But on your own record, however, you have to strike a balance incorporating intriguing features, while not overshadowing one’s own production chops. Typically your role as a producer is one of background-serving as a springboard for a rapper or singer. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License additional terms may apply.Putting out a solo record as a hip-hop beat maker is tricky business. Platin Casino sponsored the release of a second instrumental mixtape, simply titled Instrumental Mixtape 2, for free via his Twitter on June 4, 2012. His sound is totally unique, and as he punctuates tracks with blissful ambience and inspired samples it’s hard not to believe this is a producer destined for true greatness. Clams’ real skill is to combine the delirious club sound of post-2010 rap with something almost unheard in the genre.

The half-heard vocals, twisted, rolling beats and acid-bathed samples are now pushed to the forefront, and you’d struggle to hear how a rapper, no matter how competent would manage to compete with such precise songwriting.

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