10 original tracks, roughly 30 minutes of music. Free high quality download, multiple formats from mp3 to lossless FLAC. High quality cover and pdf booklet included with the release.

I’ve been working on a lot of new things recently and built up a stock of tracks and ideas that sat there gathering up dust, which is not good at all. So i’ve decided to turn it into a street fighter themed little piece of work. I cut samples from the videogames and funny youtube videos and mixed them pretty much on the fly with the beats and synths in Live. The results aren’t bad, there’s a lot of noodling and screwing around, sure, definitely background music, but it thrums along nicely.

And it has a definite Ken Masters vibe, so beware.

Tracklist

1. Shoryuken

2. TaDaDa

3. Online Saltiness

4. Step Kick (Krazy Kicks 1)

5. Tatsumaki

6. Senpuu-Kyaku

7. Inazuma Kakato Wari (Krazy Kicks 2)

8. Shoryureppa

9. Masters Theme

10. Thunder Kick (Krazy Kicks 3)

And remember this is just the start. Other characters and big news to follow very soon!

Unstable Compound takes Double Rare Tender firmly into dubstep territory, and i really dig the grunge treatment applied to the vocal samples, sounds grittier and neater than ever. Costa and Fulgeance go hard at it turning Be Aware and Brown Box into legit space funk bangers, much more danceable than the originals. Last but not least Railster nails a great rework of Can Never Be with sweet synths and a rolling drumbeat.

Couldn’t be happier with the results, really, this whole project makes me incredibly proud.

Grillo – Fireworks Remixes (HWK 016)

Unstable Compound – Double Rare Tender (3:49)
Fulgeance – Brown Box (5:02)
(costa) – Be Aware (3:43)
Railster – Can Never Be (2:47)

As one of Homework’s best albums ever, “Fireworks” deserved a bomb remixes release, meant to underline and deconstruct the original one.
FIREWORKS REMIXES adds a wider look to the downbeat scene already visited by Grillo.
Everything in our plans just happened as we involved an important international name like the parisian Fulgeance; a well known italian one like (Costa) and a rising talent from Bologna: Unstable Compound.
Fireworks is revisited but not destroyed: Fulgeance gives a further demonstration of is open minded music with a pure down-funk remix of Brown Box. (Costa) brings some dusty synth shots to the battle remixing Be Aware. Unstable Compound reveals for the first time his new obscure, filtered dubstep side, playing with Double Rare Tender. In the end, Grillo himself liked everything a lot and decided to put his second vision of Big City Lights, which looks more like a brand new track than a remix.
And the fireworks launch didn’t finish yet…

And here’s the links.

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.

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!

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.

On one hand, you know, it is like it is, and i don’t think we can ever go back to the pre internet days, but you still have to take into consideration the fact that musicians need to support themselves in some way, like everybody.

Personally I’ve given away quite a bit of my music for free over the years, and i’ve gained quite a bit from it, and if not in money, at least in recognition (and karma). Here’s a list of tracks available to download, right after the jump.

Milano Centrale (from Dirty Pretty Deluxe)
Got Skillz (from Addtnl Prod Work 1)
Luta (from The Luta Remixes)
TKNW (from The Luta Remixes)
Jamprime 1 (from The Luta Remixes)
The whole “Side B EP”
Harmonic 313 – Problem 1 (grillo remix)

That’s all for now, but i’ll keep adding more tracks to this post as they are posted online, so stay tuned.

All the sounds are from an old session with a vintage sp unit, 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, without further ado, here’s the links.

Sp1200 drumkit 2
Sp1200 loops 1

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 two more kits worth of sp drums to upload 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, but of course that’s not required.

Not many good remixes of this track around, probably because this is already effing brilliant to begin with. I tried to play around with it for a while but i wasn’t completely happy with the results, as i already said there’s nothing to improve and in my opinion taking the track to a completely different territory wouldn’t do the speak and spell style vocal justice. It needs to sit squarely in robo-chip-8bit hop territory, where it belongs.

Enjoy. And don’t forget to friend me on soundcloud!

Harmonic 313 – Problem 1 (Grillo remix) by grillo

Ah, the elusive Emu SP1200 sound. Today, while most of the old school hardware samplers and drum machines gather dust everywhere, these big clunky emu boxes are still going strong in the second hand market. The reason? That lo-fi crunchiness has proven unattainable in software form. A while ago I got interested in Acquit music’s freeware emulation of the classic beatbox, and made up a cool vintage breakbeat / hip hop drumkit for the final release. Mind you, the emulation wasn’t very accurate, but still added loads of grit and murk to the samples you loaded into it.

Sadly, Acquit’s web site seems to have vanished, so i thought about uploading an expanded version of my original drum kit here, as a free download. Actually it’s two different versions, a squeaky clean one (well, as clean as you can get when sampling from old records actually) and a dirty, grungy, growling straight sp1200 one.

Sp1200 drumkit 1(clean)
Sp1200 drumkit 1(dirty)

The samples are provided in Battery, Kontakt, EXS24, Renoise .rnsi and of course straight .wav files format. Enjoy.

That’d be all for today, but stay tuned because i’m going to post other drum samples i got straight from the hot converters of a very bad SP1200 in the next few weeks.
In the mean time, if you feel like it, you can thank me with a paypal donation, highly appreciated chief.