DJ Melodic One Presents: a sneak peak of Blue Tape Vol.4!

I should have this up in a day or so! Till then.. Enjoy!

Feeling Blue: My thoughts on certain Jazz tracks..

I am in a deep mood for some serious jazz music at the moment... I found this artist on a internet jazz station and wanted to give him some shine!

Its amazing how the music is so colorful that you can almost taste it! I am currently in the studio already working on my second EP due out sometime in the spring. I am first gathering the samples and constructing the beats whilist also working on my many mixtape projects including the Blue Tape 4 amongst others...

I just finished recording 2 spoken word poems that you can check out here also:

Please give me feedback on this poetry thing. I might do a Spoken word album. Who knows?

Soup Kitchen Exclusives Mixtape # 164

TOPCAT IS BACK WITH SOME NEW AND IMPROVED INGREDIENTS FOR THE HIP HOP PALETTE! ALL NEW BANGAZ TO WET YOUR APPETITE THE FIRST HOUR, WHILE FINISHING IT OFF WITH A MIX OF NEW AND OLD HEAD NOD IN THE SECOND HOUR!!!!! FEEDIN DA NEEDY!!!!!!!

SKE #164 A

1. REAL HIP HOP - KOLWORLD
2. THIS IS MY HOOD - NUTSO FT ROYAL FLUSH & MIC GERONIMO
3. BOSS IS DEAD - NAKIM
4. AHH YEAH - SENIKA DA MISFIT & V-12 FT INSPEKTAH DECK
5. AMERIKKA SCHEMIN - GENERAL STEELE
6. THE MYSTERIOUS - ROYCEBIRTH
7. COME CLEAN - JERU DA DAMAJA (CLASSIC OF THE WEEK)
8. ORGANIC FOOD - GOLD CHAIN MILITARY
9. RAPPIN EXERCISE - KHALEEL FT PANCHI (OF THE NYG'Z)
10. THE CHAMPION - INSPEKTAH DECK
11. IT AIN'T NOTHIN - CYPRESS HILL
12. SAVIN ARTILLARY - IRON BRAIDS FT GUILTY SIMPSON & SAV KILLS
13. SMOKE DA WEED - BOUNTY KILLA FT MASTA KILLA

FEEDIN DA NEEDY!!!!!

http://topcat771.podomatic.com/

Hey, Shout me out sometime man! Keep the Boom Bap flame alive!

Invasion Radio Mixtape

Here is something I just found on using the search engine.

Enjoy!

http://reveal.podomatic.com/

Dj melodic one live on Midwest tv tonight!

I will be spinning underground hip hop live @ 10pm est tonight on: www.Justin.tv/Midwestindymediatv tune in if your a real hip hop head!

DJ Melodic One Presents: 10 Min Underground Jazzy Hip Hop Mix

This one is a video promo mix of some of the best current Underground Jazzy Hip Hop!

View it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJvOZtHU-RY

If you have Twitter, please Tweet this video and follow me here: http://twitter.com/realmelodic

Death to the non followers....

I just started up a Twitter account that you can read and follow here:
https://twitter.com/realmelodic

I will be working on a few more mixtapes coming to all of you in the next few days so, follow this blog and stay locked!

DJ Melodic One Presents: The Freestyle Mixtape Sessions Vol.1

I did this earlier in the night when I was bored. I have included alot of piano sampled jazzy underground hip hop on this one! I will have v.2 ready for you in the next few days while also recording the Blue Tape Vol.4, just to show you that I am the king of boom bap mixtapes!

Stream: http://tapesfromthareaper.podomatic.com/player/web/2010-02-22T21_32_16-08_00


Download: http://tapesfromthareaper.podomatic.com/entry/2010-02-22T21_32_16-08_00

DJ Melodic One Presents: Blue Tape Vol.3 Jazzy Underground Hip Hop Mixtape

Here is yet another amazing underground jazzy hip hop mixtape from myself, DJ Melodic One! This one is probably my best mixtape to date. I have alot good up and coming talent on here that deserves some airtime on a very popular mixtape series.

I would like to thank all of you for continuing to show support of The Blue Tape series! And by download these mixtapes while spreading the word! I want the download numbers to be off the charts!! If you like these mixtapes... Please email the links to your friends and family! I will only continue to put out these rare, and amazing mixtapes out if you continue to show support! If you have twitter, if you blog, have a website... Whatever the case! Show support! I am the only source of regular jazzy underground boom bap mixtapes! Nobody else is doing this on the regular like myself! Go to Google if you think Im lieng!!!

Stream: http://tapesfromthareaper.podomatic.com/player/web/2010-02-20T20_13_11-08_00

Download: http://tapesfromthareaper.podOmatic.com

Bebop: What it means to me.

