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I've been on a hip hop mood for most of this year and I'm an addict for some great instrumental hip hop shit.
I currently have:
Madlib's Beat Konducta volume 1-6
Oh No - Dr No's Oxperiment
J Dilla - Donuts
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
MF Doom's Special Herb Series

What else is good out there? Plus any good sites/blogs for news and stuff on this sub-genre of hip hop?

 

[DaFish]

You HAVE to pick these up

Kan Kick - any of his albums
Oddisee - his instrumental stuff
DJ Spinna - Compsitions 1, 2 and 3
Pete Rock - Petestrumentals
Mark Farina - Mushroom Jazz Vol 1 - 6

I'v got more, but I'm at work... will post later

 

[Esch]

Flying Lotus. Check it out.

 

[Az987]

2pac - The String Quartet Tribute

its pretty cool if your into classical

no im not kidding

 

[somnific]

Nujabes - Metaphorical Music

 

[ice cream]

Alright cool, thanks, I'm def gonna check all this out.
Anyone got any blogs/sites good for news on this stuff?

 

[digital]

Nujabes - Metaphorical Music

I've been wanting to buy Nujabes' albums for a while now but I've never been able to find a place to buy them online. Is there some import site out there that I've been missing in my search?

 

[Threi]

The entire Samurai Champloo soundtrack.

a.k.a. Nujabes, Fat Jon and Force of Nature

 

[DaFish]

Let us know what you end up taking a liking to so I can get you more stuff in that area...

try www.ughh.com (its all HipHop not just instrumentals, so your going to have to search through some stuff)

Here is there "radio" section of the site there is one radio station that is just instrumentals: http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/audio/radio/

also here is thare "newest instrumental singles" section: http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/audio/listing.asp?Category=Instrumentals

 

[Dali]

The entire Samurai Champloo soundtrack.

a.k.a. Nujabes, Fat Jon and Force of Nature

Don't forget Tsutchie.

 

[levious]

Beastie Boys - In Sound From Way Out

 

[Extollere]

The entire Samurai Champloo soundtrack.

a.k.a. Nujabes, Fat Jon and Force of Nature

Yes.

And also RJD2, some tracks have vocals, but plenty of instrumentals there as well.

 

[lobdale]

Blue Sky Black Death - Late Night Cinema
DJ Frane - Journey to the Planet of Birds
The Sureshot Symphony - Intro to an Interlude and Interlude to an Outro

You will dig these for real.

 

[StriKeVillain]

Flying Lotus - Los Angeles.

 

[Tokubetsu]

Seconding Flying Lotus reccomendation but any Nujabes, Fat Jon and DJ Krush instrumentals are great. As well as this album:

 

[lethial]

Any DJ Premier tapes\disc should be mandatory. Surprised he wasn't mentioned.

 

[desa]

Anything by Nujabes, Nomak, or Uyama Hiroto. Pretty much anyone from their circle.

 

[Buttonbasher]

http://aurgasm.us/2009/01/aether/

 

[tmdorsey]

Thread subscribed to and it might be hard to find, but the Aquemni instrumental album is straight profit.

 

[starchild excalibur]

onra - chinoiseries *
dr. who dat - beat journey *
samon kawamura - translations
bullion - in the key of dee (pet sounds mashed w/ dilla beats) *
prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian *
mrr-adm - untitled (breakbeats) *
maker - shooting the breeze
onra & quetzal - tribute *
clutchy hopkins - the life of clutchy hopkins
dj qbert - wave twisters
dj cam - mad blunted jazz *
stevo - muffins (it's a free mixtape)
radius - neighborhood suicide
arts the beatdoctor

electronic-hip-hop:

flying lotus - everything * (start with los angeles, go back and explore july heat and reset EP)
lukid - onandon
hudson mohawke - hudson's heeters *
ras g & the afrikan space program - brotha from another planet
bullion - young heartache *
afta-1 - aftathoughts

* = ones i especially recommend.

Any DJ Premier tapes\disc should be mandatory. Surprised he wasn't mentioned.

love premier, pete rock, buckwild, all those classic producers but I think their beats are more suited for lyrics. As a result they tend to get a bit dull when listening to them in instrumental form (for me anyway)

 

[swoon]

D-Styles - Phantazmagorea is the best outside of entroducing and donuts.

