Pinecone Moonshine Remixes IV

Had the pleasure of remixing Greenleaf's drumfunk tune Zigaboo for Pinecone Moonshine's latest art piece. The design is phenomenal and I'm super proud to be a part of this project with all the other artists involved. Pinecone Moonshine Remixes IV out now on vinyl, digital and streaming. Happy Canada Day long weekend!

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DACAMERA - Liebst Du Mich (Profane Remix)

My first release of the year comes as a Footwork/Drumfunk remix of Dacamera's tune 'Liebst Du Mich' off his The Subtle Art album alongside phenomenal remixes from Duburban, Calculon + Stunna, Kjell Anderson and Opius. Out now digitally on AGN7 Audio's Bandcamp and all streaming stations.

Drumfunk Rollers Teaser

45 sec teaser for the Drumfunk Rollers EP out this Bandcamp Friday on Digital Wreka. A 4-track EP of unreleased breakbeat DnB tunes from myself from 2006-2007. Listen in!

Breakbeat Tapestries Origin

Breakbeat Tapestries as a label, came about after I finished my second album for Inperspective Records. I heard Chris (INP) in an interview describing the style of the tunes as a breakbeat tapestry. I had a lot of fun making those grooves which spilled out and took a left and landed into The Porkchop Tape and Snares N' Roses. Those two didn't fit in with the Digital Wreka traditional DnB grooves, so here we are. 

The logo came from these fixed up scissors I found in my dad's art room when I visited back home in between pandemic lock downs. The repair job is pure genius with the plastic hanger hook replacing the broken handle! 

Breakbeat Tapestries on Bandcamp and streaming platforms.

Snares N' Roses II Pre-order

Hey everyone, I've started up the cassette pre-order for my new album Snares N' Roses II. You can also listen to the whole album now and purchase a digital copy too! Pre-order link.
Thank you for the continued support.

Yard Remixes

I had no plans on remixing 'Yard', a track I made around the time just before the V.illin Mills album cuts started coming around I'd say 2006-ish. I had forgotten about it also till around 2018? when I heard Code play it on his Subtle Audio Radio show. He sent me the original tune shortly after as I had no file of it.

Fast forward a few years, Greenleaf hit me up checking if he could do a remix. I promptly agreed because he's been consistently making some of the dopest Drumfunk for some time now and it'd be a big honour to get the remix treatment. I just realized while writing this, that this would be the first time someone remixed one of my tunes! His remix sparked the heavy Krugah Tenement Yaad version which stays in constant rotation on DJ's playlists. So huge shout outs to Greenleaf for hearing something more in the original. I ended up making 2 remixes, opting to go for something more steppier as a breather between the breakbeat choppage versions. The prolific Opius stepped up in fine form to round out the EP with his rapid-fire rhythmic edit style. Yard Remixes out now on Wrekanise Recordings.

Fine Limit Breakz 9

My last release of 2022 drops today on Fine Limit Breakz 9 alongside choppage heaters from Antares, Krugah, and Opius. Very excited to be included on this one! Cop it over on the Ballpark Recordings Bandcamp.

"Westwood/Eastwood Skank" was a tune that I started back in 2017 when I was working on a forthcoming album (2023?). About 3 weeks ago I was going through the Ableton Projects folder and didn't recognize the title 'Lately'. The jazz sample and drum loop instantly hooked me again and had me skanking around the room for a bit. But the tastes and techniques have changed a lot in 5 years and the tune was gutted and all that remains from the original is the parts between 0:45 - 1:29. The newer patterns slap harder and sequencing flows a lot smoother which make it easier to mix. Opius, bossman of Ballpark Recordings, hit me up a few days later and the tune was finished in a week, which usually takes a month or more for me!

Buy Fine Limit Breakz 9 on Bandcamp

The Porkchop Tape Release Anniversary

Breakbeat Tapestries anniversary launch and The Porkchop Tape 1-year release sale starts now along with Bandcamp Friday!!

For all of December, save 30% off the cassette, download, t-shirt or bundle on Bandcamp with coupon code: ONEYEAR 

Don't sleep!

And thank you for all your support this past year, looking forward to dropping more tapes in 2023!