I have been taking lots of time to look at jazz music coming from a more artistic and free form of expression in African American music. Its hard to just think how modern day blacks have progressed so much in terms of music and social settings.

One one hand you have people like Lil Wayne, Kanye West, The New Boyz, Etc claiming that they are true musicians who are trying to push a artistic idea forward. And then you have the revolutionary jazz artists of the yester year, who are among those capable of creating timeless music.

People ask me why I wear fedora's and listen to old jazz music alot. The reason: Becuase I only like to surround myself with things in society that I deem to being timeless. Not everyone, nor everything is timeless. Music is timeless due to the fact that the recording which derives from some form of hard to understand language in an artists head. The artist takes this language and applies it to a piece of musical instrument. That instrument is recorded amongst other musical instruments. Those instruments create noise, something that we as humans call music. That music is then transformed into a format, and thus the format is in which the listener begins to actually hear the recording. That is timeless.

So I began my journeys into jazz by dabbling into some bebop. Of course many of you know that I also produce jazzy hip hop, and have sampled many of jazz greats from the past. But what if I actually took the time to study this form of music? Well I am! I have been searching online on as many ecyclopedia's, jazz research sites, articles, books, documentaries, etc..

Bebop is one of those genre's that in real plain english for those who dont understand African American Venacular means: Fuck off! Why? The folks who helped create bebop music were creating this fast pace style for themselves. This is a unapoligetic stance in creating music for people who view music as a artform versus something that 'everybody is supposed to like'. People like Theolonious Monk, Dizzy Gellispie, Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, and others have created something that has its own language.

Most of these artists have taken this language of music and have made it extremely complex and obscure to ward off copycats and pseudo jazz officianados. The artists create sophisticated melodies and chords, add lots of improvisation techniques, and sometimes use very fast tempos to come up with something that is sonically shocking. So shocking that for many years, people have resulted in violence over this music. You know what they always say: "People tend to hate what they dont understand". This form of music isnt something of a fad, or something to please record labels and critics. This is merely a expression of harmonic ingeniousness.

This form of music is one of the most important foundations of what is now called funk, soul, hip hop, r&b.

Soupkitchen Exclusives Mixtapes

I have been slacking on informing you all when the latest installations of the Soup Kitchen Exlusives have come about!

Big ups to DJ Topcat for adding lots of Jazzy/Soulful hip hop bangers in his sets lately!




Download: http://topcat771.podomatic.com/

From 6 feet under....

Im feeling like shit right now as one side of my body is not functioning very well.... But that hasnt stopped me from writing a new jazz compisition. I just made a new jazz song featuring some very complex rhythms and a drum solo.

I am also working on an essay on Bebop Jazz music, and how it relates to Black History Month.. And that will be my contribution for all those regularly reading this blog.

I have alot of free music and essays that I am currently working on... So keep a close lookout!

Meet Mr. Sophisticated....

Yes, I am now know as Mr. Sophisticated and I will be posting up some very complex pieces here for your reading and listening pleasures on this blog!

I am at my peak of complexity as I am a bit more mature and highly intelligent. My intelligence makes me seem awkward to the uncanny.

I have two projects related to this blog that I will be sharing on here:

1. I will be explaining to all of you on how my complex thinking can and will change the world.

2. I will be studying jazz music , as Im currently working on a sophisticated jazz project aimed at those who are trying to feel enlightened whilst studying.


Look for some essays coming up on this blog in the next day or so!

My 101st Post!

I have been sitting bored around the apartment all day today. I woke up and immediately recorded the DJ Melodic One Presents: The Valentine's Day Rejection mixtape.

DJ Melodic One Presents: The Valentine's Day Rejection Mixtape

Stream: http://tapesfromthareaper.podomatic.com/player/web/2010-02-13T11_13_01-08_00

Download: http://tapesfromthareaper.podomatic.com/



I have also been so bored that I decided to start a new music project out of the inspiration from some bloggers here in Cleveland, OH!

This project focuses on the creation of jazz music created only using my laptop, and my current setup. The music is a very melodic and complex sounding music that I made while reading some local blogs on the net and trying to IM my close friend online. He is currently taking up some college courses and tells me that his work is taking up all his free time so... I thougt I needed to create some kind of mellow form of music to listen to whilst your studying.

I myself plan on taking some college courses this year aswell, so I will be creating this EP and holding on to it to listen to before those exams hit me! This year has been an increasingly rough year on my financialy. So I think its time to create something that I am highly influenced by. Im still working on the Jazzy Hip Hop projects, but I think its time to take some time off from doing so to experiment a bit and try to create jazz music from scratch using a software, some nice sounding speakers, and a pair of headphones.

