Help with my new mixtape concept

hullabaloo · Post by **hullabaloo** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 3:38 pm

I was listening to that dope Organized Konfusion track Invetro when I thought of a nice holiday season mix. It would be called "Slayed Bells", the concept is tracks featuring sleigh bells.

Help me with some track suggestions?

Boris. · Post by **Boris.** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 3:45 pm

alkaholiks - daam! (buckwild remix)

Blockhead · Post by **Blockhead** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 4:26 pm

peace is not the word to play - main source

Verge · Post by **Verge** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 4:34 pm

Godfather Don - Stuck Off The Realness, Sadistic
Nas - Halftime
Beatnuts - Third of the Trio

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 5:09 pm

Pete Rock & CL Smooth "One In A Million" rules this mixtape

I Smell Like Un Kasa · Mon Dec 01, 2008 5:31 pm

Rottin Razkals - One Time For Ya Mind

Ho1ogramz · Post by **Ho1ogramz** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:37 pm

AZ - Your World Don't Stop (Buckwild Remix)

blabberingbullshit · Post by **blabberingbullshit** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 8:48 pm

start with LL cool J "rock the bells"
into mantronix "king of beats"

ed og "feel like a nut"
run dmc "peter piper"
biz markie "cool v's tribute to scratching"

end with PM dawn "set adrift on memory bliss"

blabberingbullshit · Post by **blabberingbullshit** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:06 pm

or maybe those are teh wrong bells

Verge · Post by **Verge** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 7:56 pm

Bump
What's good with this,hullabaloo?

True King · Post by **True King** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:42 pm

Ho1ogramz wrote:AZ - Your World Don't Stop (Buckwild Remix)

love AZ, love Buckwild, but HATE this beat, specifically for the jingle bells in it.

Ho1ogramz · Post by **Ho1ogramz** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:57 pm

True King wrote:
Ho1ogramz wrote:AZ - Your World Don't Stop (Buckwild Remix)
love AZ, love Buckwild, but HATE this beat, specifically for the jingle bells in it.

I slightly prefer the original but this version bangs too. To each her/his own.

hullabaloo · Post by **hullabaloo** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 2:39 pm

Verge - Update is coming. I've had to turn on my sleigh bell ear since I came up with the concept and it's taking some time to find applicable tracks.

Progress is being made and suggestions are appreciated.

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 2:43 pm

hullabaloo wrote:Verge - Update is coming. I've had to turn on my sleigh bell ear since I came up with the concept and it's taking some time to find applicable tracks.

Progress is being made and suggestions are appreciated.

If you can get the mix done soon we'll run it on the blog on x-mas eve.

hullabaloo · Post by **hullabaloo** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:30 pm

Sick of your 9-5's holiday carols? Try the Slayed Bells mix. I went through my library listening for that telltale jingle jangle to give you the perfect stocking stuffer and me a crazy migraine.

The sleigh bells have had a torrid history in hip hop production. Golden Age producers like Pete Rock, Buckwild, and Large Professor built careers off the sample, imbuing their beats with a soulful, whimsical, swinging groove, that often enticed some of the best performances out of an emcee's career. Sleigh bells can be the focal point of your track (Eric B and Rakim - Microphone Fiend), relied on as a hi-hat stand-in (Big L - 8 iz Enuff), or lurk subtly deep within the mix (Lord Finesse - Flip da Style).

Picking tracks for Slayed Bells has changed the way I hear my music. I am now conscious of the sleigh bell presence on songs I had heard hundreds of times before. I now notice how Large Professor uses three different samples on Nas' Halftime. I now consider it a travesty when producers opt for a tambourine, xylophone, slide whistle, or salt shaker instead. I am now acutely aware of songs that SHOULD have had some bells in the background. Close your eyes and imagine the jingling on Big Daddy Kane's Aint No Half-Stepping, Large Pro's Ijuswannachill, or Jeru's Me or the Papes. Yes, infinitely better. Yet the sleigh bell seems to be losing favor with today's top beatmakers. While famed producer Bruce Dickinson recognized the need for more cowbell back in 1976, today our collective eardrums just can't get enough of Crank That's steel pan loop that spent seven weeks at number one. Would we still be watching the young maestro supermaning hoes if he'd thrown down some sleigh bells under his hi-hats? You're damn right.

This mix focuses on classic material to illustrate how sleigh bells have been championed by some of our all time favorites. As the cabbie from the original Die Hard says to a crusty John McClane; "This IS Christmas Music!"

