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Armstead Brown

About Me

Armstead Brown Beatsmith.Producer.Musician. Hip-Hop.Soul.AlternativeFrom official club bangers to the dusty-dirty underground freshness Armstead is versatile like crazy. With just an MPC, Yamaha Motif, turntable and a stack of vinyl Armstead produces a catalog of tracks mandatory for your mixtape, EP, or full-length album. And he's humble as hell.


Check out the Pittsburgh City Paper album review of Fieldwork.


Fieldwork available at CDBaby.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 06/09/2005
Band Website: rhymecal.com
Band Members:
PEACE PIPE PRODUCTIONS:
Armstead Brown: founder, producer, keyboardist, saxophonist, deep thinker.

EVICTION NOTICE:
Armstead Brown, Gene Stovall, Daru Jones, DJ Huggy, Tim Clark, Ryin Gaines, DJ SMI.

HAMBONE JENKINS:
Armstead Brown, Lioness, Daru Jones, DJ Huggy.
Alternate Bassists: Tony DiPaolis, Ralph Crewe.

RHYME CALISTHENICS:
Armstead Brown, Thelonius Stretch, Shade Cobain, DJ Huggy.

PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Queen Godis - POWER U (2006)
"I Love You!, Queen Godis"
"Our Father"
"Said the Wild Kat to the Poodle"

Mercury - HIGHER LEARNING (2006)
"On the Move"

J-Nice - BEAT DOWN HUMAN TRAFFICKING (Summer 2008)
"Introduction"
"Definition" feat. Artstrong
"Human Trafficking" feat. Meryl
"Outro"

Influences: (See wallpaper) Also: Antibalas, The Budos Band, Cannonball Adderley, Eddie Harris, Eddie Palmieri, The Afro-Cuban All-Stars, Dapp Theory, Percee P, Madlib, GZA, Amy Winehouse, Procol Harum, Ray Charles, Jon Brion, George Martin (the 5th Beatle), Spike Lee & Tarrantino flicks/soundtracks, the Funk Brothers (original Motown studio band), Quincy Jones, Stylistics, Delfonics, Nina Simone, Lyn Collins, James Brown, Isley Brothers, Little Brother (with 9th Wonder), Star Wars, Sith legend, X-Men, The Matrix, V for Vendetta and other good dystopian flicks, Lord of the Rings, Bamboozled, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Annie Hall, Prometheus (thanks for the fire), eco-socialism, Buddhism, Richard Pryor, Jim Beam.
Sounds Like: PeacePipe Productions, DarkArt Entertainment, Eviction Notice, No Sleep Entertainment. . . . .in a word eargasm.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Hip-hop is not DEAD...Youre just listening to the wrong shit

I've fought and fought the temptation to enter the stupid and rather played out debate about the state of hip-hop.  I've finally given in and have decided to offer what I believe to be  well...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:29:00 GMT

Transcript of Obama’s "A More Perfect Union" Speech

For those who didn’t get a chance to view Barack Obama’s "A More Perfect Union" Speech on Race in America, I’ve posted the transcript below.  Whether you’re an Obama suppo...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:57:00 GMT

Doing your Taxes is whats cracking in the streets

As much as we musicians may be on the grind when it comes to rockin shows, getting in the studio, hustling CD's, throwing shows, promoting, advertising, graphic design, etc....there is one aspect of t...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:11:00 GMT

My Top Tens and the Top Ten Reasons Top Tens are Retarded

These are some top tens i came up with in a fit of extreme boredom.  Feel free to comment on them but dont get too wrapped up in them it was just how i was feeling at the moment. Top Ten MC's 1. ...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:51:00 GMT