When I created this project I was looking to be as complex as possible and to entice the listener into thinking they are listening to an entire jazz band. I have created solo's, melodic changes, chord improvisations, and smooth grooving rhythms on these last 2 songs. I was reading a few blogs on blogger about ordinary Clevelanders who were narrating a snippet of their busy lives and was intrigued to create some sort of soundtrack of my perspective of Cleveland.


And If you are one of those inspiring bloggers from Cleveland, OH. Could you post it up on your blog?

The project name is called 6th City Pity. A name I created for the sake of the love/hate relationships that this city has to offer from its inhibatants. The project release Im working on is called "Music to study to" after my good friend Nigel who is currently in college.

Here are the songs... But before I present them to you. I would like for you all to please give me some feedback in the comments box below!

6th City Pity-Fall into Spring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udCFq87rOLU

6th City Pity-Mistake on the lake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBn3F3r0-w8

Words from Tha Reaper...

Ok.... for those of you who know me very well, you will know that I DONT believe in love. I keep getting girls asking me why Im like this. Or telling me I will one day find that ONE.

I could careless really. A girl is like raising a child. You have to pay for her everywhere you go. You have to take care of her. You have to keep seeing her, even when you dont feel like talking to anyone.

I am a very non chalant person, who prefers not to talk to anyone on a near daily basis. I have bad social anxiety. I hate going to crowded areas for extended periods of time. I hate going to court or having to be near people who like to to consistantly stare at other people. And I especially hate small talk!


With that said.... I will be doing a Valentines Day rejection mixtape for all those who were rejected from celebrating Valentines day due to not having a valentine, or being turned down repeatedly.

Look for this in the next day or so.....


Last bit of news:

I just went in the studio and did two tracks over 2 instrumentals that Im feeling from Kev Brown and 9th wonder.

These tracks will be on the mixtape aswell as the original tracks.

The first track:

Sencha Masta-I dont believe in love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8uO93YPPUI

The second track:

Sencha Masta-Rejected Valetine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbfpyKBn7Q0

Words from Tha Reaper...

I have some news for you guys:

I will be taking down the Hip Hop Bangers V. 1 & 2 mixtapes very shortly! I advise any of you who are fans of the Hip Hop Bangers series, or to all the DJ Melodic One mixtapes that I have done to please download and save these mixtapes into your hardrives now!!! I have to save some space for more of my famous mixtapes to be downloaded.

I have been getting rave reviews and alot of downloads from The Blue Tapes series that I have started! I would like to thank all of my fans for your conintueing support of the Ble Tape series that I am currently working on! I felt the need to do the Blue Tape out of the lack of Underground Jazzy Hip Hop mixtapes. There are hardly any DJ's who are into the more soulful, jazzy, more lowkey kinda hip hop that I have been feeling for years. I specialise in the jazzy and soulful hip hop and will be presenting to all of you free mixtapes featuring this amazing sound!

**Special Announcement: The Blue Tape Volume 3 is done and will be up in the next day or two!!**

Lastly.... Please spread word of my mixtapes! Email these tapes to your friends,family, co-workers,whoever! I am trying to create a movement in which I bring back that classic boom bap sound that are only found in lost records. The more you spread the word...


The more I can R.I.P when my legacy has come and gone. - Tha Reaper

Download my latest mixtapes here: www.tapesfromthareaper.podomatic.com

DJ Melodic One Presents: The Blue Tape Vol.2 Mixtape Jazzy Underground Hip Hop

Its finally here!! This mixtape features jazzy underground hip hop at its finest mixed and hosted by Tha Reaper himself... DJ Melodic One!

Download: http://tapesfromthareaper.podomatic.com/

Stream: http://tapesfromthareaper.podomatic.com/player/web/2010-02-08T19_40_10-08_00

Vol. 3 will be recorded in the studio in the next day or two.. So keep this blog on your bookmark, and wait for it to come out soon!!

Black History Reaper: Blackstar

Ok.... Its that fucking time!

Blackstar has always been one of my all-time fav underground hip hop groups. So today, I will be posting up some of their videos and songs!

Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx5aVI2zsFE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeTnog5RRQo

Kill em' ONE more time!

Back by popular demand: DJ Melodic One: The Blue Tape coming at ya with volume 2 will be recorded tomorrow night for your download pleasures!!

The Blue Tape volume 1 of my newest mixtape series was a major online hit ! And you can still download it now while time allows by going to the toolbar on the left!

I will have many more Jazzy hip hop mixtapes coming to you all very soon!

Thanks for your support!!