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Moments In Song No. 021 - Tromac Pineapple

“Moments In Song” asks people one simple question, “What are you listening to?” For every installment we ask someone to make a playlist of 10 songs they’re listening to, whether it be something new they stumbled upon, or a song they’ve always loved, and explain the story behind their choices. We aim to show that no matter where we come from, what we do, or what we look like, music has the ability to bring us together.

DMV producer/rapper/DJ Tromac Pineapple reaches every corner of Hip-Hop and brings it together in his playlist. We talk to him about digging through Bandcamp for music, what makes a good DJ, and his new project the Velour Vandal EP.

Listen to Tromac’s playlist on Apple Music and Spotify. 

Words and photos by Julian.

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Julian: First thing I wanted to ask you is what the thought process was behind making your playlist? People always say it’s hard picking 10 songs to squeeze into it. 

Tromac: Well I wanted to spread across my taste as wide as possible. I actually had a hard time once I got to like 7 songs because I was like, “Damn, I can only put in three more of those joints, but I know 5 that I could pick.” I pretty much just wanted to touch on the different types of music I like. I still didn’t even get across all of it.

I noticed that a majority of the playlist was Hip-Hop, but different types of Hip-Hop. You have some boom bap stuff with “Free (Type Shit),” Dilla, and Anderson. Then you have more turn up stuff like WiFIGawd and Ghostie. That Ghostie song caught me off guard. It has a little house feel to it that I wasn’t expecting.

Yeah see I had to add that, because Ghostie is one of the most versatile artists I know. As versatile as this playlist is, he’s six times as versatile as that. As a fellow producer in this area, I have a whole lot of respect for him. And that’s my mans, so I’ll be listening to it anyway. Shit be cranking, no matter what genre he tackles. And then I also have the “Free (Type Shit)” joint because it’s just so smooth and it hits. The beats, the boom bap. That’s one of my favorite things in Hip-Hop. It’s just so powerful. That’s also why I got the J Dilla joint on there. That’s like my favorite Dilla beat of all time. Straight slap, the drums, the snares. The whole thing. It's just hard. Classic. Undeniable.

When did you first really start listening to music and developing your own taste, instead of just listening to what was on the radio?

Pretty much when I was in 9th or 10th grade. Back then my main taste was just mixtapes and shit. The first favorite rapper I ever had was Lil Wayne, and he’s still like top 5 to me to this day. I would just listen to endless mixtapes, because before I graduated High School I just loved to listen to underground shit. I literally didn’t listen to albums and would only listen to mixtapes. I would listen to the first three Droughts, Sorry 4 the Wait. That was my favorite mixtape of all times for like 18 years (laughs).

Were you on DatPiff and all those sites?

Oh bruh, I had a DatPiff account, LiveMixtapes, Sprinrilla, all of that. 

So how did listening to mostly mixtapes branch off into listening to other types of artists and other types of music?

Well basically every now and then I would look into what was new that week…

Still on the mixtape websites, or is this on something else?

Yeah still the mixtape sites but at this point I also got into Bandcamp, and that was some real underground type shit. When I got into Bandcamp I was also making my own music at this point and was posting it on there. I would hashtag that shit and then click on them to see who else was posting music from Laurel, MD, or PG County, or just Maryland in general. That’s how I found a bunch of other local artists, like my homies Fonlon and Kente from NASA8, Tek.Lun and other guys. They had the same hashtags because we were all from Laurel. And then from there I would look at other hashtags like #HipHopBeats, and I would discover artists like Madbliss. Searching through hashtags led to me finding a bunch of random bands on Bandcamp, and I feel like that really opened the door for me to be on the lookout for other genres of music.

You said earlier this is when you started making music?

Yeah I started making music in 10th grade. 

So is that writing rhymes? Making beats? Both?

Making beats. I mean I was freestyling with my friends all the time, and writing rhymes down in my notebook, but I wasn’t rapping on beats until 11th grade, which was around 2013. I didn’t rap on my own beats until 2014 because I knew my shit wasn’t good (laughs). But it eventually got to a point where I could hit my own stuff instead of YouTube “type beats.” I knew early on “type beats” wasn’t the wave. It is the wave for some people, but it wasn’t the wave for me. And I knew that early on because you can’t really build a solid body of work just taking random beats. Even if you get a bunch of random beats from different producers, it’s more that needs to go into a project than that.

