DOWNLOAD: Oddisee “Odd Spring”
May 11, 2010
Well here it is… has it really been a year? You now, When I first got in to music I did it purely for the fun and excitement of it. As the seasons came an went my hobby transformed into a full on career. The “Odd Seasons” series was a way for me to be creative for no reason other that creativity. That’s why they’ve been free releases. In order to remind my self why I do music, I have to allow some of my works to be created and released for well…. I hate to say it but…. “The Love”
Birds & Bees Feat. Diamond District
Juba May
Warmer In The Day
Anticipation Feat. Kingpen Slim & Oddisee
In The Now Feat. Olivier Daysoul
The Riches Instr
This Beat Is For Finale
I’m From PG Feat. Oddisee
Two Way Street Feat. Muneshine
VIDEO: Oddisee Interviews With The Stand
March 3, 2010
Oddisee, one third of Diamond District, sits down for an interview with The Stand. Traveling Man, Oddisee’s latest album, is now available digitally.
He talks about how he got his name, the diamond district project and the influence of the North East on the DMV sound. Don’t miss his interview with Nodfactor.com HERE.
DOWNLOAD: Diamond District “Who I Be” Marco Polo Remix
February 1, 2010
From MP:
First off let me say that Diamond District’s “In The Ruff” was one of my favorite albums of 2009. Props to Oddisee, YU and X.O. for making a bangin album.
If you don’t have that you’re f*ckin up tremendously. Support that album!
When Oddisee asked me to remix something I knew I had to bring the heat. Hopefully you dig what I came up with.
Shylow on the scratches.
This remix will also be included on “The Stupendous Adventures of Marco Polo” which drops this June on Duck Down. It will include remixes, unreleased songs and rare productions of mine, so look out for that this summer.
Dirty
http://media.audibletreats.com/Diamond_District-Who_I_Be_Marco_Polo_Remix-Explicit.mp3
Clean
http://media.audibletreats.com/Diamond_District-Who_I_Be_Marco_Polo_Remix-Clean.mp3
DOWNLOAD: Oddisee’s “Odd Winter”
January 25, 2010
Odd Winter is the third installment in Oddisee’s season themed series. Just as Odd Summer & Odd Autumn did, Odd Winter will be the theme music to it’s season.
Download HERE (props to Rule4080)
VIDEO: Oddisee On The DMV Hip-Hop Scene/I Mean Business
VIDEO:Oddisee & Diamond District, Part 1
01 Ci’iy Life Feat. Tranqill
02 Frostbit
03 Winds From The North
04 Black Broadway Feat. X.O
05 Brain Wash Remix Instr.
06 Riiight Feat. Stik Figa
07 Carry On instr.
08 The Warm Up Feat. Homeboy Sandman
09 Queue With No Coat
10 60901 Instr.
11 All Because She’s Gone Instr.
12 It’s Over Feat. Tranqill
13 Blizzard Of 09
VIDEO: Oddisee On The DMV Hip-Hop Scene/I Mean Business
October 30, 2009
In these next two clips from our Oddisee interview he gives some insight to the DMV (D.C. Marlyand Virginia) Hip-Hop scene and what made them pick “I Mean Business” as the first single.
Also, the story behind “I Mean Business”
VIDEO:Oddisee & Diamond District, Part 1
October 24, 2009
If I have to tell you who Oddisee is then you’re really on the wrong site. One of my favorite producers on the mic came through my noisy office with his partner Y.U. to drop some jewels diamonds about sampling technique and his new Diamond District project. If you weren’t smart fast enough to cop the free download earlier in the year then you need to lay down the dollars for the retail version. I promise you it’s worth every penny. Samples in the clip.
“I was pushed into production in order to make a living from music…” -Oddisee
Watch Part 2 and 3 HERE
WHO DID THAT BEAT? Team Demolition Start 50 Cent’s “Crime Wave”
October 23, 2009
Name: Team Demo
From: Virginia
Who: Zachariah Wise, Experience, J Cosell, DJ Dialtone
Contact:
www.twitter.com/expernz
www.myspace.com/experience703
www.myspace.com/teamdemolition
Interview by Jerry L. Barrow
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of meeting Expernz of Team Demolition at Sha Money XL’s One Stop Shop Producer’s Conference in Arizona. Since then he’s been keeping me in the loop on his movements and unless you’ve been living under Lil Mama’s armpit you’ve heard 50 Cent’s new single, “Crime Wave” produced by non other than Team Demolition. So I hit up 1/4 of the Virginia based production team to find out how their brand of hustle-nomics paid off.