Cover Art Process for Snares N' Roses

My original idea was a snare drum disintegrating or melting upwards like it's in space or some other world with different physics with one small floating rose and 2 drumsticks above it. On a DIY budget, I started messing with the AI sites I had access to. A few of those experiments are above and below.

I wasn't into any of them 100% and tried going another route.

I still wanted a snare as the main shit. So new idea to try was an alien-like snare drum floating in the middle of dense forests on some Twin Peaks shit. I started looking at photos of our hikes here in the Pacific Northwest when I saw the batch of ones Klod took for an Inperspective album but didn't end up using. It had the abandoned pier stilts and it was instantly "yeh that's the one."

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breakformation.01

First instalment of a new beat tape series from myself, breakformation.01, is out now. This series, based on flipping video game soundtracks, is something that's been on my 'project ideas list' for years. Theme for this one is Persona 5, an engrossing JRPG series with a soulful and often, melancholy soundtrack. 

The game doesn't require as much grinding as some other JRPGs but you may want to do multiple playthroughs of it maxing out different social connections each time. We went through the entire 3 CD soundtrack live on my Twitch channel and flipped some of it for this beat tape. The beats came out so varied, from Hip-Hop with heavy swing, Drumfunk, and there's even a 4/4 House type tune in there titled 'starvick5'! So yeah, most of the tune names are also based on drinks in the game which are a play on real world brands or drinks ha!

LISTEN to breakformation.01 on:
Bandcamp (stream / digital)
YouTube (including 3 music videos)
Tidal
Apple Music
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And on the majority of all streaming services around the world.

Snares N' Roses

My newest album, Snares N' Roses, is ready. Very excited with how dope everything turned out from the mastering by Fanu to the laser-etched snare drum with the red tinted cases and my cover design.

I started working on this album right after The Porkchop Tape around late October 2021. It was sent off to manufacturing July 5 and released today, August 15th. The beauty of working with cassette and digital, I can have the music out a lot faster, and move on to the next project. Heavily influenced by instrumental Hip-Hop beat tapes from Knxwledge, Mndsgn, to HxC bands like Jesus Piece, Vein and the breakbeat butchery Equinox plays on his Scientifc Wax show, I wanted to use more breakbeats this time around and further explore this pocket I discovered while working on a forthcoming and completed Inperspective Records album. I don't think I invented it, just discovered that this flow, when I get it right, gives me that studio stank face heavy that no other music I've made has done before!

After talking with Khal about Snares N' Roses, we concluded that it was essentially 'Dilla Time' applied to Drumfunk or Choppage. Dope! He was also very generous with his time to do a write-up about the album which you can read below. Making each track was like healing and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did creating it. Press play and listen in! Out now on a limited edition laser-etched red tinted cassette, digital and streaming on bandcamp.

Words by: Khal

As disruptive and intriguing as Guns ‘N Roses were on the unsuspecting mainstream during their late ‘80s heyday, Profane’s latest long player Snares N’ Roses could be just as chaos-inducing. With a litany of producers in the drum & bass realm sticking to tight, formulaic four-minute bangers, Profane applies Dilla Time to the entire process, furthering his experiments into the outer reaches of breakbeat science.

Confused? Imagine Paradox and The Alchemist decided to collaborate on a dnb project that sounds like “what if J Dilla made jungle?” One moment, you might get lost in the frantic drumwork on somber numbers like “Drum Slang,” but later an anthemic number like “We Bangin’ That (Jungle Music)” reimagines familiar sounds in ways you never thought possible. “Basill” pairs a hypnotic bassline with hyper drumwork; it’s like someone found archival footage of your favorite jazz bassist and drummer battling during a practice session, ala Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed at the end of Rocky III.

Snares N’ Roses ends with the honey-dripped aggressiveness of “Tearz,” where a lullaby of a loop brightens the day of some of Profane’s toughest drumwork across the project. If this album is a capable drummer trying to understand the junglist framework, “Tearz” is when that broken student becomes the proud master… through the realization that comes with paying attention, especially when the simplistic confines of the modern drum & bass scene are no longer relevant. Whatever you want to call the drum & brilliance emitting from Profane’s studio, we have one piece of advice: Play twice before listening.

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Polska's Skeptic Tank Show with Profane

Very grateful Polska asked me to do a mix for his Skeptic Tank Show. It was a great honour to follow past guests like Dodz and Frankie Gunns. I don't have 2 decks at the moment so this is another Ableton Live set with some cheeky surprises! I have been leaning towards sticking with Ableton Live for live sets and programming and looping live remixes of my beats. Idea in progress.

