blocktreat beats

[krahn]

Back in 2007 we started collecting treeplanting tunes, searching high and low for for classic depictions of silviculture, which we knew there were plenty of. We also recorded some new ones. What we ended up with a year later was Hi and Ho, We Plant Trees, still freely available here...

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Vario ... lant_Trees

All told it’s been downloaded roughly 150,000 times. Which was a surprise, I thought it would just be a quirky little album for fellow planters, but it ended up as the most popular batch of songs Peppermill Records ever put out.

The inspiration partially came from Planter’s Punch, a cd from many years earlier. Now it’s been another six seasons and some of us thought it was time to tap into the mind of the baller once again. But now with a hip-hop theme. Brandon Hoffman, aka Blocktreat….

http://www.blocktreat.ca

…has constructed six different instrumentals for people to download and then spend the summer rhyming over...

http://kingdeluxe.ca/cream/blocktreat_beats.zip

You have till Fall to come up with your verse, which you can write down or record, and send to pk@kingdeluxe.ca. Here's th

Of course it would be great to hear them recorded, even in low quality is fine, if it’s awesome enough we’ll hook you up with a studio in your neighbourhood. But if you’d rather have a more skilled MC rap out your planting poetry, we may be able to arrange that as well. Anything’s possible.

Including producing your own beats. If anyone wants to make a song from scratch we’re open to that as well. As long as it’s quality enough to sit comfortably next to the others.

And if two people submit exceptional vocals for the same instrumental, we can have a new beat made for one of them, so don’t be shy.

All tracks will be professionally mastered as well.

We’re not sure yet exactly how this collection will be released, or how long it will take to finish, but we’ll make sure people hear it.

Have fun!

PK

[sghyselincks]

What a wonderful idea. I can picture adding these tracks to your mp3 player and occupying the better part of a day/shift/season composing lyrics as you plant along.

[krahn]

Yeah that's the idea, I'm hoping people over the summer allow these beats to incept their dreams, and come July or August the words will just flow.