El Keter Makes Beats (Sometimes)

About Me

Hi, I'm El Keter.

I'm an old-jack. I have gray hair. I have a beard. I have a bad back. I make beats.

I'm a backpacker. I know more about hip-hop than you or most people you know. I probably rhyme better than you and all your young-buck friends do too. Not that I actually do much rhyming any more.

I love music. I review music for a living. I probably don't like the music you like (not to mention the music you make) though.

You can often find me writing about music, movies, television, books, technology, news, current events, and just about everything else at Imageyenation , the group blog I run dedicated to underground, urban and alternative culture. The site features a lot of in-depth music reviews, audio and video links, exclusive MP3 downloads, and a bunch of other boss stuff, including our bi-weekly Undertones podcast series.

When I'm not doing any of that I'm almost always spinning records for people.

More often than not I can be heard on the public airwaves giving an unsuspecting listening audience a dose of Dusty Grooves and Urban Alternatives, every Monday and Wednesday respectively, late night, 12 midnight to 3 AM eastern time on 90.7 FM WTCC, and on the world wide web via Real Audio , Windows Media and Shoutcast/MP3 streams.
So please feel free to listen in.

And if you want to send me records, for airplay, review, or any other purpose, just drop me a note for my mailing address.

So umm, yeah... nod your head to this.

Also, I recently produced 12 of the 16 tracks on award-winning Fort Wayne, Indiana-based emcee Sankofa 's new album 'The Tortoise Hustle.' You can cop it from him, in a special, limited-edition (only 250 were made) hand-stamped tin case. Or, you can cop it from me, for the reasonable sum of $14.00 USD (shipping included) in an even more special, even more limited-edition (only 50 were made) hand-silk-screened digipak! I suggest you cop it from me by clicking the button a couple inches down on this page.

Words by Sankofa, with special guests JON?DOE, AthenA, Ryan Officer, iCON the Mic King, Nick Sweepah, ADRU THE MISPHIT, and RhymeWise37.

Beats by El Keter, Fangface, Ognihs, Sankofa, and Dagger.

$14.00 USD (Shipping Included)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/31/2004
Band Website: imageyenation.com
Influences: Bruce Haack, George Martin (The Beatles, etc), Phil Spector, Burt Bacharach, Brian Wilson, Willie Mitchell, Isaac Hayes, David Porter, Al Bell, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Gershon Kingsley, David Axelrod, Rudy Van Gelder, Creed Taylor, Bob James, The Mizell Brothers, Arif Mardin, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Galt MacDermot, James Brown, Sly Stone (Sly and The Family Stone, etc), George Clinton (Parliament, Funkadelic, etc), Alan Toussaint (Lee Dorsey, The Meters, Labelle, etc), Eugene McDaniels, Roy Ayers, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Prince Rogers Nelson, Kool Herc, David Mancuso, Afrika Bambaataa, Larry Levan, Grandmaster Flash, Danny Krivit, Francois Kevorkian, Jam Master Jay, The Bomb Squad, Marley Marl, Rick Rubin, Howie Tee, Eric Sermon and Parrish Smith (EPMD, Hit Squad, Def Squad, etc), Paul C, Sam Sever, Kid Capri, Large Professor, DJ Premier, Prince Paul, Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest (The Ummah), Dres and Mister Lawnge of Black Sheep, Pete Rock, DJ Muggs, Sir Jinx, The Boogiemen (DJ Pooh, Bobcat and Rashaad), The Dust Brothers, The Beastie Boys and Mario C, Diamond D, Showbiz, Lord Finesse, Buckwild, RZA, Da Beatminerz, SD50's, The Beatnuts, M.F. Doom, El-P, Blockhead, DJ Shadow, Peanut Butter Wolf, Dan "The Automator" Nakamura, Kenny Dope and Louie Vega (Masters At Work), Jay Dee (J. Dilla, rest in peace), Madlib, RJD2, Scott Herren (a.k.a. Prefuse 73 a.k.a. Savath & Savalas a.k.a. Delorosa & Asora), Osunlade, Timbaland, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of The Neptunes, Basement Jaxx, Daft Punk, Bugz In The Attic, Kanye West, Just Blaze, James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy of The DFA, Danger Mouse, 9th Wonder, Ant, Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Squarepusher, MSTRKRFT, Hot Chip (Joe Goddard, Alexis Taylor, Al Doyal, Felix Martin and Owen Clarke), Of Montreal (Kevin Barnes), Diplo, Justice, Simian Mobile Disco, Joe Beats
Sounds Like: Drums, bass, dirty samples taken from vinyl records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

El Keter vs. Kanye West!!!

In a fight to the death!And the hand of Leslie Feist hangs in the balance!Oh also, Madlib recently sampled the same shit I sampled on "Flowby" for one of the joints on Percee P's new album....
Posted by El Keter Makes Beats (Sometimes) on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:04:00 PST

The Tortoise Hustle Continues!

Taken from http://www.imageyenation.com/?itemid=2986 You may be aware that sometimes Imageyenation movie review guy, erstwhile television show host, shoe buyer, school teacher, Fort Wayne resident, a...
Posted by El Keter Makes Beats (Sometimes) on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:32:00 PST

The story on "June July and August"

Yes, I actually uploaded a new track. And it's not just a track, it's an actuall song. Or at least an unfinished demo of an actual song. It's a silly ode to Summertime featuring voca...
Posted by El Keter Makes Beats (Sometimes) on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:06:00 PST

Beck vs. Common

It's not quite a remix, but there's gonna be some "Earthquake Weather" down on "The Corner." http://www.imageyenation.com/main/index.php?itemid=1258 It's a mash up, in case you couldn't figure it o...
Posted by El Keter Makes Beats (Sometimes) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

More new goodness...

You might notice a new beat in the player. It's called "Another Late Night." I actually wanted to call it "In The Rain ( Another Late Night )" but MySpace won't let a song title be that long, ...
Posted by El Keter Makes Beats (Sometimes) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Yaaaaayyyyyy!!!

MySpace finally allowed me to upload something new to this freakin' page!
Posted by El Keter Makes Beats (Sometimes) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

C'mon MySpace...

For whatever reason MySpace ain't letting me upload any more beats right now. I keep getting some crazy "file error" every time I upload something. I'm getting a headache.
Posted by El Keter Makes Beats (Sometimes) on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST