Ta-ku: Scraps V.2

Ta-Ku has put out another tape, Scraps v2. And in actuality, it serves its purpose as an appetizer as for his much buzzed about 50 days of Dilla project set to drop anytime on HW&W.

Sticking with HW&W, Elaquent‘s new track “Grey Poupon”, off his upcoming album The Scenic Route, has delivered just the vibe for the morning. This song features Octavio Santos on trumpet and flugelhorn, which brings a great jazz flavour to the hip-hop accompaniment. If you like what you hear, make sure to get a copy of Elaquent’s The Scenic Route on March 28th, 2012.

Ta-Ku: Latenyc, Dusty, 50 Days for Dilla

Perth's Ta-Ku recently uploaded a collection of short, untitled instrumentals that he has dug out from the dark corners of his hard drive and dusted off for your listening pleasure.

Having already put releases out on Brownswood, Project Mooncircle, Soulection & Darker Then Wax, Reggie Matthews still manages to find time to compile various beat-tapes, such as the 50 Days for Dilla one embedded at the bottom of this post; produce beats internationally for the likes of Cyhi The Prynce (G.O.O.D Music), John Robinson, Raashan Ahmad, Joe Scudda, Bobby Blunt, Outasight, Kid Daytona, Phil Ade, Raaka (Dilated Peoples); and fly half way around the world to New York!

Dusty is coming hot on the heels of that New York venture following which came the fantastic LateNYC release last December, and it also serves as a heads up for the Scarlette LP, due out next month. Both are embedded below for your listening and you can grab them either on the Bandcamp, or over on the HW&W site.

Again it's sample heavy soul-shuffle all round from the production machine Ta-Ku. For the amount he churns out, this cat must be in possession of doc's flux capacitor!