Lazerbeak
Super Producer
Lazerbeak is a thug. Do not be deceived by the nice-guy introductions backstage. Beak is responsible for some of the hardest lavabangers in hip hop, period. Catchy, rib-crushing, filthy.
In his basement workshop, Beak works mostly with a MPC2000XL. He layers propulsive, hard-hitting drums with driving guitar and keyboard melodies. He paces after the addition of each element, ducking to avoid the overhead pipes, playing air drums, and calculating his next layer.
Beak’s sequencing is a large part of his sound. “After you’ve got the main structure, to make it a real song, you have to take it all part again. It’s like a battle with the beat, every time.” And Beak always wins. When it’s over, the effect is some helicopter-at-the-omnitheater shit. He’ll take a beat down to its most essential elements before letting it off the leash to explode into anthemic proportions.
Lazerbeak got involved with the Doomtree crew through his high school friendship with Stef (P.O.S). But by then he’d already been playing music for years. Since 8th grade he played with The Plastic Constellations, the indie rock group that would go on to tour the country, signed to French Kiss Records. Stef, having heard Lazerbeak’s music with TPC, encouraged him to start making beats. Beak got a loan from his folks to buy his first MPC from Guitar Center. Stef came over in the afternoon to show him the ropes. No looking back.
To date, Lazerbeak has produced over 400 beats. His production appears on almost every Doomtree release, including all three of P.O.S’ solo albums. He's now completing the production for the upcoming Sims solo release and working on a solo endeavor of his own.
Most recently, Doomtree released Lazerbeak’s collaboration with Mike Mictlan. The two schemed for years to write and record the disc. For much of that time Mike was living in L.A. Lazerbeak sent Mike beat CDs in the mail. Mike rapped his verses to Lazerbeak over the phone. Big dreams, big phone bills. Now the fruit of their labor is available in all its glory as Hand Over Fist. Legend Recognize Legend.
Solo Projects
Hand Over Fist (with Mike Mictlan)
Lazerbeak “Legend Recognize Legend” Album Promo from Doomtree Records on Vimeo.
Blamo! It brings me great joy to post the above album promo video, created by none other than our intern extraordinaire Ander Other. I picked up the official Legend Recognize Legend CD/DVDs yesterday from Copycats, and I almost cried a little bit (in a super manly way) when I saw …
Welcome back to the 2nd ever Wednesdays With Lazerbeak. I just got back into town last night, hence the day late post. So excited about this album release party we have set up for Legend Recognize Legend!!! As you can see above, we are doing it real real big for this one….
I want to start off by thanking everyone who pre-ordered Legend Recognize Legend last week. We’re off to a great start, and I really do appreciate all of the wonderful support. As Dessa has mentioned in previous posts, the pre-order option is what allows a little label like Doomtree to compete a bit with the bigger dogs out there, and it also is where album sale dollars have the biggest impact. So thank you as always for riding for us. …
Bam! Here we go: it’s finally time to announce the details of my first ever solo album, Legend Recognize Legend, and I don’t remember the last time in my long legged life that I was this excited. That’s the album cover image above. We’re putting it out on September 28th, but you can pre-order the album HERE right now and get a ton of crazy free stuff in return. I’m …
Man last week was pretty jam packed with awesomeness. Paper’s album came out last Tuesday and I want to thank everyone so much for supporting the record. Response has been great so far and it’s sweet to see so many people amped up about instrumental music. I have to agree that it does truly slay. In addition to the new release, last week was also Paper’s final week in Minneapolis for awhile.
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Hello and welcome to a very special first ever edition of Wednesdays With Lazerbeak. I ended up going camping the last couple of days which pushed this week’s post back a little. Wanted to start off by offering an enormous congratulations to the big homie Paper Tiger for releasing his first full length album Made Like Us out into the world yesterday. It’s an incredible record and I’m so glad everyone else gets to hear it now. If you haven’t …
As Dessa mentioned in the previous post, today is the last day to pre-order your copy of Made Like Us and receive the awesome bonus Paper Tiger sunglasses. Having had the chance to see these songs transform over the last year from tiny demo sketches to full blown compositions, I have to say that you most definitely need this album in your life. Paper really knocked it out of the park with this one. Pick it up HERE. As always, we can’t thank you enough for the support. End of plug…
Hey everybody, I’m in the middle of changing cable/internet providers and am currently without the internetz for the next few days. TWL will be back up and running next Tuesday though I can assure you. If you’re close to the Twin Cities make sure you come down tonight (Tuesday) to the Paper Tiger album listening party at Honey (205 E. Hennepin Ave). We’ll be hanging out all night, and they are gonna play Made Like Us front to back in it’s entirety at around 10:30. Should be quite glorious. OK, have a great week and I’ll see you next Tuesday for real.
– Beak
We got a bunch of new stuff available at the webstore! Koozies and skateboards for summer, an awesome new limited Doomtree mixtape called Standards that Paper Tiger put together for the art opening last week, and something called the DoomCube. Burlesque created it solely for the art gallery opening and it is pretty crazy. Comes in a screen-printed cardboard box and includes the Standards mixtape, the exclusive art show t-shirt in your size, stickers, a 15 picture photo pack, and a medical vile containing a bird feather and shark tooth (get it?). Extremely limited, only about 50 made total. More info at the webstore. Make sure to grab your pre-order of Made Like Us as well in order to get a pair of those stylish shades.
The rest of this post will be dedicated to four totally separate but equally awesome things that happened to me in the last week. Here we go….
So the art show opening on Saturday ended up being a complete and total success. We worked like crazy down til the very last minute, but when it was all said and done I have to say that we pulled it off like true art show champs. Cross another one off the list. Can’t begin to thank Paper and MK enough for the beyond ridiculous amount of man hours they put into this thing. Below is a sort of before …
Visit the Prizefight Website and watch the music video set to new remixes by Paper Tiger, Digitata, Medium Zach + Mux Mool and Julian Fairbanks. Switch seamlessly between each version of the song and share the video with the friend.
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