LOUISDEN BEAT BATTLES

Behind Closed Doors Vol 1 back in stock!

2011-09-14T10:56:00.002+01:00

If you missed out on one of the 300 copies of Behind Closed Doors, well good news! myself and Andy have repressed the project so its now back in stock for anyone who wants to see where the whole BCD journey began.

The project features The Last Skeptik, S-TYPE, Darren Paul and Eyebs with Q&A's and beats from Budgie, Figaro, Jaisu, Kelakovski and Ed Strong; while its our first project (we started this back in 2008!) we're still very proud of it as it paved the way for the follow up and the third instalment which we're working our asses off to have finished soon!!

We've also decided to throw together a BCD double pack; theres no commemorative packaging (just yet heh!!) but you can pick up both volumes with a discount if you still need BCD1 and BCD2.

The repress of BCD1 does NOT come with a beat tape; instead you get a download code to get your hands on the compilation which features x2 beats from each producer in the project.

Purchase BCD1 (or both editions) here

Behind Closed Doors 3 Trailer

2011-07-06T12:18:00.002+01:00

Ok so me and Andy linked up last week and officially finished all filming for BCD3. To mark the occassion (and light a little fire underneath us to wrap everything up!) we've uploaded the trailer to the third instalment of the BCD series!

Behind Closed Doors Vol 3 Trailer

Here you can get a taste of the visuals we caught when we hit Berlin (in January), NYC/LA/NC (in February) and the last bits of footage from Birmingham and London.

BCD 3 will drop late summer 2011 and we both can't wait to put this out! full roll call will be announced officially with release date until then we're sure you can work out a few names!!

Stay tuned.

AB & Kos

Behind Closed Doors Vol 3 Mini Site
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Behind Closed Doors Vol 2 (still available!)
Behind Closed Doors Vol 1 (out of print!)

Behind Closed Doors Volume 3 news!

2011-04-15T18:18:00.013+01:00

We've been back from our travels to the US a good while now; but Andy and myself have decided to drop a little writeup blog to let you guys know what we were up to out there and how the project is coming along.

A couple sneaky pictures here and there too so peep game and enjoy!

AB0181
Organising a trip like this is definitely a day job in itself. What started out as a joke whilst filming BCD2 in 2009 turned into a "can we actually do this?" brainstorm and ended with an actual real, physical trip across the Atlantic, going "what the frig are we getting ourselves into??".

It wasn't until we touched back down in Heathrow after a week away that it started to sink in. I've never travelled so much in such a short space of time and I think we defined hitting the ground running!

It was pretty surreal to be welcomed by a lot of people I've looked up to, listened to and geeked out to over the years but was only natural to geek down and get on with the job at hand. (Did manage to get pissy pissy quite a few nights, highlights include - 10 cent chicken wing night, linking up with Jaisu and seeing fatlip from Pharcyde spin runnin'). Sleep became a bonus and working out what time it became confusing as body clocks were left in Heathrow.

Can't really speak about who we filmed because I wana leave that for the trailer... but I think we got some great footage and hopefully this is going to be another volume of inspirational producer food for all y'all out thurr.

To break it down with some stats (...as) it looks a little something like this.

13,211 miles
140gb's of footage
x45 10c chicken wings
27.5 hours flying
6 planes
4 trains
1 rental car

Footage is ingested, converted and waiting to be edited. Summer is coming and so is BCD3!

peace

ab.

Kos
Like Andy said the whole trip was surreal; After much procrastination and back and forth's about plane journeys; connecting flights and actually pulling this off everything seemed a bit more real once we "George Bushed" the button on purchasing our outward bound flights.

We kicked off proceedings with a Nando's (as always) once Andy touched down in Birmingham; after which everything was just a whirlwind of "what the hell are we doing", "is this gonna work" and more "what the hell are we doing". This was my first time in these cities and it was just as Kela had hinted saying it'd be like walking onto a movie set, big cars, big roads, big freeways, (big servings heh!) I was gassed just being there!

It was crazy to be in the studio's of some people whose music/beats I've been a massive fan of; just being able to chop it up with them and ask geeky questions (just like I would any of my Den fam) and have just as enthusastic responses was crazy humbling.

If you caught some of the tweets flying around then you may have a clue as to where and who we visited; but to keep things fresh me and Andy have a self imposed gagging order on some Kanye "Dont tell anyone anything about what you're doing" steez.

