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"Steel Tipped Dove is a music producer and recording engineer in Brooklyn, NY who has the skills and desire to service your audio needs from vocal recordings, song mixing, podcasting, video scoring, etc. He has done work for Armand Hammer (billy woods & ELUCID,) Kool A.D. PremRock, Quelle Chris, SHIRT, and many more talented Underground Hip-Hop emcees. Hit him up at steeltippeddove.com . Here are three albums that were extremely influential on my overall style and sound:" cui bono by Steel Tipped Dove I. Viktor Vaughn (AKA MF DOOM) - Vaudeville Villain (2003) "This sh*t sounds like a movie. It's astonishing. I once took 'shrooms and sat in the room with the lights out and just watched DOOM walk around, go up and down these golden staircases—hitting the walls and sh*t to make the beats. The production on this album is so wild and detailed, it's incredible. If DOOM put this album out in 2025, it would feel brand new. "A Dead Mouse" really s...

It must go to say something that the song that plays directly after Black Pumas' "Black Moon Rising" on YouTube Music is Wah Wah Watson 's wah-wah pedal-drenched "Goo Goo Wah Wah" from his 1976 Columbia Records Soul-Funk masterpiece, ELEMENTARY . Black Pumas consists of Austin -based singer-songwriter Eric Burton and musician/producer/composer Adrian Quesada , who are the inaugural signees to Colemine Records' newly-launched sister label, Karma Chief Records . As the story goes, Quesada was taking a break from his main bands, Brownout and Brown Sabbath —as seen on Ozzy & Jack's World Detour —to record a batch of " Soul -leaning instrumentals with the intent of eventually, making a full album." Although, he did not have a vocalist to accompany his instrumentals and started putting out feelers around Austin and across the country, as far-reaching as LA . However, it wasn't until local producer Bryan Ray , a mutual friend of ...

" LOVE HANDLES is a Hip-Hop instrumental beat tape from 2 Hungry Bros. producer Ben Boogz that boasts lo-fi production with an airy, eclectic mix of sounds and samples over percussion. Through out it's 23 tracks, there's much to take away from it that is ultimately, enjoyable; though, on a more critical note, a uniform style that can wear thin in the context of 23 consecutive tracks. Love Handles by Ben Boogz of 2 Hungry Bros We start off with the intro track, "Love Intro," which is a short beat with a vinyl crackling Soul chop of humming and "ahh's" over some Hip-Hop drums that give a light and care-free feel, which perfectly sets the stage for much of the feel of the project. Then, going into the track "Sang Pham," which with its dreamy sung "ahh's" being chopped and looped creates an expansion of the dreamy love feel that's been introduced. By the third track, "Love Handles," it hits more of a ch...

Archy K.I. Marshall , better known as grizzly-voiced singer King Krule , uploaded a mysterious 31-minute video earlier this morning entitled "King Krule - Molten Jets - Live On The Moon;" accompanied by a rather cryptic Facebook caption, which reads, "Through Tereshkova 's orbit and Kubrick 's lens. Houston , we have a problem." Molten Jets are seemingly, a "MUSIC / FILM / FEMIDOM" collective and potentially, even a record label shrouded in mystery, who either directed "King Krule - Molten Jets - Live On The Moon," played alongside King Krule and his band "in orbit," or maybe even both. Molten Jets' Facebook Story reads: "We are the complete 900º forward roll, firing hot jets of audio and video to your buds. Brace yourself for the next eruption." There are, however, comprehensive credits for what has already been described as a "KING-SIZE LUNAR ERUPTION" listed at MoltenJets.com . It appears as th...

Computer Rocker by Height Keech Height Keech is, in a lot of ways, if you really think about it, the "Bob Dylan" of Underground/Indie Hip-Hop ; an extremely talented and well-respected solo artist, who plays well in groups, but doesn't really NEED one, oftentimes, produces records for himself and his friends, fosters and champions young talent, ages like a hearty whiskey, isn't afraid to collaborate, tours at a never-ending pace, and continually puts out solid, progressive music at an in-humanly fast rate. Also, much like Robert Zimmerman , Dan Keech has amassed quite a few AKA's to his name: Height , Height with Friends, Height Keech , Shark Tank, Bow n' Height , ialive & Height Keech, Wounds , and "John" Height. After effectively re-launching his long-time CD/CD-R imprint, Cold Rhymes Records , Height issued or had a hand in a staggering number of 2017 releases including, but not limited to: his own MIND MOVES THE MOUNTAIN , STRANGE LOOKS...

Not only will 2018 be my 30th year atop this, as Tears for Fears put it, "very, very mad world," it's poised to me my most successful and plentiful year yet, both personally and professionally: it will be my lovely fiance, Caroline and I's first full year in our new home and we're planning our wedding for this upcoming Fall . This year, I'm planning to re-launch The Witzard with my own site at TheWitzard.com with an original logo designed by graphic artist John Wong . I'm also, planning to launch a number of recurring columns and initiatives here, in addition to 3 Feet High & Rising , Beat-maker Bedrock , Run It Back , Wax Watchers , and The Witzard's Top 5 . One of which including a tentatively-titled track-by-track breakdown column, wherein I plan to have a select group of artists literally, breakdown their latest of upcoming releases; this including, but not limited to, UK emcee Charles Edison , DJ Chong Wizard, Reggae revivalists Super H...

Warriors by Zion80 Jon Madof is a New York-based guitarist, composer, producer, and founder of fittingly-described " Afrobeat-Latin-Jewish-Jam band" Zion80 . Madof has previously formed a number of similarly-minded genre-eschewing bands including, but not limited to: Blivet , Rashanim, Ruthless Cosmopolitans with the emcee Eden Pearlstein , Nigun In Clave with Zion80 percussionist Marlon Sobol, and a number of solo projects attributed to "Jon Madof." Zion80 's current line-up includes Madof on guitar, trumpet player Frank London , tenor saxophonist Greg Wall , baritone sax players Jessica Lurie & Zach Mayer , keyboardist Brian Marsella , guitarist Yoshie Fruchter , bass player Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz , percussionist Marlon Sobol , and drummer Yuval Lion . Since forming in 2012, Zion80 has released two albums—one, Zion80 (2012) credited to "Jon Madof" —three EP's, and are currently, gearing up to unleash and album entitled John Zorn...