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Glen Coates

sleepinggimp

About Me

Glen is a Sydney-based producer, sax and keys player who enjoys the dirt-cheap things in life. He has records out on Guesthouse Music, River City Music Japan, Greenhouse Recordings, and Herbal Essence. See the blog posts for details and links on the records themselves.

All of my mixtapes are permanently hosted here , and you can check my blog for announcements of new records and mixtapes.If you would like to be notified when I put something out, just send an email to [email protected] and you'll be subscribed to my mailing list .Enjoy the tunes and thanks for the support.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/14/2006
Band Website: glen.coates.googlepages.com
Influences: ATCQ, De La, Miss Badu, Jilli Scott, Pete Rock, Dilla, Pepe Bradock, Jason Hodges, Natty Riddim, Beatminerz, D'Angelo, Mark Farina (Mushroom Jazz for life baby!), DJ Spinna, Coltrane, Miles, Bird, Herbie Hancock.
Sounds Like: uh oh spaghettio
Record Label: Guesthouse, Greenhouse, River City Japan
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New downtempo mixtape

A SQUILLION DOLLARSFeeling blue? Quest for world domination not going as well as you'd hoped? Extorting world leaders is a lot like making sweet sweet love; the more money involved, the better! This a...
Posted by Glen Coates on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:05:00 PST

New remixes

Just posted samples from a couple new remixes I've finished up recently.  Original vox come from Mobb Deep and from Street Smartz.  On more of a gangsta tip than the stuff I had up here befo...
Posted by Glen Coates on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:43:00 PST

Mixtape archive online

I've posted a complete archive of my downtempo mixtapes here: http://glen.coates.googlepages.com/mixtapearchiveAnyone who missed out the first time, get on the good foot!   ...
Posted by Glen Coates on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:12:00 PST

River City record

The River City release is now available at http://www.juno.co.uk/products/266052-01.htm ... currently sitting at 13th on this week's hip-hop chart, woot!...
Posted by Glen Coates on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:00:00 PST

Record releases

For anyone who actually reads this bollocks that I post, I've got two records on the shelves at the moment.First up is the Guesthouse record (check it here).  It's got my rework of Herbie Hancock...
Posted by Glen Coates on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:32:00 PST

Part three of downtempo mix series online

Just wrapped up the third mix in my series of downtempo joints.  It's wall to wall classic hip-hop, neo soul, raw funk and mushroom jizz.Split MP4 tracks: http://www.sleepinggimp.com/mixes/squid_...
Posted by Glen Coates on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:42:00 PST

Fresh stuff online

Just uploaded 2 minute samples from two tracks I did recently.  One is a jazzed out hip-hop instrumental (Wishful Thinking), and the other is (another) hip-hop remix of an Erykah Badu track - Lov...
Posted by Glen Coates on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:54:00 PST

New badu remixes

I've just uploaded some samples from a couple of Erykah Badu remixes I've just done.  Enjoy :)
Posted by Glen Coates on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:57:00 PST