Polska's Skeptic Tank Show w/ Profane
Aired Aug 13 2022 on jungletrain.net
Listen on YouTube

Profane
00:00 Profane - Jewel Wasp (Orange Rhino EP)
04:04 Profane - Drum Slang (Snares N' Roses LP)
09:09 Profane - Drughms (Twitch Mug Remix) (Final Version 38 EP)
15:30 Profane - We Bangin' That (Jungle Music) (Snares N' Roses LP)
21:21 Krugah - Bruk Pocket Bluez (dub)
26:26 Krugah - Journey Within (Gunns Road Music)
31:31 Outlook - Satisfy (Architecture Recordings)
37:31 Imran Graffiti - The Problem With Music (Bandcamp)
37:31 Westside Gunn - Big Ass Bracelet
42:34 Equinox - Acid Rain (Breakage Remix) (Inperspective Records)
42:34 Thundercat - Dragonball Durag
46:46 Profane - Basill (Snares N' Roses LP)
51:15 Greenleaf - House of Drums (Pinceone Moonshine)
55:55 Opius - Subterranean Funk (Pinecone Moonshine)

Editing Breakbeats On 'Crazy Space Shit'

Recorded some of my process while making the tune Crazy Space Shit on the Snares N' Roses LP which will be out later this month. I sequenced all the patterns and loops the night before and had to do the morning check if I was still feeling it. There were a few patterns I wasn't 100% with so worked on it a bit more in this video. I'm using Ableton Live and Kontakt 6 sampler to trigger all the samples. Full screen the video to see the drum slices easier.

Snares N' Roses LP follow the Breakbeat Tapestries Bandcamp to not miss out on that limited drop: www.beat-tapes.ca

Profane - Slang Mix July 2022

Ez all. I've put together an Ableton Live mix featuring some music from my forthcoming albums on Breakbeat Tapestries and Inperspective Records alongside some of my favourite syncopated type beats. Next Breakbeat Tapestries release will be out mid-late August titled 'Snares N' Roses' on a limited edition laser etched transparent red cassette. Follow Breakbeat Tapestries bandcamp for that drop.

Slang Mix July 2022

Soundcloud / Mixcloud

00:00 XIDID - 3rd Pill (brainjazz niceness)
02:24 Knxwledge - Fanta (Anthology LP)
03:49 Knxwledge - Epitome[JostLike] (88bpm double time magic)
04:54 Mndsgn - Hydration Station (Snaxx LP)
06:06 Profane - New Dayz (Snares N' Roses LP)
10:00 Daisuke Tanabe - Dried Donuts (Japan Junglism)
13:33 Booca - Fusion of My Confusion (Cabala EP)
16:16 Knxwledge - Inoticed (Anthology LP)
18:00 Black Milk - Perfected on Puritan Ave. (watch the change up)
20:40 Profane - Camo Controllers (forthcoming Inperspective LP)
25:25 Profane - Crazy Space Shit (Snares N' Roses LP)
29:29 Knxwledge - Takira (Anthology LP)

The Porkchop Tape

Words can't even explain the mixture of emotions I have presenting this beat tape. As excited and proud I am of it, it is still bittersweet. I was finalizing the last tune, 'Lazy High Saturday weLY prkchp', on that heartbreaking morning when Porkchop passed suddenly. I started that tune after his earlier health scare and decided to keep the temporary title for it. Inbetween waves, I was thinking about why tf the breakbeats and loops swing so late on this then-untitled tape, when I realized it was Porkchop! The rhythms are reminiscent of the nonchalant way he would always be sauntering behind me with his nails tapping and brushing across the hardwood floor, pausing, snorting, then continuing to amble to his next spot, subconsciously influencing the flow of the beats all day long, ha! His playful energy is all over the music. We miss you boy!

The Porkchop Tape out now on most streaming sites like Tidal, Spotify, Qobuz and Apple Music. Digital over on the Breakbeat Tapestries Bandcamp. And for those who collect limited edition cassettes, I've got a beautiful aqua blue one with reversible cover art and different artwork pad printed on each side ready to ship from there as well.
Hope y'all enjoy!

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