Future Classic: Nameless “16-Bit: Bonus Stages”

I stumbled up Nameless‘ music when I was doing my instrumental radio show back in 2009. He’s a beatmaker from Detroit so expect the rawness typical to the Motor City. He released a lot of beat tapes; some more soul, some more boom bap. And he did one sampling video game music called 16bit. Think of the  8bit side of Dibiase but in a more raw form. That’s not the only thing they have in common: Nameless was part of the RED BULL BIG TUNE Beat Battle in Detroit in October 2010 (Dibiase took LA in 2010).

16-Bit: Bonus Stages is the follow up to 16bit, with this time a few collaborations. Some really raw raps on some cuts. It was released back in 2010 so maybe I should say “future classic” but that section doesn’t just apply to the releases of the last few weeks you know! By todays’ prolific beatmaker standards, it’s a bit old (on the bandcamp page of Nameless, it’s not even in the 5 last releases…). As you can hear below it’s still dope! If you go the the bandcamp page, listen to Dusty Pads EP also. More traditionnal but quite nice too.

MaxRobin

Max Robin is a towntempo kind of guy. He loves beats. Making them, sampling them, shaking them, baking them, spinning them, radio hosting them,... He releases a beat a day at 30bpm.com. Oh and he's also 1/2 of wobbly affair Pax Kingz with Millimetrik and 1/2 of irreverent french rap duo MC Phylis et Maxime Robin. Oh que oui!