 

[Alucard]

http://aurgasm.us/2009/01/aether/

Listening to some of the samples at the link. Very nice and smooth stuff. I've never really listened to this kind of hip hop before, aside from Massive Attack, but they had more prominent vocals.

 

[brokenFUN]

Beastie Boys - The Mix-Up

I give it five stars.

 

[IcebergSlim3000]

Anything by Nujabes, Nomak, or Uyama Hiroto. Pretty much anyone from their circle.

omg thank you

 

[jobber]

 

[Nabs]

arts the beatdoctor - transitions
count bass d - 2006 (some music part 2)
rjd2 - deadringer
kankick - seeing spirits
dj babu - beat tape
pete rock - petestrumentals

 

[tsef]

Kid Koala - Some of my best friends are DJs

Deltron 3030 - The Instrumentals

Birdy Nam Nam

Birdy Nam Nam - Manual for successful rioting

 

[Mr. Spinnington]

onra - chinoiseries *

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

 

[Poody]

pretty much everyone dropped solid names here but I didn't see peanut butter wolf mentioned. And if you're willing to try glitch-hop/blap then Glitch Mop, Lazer Sword, Megazoid is amazing.

 

[Night_Trekker]

The entire Samurai Champloo soundtrack.

a.k.a. Nujabes, Fat Jon and Force of Nature

Yep, and pretty much any other album by any of them.

FAKE EDIT: Also Tsutchie.

 

[Kitschkraft]

Another one for J Dilla here, definitelty a great experience.

Great thread, I've always wanted to get into more of this type of stuff, just never really felt like searching for it. Gonna look at some of these recommendations on youtube before making any decisions.

 

[Ill Saint]

Company Flow - Little Jonny from the Hospitul
DJ Krush - Kakusei
Cannibal Ox - Oxstrumentals
Dr. Octagon - Instrumentalyst (Octagon Beats)

 

[Antagon]

Prefuse 73 - One word extinguisher

 

[Brobzoid]

See if you can find the resturante mixtape by nujabes. It's pretty great.

 

[HappyBivouac]

Prefuse 73 just needs another mention in this thread. Guy does some mind-blowingly intricate stuff and it all feels great.

 

[pakkit]

Metaform - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

 

[Night_Trekker]

See if you can find the resturante mixtape by nujabes. It's pretty great.

Yes it is. Another vote for that one.

 

[JaseMath]

See if you can find the resturante mixtape by nujabes. It's pretty great.

Man, this is stellar. :0 Thank you!

 

[zombieshavebrains]

I've been on a hip hop mood for most of this year and I'm an addict for some great instrumental hip hop shit.
I currently have:
Madlib's Beat Konducta volume 1-6
Oh No - Dr No's Oxperiment
J Dilla - Donuts
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
MF Doom's Special Herb Series

What else is good out there? Plus any good sites/blogs for news and stuff on this sub-genre of hip hop?

Thought that's all you need?

 

[GhostRidah]

I have just about everything everyone has listed :lol

Is there anything new out that I should be looking for? In dire need of some chill beats a long the lines of dj cam, 40 winks, dj krush, dj shadow, and the list goes on.

 

[aznpxdd]

Deltron 3030 - The Instrumentals

Yesssssssss.

 

[methane47]

RJD2

/thread

 

[Dogenzaka]

Holy shit this is just the kind of music I love but I never knew where to start or find some good stuff.

Just Youtubing some of the suggestions and my ears are in love.

Thank you.

 

[themustardman]

Madlib's Beat Konducta volume 1-6
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
MF Doom's Special Herb Series

Came here to post these. All I got.

 

[themustardman]

To make myself useful, here's some links.


MF Doom - Arrow Root.
MF Doom - Monosodium Glumate
DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World
Madlib - Ashby Road

 

[Complex Shadow]

 

[GoodMorning]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTMDqDhvpZs
don't think this has been mentioned

 

[GhostRidah]

check out DJ Frane - Electric Garden Of Delights (Or, Beats To Blaze To Volume 2)

 

[Pepto]

Is there anything new out that I should be looking for?

Harmonic 313, Africa Hitech and anything else Mark Pritchard makes these days.

Also I would highly recommend Benji B's show on 1xtra.

 

[Maklershed]

Oh No - Dr No's Oxperiment

Ethiopia is really good too.