recommend Harmonic 33 also (Dave Brinkworth & Mark Pritchard)

Not sure whether you can still pick up their early releases on vinyl

But should be able to cop their CD 'Extraordinary People' (Alphabet Zoo) without any problem

Fat Jon is another name to check for if you are after instrumental Hip Hop

Also DJ Spinna put a series of Instrumental Eps 'Compositions'. Think they are 3 of 'em

Jazzy Jeff 'The Magnificent' instrumentals is real nice also

Instrumental Hip Hop - recommendations please!

Instrumental Hip Hop - recommendations please!

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