New DOS4GW album available FREE on bittorrent!

[Vindaloo]

Hey guys! I've just released my debut album as DOS4GW, called Fetching Shoulders. It's not really a for-cash release, so I've decided to put it up as a torrent, completely free. You can buy better versions or find out further info at the myspace page, http://www.myspace.com/dos4gwhiphop . The torrent is right here: http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/10...s_2007_MACE001 .

Here's some profile info! Seed me if you will, it's only 40 megs, and hey, free music!

"... "fetching shoulders" has surfaced as a mix of understated hiphop, warped funk and melodic rock, with generous contributions from musicians and friends from the local Perth scene ... "

"... the music that Jenkins creates retains the relaxed feel that remains absent in a lot of hiphop music ... "

drum media, 11th jan 07

DOS4GW (Hugo Jenkins) was born on the 9th of January 1984. He got his first drum kit when he was 4, and played music all through school, taking up the piano, trumpet, trombone, tuba, guitar, xylophone and wrench. There he met and joined the WAMI Award winning funk band Dyslexic Fish in 2000. They released their debut album in 2003 and the follow up is due out in 2007.
After an extensive heavy rock and grunge education, courtesy of his older brother, Hugo discovered hip hop as a teenager, hearing Cypress Hill's III – Temples of Boom in a youth centre in northern Sweden. He was hooked immediately. Ever since then, Hugo has been making beats, in between playing in a rock/funk band, collecting drum and bass records, and working in a variety of jobs that collectively dulled his creative output.

Since quitting his audio engineering job in October 2006, Hugo has been making beats full time, which he hoped to release as an album “sometime in 2007”. After a month, he was organising a launch gig, and fretting about the DJ picks for the night. The album was put together in his home studio, using primarily old Spinners and ELO records, live instrumentation, and his beloved collection of synthesizers.

Hugo took up the moniker 'DOS4GW', named for the old 32-bit DOS memory extender, used to run many classic PC games, like Doom and Command and Conquer. He is a major nerd. Amongst his influences from the hip hop edge are MF DOOM, Madlib, Braintax, Oh No, Lootpack, Karlito, Peanut Butter Wolf, Gravediggaz, Cypress Hill, Task Force, Jehst, Fonky Family, Big L, K-Lashnekov, and Grant Green. Other influences include Soundgarden, Weezer, Limewax, Beck, George Benson, Raiden, Pink Floyd, and REO Speedwagon.

The aim of his first release as DOS4GW is to promote awareness of his own beats, and to promote local vocalists and instrumentalists, who feature prominently on the album. Some of these talents include Glenn Sarangapany, James Trewenack, Michael Loss and James Sippe (all from Dyslexic Fish) , Clint Bracknell (Longbo Tom, Love in an Ambulance), MC Mathas (The Community, Math & Balance), MC Able (The Typhoons, Relentless Pursuit), Giles Lowe (Bat Country), Chaircat (SansSangria, CSP), and more.

The Fetching Shoulders album is available as a FREE 128kbps release. You can buy the high quality or CD versions directly from DOS4GW. Information on downloading the free version is forthcoming. For now, enjoy the beats in the player, read the media interviews, check out the regularly updated blog (sometimes 2 or 3 times daily), and leave DOS4GW a comment! He loves them.

Thanks guys

[dantheman65]

I was about to say I read the article in Drum/Xpress. I had no idea you were a member here.

I'll download the album tonight and have a listen (curse you dialup).

The article didn't mention much about the equipment you used, care to enlighten us?

[spootmonkey]

I'd love to hear it (digging the myspace tracks), but I need a seed first.

[Vindaloo]

You can download it directly now, here. Zip format, 40 meg or so.

Equipment? Well there was a lot of it! Some tracks are done entirely from samples off old records, sampled using a Stanton mixer and cheap Stanton turntables, and drum samples, cut together in Nuendo. Other tracks have live instrumentation, for example [i]Trash[i], which has live drums, bass and guitar. The synth work was mainly handled by hardware synths, split pretty evenly between my Virus desktop and my Roland System100 semi modular. I have the entire set of the System100, it sounds (and looks ) awesome.

Guitars were Les Pauls exclusively, a Junior and an '80 Custom, into a Mk3 Mesa Boogie 100W combo. Basses were pretty varied, I used a Yamaha fretless 4 string, a Gibson Les Paul 5 string, a Warmoth P-bass 4 string, and a Musicman 4 string, into either a GK or Mesa Boogie amp, into either Rockforce or Eden cabs, and sometimes DI'd with a Sansamp bass driver DI. Drums were recorded with Audex "D" series drum mics, and a Rode NT4 stereo overhead mic. For the vocals, I used a Rode K2, into a DBX 376 tube strip. Nothing exotic, but it worked quite well.

In terms of audio interfaces, monitoring and processing, I used two different setups. In our studio, we use 2x MOTU 896HDs, hooked into a Mackie BigKnob (which is useful as hell), with Mackie 824 monitors, into a dualcore 3ghz P4, WinXP, Nuendo 3. At my home studio I used my home PC, which is the same setup and software as the studio one, a dualcore 3ghz P4, but with a Creamware SCOPE DSP card, and Tapco S8 monitors. I also used a MOTU microlite 5x5 to handle the MIDI data.

*whew!*

[filthmunger]

get rid of your rap vocals and sell your beats to massive attack or something. thats not a baggin either.