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Ghettotek Sundays: “Wake & Beats #60″

Good afternoon. W&B heads, I present to you.. NO.60! This beat is called Trifecta! Origin of the name came from making this beat on my iPhone. Had 3 sound elements, the synth pad, base and the drums. So 3 is the magic number. Using the iMaschine on your iPhone isn’t that bad. You can make a drum beat on the road and then come back to your studio to finish the beat. Transferring files from comp to phone is pretty easy but it can crash if you upload too much. Just keep it to a minimum. The beat came out jazzy at first and then started getting eerie with the synths. It was weird but it sounded dope. Added that nice thump kick to bump it up and layered that snap snare. In the beginning of the beat you hear a little piano sample of The Three Sounds – Angel Eyes. Enjoy the beat. Download it, rap to it, sing to it, criticize it. Enjoy your Sunday. Meditate. Peace.

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February 19, 2012 By Ghettotek Leave a Comment

theHUE vs. Nardwuar the Human Serviette Part II

Allow us to re-introduce you to your favourite music journalist personality’s favourite music journalist personality: Nardwuar the Human Serviette. We had our first encounter with him (watch part I here) at the beginning of last year during the TEDx conference here in Vancouver, Canada. Since then we have been fortunate enough to live as flies on the wall in the universe known as Nardwuar. He’s let us into to his buzzing Friday afternoon gig at CITR’s University of BC radio station and welcomed us to partake in live performances with his band, The Evaporators, who he’s been rocking with since 1986. In those few precious moments we sat with him, chatted with him, danced with him, sweat with him, listened to him deliver gems of information a mile a minute and stood quite simply in utter amazement of this great Canadian icon.

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February 15, 2012 By Justin Conrad Leave a Comment

Ghettotek Sundays: “Wake & Beats #59″

Sunday is here. I got another ill beat for ya’ll. This week’s W&B I sampled Whitney Houston’s voice from I’m Every Woman and also The Three Sounds – Angel Eyes guitar part. Since Ms.Houston passed, I had to make a tribute beat for her. And if your asking why the heck the title is called ‘Smith Sane’. I dont know. He’s a graffiti artist from NY. I was checking out his work online when I made this beat. Dope NY tags. Alright kids, Enjoy your week and upgrade! Peace

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February 12, 2012 By Ghettotek Leave a Comment

Ghettotek Sundays: “Wake & Beats #58″

Good evening wake & beat heads. Found a dope smooth mellow chill the f out sample. Sampled George Benson’s, ‘Lady’ . I chopped the beginning part and lowered the pitch to about -10ish. Sounds nice and emo hah. Another Sunday. G-men champs. I’m out, Peace.

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February 5, 2012 By Ghettotek Leave a Comment

RBMA Lecture: Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia

The greatest hip hop radio show of all time…that no one in our generation was able to fully experience. It’s quite sad that all we got to hear were old audio clips, youtube clips and old wives’ tales about these two iconic radio personalities. If you’re a fan of the music and you’ve never heard the names Stretch or Bobbito then you may want to kick yourself for missing out on some integral pieces in the storied era of 90′s hip hop. Quick rundown: these dudes operated no different than your average college radio DJ’s rocking every Thursday night. The difference? They became notorious for breaking records in the right place at the right time (New York circa 1990-1998) and getting every independent/major label artist hoping to get on their show. RBMA’s Chairman Mao sat down with the pioneering duo in San Francisco for yet another incredible lecture.

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February 2, 2012 By Justin Conrad 1 Comment