50 Cent’s “Crime Wave”
Nodfactor.com. First off, congratulations on the “Crime Wave” placement. How did you get the first single on 50 Cent’s new album, Before I Self Destruct?
Expernz: We developed a good relationship with Riggs over at Shady a while back through our folks Illa Ghee who passed him some music of ours. Me and my crew try and hit NY every month or so shopping beats and eventually he put us in contact with the homie Dre over at G Unit who we got cool with as well and started hittin him with beats in addition to our other stops in NY.
Nodfactor.com:Ok, I thought maybe it was a One Stop Shop Connect with Sha.
Expernz: well long story short…I got the call from Dre last x-mas that 50 picked a beat of ours…and I spoke with Sha Money right after who we got cool with as well via Riggs and attending all the One Stop Shop Conferences in Phx. I initially thought it was Sha too…but the track 50 picked was from a joint off a CD I dropped to them in ’06…so it was definitely between Dre and Sha that made it happen.
Nodfactor.com:Wow, this beat is three years old?
Expernz:YES…that’s what killed me when I heard what he picked…cuz you know us as producers…we have to keep creating…so the catalog of music is enormous…the beat was MADE in 05…and we started shoppin it in 06! Shady and G Unit always got first dibs
Nodfactor.com:So tell me who is in Team Demo and how you got together to make music.
Expernz: Team Demo is Zachariah Wise, J Cosell, DJ Dialtone and me Jady Experience with extended fam everywhere…but us 4 are the core members…us 4 go back together from highschool and even before that…we actually started as a group Team Demolition that dropped our first single in 98….we dropped our first album in 2001 and the follow up in 2004. We were always self produced and cats always used to give us props on our tracks…so after the last album we focused solely on production and went hard with it…working with different artist and shopping tracks for placements
Nodfactor.com: So you were a group first. I’m finding that a lot of producers I’m interviewing lately started out rapping. What made you focus on the music?
Expernz:well we always made beats AND rapped….J, Wise and Tone started making music together since 88…I came later on….we came up learning all facets of the music….so it was hand in hand with us….as a group we got love locally and were always respected…it’s just always been hard for artists to break out of our area…we’re just now kinda gettin that look….and to be honest…artists careers are short lived these days….there’s always going to be longevity in production.
Nodfactor.com: Well said. You are all from VA, right? I just interviewed Oddisee yesterday. Tell me about the DMV hip-hop scene from your perspective.
Expernz:Well right now the scene is thriving here….it feels good….we work out of our spot Depth Charge Studios here in VA a stones throw away from DC and MD….alot of the artists that are up and coming are flowing thru here regularly and we are doing tracks for a lot of them….the DC Hip-Hop scene has gone thru like 3 or 4 surges thru the years where we felt that we were about to get major exposure….but this is the first time we really feel like its happening…with Wale signed to a major, Tabi and Kingpenslim’s exposure…and producers like us, Oddisee, BKS etc DC has been a city rich with creativity and music for decades…going back to Jazz and of course the Go-Go sound….we were just always a city that never got that “Hip-Hop Credibility” I always feel existed here…..we’ve seen it happen everywhere else…NY, Cali, Houston, Detroit, New Orleans, Atlanta…the DMV should be no different
Nodfactor.com: So what are you weapons of choice in the studio?
Expernz:Well my whole crew came up on the Ensoniq ASR-10…so they are still a major part of the arsenal….but we’ve definetely have grown with the technology and we now incorporate all the tracks into Digital Perfomer….where we use plenty of plugin instruments as well as outboard gear like Korgs and Rolands. We own our studio so we have tons of stuff we use thats at our disposal from live instruments to old moog synths.
Nodfactor.com:I can tell in the sound. But I still noticed a good old vocal sample in the 50 single.
