B.Lewis – “Mercury Backburner” beat tape0
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B.Lewis is a young beat maker from California. I finally went through his free beat-tape, “Mercury Backburner” tonight (thanks moovmnt), since it has been sitting on my external hd for about a month. I was hooked as soon as the album started. Second track in, “What It Do Donkey”, took me in for a head-nodding, Aretha Franklin ride. I replayed the song 4 times before moving on to the next track. I have plenty of favorites, some of them include: “Love Latency”, “What It Do Donkey”, “Your Shoes Untied”, “Do Do Do”, “Hardly Pardoned”, “Rabbit Smoke”, and “Morning Yawn”.
He remixes tracks like: Jackson 5′s “I Want You Back”, Anthony Hamilton’s “Charlene”, and Regina Spektor’s “Us”. He also samples from movies like “The Princess Bride”, “Casablanca”, “Big Trouble in Little China”, etc. Anyway, hit the jump for a tracklist, download link, and other stuff…
Tracklist:
01. Saddle Up
02. What It Do Donkey
03. Mercury Backburner
04. Three Prong Exit
05. Your Shoes Untied
06. Ongoing
07. Do Do Do
08. Counting Milliseconds
09. Reverse the Steps
10. Plastic Ears
11. Sleeping on the Moon
12. Hardly Pardoned
13. Rabbit Smoke
14. The Best Disease
15. Electrified Slide
16. Outtake
17. Lucky 17
18. Flow With the Music
19. Mind Lock Stomp Box
20. Back On Track
21. Untitled Beat
22. Love Latency
23. Lingering Stale Lemons
24. Morning Yawn
Overall, I’m really glad I downloaded this beat tape (don’t hesitate!). I thoroughly enjoyed every minute – it’s a banger! It might be one of my favorite instrumental albums of 2010.
And if you just came across this guy, like I did, you can also download his LP “Talking Chairs“, that he released in January.