When you first started making music, who were some of your influences when it came to producing? I would assume Dilla is one, or did that not come until later?

I knew about J Dilla because I would hear my parents listen to Erykah Badu and Common, so when my Dad found out that I was making beats he would be like, “Oh so you wanna be like Dougie Fresh and J Dilla?” and I was like, “Who the hell are these people?” All I knew was like Mike WiLL Made-It because that was what I was hearing. I wasn’t too keen on producers at that level. The producers I did know were like Flying Lotus, Tek.Lun, Kaytranada, Sam Gellaitry and that was all through Soundcloud. Some of my favorite producers would be the ones I randomly found on Soundcloud.

Can you talk more about how discovering these local artists’ music on the internet led to you linking up with them, and not just working with them but them becoming your homies.

Literally just through showing love and support through the music. I started coming out here to Baltimore for events and chilling with the homies as a way to immerse myself in the scene. Of course, you met people, you tell people you do music, and eventually the link forms itself. And if you’re good the link grows with a lot of people. When you’re genuine, genuine things happen for you. I’ve never been a “clout chaser” or anything like that. It’s always been, “This dude is really dope. He’s the homie of my homie.” 

I agree with that 100%. I feel like every connection or relationship I’ve made with someone in the arts scene has been on some person to person type stuff. Not even like artist to artist, or creative to creative type stuff, but just like as a person. And I feel like you were saying it just grows from there. 

Definitely. People who are just creative in general. Photographers, painters, dancers, even like fucking bartenders. Athletes, anyone who’s mind moves faster than the normal individual. I remember when I was learning how to drive my driving instructor told me that people who are athletes and artists tend to get adapted to driving easier, because their brains work more than the average individual because they have a craft they need to constantly focus on. Whatever activity you’re involved in, your brain works harder to adapt to that.

So beats came first, and then the raps. Where does the DJing come into that?

So the DJing came in because I had probably performed 3 or 4 times rapping, but then I was really confident in my beats and I wanted to start performing my beats. By this time, 2015/2016, I would be seeing videos of dudes like eu-IV, j.robb, other producers I looked up to, random Boiler Room videos, and was thinking, “Why can’t I perform my shit?” So I started creating mixes in FL Studio, and learned to DJ through that. It was tedious as fuck, but I had time because I was kid and didn’t have shit to do (laughs). 

I feel like that shows in your sets now. The last one I saw from you, you had a transition from some house song to a Gucci Mane song that was crazy. Never would I have thought to put those two tracks together.

Literally when I DJ, I just play the music that I like. That Gucci Mane song just came back into my rotation like a week ago and I was just like, “Damn I don’t remember this shit being so hard. I gotta play this at a show!” A lot of it is on the fly. I don’t really plan too much outside of downloading the music. I always go off of the crowd and how I feel. Sometimes I’ll download 30 songs for a set and only end up playing like 13, and the rest of the set would’ve been made up of songs I’ve played at other shows.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a show, and have been practicing the week before, and had a playlist ready, and you go in and the crowd is totally different, the energy changes, so you have to play off the cuff. I feel like as much emphasis you put on practicing and preparing, you also need to have the skill of being able to be on your toes and change on the drop of a dime.

I feel like if you’re a good DJ, that should already be a thing. You should know. You pick up on things like that automatically. The shows are practice. You’re not gonna get the same experience at a show, practicing at home. That’s why I feel like if you’re just starting out you should take as many opportunities as you can, and get a feel of what your lane is. I used to take any show I could. I would DJ baby showers, college pools parties, everything. You gotta find your lane, figure out what type of crowds your best in, and switch it up every now and then.

What can you tell me about the new project you got coming up? What kind of sound and themes can people expect from it? 

So the new project is called the Velour Vandal EP, and it’s basically establishing myself as a rapper in the game. I’ve had rap projects before, I’ve had beat tapes, but this is my first official EP. I want people to hear this and think, “Ok, Tromac is actually trying to make it type shit.” It’s really just a lot of crank on this joint, but it’s not like I was in this joint like, “Fuck your bitch…”

You put some thought into it.