Expernz: The vocal was a part of the actual record…but it was short…so we actually had to cut a piece of it…stretch and loop it so it would fit in and sound right with the rest of the chop.
Nodfactor.com: I love the mix. You work the sample in but it doesn’t sound old school at all with those drums. Who does your engineering?
Expernz: Well all of our engineering is handled by Zachariah Wise…he is the engineering guru and runs the studio daily…the actual final mastering was handled in NY.
Nodfactor.com: Cool. Do you have any other tracks on Before I Self Destruct?
Expernz: This is the only joint that we got on there….that I know of anyway…haha
Nodfactor.com: Hey one is all it takes sometimes. What other projects are you working on now?
Expernz: Well we got more joints in the works with Kingpen Slim dope DC artist…got a couple joints with Wale, Tabi Bonney and XO another up and coming DC guy….Illa Ghee, Tom Gist, Sha Stimuli, Kurious, Big Lou and some joints in the works with Sean Price.
Nodfactor.com Nice line up. What is the biggest mistake you’ve made in the studio and how did you fix it?
Expernz: our biggest mistake is that we work with too many artists that like to go to jail before we can release there music….hahah…just kidding…but not really…I guess the biggest mistake we’ve made was one time…we worked like a 12 hour session with Illa…and the last song of the day while playing it back…the computer crashed…and Wise for whatever reason forgot to save it…so he managed to recover all the audio files and had to piece everything back together…took forever.
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Contact: www.twitter.com/expernz
DOWNLOAD: Oddisee “Odd Autumn” Mixtape
October 16, 2009
Oddisee drops the best free shit, I swear! After the Odd Summer comes the Odd Autumn. Make sure you cop that Diamond District too! Spotted @2dopeboyz.com
01 The Supplier f. Tranqill
02 Almost A Year Since
03 Everything Changed Nothing (Instr.)
04 Every Day People (Instr.)
05 Pulp Fiction
06 Saw Myself Today
07 The Second Date
08 Grey’s Anatomy
09 Tell The Truth (Instr.)
10 Theatre
11 Autumn Run
12 Tell The Truth f. Nikki Jean (Bonus)
VIDEO: Diamond District – “Mini Documentary”
September 30, 2009
In anticipation of the official release of their forthcoming debut effort, In The Ruff, the trio of Oddisee, X.O., andYU, collectively making up the group Diamond District, take some time out from their day to break down the boundaries that define the area where the group was born and raised – the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia).
Diamond District Mini Documentary from Diamond District on Vimeo.
DOWNLOAD:FWMJ’s Rappers I Know x Funkadelic Freestyles
August 6, 2009
More heat from the fam at Rapperisknow.com.We dropped the Oddisee joint last week and now here is the full clip from across the map. You’ll want this for the weekend, trust. That “Summer Madness” (ATL remix) is the joint.
Tracklist
1. Soulful! “Intro”
2. Danny Brown “That’s Just The Way It Goes”
3. jben.ok x Dela “Introductions”
4. Senor Kaos x DJ Spinna “Summer Madness (ATL Remix)”
5. Che Grand “Life’s Grand” featuring Nicky
6. Spank Pops “Beautiful Noise”
7. K-Beta “Summershine” featuring Shydi
8. Akrobatik x Mr. Lif “Beast Mode” (Beat Fanatic Remix) produced by SlopFunkDust
9. Nicole Hurst “When You’re Gone”
10. the OTHERSIDE “Ms. Cloud 9″
11. Finale “Agony” produced by nick tha 1da
12. Truthlive “80’s Baby”
13. 1.O.A.K. “The Lovecats”
14. Oddisee “We On To Something”
15. jben.ok x Knowledge “The Newest Addition”
16. Trackademicks “Nothin’ On Me”
17. Lyriciss & Pro’Verb “What You Mad For” produced by Soulful!
18. Houston Rock Its “The Beast”
19. X.O. “All Around The World” produced by Team Demolition
20. Kay “Sloboogie” featuring Franchelle
21. Scanz “Vibrations”
22. Kokayi “Prayer”
23. jben.ok x Chris “Daddy” Dave “Outro”