1. Pete Rock and CL Smooth - One in a Million
2. AZ - Your World Don't Stop (Buckwild remix)
3. Real Live - The Gimmicks
4. Nas - Halftime
5. Common - Watermelon
6. Alkaholiks - Daaam (Buckwild remix)
7. OC - Word....Life
8. Snoop - Tha Shiznit
9. Bahamadia - Rugged Ruff
10. Big L - Street Struck
11. Outkast - Player's Ball
12. Main Source - Peace is Not the Word to Play
13. Lord Finesse - Flip da Style
14. Organized Konfusion - Invetro
15. INI - Props
16. Artifacts - C'mon wit da git Down
17. Ras Kass - Soul on Ice

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Thun · Post by **Thun** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:58 pm

hullabaloo wrote:Sick of your 9-5's holiday carols? Try the Slayed Bells mix. I went through my library listening for that telltale jingle jangle to give you the perfect stocking stuffer and me a crazy migraine.

The sleigh bells have had a torrid history in hip hop production. Golden Age producers like Pete Rock, Buckwild, and Large Professor built careers off the sample, imbuing their beats with a soulful, whimsical, swinging groove, that often enticed some of the best performances out of an emcee's career. Sleigh bells can be the focal point of your track (Eric B and Rakim - Microphone Fiend), relied on as a hi-hat stand-in (Big L - 8 iz Enuff), or lurk subtly deep within the mix (Lord Finesse - Flip da Style).

Picking tracks for Slayed Bells has changed the way I hear my music. I am now conscious of the sleigh bell presence on songs I had heard hundreds of times before. I now notice how Large Professor uses three different samples on Nas' Halftime. I now consider it a travesty when producers opt for a tambourine, xylophone, slide whistle, or salt shaker instead. I am now acutely aware of songs that SHOULD have had some bells in the background. Close your eyes and imagine the jingling on Big Daddy Kane's Aint No Half-Stepping, Large Pro's Ijuswannachill, or Jeru's Me or the Papes. Yes, infinitely better. Yet the sleigh bell seems to be losing favor with today's top beatmakers. While famed producer Bruce Dickinson recognized the need for more cowbell back in 1976, today our collective eardrums just can't get enough of Crank That's steel pan loop that spent seven weeks at number one. Would we still be watching the young maestro supermaning hoes if he'd thrown down some sleigh bells under his hi-hats? You're damn right.

This mix focuses on classic material to illustrate how sleigh bells have been championed by some of our all time favorites. As the cabbie from the original Die Hard says to a crusty John McClane; "This IS Christmas Music!"

1. Pete Rock and CL Smooth - One in a Million
2. AZ - Your World Don't Stop (Buckwild remix)
3. Real Live - The Gimmicks
4. Nas - Halftime
5. Common - Watermelon
6. Alkaholiks - Daaam (Buckwild remix)
7. OC - Word....Life
8. Snoop - Tha Shiznit
9. Bahamadia - Rugged Ruff
10. Big L - Street Struck
11. Outkast - Player's Ball
12. Main Source - Peace is Not the Word to Play
13. Lord Finesse - Flip da Style
14. Organized Konfusion - Invetro
15. INI - Props
16. Artifacts - C'mon wit da git Down
17. Ras Kass - Soul on Ice

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Dope! It's cool if we run this, right?

thomasv · Post by **thomasv** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:12 pm

Great Work!

Mark 563 · Post by **Mark 563** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:26 pm

Dope.

I'm a sleigh bell fiend.

Jaz · Post by **Jaz** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:32 pm

what about Jazzy Jay's "Son Of Beat Street"?

kimani · Post by **kimani** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:41 am

This must have been annoyingly tedious, but by looks of it the fruits of your labor should be bountiful. Gracias.

Ho1ogramz · Post by **Ho1ogramz** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 4:02 am

Dude, I'm sold. Props

Lyrical Gymnastics · Post by **Lyrical Gymnastics** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 4:28 am

Mark 563 wrote:Dope.

I'm a sleigh bell fiend.

hullabaloo · Post by **hullabaloo** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:30 am

Thun - Yeah man of course you guys can run with it.

I'm glad it's being well-received. I actually think the buckwild remix of the daaam is a tambourine but I decided to let it slide cause the track is so dope and you can't really tell. Maybe it's tambourine AND sleigh bells?!

I should be medicated for this one...

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:57 am

hullabaloo wrote:Thun - Yeah man of course you guys can run with it.

I'm glad it's being well-received. I actually think the buckwild remix of the daaam is a tambourine but I decided to let it slide cause the track is so dope and you can't really tell. Maybe it's tambourine AND sleigh bells?!

I should be medicated for this one...

I'm almost certain it's a tambourine. I would bet on it.

Verge · Post by **Verge** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:54 pm

Great work hullabaloo.

Help with my new mixtape concept

Help with my new mixtape concept

Update

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Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?

Re: Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?