Releases from artist / Veröffentlichungen von : Ras G

ras_g, the prolific los angeles beat scene producer, had just turned in the newest edition of his “raw fruit” series before his untimely and tragic passing in 2019. this album is the finished product delivered in exactly the fashion ras intended its release.

ras_g with the 4th entry in his down 2 earth instrumental series.

ras g back at it with more boom bap instrumentals.

my kind of blues is a proper sound follow up to the baker’s dozen styled release, last year on fat beats records.

instrumental hip-hop / electronica album für fans von flying lotus und kode9 - sowie dem ein oder anderen burial release. pitchfork sagt: “…on a mission to gather up the best elements of a half-century of revolutionary black music and launch them into a utopian sci-fi alternate dimension of his own devising.”

ras g and moresounds explore the outer reaches of sound system culture for dub-stuy’s new collaborative series of eps. brooklyn-based label dub-stuy kicks off 2018 with the inaugural release of a new ep series dedicated to unearthing and celebrating the outer reaches of sound system culture. taking its cue from the classic dub releases where two producers would face off with their own versions, dub-stuy’s meets series brings together artists who have a clear dub influence but do not operate solely within the sphere of the dub and reggae world. the first such meeting is between los angeles beat supremo ras g (brainfeeder, stones throw) and paris junglistic dub scientist moresounds (cosmic bridge, astrophonica).

from ras_g: “the god spell beat tape just happened. i always make quick freestyle beats at work. i work at a “wrekastow” so i m always surrounded and listening to random records and after my bluntch breaks. i would come in make a few quick joints on my spaceprogram 303 and i just ran thru the gospel section that round and in 2 weeks i had. the gospel of the godspell.”

fat beats records is proud to present the fourth installment of bakers dozen, an exclusive vinyl series that shines a light on the best minds of instrumental hip-hop, ambient, and electronic music. each installment gives one artist carte blanche to capture their signature sound. this edition features los angeles based producer ras g. every volume features one artist and twelve tracks, and comes equipped with a 5x7inch postcard insert that features a photo of the artists workspace along with the equipment used in their musicmaking process as well as a personal narrative of how they got into beat making in the first place. visually cohesive and packaged with the utmost attention to detail, bakers dozen is a series that speaks up for artists whose craft renders voices superfluous, whose instrumentals alone suffice to make a statement.

ras g is one of the definitive producers of the los angeles beat scene, a co-founder of the poo-bah label, and hip-hop beat-maker who digs probably deeper than any into the worlds of free jazz, jazz fusion and afrofuturism. the prolific producer currently has two albums on brainfeeder, two released by poo-bah, and several on leaving records, including the beat tape series raw fruit. focused and expansive, el-aylien is a cosmic exhibit in ras g’s sonic explorations of collage and rhythm.
the vinyl release includes a download code.

the prolific producer currently has two albums on brainfeeder, two released by poo-bah, and several on leaving records, including the beat tape series raw fruit. as with volumes 1&2 in april of last year, volumes 3&4 have been combined into a double lp for release this november. the double vinyl includes a download code.

ras g has been a fixture in the scene of forward thinking hip hop and experimental electronic music producers out of los angeles. ras is a modern-day sun ra, whose output has been staggering to say the least, with over 10 lps in the last couple of years, his creativity knows no bounds.

still residing on planet earth, ras g continues his heralded legacy as an international influence in global beat-making and underground hip hop. down to earth vol. 2 is g at his most mellow, undoubtedly crafting his smoothest work to date. the body of work presented is not only his most accessible, but an essential trip towards the origins of ras g’s upbringing. when entering space base, visualize golden era hip hop polo jackets & dashiki shirts. restrict your culinary diet to home-cooked vegetarian ethiopian cuisine. celebrate listening to pioneers pete rock, diamond d, madlib, and j dilla. study the tools of the trade devoutly, not forcefully. allow the mpc200xl, sp-404, and technics 1200s to become humble extensions of the human form. the vinyl lp includes a download code.

if you are going to put out a remix ep you might as well go for it...and he has! excellent stuff!

dusty, ethereal and bugged out, the crate creators beats bring the past to the future. back on the planet, gs latest brainfeeder release, finds the blunted master of the beat guiding his afrikan space program further out than ever. download code for the whole album is included!