Yeah! There’s some lyrics that you gotta ask about. I’m trying to make something that’ll hit, stick, and has good content. All the people I’m working with on it are people I know care and are passionate about music. The intro is produced by me and Koleco, I’m recording all of the songs with Martin J. Ballou, I got Vlad on a song, I got Ghostie. Pretty much have all people I know are serious about music. I want this project to be something. 

Yeah it’s like your introduction as a whole artist.

Yeah. And the whole thing behind the title is for like the last year or so, I’ve become really fond of velvet and have been buying a lot of it. People would always tell me I’m a bear, because I’m big and shit, soft and cuddly, just a cozy ass nigga. I have a thing where I give myself a bunch of alisas, and Velour Vandal just happen to be one of them, and I was like, “Hmm. I can do something with that.”

Any last words about your playlist and what you want the people to get from it?

I want people to go into it with a blank slate. Almost pretend like you’ve never heard music before, be reintroduced to all the different genres and aspects of these songs, and cultivate a new taste from that. 

Connect with Tromac Pineapple:

https://twitter.com/TromacPineapple

https://www.instagram.com/tromacpineapple/

https://soundcloud.com/tromac

Connect with Moments In Song:

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https://twitter.com/moments_in_song

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VOL. 106: EMPTY CLIPS AND BABY PICTURES

1. LVL UP “Orchard” 2. Ovlov “Grab It from the Garden” 3. The Black Tambourines “Cat Days” 4. The White Octave “Call the Kiss” 5. Amesoeurs “Ruines Humaines” 6. Uniform “Alone in the Dark” 7. GØGGS “Funeral Relief” 8. Danny Brown “30″ 9. Busdriver feat. Dntel & Lorde Fredd33 “The Year I Became a Mutherfuckin’ G” 10. Spiritualized “Here It Comes (The Road) Let’s Go” 11. The Love Language “Castle in the Sky”

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Local Coverage challenges and unites Milwaukee musicians

Local Coverage challenges and unites Milwaukee musicians

A few years back Milwaukee’s arts and culture scene lost an important voice with the demise of the local branch of The Onion A.V. Club. Thankfully, city editor Matt Wild went on to team up with freelance writer Tyler Maas and launched the website Milwaukee Record in April 2014, offering a unique brand of “music, culture, and gentle sarcasm.” Since its inception, Milwaukee Record has produced a…

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upcoming hip hop releases that i’m anticpating w/ release dates: SHIRT - Pure Beauty (2/9) Factor Chandelier - Wisdom Teeth (2/9) MIKE  -  Resistance Man (2/15) Cities Aviv -  Raised for a Better View" (2/16) Beans - Nights Without Smiles (2/16) Jerry Quickley - (American) FOOL (2/16) Ozay Moore - In The Wake Of O (2/16) Onra - Nobody Has To Know (2/16) Erick the Architect - Arcstrumentals, Vol. 2 (2/16) Exile - Baker's Dozen: Exile (2/16) Onyx - Black Rock (2/16) O.C. - A New Dawn: 2nd Phase (2/16) Arsonists - Lost In The Fire (2/16) Serengeti & Tone Tank - Serengeti + Tone Tank (2/20) Wally Clark - Fighting Words (2/20) Lord Lu C N & Denzel Curry -  The U Album (2/22) Calvin Valentine - Plush Seats (2/23) Dabrye - Three/Three (2/23) Black Milk - Fever (2/23) Elzhi & Khrysis  - Jericho Jackson (2/23) Dessa - Chime (2/23) Chuuwee & Khalisol - PassOver (2/23) Paranom & Codenine - MILLION DOLLAR MINK (feb or early march) Roc Marciano - Rosebudd's Revenge 2 (Feb or early march) Cut Chemist - Die Cut (3/2) Kristoff Krane - Kairos: Part Two (3/2) Elaquent - Celebrate Life! (3/2) Apathy - The Widow’s Son (3/2) Marcus D - Retro'd 2 (3/6) Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar (3/9) Murs - A Strange Journey Into the Unimaginable (3/16) lojii - Lofeye (3/16) PRhyme - PRhyme 2 (3/16) Brock Berrigan - The Narrows (3/20) Cavalier - Private Stock (3/30) Quelle Chris & Jean Grae - Everything's Fine (3/30) Czarface and MF Doom - Czarface Meets Metal Face (3/30) Kooley High -  Never Come Down (3/30) Lorde Fredd33 - NORF: The Legend of Hotboy Ronald (4/3) Flatbush Zombies - Vacation In Hell (4/6) Dr. Octagon -  Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation (4/6) Moodie Black - Lucas Acid (4/6) Henry Canyons - Cool Side of the Pillow (4/13) Dillon & Batsauce - On Their Way (4/13) Denmark Vessey - Sun Go Nova (4/20) Substantial - The Garden (4/27) Paul White - Rejuvenate (4/28) Black Moth Super Rainbow - Panic Blooms (5/4) Chris Orrick (fka Red Pill - Portraits (5/4) MC Paul Barman - (​(​(​echo chamber​)​)​) (5/18) The Doppelgangaz -  AAAAGGGHH (no date)