We put the distance in and travelled across three different states and 2 coasts; we also had to cop a rental car and travel a 160+ mile round trip to get to the other side of the city to see one producer (shook driving the other side of the road hahaha) came back needing 2 weeks worth of sleep recovery and a sour after taste from data roaming charges but it was all worth it.

We've got gold here...oh yeah if you guys liked the progression between BCD 1 and BCD 2 then BCD 3 is a just as big (if not a quantum leap) in terms of what you're gonna get; coupled with what we got in Berlin earlier on in the year and what the remaining UK based footage we've gotta get I reckon we've got about 75% of Volume 3 captured (and backed up, and backed up and backed up some more).

Sounds sooo cliche; but I now understand why certain artists come out with the trademark sentence "Cant wait to share this with you".

Shout Outs!
* Slop for holding us down executively producing the trip on some Suge Knight ish
* The homie greg for the hospitality in the West
* Homegirl Thea for the mini Brooklyn tour and Alphabet City; the amazing 10c wing spot
* What was possibly the wackest ever chinese take out we got in Jamaica Queens
* Fat lip for his DJ slot at the ill Dilla tribute we were at droppin runnin and spat his verse
* minus half a shout to lip for bumpin hi-tek's sungod in the same set #slippin heh!!
* A faded Killa priest at the same night who blessed the mic with random wu hooks
* Bumping into XXXXXXXXX out in the west coast after we had interviewed him in Brooklyn only a few days earlier

Great trip, even better footage captured...stay tuned!

Homework 64 - The Russ Freeman Joint

2010-06-22T18:59:00.003+01:00

Thanks to everyone who tuned into Wrastlin' week, was just myself and Kelz in the lab as everyone else had commitments but it was still jokes and the heads that did tune in got to hear some ill beats, session audio coming up soon.

Next homework we're returning to the ldbb roots of a straight sample flip but this one is a little themed as its related to the Behind closed Doors Vol 2 DVD that myself and Ab0181 dropped!

Behind Closed Doors Vol 2 Preview

Ok so one of the features of the DVD is a "Wrapped Up" (taken out of its usual christmas environment) Kelkovski and Shears exchange records to make an on the spot beat, If you've watched the DVD you'll know Shears digs a record (Russ Freeman's - Noctornal Playground) which has an IIIIIL sample he thought Kela would have flipped but when it came to it Kelz did a total u-turn and went for another track on the album.

Whilst Kelz final beat was dope (check the DVD to hear for yourself) it did leave that very nice sample all abandonned and unflipped...that'll be your job for this week in the.

Homework 64 - The Russ Freeman Joint

RULES
Your job this week is to craft a beat from the sample provided, adding synths and your own sounds is all cool just as long as you use the sample for the main portion of the beat (no micro stabs/chops please!! use the samp as the foundation!). This challenge is open to all beatmakers who wanna get down/build with us, just do the damn thing and turn in a banger!!

DEADLINE
Beats must be submitted for 18:00 27th June, submit the beats to homework@louisden.com as an attachment...dont sendspace/zshare links..its much easier this way.

LINKS
Bag the original sample here sendspace | youtube

Good luck and we'll look forward to playing them back live at http://tinyurl.com/ldbblive

KOS.

Pre Order Behind Closed Doors 2 NOW!

2010-03-16T04:33:00.004+00:00

Behind Closed Doors Volume 2 will be dropping next week!, however you can pre-order copies of the DVD and its limited edition box set "The BCD Box" NOW!, all you have to do is head over to - http://tinyurl.com/copbcd2 , dont miss out!! when the boxes are gone..THEY ARE GONE!.

LINKS

Pickup BCD2 NOW from the BCD2 Mini Site

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS VOL.2

2009-11-08T21:42:00.004+00:00

Behind Closed Doors Hip Hop Production DVD Magazine Vol.2 (to give it it's proper title) is almost here... and myself and Kosyne are maaad busy putting the final touches on it.
Filming for vol.2 started in July 2009 and concludes next week... after that we are ready to unleash the beast! So stay tuned for another teaser and a brand new BCD website. Enjoy the trailer peoples...1
Andy.

Behind Closed Doors 2 in Amsterdam!

