Here’s the next one! Deadline is September 31, 2010.

Click here to go right to the Beat Meet:

The Beat Meet is a friendly competition between producers. They all must use a sample kit provided by this site. The kit will usually contain a fair amount of drum sounds, a bassline, and 2 sample loops. All contestants are given about a week to filter, combine, sequence, and flip the samples however they wish.

Click Here to Read More about the Beat Meet

This is so long overdue, that I lost count.  The absence of Beat Meets doesn’t mean that they are going to stop anytime soon, with plenty more planned to keep you beat makers busy for the rest of this year!

Click here to go right to the Beat Meet:

The Beat Meet is a friendly competition between producers. They all must use a sample kit provided by this site. The kit will usually contain a fair amount of drum sounds, a bassline, and 2 sample loops. All contestants are given about a week to filter, combine, sequence, and flip the samples however they wish.

Click Here to Read More about the Beat Meet

In case you don’t live in the San Francisco area, here is an update on the recently posted Death Proof Beat Battle won by pOETiq.

This is the footage from the Beats Rhymes and Life Deathproof Beat battle in which producers have to samples songs from the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino’s “Deathproof”/Grindhouse. The first two clips are mostly talking but it’s beats/music from there on out and we play the originals first so you can hear what folks are sampling.

Shout outs, introduction, explantion of the Deathproof beat battle and stand-up routine from FLO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw1iOviFMl8

Check out the entire coverage here.

Want more? Here is the footage from the BeatFellas Battle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgMjz-WsYGI

There is a competition being hosted at the ToyotaMusic MySpace page right now, called “Rock the Space.” You have until July 1st, 2009 to submit your demo tape, and on September 17th, 2009 a winner will be announced, which will receive a record deal with MySpace records, along with $10,000 worth of Fender gear.

click here to enter the “Rock the Space” competition.

In addition to the Beat Meet, which brings lots of people to the site each month, we are also going to start posting other online and live battles. Lately, our good friend phillipdrummond has been throwing battles in the San Francisco / Bay Area – and in addition to the live battles, we would like to setup an online counterpart to each competition. The current battled is called “BeatFellas,” and all the details are below:

Below is the link to download the Sample pack and the acapella remix pack. If you’re not currently in the battle and want to be an alternate click HERE (http://www.sendspace.com/file/pyru1e) for the sample flip round.

The zip file which I’m linking you to below has:

• Mp3s and drum sounds with which you will make your “sample pack beat” (you can use one of the songs, or all four of the songs to sample for the one minute beat you will be making for the sample pack round—but the rule is that you may ONLY use what is in the sample pack except for bass and any dialogue you want to use from the movie)
• Acapella and original of “Get it off your chest” which you will be remixing.

So to be very clear, you are making for the battle:

1. A one minute beat for the sample flip round – you must sample the song and flip it to the best of your ability and you can do or use anything else you want (synths, effects, etc.) for it—you may use dialogue from the movie (or any other movie or whatever you want)
2. A one minute SAMPLE PACK beat—you can only use the mp3′s and drum sounds that are in the sample pack—the only thing you can use from outside it is bass, ANY DIALOGUE and sound fx you want from the Goodfellas movie.
3. A remix of “Get it off your chest” using whatever the hell you want to make the beat—I suggest you use the original as a reference as to how to sequence it

Beat Fellas Sample Pack: http://www.sendspace.com/file/yp0ivj

For more information, or information on the actual live battle in San Francisco, go here: http://www.myspace.com/phillipdrummond

Congratulations to pOETiq (aka pOETiqbEETz) for winning the Death Proof Beat Battle at the Element Lounge May 14th. 1028 Geary St. San Francisco!. Check for more music at myspace.com/poetiqx.

pOETiq has worked on a number of albums since he started working professionally in 96. He has worked on projects with En Vogue, Kiraly Linda Savina, Jaslyn Carter, and others. In Rap/Hip-Hop, he has done work for The Team, Bill Stack, Lady L.U.S.T., Kandi Cole, Carl B., Cal Cuta, Planet Asia, Rasco, Verbal Tactiks, and a host of local artists. In Gospel music, pOETiq has worked with Kathi Mills and Lawrence Matthews and even produced music for the Childrens Choir and The Youth & Youing Adult Choir at the Paradise Baptist Church where he is one of the choir directors.

And congrats to the runner-up, Chex Mex: myspace.com/chexmexofdor

For more info on upcoming Beat Battles (in the San Francisco/Cali area), check out http://www.myspace.com/phillipdrummond.