As announced a million years ago I was working on a production album called "Beats You to Death" which was to feature a who's who of all of the rappers I'm friends with over my production. For one reason or another though the project never got off the ground. I made a ton of beats for this project though. Some ended up on other projects while some just sat all by themselves all lonely on my hard drive collecting dust. With that said, I'm jumping into the beat tape scene with those beats under that title. "Beats You to Death" will be released on March 16th via Raw Bar Records on all digital outlets. The majority of the beats were intended for the original version of "Beats You to Death", but I've decided it will be the first in an ongoing series of beat tapes under that title. So, if you like just listening to instrumentals or you want to rap on some of my shit on the super cheap, this is it (I have beats available for purchase HERE though). However, for the rapping part, don't let me catch you trying to officially release what you did as songs, I will shut that shit down. A free download on your Soundcloud is perfectly fine though.

Now speaking of my production and my label, we just released a collection of older material from my good friend John Ryder called "The Archives, Vol. 1". It's on all streaming formats and as a free download posted below. If you enjoy the older stuff we've had in the vaults all this time, we're sure you'll like the new stuff John and myself have coming later this year.

Hey, so if you're familiar with my first album "The Earth Man's Curse", you've heard the song "In the End..." featuring John Ryder that closes out the album. John was one of my earliest collaborators when I started to take producing seriously, so it was important and an honor to have him on my album. After recording that song with him, we started working on new material which is being released later this year as "Johnny" on Raw Bar Records. We have a long history together making music, but unfortunately basically none of it got to see the light of day. At least not in the capacity we wanted it to. We recorded a lot of material together in the early to mid 2000's when he was going by the name S.O.T. (Son of Thunder). John was also working with another producer based here in South Eastern Connecticut called Doc Ether, which they recorded a good amount of material as well.

So here's what I'm getting at: to work as reintroduction of sorts and to prepare everyone for our upcoming release, John and I decided to start collecting our old material, make it available on all of your favorite streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, etc.) and as a free download on the Raw Bar Records site. "The Archives, Vol. 1" features John Ryder over production by himself, Doc Ether and myself. It also features one song with one of the first rappers I ever worked with, Skittles, now known as Product of Nature. Below is a snippet of the song "Seein' Blind" produced by me. "The Archives, Vol. 1" releases on Friday, February 23.

I've started doing a super exciting thing! I'm curating a few Spotify playlists on my page there. OK, not THAT exciting maybe because it's just something I do for myself on my personal account, but this one playlist is going to work like your "Discovery" one. So, if you don't have a Spotify account, you can sign up HERE for free or get a premium account. I suggest the premium account personally.

So this playlist is called "Just the Music, Please" and it highlights instrumental artists that I'm a fan of and inspired by, and for the hell of it even a song of my own thrown in there. There's 20 songs and I'll be updating this on a weekly basis. By updating, I mean completely revamping it with all new songs every week. So hopefully this helps you find new music you enjoy. I've embedded below, but to stay up to date with it, follow it (and me as an artist) over on Spotify.