Showcase SHOWCASE: August 3-10, 2025

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Post your beats!

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For those that don't know, here's how to post your beats: https://www.illmuzik.com/threads/how-to-post-your-beats-in-the-showcase.44687/

 

[DJ Excellence]

Chung 'Cigar Smoke Interlude' (DJ Excellence remix)

 

[Opium Dave]

 

[BiggChev]

@DJ Excellence

Another dope remix. Love the horns on this! I like the. Right and positive vibe this has.

@Opium Dave
This probably my fav of your more recent work! Really diving into that “ethereal hop” lol. The movement and cadence you develop with the low strings is really dope. It sounds like”simple” but that shows how cleverly it’s done. Sound selection is great, I love orchestral style beats. There are smart little octave jumps and counter Melodies. The vocals fit nicely and that synth line is really dope.

 

[attila]

@DJ Excellence
It's not one of your works that I like the most, but it doesn't depend on you, it's just that the kind of samples you released is a bit easy jazz, I don't know how to explain it, they've never driven me crazy. It's an excellent job in its genre, with the usual golden age atmosphere that I appreciate so much in your works, as usual, where I find no flaws. The way it ends, it just seems a bit like you didn't feel like going on, but that's okay.

@Opium Dave
The very fact of having invented a genre is a career award. There's an open hi-hat all the way to the left that I really like. The composition, as usual, is an intertwining of melodies and harmonies that is impeccable, with so many instruments (but the song flows relaxed and never overloaded) and a lot of details and nuances. Moreover, the development is always lengthy, you're not the type to resolve everything with a loop over one measure. Here, however, the standout is the vocals. It's a great track in terms of creativity and technically flawless.

 

[Kane the MOD]

@DJ Excellence
You nailed it with this one. Drums, Sample and Vocals just sound so damn good.

@Opium Dave
This is a masterpiece. I'm speachless.

 

[P.A.T.]

P.A.T. - "Hold the Air"

 

[attila]

P.A.T. - "Hold the Air"

Is it your daughter who says P.A.T Productions? Nice vibe, it has something vaguely and deliciously retro, like a love song in a love movie! I can see the images of their first meeting: him awkward when she smiles at him, they watch the sunset from a hill, they laugh, they hug, then they argue. She catches him with another (or vice versa, a bolder version), shouting, crying, he drinks and becomes aggressive until she leaves. He returns to the same hill alone to watch the sunset and a photograph of her, then turns around with his hands in his pockets and walks away, but first makes a face of a man who, even though he has made mistakes and ruined things, has found peace. Because this is life. The frame widens, a sense of solitude (but not bitter), credits roll. Beautiful beat.

 

[P.A.T.]

Is it your daughter who says P.A.T Productions? Nice vibe, it has something vaguely and deliciously retro, like a love song in a love movie! I can see the images of their first meeting: him awkward when she smiles at him, they watch the sunset from a hill, they laugh, they hug, then they argue. She catches him with another (or vice versa, a bolder version), shouting, crying, he drinks and becomes aggressive until she leaves. He returns to the same hill alone to watch the sunset and a photograph of her, then turns around with his hands in his pockets and walks away, but first makes a face of a man who, even though he has made mistakes and ruined things, has found peace. Because this is life. The frame widens, a sense of solitude (but not bitter), credits roll. Beautiful beat.

It is my daughter saying it. Good call! I like the story you see when you hear the music! Beautiful! Thank you as always for listening and giving your thoughts! I appreciate you!

 

[Opium Dave]

@DJ Excellence

Another dope remix. Love the horns on this! I like the. Right and positive vibe this has.

@Opium Dave
This probably my fav of your more recent work! Really diving into that “ethereal hop” lol. The movement and cadence you develop with the low strings is really dope. It sounds like”simple” but that shows how cleverly it’s done. Sound selection is great, I love orchestral style beats. There are smart little octave jumps and counter Melodies. The vocals fit nicely and that synth line is really dope.

I think you were right about the snares on the tracks on the last showcase, on reflection they are starting to annoy me, going to fix them up a bit.

 

[BiggChev]

@Opium Dave

If there was a hip-hop equivalent of a “standard” it’s that ghost/stutter snare. Nothing wrong with it, but on the majority of the tracks on an album it can become too much. But yeah, this track and the Shaking Cages track are really fucking good!

 

[DJ Excellence]

Dope punchy drums and great use of vocal sample.

 

[DJ Excellence]

P.A.T. - "Hold the Air"

Nice chill, melancholic, quasi-Lofi vibe.

 

[Kane the MOD]

P.A.T. - "Hold the Air"

Very nice track. I love guitar chord chances and the outro. Also, good combination with the choir sample. The scratch of the guitar gets a bit much over time imo.