Jeremy Rike, a.k.a. Dose, a.k.a. slick sampler/electronic producer with a flair for extracting light, emotive snippets, has just dropped his newest album So This Is Where We Are. It’s a question we’ve all asked before: usually when it seems like everything is falling down around us: “So, this is where we are?” For me, the album seems to traverse the psyche of someone asking that … Continue reading (Dose) – So This Is Where We Are [Album]
(Dose) / Marinate Mix [MM Premiere] Artist: Jeremy Rike Artwork: Jeff Rochester If you’re unfamiliar with (Dose), a.k.a. Jeremy Rike, you’re a terrible person. Terrible. Okay, not really, but you’ve been missing out on some gorgeous beats. Today, Marinate Media is proud to host his Marinate Mix, featuring tracks from a boom-bap legend to the King of Pop and shapers of today’s sound. (Dose) recently released a … Continue reading (Dose) // Marinate Mix
(Dose) is not a pill, drop or lozenge. He’s not a vitamin. He’s a syringe to the ear-buds—a dose of woozy, driving beats straight to the brain. When We Were High is 12 tracks of piano samples, squealing up-pitched vocals and ambient cloud cover music. It’s hard to describe the proper density of these beats, but if clouds were music these tracks would be fog. There’s a nighttime at … Continue reading (Dose) – When We Were High [Album]
Instead of giving you a speech like, “2011 was a great year for…,” I’ll spare you the formality. (For real tho? This was a great year for beat tapes.) I’ll just get to the meat and potatoes of my criteria for choosing 2011’s TOP TEN BEAT TAPES: [1.] The beat tapes have to be ‘free’. Note: All beat tapes can be downloaded by clicking on their … Continue reading 2011’s Top 10 Beat Tapes
Ohio’s Dose or (Dose)—but don’t skim what’s in the parenthesis—recently released Moments EP. It’s a slew of Soundcloud releases and airy beats. But, wait! There’s more! For the low, low price of zilch, nada, nothing you can own another dope, fresh, ambient beat—“Future Vision”. It’ll sound good in your living room, your car, but what about headphones? Absolutely! And it’s yours at no cost to … Continue reading
Ohio’s Dose or (Dose)–but don’t skim what’s in the parenthesis–recently released Moments EP. It’s a slew of Soundcloud releases and airy beats. But, wait! There’s more! For the low, low price of zilch, nada, nothing you can own another dope, fresh, ambient beat–“Future Vision”. It’ll sound good in your living room, your car, but what about headphones? Absolutely! And it’s yours at no cost to … Continue reading
I Double Dare you to listen to this EP. Step into “All The Beauty and Wonder” and enter a world of skewed ’90s radio hits. Moments EP is like the closet in Chronicles of Narnia. Except, instead of Turkish Delights and strange creatures it’s a hip-hop atmosphere that samples Sinaed O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” and Color Me Badd’s “The Earth, The Sun, The Rain”. It’s chill, it … Continue reading Dose – Moments EP
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