These days it seems like everyone is releasing some sort of “mixtape.” Between Kanye and Lil Wayne to the fine gentlemen over at Buffet Libre and hell, even yours truly, all you really need is a few catchy tracks and you’re ready to go.

But when it comes to actually remixing and rearranging snippets and samples, that’s when it gets to be pretty impressive. Following in the footsteps of Girl Talk and Diplo, Belief is the latest musician to take this task to heart and come up with something pretty cool.

You’ve probably heard some of Belief’s work before. Talib Kweli, Murs, and Ghostface are just some of the names that have tapped him for production work. He even released an album of his own, Dedication, back in 2006. But Let It Breathe is the first time the hip-hopper/producer is going the route of one continuous collage of sounds, songs, snippets and tracks with no rules or restrictions, expect that it’s free.

After years of shopping beats and giving out beat CDs, the beat CD has taken on an art of its own. Girltalk’s Night Ripper was revolutionary in its blatant thievery. It is black market music, filled with unofficial remixing and borrowing bits and pieces of major songs. As an artist who had been limited by sample clearance issues, I needed to find an outlet for all this sampled music I’ve created that feels very meaningful but has been left to get dusty in my hard drive over the years due to not being able to find the right artist to write the right song, or labels not being willing to release sampled music. Adding newer, sample-free material to the mix only seemed to add relevance to the more raw production style I had when I started. The answer to me was to just put it all out, for free, all at once, in as creative of a way as possible.

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Let It Breathe

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