Music Monday: BRAHMS and Tech Supreme tracks

I hope you’re planning to get to the Passion Pit show this Wednesday early. BRAHMS, led by Cale Parks (well known in his own right from his solo projects and White Williams), will start the party out right with 80s throwback electronic beats warped to match the 21st century.

BRAHMS – “Toward the Ghost”

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Also, remember our Follow Friday post about Tech Supreme last week?  Here are those mp3s we promised, both produced by Tech:

Rome and Tef Poe feat. Rockwell Knuckles – “Buck Stops”

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Nato Caliph feat. Bryant Stewart – “Her”

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This entry was written by Jonathan Fritz, posted on June 21, 2010 at 10:27 am, filed under New Music and tagged , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Follow Friday: Tech Supreme

Producer Tech Supreme (@techsupreme) has been in St. Louis hip-hop since he moved here at 16. Now, he ties the whole scene together with his innovative beats and community attitude.  He talks with Eleven about his work with The Force, the St. Louis scene, and the music business.  Check back soon for some exclusive Tech tracks, too.

How did you get started in music?

Tech Supreme:

My mother is a recording artist.  I grew up in New Jersey. I came [to St. Louis] when I was 16.  I was always around studio equipment and stuff like that. My mother was free with what I could listen to – I could listen to what ever I want[ed], like Slick Rick.  It was a musically liberal household.  Then I came to St. Louis and my cousin was a piano player and he got me into making music…it started with rapping.  Just [because] being such a rap fan as a kid, [I] started rapping, moved to St Louis, came to U[niversity] City High School and hooked up with some guys who wanted to be from New York – I was from North New Jersey – so we started rapping together, me and Young Thunder and some other guys.  We needed beats, and I had been playing with it, so I decided to start doing beats for us. And then that first year, I fell in love with it completely and decided that’s what I want to do full time – I don’t want to rap. I wanted to be the guy behind the scenes, making the music and making everything happen.  I’ve been doing it since then, but there’s always a time period before you can consider yourself a professional, that you’re honing your skill.  You’re never really a professional till you start releasing your projects to a mass amount of people you don’t know.  It’s probably only been six or seven year[s] that I’ve been doing that.

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This entry was written by Nathan Moore, posted on June 18, 2010 at 5:23 pm, filed under Local Profile and tagged , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.