The last two times I wrote about Buddy Peace were 2007’s pod­cast Obit­u­ary Med­i­cine and his immense 2006 col­lab­o­ra­tion with Carlo, Com­mon­wealth Kids. His lat­est mix mas­ter­piece is released by 2600 Record­ings, and it’s prob­a­bly the best con­glom­er­a­tion of those two pre­vi­ous mixes as pos­si­ble, with quite a bit of the feel­ing of his older solo mix effort, A Crew Called Self. The name of the game here is hip-hop and indie rock, but not exactly what Joe Beats did on his Indie Rock Blues album. Buddy instead uses indie rock tracks as the sam­ple basis for hip-hop acapel­las. It gives the mix a com­pletely unique feel. The thing that strikes me the most is the sound of the drums. Most hip-hop tracks are based on syn­thetic drum sounds, or most fre­quently, funk drums. It’s a refresh­ing change of pace that Buddy uti­lizes the thin, stark, some­what cheap feel of indie drums to pro­duce insanely hot pro­duc­tions for great acapel­las from Lewis Parker, Mobb Deep, MF Doom, etc. The places where he lets the indie vocals seep through work beau­ti­fully, such as the MF Doom vocal­ized track 7. Through­out it all, Buddy flexes his mus­cle as the hip-hop Stock­hausen with the incred­i­ble found vocal sounds that pep­per his mixes as only he can. Nowhere is this more appar­ent than the 5–10 minute musique con­crete outro of var­ied bits and pieces of sound. Not only is Buddy the nicest net per­son­al­ity you’ll ever meet, he con­tin­ues to demon­strate that he is the undis­puted cur­rent mas­ter of this mix­tape shit. Lim­ited to 300 copies, so get it quick at Boomkat (UK), HipHopVinyl (Ger­many), Acces­sHipHop (USA), Wenod (Japan).
Buddy Peace — Antler God — Wolf Diesel Moun­tain Min­imix (mp3)
Buddy Peace — Deer Blood Falls (Megau­pload — Sources Mix)