Electric Wizards & Dusty Scientists

Your favourite beatmakers over at CrateKings.com (including yours truly) decided to get together and bring you 25 instrumental gems for your listening pleasure.

The work on display really is phenomenal and no matter what you would use instrumentals for; whether your an MC looking for something to spit on for your next mixtape, a DJ looking for some loops to scratch over - you need this. It's free so why not download it for the sheer hell of it?

Put together and conceptualised by a superb beatmaker and bass player extraordinare Matty Melks A.K.A The Crate Worm. You can see more of his beatmaking on his YouTube channel HERE (I highly recommend you subscribe)

Spread the word - the best of the best of the BEST is right HERE

#SecretRemixProject tracklisting

You may remember some time ago i posted an advert of sorts on here calling for all UK Hip-Hop artists to send me their accapellas for a remix project i was planning on doing. Or, if you follow me on Twitter you will have seen me posting updates on the progress of the album with the hash tag #SecretRemixProject. Anyway, the following is a final list of artists and their remixed tracks that will feature. Its not a tracklist as such as they may not feature in this order but this is what you can expect once it drops.

Jai - I Rep
Stig of The Dump (ft R.A The Rugged Man) - Braindead
Delusionists - Game of Soldiers
Asaviour - The Aim
Klashnekoff - All I Got
Blokeyman - Recycled Rhymes
Delusionists - Supa Lyrical Excursion
Seedy Ron - Waitin'
Lost Souls - Everyman
Boiler Room Collective - Seven
Lewis Parker - Rise
Mystro - Banishment
30,000 Bastards - Microphone Mussolini

Not long now until it will be finished and ready for download. I'm keeping the 'secret' element a secret for a little while longer and will probably reveal the actual concept of the album when it drops. There's no real reason why i'm deciding to keep it secret for now, just that I think it leaves a little incentive for people to follow the progress.

I'd like to thank all the artists mentioned above in advance too for trusting me with their accapellas and helping me do this when i've barely even met most of them and none of them have heard of me. Special thanks especially to Mr Ben Black of The Delusionists as he's pretty much been the co-producer of this by providing some much needed advice throughout!

Further special thanks to Short Term The Crate Worm who is playing bass on all the tracks. This man is incredible with the bass and has added an entirely new dimension to all the tracks - you'll all be very impressed when you hear it.

Thanks to everyone on Twitter who has shown support too.

So, the next update will probably include a link for you to download this thing i've been going on about for the last few months.

Peace!

Consider yourself invited...

Attention all UK MC's...

I am currently putting together a remix project featuring UK MC's over beats made by me sampling a band whom i will not mention until it's finished.

Think 'The Grey Album' but instead of Jay-Z there will be lots of different artists and instead of The Beatles it's...a different band.

Currently signed up are Ben Black of The Delusionists, recently featured & amazingly sick female MC Jai, Wordsmith, Genesis Elijah, Mystro, Asaviour and a few others that aren't confirmed yet.

If you would like to be a part of this, e-mail me as many acapellas of you as you want with the BPM of the original track and i'll let you know if you'll be featured, as well as bring you into the loop with a few more details about the project.

As i said - unfortunately, this applies to just UK MC's but if you're not from the UK and you play an instrument, you know what your doing with mixing tracks down or you have something else that you think you could bring to the table - get at me still. I want this to be a hugely collaborative effort and hopefully we'll all get some new fans out of it.

Please send all acapellas to mashupfigment@hotmail.co.uk

Figment - Floor By Floor

I've posted this before but i consider the original post to be somewhat of an 'advanced release.'

This time around, i've trimmed up the start and finish points of the tracks, made sure that all the info tags were right and got some good artwork done.

For those that don't know - the album is my first, written and produced by me and featuring some excellent Essex talent. Please do download it, feel free to leave comments or e-mail me your opinion and by all means - post it on your blogs/forums.

Get it HERE

Figment/Mash-Up Productions Beat Sampler 0.3 - Abstract

The latest edition of my series of beat samplers.

Part three - Abstract, is a (small) collection of instrumentals i made using some experimental techniques, and just having fun.

Download it HERE

Jay-Z/Mash-Up Productions - Prohibition Gangster

As promised,

If you didn't see the post just after Christmas, -

"I know i'm VERY late with an American Gangster remix, but i hate doing shit when everyone else is doing it.

The idea behind the project is basically American Gangster remixed with new beats sampling 40's jazz and with a more old school gangster feel."

I only remixed a handful of tracks; those that i felt needed to be redone.

Tracklisting;

Intro
Pray
American Dreamin'
Blue Magic
Success
Party Life
Ignorant Shit
Fallin'


You can download it free (of course) HERE

Figment - Floor By Floor

So...FINALLY i get around to posting my album.

I finished it a few months ago but it took a long while to get to the point where i could say 'finished.'

It's 13 tracks, i made all the beats and wrote all the verses.

Featuring other local artists - Blokey Chinners and Skrabl.

Tracklisting -

1. Floor By Floor
2. Rumours And Lies Ft. Blokey
3. Trapped
4. It's All Over (Casanova)
5. To Be A Star Ft. Chinners
6. The 21
7. Love And Marriage Ft. Blokey and Tik-A-Tek
8. Grind
9. S.H.E Loves Me
10. Malice Ft. Skrabl
11. All About You
12. How You Living Ft. RTS
13. The 21 (Alternate Version)


Give it a download, give it a listen.

Get it HERE

***If you were having trouble downloading the album from this link - please try again as i have re upped it to a different server now***

Figment/Mash - Up Productions = Jay-z; The Motown Album

This post is one of my own projects which i did around the time that the internet was flooded with American Gangster mash ups and i decided to do a Black Album mash up since the onslaught of those had died down.

I sampled all tracks from the classic Motown label to create new beats for Jay's Black Album acapellas.

Semantik, administrator for the excellent website Crate Kings had this to say

"With all the American Gangster remix albums popping up lately; we tend to forget about all the previous joints that Hov blessed us with. Figment of Mash-Up Productions drops a gem on us with the release of The Motown Album, which combines Jay’s Black Album with classics such as “If I Were Your Woman”, “Neither One of Us”, and “Love Hangover.” It’s no doubt that the Figment was successfully able to take a handful of Motown joints and provide just enough grit to what I originally considered to originally be a lackluster and overproduced release. I have to admit that I was surprisingly impressed with his attention to detail, especially with the restyled organ sample featured in the remake of “Public Service Announcement."

Download it HERE

Crate Kings Dig CTI

Another entry for the fast growing Crate Kings catalog, this time me and some other very talented dudes over at Crate Kings.com decided to dedicate an album of beats to the legendary jazz label 'Creed Taylor Incorporated.'

The result is fantastic. More and more people seem to get involved with each of these projects we do and it makes for a better final product as everyone brings their own unique style and perspective.Mixed by fellow Crate Kings member Rafferty, with cover artwork by myself.

Download it HERE

Please feel free to also check out our previous effort, 'The Mancini Project,' consisting of beats sampling the work of conductor Henry Mancini.

Welcome!!!

'Strictly Independant,' is a blog for independant hip hop artists and groups to share music and hopefully get a little more exposure. If this is you, email me a link to your album/mixtape/whatever and i'll post it up here. Let's start with my latest project, a series of Beat Sampler albums, each featuring 8 instrumentals all fitting a specific theme. Volume 1's theme is ''Lazy,'' lots of laid back, easy beats. My name is Figment, i am an emcee/beatmaker from the U.K, i make beats under the pseudonym Mash-Up Productions Get it here