Showing posts with label TOKiMONSTA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TOKiMONSTA. Show all posts
Fame Boozers Lullaby (feat. Rucyl) by TOKiMONTSA
Freebie! TOKiMONSTA just finished a track with Rucyl of Saturn Never Sleeps a few hours ago. They both decided this track would be great to share. And so it is! Enjoy!
Cigarette Lust by TOKiMONSTA
For you people who don't know who TOKiMONSTA is... Shame on you! It's a good thing people like me try and bring everyone up to speed, right? Basically, she is a born to be beat maker trained mostly in classical piano. Through the years she has learned to use other forms of live instruments, percussion and digital manipulation making her a force to be reckoned with.
This track called "Cigarette Lust" is a perfect example of all the skills she possesses. It stars of with some piano and strings and builds up to some digital loops of pure perfection. You can get a hold of this track on the Proximity One: Narrative Of A City LP. Definitely now one of my favorites.
Swine and Burgers (2009 Unreleased) by TOKiMONSTA
Yes, I am a fan of TOKiMONSTA's music and as a fan, I'm happy to announce an unreleased 2009 production on her Soundcloud account and from the looks of it, she wasn't really sure about why she made it and named it that way. The never-before-heard "Swine and Burgers" goes on for a bit past 3 minutes and is short but sweet.
Almost Free by TOKiMONSTA
Originally a song created out of intoxication then eventually made into a remix project for everyone to play with. TOKiMONSTA made a song to represent the alcoholics! Awesome! Pretty funny story on how she was able to come up with something like this. She can't even remember why she came up with the title "Almost Free" in the first place! Which has no significance whatsoever to the song's history. Hit the jump to learn more about the track.
Says TOKiMONSTA:
"So every blue moon, I get kinda of drunk and feel like making some music.
Here’s the story: I get home after an awesome night at Low End Theory, then I see my rhodes still hanging in the living room because the 300 lb beast requires more than what is within my own abilities to carry up a flight of stairs to my studio. I felt the urge to make an all rhodes song, so I pseudo jammed on the rhodes and recorded directly into the mobile audio interface I use for my live performances. I didn’t even grab a proper mic to record the percussion–I recorded directly from the shitteous mic on my mac. In which, the percussion consists of me banging and tapping the top of the rhodes body, my car keys, and my snaps. The overall process was just me recording and looping bits into Ableton, then recording more layers, etc. So in total: 1 rhodes (for music and percussion), a pair of car keys, 1 mobile audio interface, 1 mac, 1 drunk girl. So yea, just layers and no edits, but minor EQing to cancel out the hiss from the unbalanced cables I was using. See? Doesn’t take much to make a song.
Listening to the song today, it makes sense that I made this song inebriated because I don’t think I’d make the same key choices if I was sober. Regardless, it has a nice chill vibe so I thought I’d share it with whoever is interested For the life of me, I can’t remember why I named this song “Almost Free.”
Bonus Track:
MHV's version of the TOKiMONSTA's "cosmically intoxicated" masterpiece, "Almost Free." The winner? Probably, cause this remix is dope!
The Attention Deficit Remix Tape: Vol.1 by TOKiMONSTA
This woman named Jennifer Lee is really starting to grow on me. No I don't have a crush on her and no she is not the porn star. She is the woman behind the name TOKiMONSTA. Born and raised in the City Of Angels, an aspiring pianist but fell in love instead with the world of beats. With her background in classical music, she makes use of this in order to create "vast textural soundscapes by utilizing live instruments, percussion, digital manipulation, and dusty vinyl." A mouthful isn't it? Basically, she creates music by mixing the old with the new to come up with something unique to the ears.
This is the first mixtape I have from her aside from a few of her tracks I already fancy. I'm telling you, she's really good. With classics from Lupe Fiasco, MF Doom and a few more. One of the best sampling I've heard so far. An oldie but a goody, a big mistake not to share.
Download: The Attention Deficit Mixtape: Vol.1
Kick Push (Lupe x Ghibli TOKiMONSTA Remix) by Lupe Fiasco
