February 3rd, 2010 / No Comments » / by grillo
Gonna be out feb 15th on homework records
Let’s say i’m very very proud of how this turned out. The guys at homework did an excellent job roping in the talent for this, and i’ve been playing the tracks non stop for weeks now, yeah, they’re that great. But please listen for yourself in the promo video.
December 31st, 2009 / No Comments » / by grillo
Tune in 7pm-8pm (western europe) or 6pm-7pm (uk) for the special year end mix episode of Bubblegum beats on spaceinvaderradio.com featuring lots more hiphop!
Here’s the playlist
Soul Litchfield – Throw Ups.mp3
Harmonic 313 f. Phat Kat & eLZhi – Battlestar
Closed Sessions featuring Amanda Diva – I Can See
Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo
Foreign Beggars – Shake It feat. Noisia
Medeski Martin And Wood – Bloody Oil
Sade – Soldier Of Love
Reflection Eternal,Jay Electronica,J. Cole & Mos Def – Just Begun
Portformat – U Gotta Find (feat. Shuanise)
Basement Jaxx – Scars
Rox – My Baby Left Me
J*DaVeY – Get Together
Mos Def – Casa Bey
Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Fiasco – I’m Beaming
Grillo – Brown Box (Fulgeance Interstella’Funk Remix)
Erykah Badu – Didn’t Cha Know (Biscope Boot Remix)
December 17th, 2009 / No Comments » / by grillo
Tune in 7pm-8pm (western europe) or 6pm-7pm (uk) for the third episode of my radio show on spaceinvaderradio.com
Listen via the player on the website or with winamp with this link.
playlist and cloudcast widget player after the jump. Read more…
December 12th, 2009 / No Comments » / by grillo
Welcome to the final post in the ‘amazing sound samples from the Emu SP1200 drum sampler’ series. This time there’s a drumkit (16 different one shot samples) and 8 drumloops in the pack. All the sounds come from an old session with a vintage sp unit, but they have been somewhat processed, and while they may be now sound a little bit crispier (especially in the high end) they still retain the crunch and the grime imparted by the hardware and the infamous sample transpose technique.
And here’s the links.
Sp1200 drumkit 4
Sp1200 loops 3
As usual the drumkit samples are in Battery, Kontakt, EXS24, Renoise .rnsi and of course straight .wav files format, while the loops are straight 44/16 .wav files.
If you’ve downloaded all the packs you should now have 5 drum kits and 16 beat loops, not too bad. If you feel like it, you can thank me with a paypal donation, that’d be great.
December 10th, 2009 / No Comments » / by grillo
Tune in 7pm-8pm (western europe) or 6pm-7pm (uk) for the second episode of my radio show on spaceinvaderradio.com
Listen via the player on the website or with winamp with this link.
playlist and cloudcast widget player after the jump. Read more…
December 3rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by grillo
Tune in 7pm-8pm (western europe) or 6pm-7pm (uk) for my first radioshow on spaceinvaderradio.com
Listen via the player on the website or with winamp with this link.
playlist and cloudcast widget player after the jump. Read more…
December 2nd, 2009 / No Comments » / by grillo
Finally out, 9 tracks, free download, get it here!
A bit of old school, a lot of visionary abstract instrumental hiphop, some dubstep references, a bunch of sweet melodic taste mixed with dusty sounds: this is the receipt of a great downbeat album like “Fireworks” and this is how Grillo kicks off his debut match with the Homework Records team!
Matteo shows how the new Italian abstract hiphop movement is active and fresh, winking to old school stuff and watching to contemporary instrumental tendencies at the same time.
“Fireworks” puts together influences by Prefuse 73’s melodic taste, powerful triumphal beat lines and a lot of attractive spoken quotes perfectly cut into the main rhythmic pattern.
Nine tracks that will easily and gently fall into your headphones!
December 1st, 2009 / No Comments » / by grillo
Out tomorrow on homeworkrecords.net
November 30th, 2009 / No Comments » / by grillo
work in progress
Yeah, been a quiet month on that front, i know, but the podcast is not dead. It’s actually coming back later this week, bigger than ever. It will air as a radio show on Space Invader Radio every thursday night, 6-7 pm in the uk, 7-8 on the continent. Check back regularly for link, setlists and anything else that comes up.
But i also need a little help with this, help in the form of your tunes. Drop anything of interest in my soundcloud dropbox and i’ll play it on the show.
Send me your track
November 26th, 2009 / No Comments » / by grillo
Welcome to the third episode of ‘amazing sound samples from the Emu SP1200 drum sampler’. Sticking with last time’s formula, there’s a drumkit (16 different one shot samples) and 4 drumloops programmed by me. All the sounds come from an old session with a vintage sp unit, but they have been somewhat processed, and while they may be now sound a little bit crispier (especially in the high end) they still retain the crunch and the grime imparted by the hardware and the infamous sample transpose technique.
So, once again, here’s the links.
Sp1200 drumkit 3
Sp1200 loops 2
As usual the drumkit samples are in Battery, Kontakt, EXS24, Renoise .rnsi and of course straight .wav files format, while the loops are straight 44/16 .wav files.
That’s all for today, but i’ve got at least one more kit of sp drums to upload and then we’ll move to other beatboxes in the upcoming weeks, so check back often. In the mean time, if you feel like it, you can thank me with a paypal donation, that’d be great.
Dj/Producer/Sounddesigner for hire.
Sampling enthusiast, electronic music lover, nitpicky foley artist, mediocre cook.
Contact - grillobeats at gmail dot com