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milo | yet another

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BUSDRIVER - the year I became a mutherfuckin’ G (feat. Dntel and Lorde Fredd33)

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03/01/17 PLAYLIST

Here's the playlist for this week's edition of Mondo Radio, which you can download or stream here. This episode: "Cooler near the Lake", featuring recent Milwaukee music and more. If you dig it, be sure to also follow the show on Facebook and Twitter!

Artist - Song - Album

Juiceboxxx - Walking In Milwaukee - Heartland 99

Juiceboxxx - The Ragers - Heartland 99

Dogs In Ecstasy - You've Got To Get It While You Can - Welcome 2 Hell

Dogs In Ecstasy - I'm A Man - Welcome 2 Hell

Athletic Supply - Life In Public - Life In Public (Single)

Athletic Supply - Arabesque - Life In Public (Single)

Altruist - Quicksand - Quicksand EP

Altruist - Low Stop - Quicksand EP

WebsterX & Q The Sun - Everything - KidX

WebsterX & Q The Sun - KidX - KidX

Pleasure Thief - Black Rainbow - Black Rainbow (Single)

Pleasure Thief - Integrity Of Love & Solitude - Integrity Of Love & Solitude (Single)

Derrick With The Shakes - Cooler Near The Lake - Cooler Near The Lake (Single)

Lex Allen And Q The Sun Feat. Lorde Fredd33 - This Is Our Year - This Is Our Year (Single)

Lex Allen Feat. WebsterX - Cream And Sugar - Cream And Sugar (Single)

Rio Turbo - 20/20 (DASHCAM Remix) - Party Boy Blvd.

NO/NO - Television (DASHCAM Remix) - Television (Single)

Rio Turbo - Don't Ever Die - Party Boy Blvd.

Iron Pizza - The End - Iron Pizza/Soup Moat

Iron Pizza - Coffee - Iron Pizza/Soup Moat

(ORB) - How Did I Get Here? (The Way) - The Voodoo Inspector Session

(ORB) - Whole Wide World - The Voodoo Inspector Session

The Rashita Joneses - See Three - Bang Bang! Lasagna

Filter Free Rodeo - Little Lord - Little Lord (Single)

The Rashita Joneses - Days Be Commin' - Bang Bang! Lasagna

The Pukes - Murder - The Revenge Of The Pukes

The Pukes - What Should I Do? - The Revenge Of The Pukes

Indonesian Junk - Turn To Stone - Free Sampler

Indonesian Junk - Crimes (Radio Edit) - Free Sampler

Platinum Boys - Speed Teeth - Lights Out (Single)

Platinum Boys - Already Gone - Lights Out (Single)

Haunter - Stay Close - Worm

Haunter - Meadow Eyed - Worm

The Fatty Acids - Strangers - Strangers (Single)

The Fatty Acids - In Your House - Strangers (Single)

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New Music Monday (SoundCloud) 3-30-2020 feat. Collie Buddz w/ Dread Mar I, KBong, J Balvin, and More

It’ s March 30, 2020, and we are here for the latest episode of New Music Monday. We will be presenting new music from established and rising artists. These tracks will be showcased through Spotify. Featured artists are Collie Buddz featuring Dread Mar I, KBong, J Balvin, Dylan Owen featuring Abhi the No-mad, Lorde Fredd33, Wes Chiller, Marisol La brava & A Flor De Pier featuring Quinto Imperio,…

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Busdriver | Electricity is on our Side | Album Thoughts

If you've followed the independent hip-hop scene over the last 10-20 years at all, then chances are you've heard the Los Angeles Project Blowed legend Busdriver style his ass off on his own albums or as a guest on other influential and standout artists albums. His illustrious career has delivered some of the most genre shattering albums you've heard from anyone out there doing it, and his latest and 10th album, Electricity is on our Side takes the blueprint Driver has built and turns the jazz and harmonies up to mind bending & beautiful levels.