gregory shorter jr. alias ras g sorgte bereits ende der nullerjahre mit seinem debuetalbum brotha from another planet nicht nur in seiner heimat kalifornien für mächtig furore. seine fusion aus vertrackt elektrifizierenden hip hop-instrumentals und electronica begeisterte flying lotus und sein brainfeeder kollektiv dermaßen, dass sein neues album back on the planet auf dem angesagten label aus los angeles erscheint. ras g wurde durch den klassischen hip hop der golden era, von san-ra, lee scratch perry und den psychedelischen soul von sly & the family stone beeinflusst, angefangen hat er als dj im project blowed-umfeld seiner heimatstadt los angeles. bewaffnet mit seiner mpc und sp-303 liefert uns ras g ein starkes album ab, welches fans von the gaslamp killer bis zu flying lotus gleichermaßen gefallen wird.

la based ras g drops this double 12 inch album for ramp recordings. comes with full album on cd.

dont let the title fool you—ras g isnt any closer to our terrestrial realm than hes ever been. down 2 earth is the spaced-out la hip-hop producers most fractured, in-pieces record yet. while im the first to criticize producers who bang out incomplete sketches indiscriminately, this sort of scattershot working method seems to emphasize ras strengths. down 2 earths haphazard structuring puts the onus on concentrated morsels of fractured rhythm and blues. finding a suitable home on londons ramp recordings, down 2 earth is spread over a whopping twenty-one tracks ranging from thirty seconds to two minutes in length. with titles like -(((shrooms)))- (a tabla-heavy spazz-out) and -i love the 90s hiphop- (trumpets and airhorns!), you can guess the dominant mood here, but over the course of its many tracks the album dips from paranoid to joyous to exploratory and back to the earthy soil again, avoiding whiplash in favour of something that almost feels fluid. (theres no easy way to get from the grounded percussive virtuosity of -diiirrrrttty- to the syrup-jammed soul of -black dusty radio- to the strangled filter-funk of -fatcat.-) previous albums like ghetto sci-fi and brotha from anotha planet were scrubby, sun ra-indebted slices of deconstructed hip-hop and jazz, and the astral allegiances carry over here. the result is a record that revels in its own refusal to settle down and invites you to do just the same. (as long as you can handle the increased number of -oh! ras!- audio stamps on so many of these tracks, that is.) sure, its still quite messy, but in separating the vast array of influences and ideas present in ras gs deceptively complex music, earth lays it all out in a much more digestible manner.

southern california meets saturn in the first of a small series of sun ra interpretations. straight out of poobah records in pasadena, ras_g sets the bar high for this with a breathtaking version of the 1971 track >nidhamu< over a year in the making and his longest work to date its suitably fitting counter to sun ras futuristic synth revelations. bespoke cover art for each record of the series comes from stephen serrato.

third episode in the all city los angeles series featuring the talents of ras g & the afrikan space program and the one and only samiyam.
3rd 10 of the series comes from ras_g (poobah/brainfeeder) and samiyam (poobah/hyperdub) who give us 3 tracks each. b+ comes correct on the sleeveart once again. ras needs no introduction - a fixture on the underground hiphop scene in la since the early 90s and a proud south central la resident. one of the founders of the poo-bah label he comes with three bass heavy speaker smashers! on the other side we get three tracks from samiyam with his signature synth sound, melancholy melodies and off-centre post-dilla funk.

ras g returns to ramp after last years extrasolar remix of clouds timekeeper, and recent output on bff flying lotus digital only brainfeeder label with a fresh ep of speaker popping rasta flecked hip hop sickness. residing in the left coast, ras has been godfather to the new post dilla instrumental hip hop movement, releasing various vinyl releases on his own poobah label as far back at 2005. being one of the most innovative and crazy characters in the scene, ras dusty bass humps are still bringing the realness in a massively stagnant field.

amazing filter funk madness…mixes by robbie rivera & benny benassi

it has been a while since we put out the first record on our * van doumen* sublabel. but the time has come to do it once again. it features surprisingly well-known artists for doumen standards, such as nyc prodigy photay, psychedelic la beatmaker ras g, studio barnhuis darling kornél kovács and leipzig legend leibniz. all are remixing original doumen releases. so i guess your are old enough to decide for yourself if you find that interesting.

build an arks favorite producers have reworked the album dawn which resulted in this crazy 12inch. remixes by daedelus, the long lost, carlos nino, ras g and gb. from dancefloor material to ambient sounds and live recordings, everything is included in this remix package.