2009-07-10T17:30:00.001+01:00

Doin the 'Dam thing..
What up people, been a minute since some blogging / homework action on the louisden front but dont get it twisted we've been very busy!...since we dropped Behind closed Doors Vol 1 myself and AB0181 have been carefully planning the next installment off the magazine and the weekend just past saw us visit to Amsterdam to officially start work on Volume 2. We dont want to give too much away on the planned features but with what we captured over the weekend I think we're well on to making more than a worthy sequel, we'll leave you with some teaser shots from SOME of the action!.

Oh and if you've no idea about the dope Behind Closed Doors project then scoot over to the mini site here (www.louisden.com/bcd) we're down to the last few copies so order NOW if you wanna own a peice of hiphop beatmaking cinema history lol....forreal tho if/when we do repress the project it wont be in the hand numbered DVD/Beat CD form it is now so once these are gone they are GONE!!.

The GET YOURS challenge!!

2009-03-31T14:31:00.003+01:00

Last week Prolifik aka AB0181 dropped this little promo for our Behind Closed Doors project..

GET YOURS?

and yesterday Polish beat head skeet007 dropped a response on youtube.

GOT MINE!

haha truly excellent!!, so with skeet007 leading, we encourage all other BCD heads to rep with their copy of Behind Closed Doors backed with one of their beats!! see how many responses we can get!!.

you can see who else has bagged a copy of the project by checking the BCD Tracking Google map...take a look!.

Behind Closed Doors Copy Tracking Google Map

Behind Closed Doors +Feedback!

2009-03-27T10:30:00.007+00:00

What up, its been a very hectic couple of weeks and I still havent written a little peice on the "Behind Closed Doors" project; I'll probably post a little bit on my myspace its just one thing after another at the moment tho!! as im on the beat cypher grizzle too!

But yeahhh! THANK YOU SO MUCH everyone who ordered a copy, we appreciate ANY sort of feedback so if you got a minute do join in on the Behind Closed Doors Vol 1 thread over at the louisden forum and let us know your thoughts, Myself and Pro already have ideas swirling in our heads re: Volume 2 but really we gotta push our product fall back and take all the feedback onboard before we get rolling with it!.

SO!! if you havent already ordered a copy I suggest you do!! head over to http://www.louisden.com/bcd and click BUY!.

Ok...back on it!!, BEAT CYPHER 04 blog coming...NEW HOMEWORK..MONDAY!.

.kos

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS - NOW AVAILABLE!

2009-03-23T12:36:00.004+00:00

Yes, we've told you a hundred times over the last little while, but it is now official. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IS AVAILABLE TO BUY!
good times! After a year of filming between Glasgow, Birmingham and London the final product is signed, sealed and can be delivered! Head over to http://www.louisden.com/bcd to get your copy now! Especially since we have only pressed up a limited first run of 300 (all hand-numbered).

So...Volume One is done and dusted (complete with exclusive beat CD) and we are already looking forward to Volume Two. Support the movement people, 2009 is shaping up to be a big year already! in the words of diddy LETS GO!!!!

A!.

"Behind Closed Doors" is so close you can smell it!

2009-01-22T10:31:00.003+00:00

This me and Andy's (Ab0181 aka Prolifik) pet project; a little over a year ago we decided we wanted to collab on some beat/film projects; ldbb was a few months in and he already expressed an interest in coming down to Brum from Edinburgh to film an ep but I thought nahhhh lets do somethin bigger!. The first project we did was 2007's "Wrapped up".

Many phone convos later we decided on a Beatmaking documentary magazine was the way to go and after various linkups and road trips we've got the cream of the footage almost edited down and ready to go....

A DVD is coming! and hopefully subsequent volumes..stay tuned!, I'll leave you with Andys words and a snippet of our "Diggin With Darren Paul" segment.

Behind Closed Doors is finally touching down! Well, in web promo format at the moment.

As from today, there will be weekly uploads of sections from myself and kosyne's first DVD project together: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. Documenting what makes the UK's leading underground beatmakers tick.

In this snippet, we follow Darren Paul on a mission as he gives some insight into what digging for records means to him, what he is looking for and how much to spend.

THIS IS A WEB PROMO (the quality is quite reduced) , SO IT ONLY CONTAINS PORTIONS OF THE FINAL PRODUCT WHICH WILL BE AVAILABLE TO BUY IN FULL QUALITY ON DVD.

More info on the dropping date will appear here very shortly. i might even make a video about it.

Support it when we drop it!, quantities may be limited!