Opening the album with the title track "electricity is on our side" we see Driver riffing with an elder jazz player that he met while out on a tour who had been harassed by some trash ass human, and who Driver ended up seeing an artistic commonality with and joined at the players request in some free style blending. This sets the tone perfectly as Driver takes us on a magical journey through his incredibly lush layered harmonies that highlight his skill as a jazz vocalist who knows his way around a melody, and who knows when and how to get quiet to pull you in closer. Immediately I'm taken to aspects of Gil Scott, or The Last Poets, but I'm also reminded of the stories of how Myka 9 developed his style by trying to mimic the cadence and patterns of a trumpet player. Busdriver is not only a vocalist here or an expert MC, but he's an integral part of his own jazz band. Give a listen to his Denmark Vessey assisted "grape drank", or the gorgeous "kiss around the notes" and you'll hear exactly what I'm talking about. "the saboteurs mirror" is also not only an outstanding track but one so steeped in the experimentation of free jazz that it requires you to close your eyes and imagine Driver standing in front of a band joined by Ornette Coleman, Coltrane, Ramsey, and others who helped transport me into other world areas.

While Driver has quite possibly delivered his best and most gorgeous sounding album here, we should not forget that the man is also an indelible MC who can flex his lyrical dexterity on the Lorde Fredd33 assisted "the year I became a motherfucking G", or Hemlock Ernst tag teamed "tiny infinities". Driver has reached not his peak at all, but what feels like his 'ah ha' moment across this album, and obviously this is only my opinion but it feels as if he's found the beautiful sweet spot where he can stretch himself vocally a la Beaus&Eros, but still spit rapid fire musings over lush glitched out production a la Perfect Hair/Thumbs. You need to sit with this, absorb the dynamics, put yourself in the world he’s painting, and remember that Electricity is on our Side. Salute to a true Griot! 

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2017/09/09

Tracklist:

01. Kate Boy - Northern Lights (3:35) 02. Jessie Ware - Selfish Love (3:55) 03. マクロスMACROSS 82-99 - ダンス ! (2:06) 04. 소녀시대 [Girls' Generation] - Visual Dreams (Intel Collaboration Song) (5:14) 05. Lindstrøm and Christabelle - Baby Can't Stop (Radio Edit) (3:56) 06. Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire (4:53) 07. Blue Hawaii - Versus Game (3:38) 08. Munk - Violent Love (3:26) 09. Muna - Crying On The Bathroom Floor (4:16) 10. Deqn Sue - Glass (4:39) 11. Justice - Randy (6:38) 12. The Blow - The Woman You Want Her To Be (5:17) 13. FKA twigs - Papi Pacify (4:54) 14. Danny L Harle - Broken Flowers (3:23) 15. Metronomy - Reservoir (3:15) 16. Rhye - The Fall (3:45) 17. Christine and the Queens - Christine (3:55) 18. INDIIA feat. Whitney Phillips - Out of Love (3:27) 19. Chromeo - Lost On The Way Home (Featuring Solange) (5:25) 20. Dragonette - Right Woman (4:00) 21. Panama - Lift Us up (With Your Love) (Tuff City Kids Remix) (6:43) 22. LCD Soundsystem - II. Shame On You (6:31) 23. Mndsgn - Ya Own Way (4:43) 24. Qbala - Music Language (4:06) 25. Milo - Yet Another (feat. Lorde Fredd33, YCP Beno & Signor Benedick the Moor) (3:57) 26. Cex - Get In Yr Squads (2:51) 27. Open Mike Eagle & Paul White - Smiling (Quirky Race Doc) (3:42) 28. Flamingosis - I don't really care (3:11) 29. mt. marcy - cuddles (1:06)

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Not only is foreign Goods about to play jazz in the park tonight at 7:40 but we get to have our first show with our new MC Lorde Fredd33!!!