Armed with little more than his father’s extensive record collection of jazz, soul, psychedelic rock, folk, comedy and a Kurzweil 2000 keyboard - Black Spade’s music is a melting pot of sounds hailing from St. Louis by way of New York, Detroit, LA, and everywhere that hip-hop has carved a distinctive and influential sound for itself.
Writing and producing all his music along with MC’ng, Spade’s one man team approach is full of burbling synths, and off-kilter drums while his voice slides smoothly over choruses coated in multi-tracked vocals and skipping roughshod drums. Attributing his distinctive sound to his home of St. Louis, Black Spade explains “We get a piece of everything by being in the middle.” However, he feels no harmonious connection to where St. Louis pop acts like Nelly, Chingy, etc. have taken hip-hop lately. Spade’s style is not like the norm. This undercurrent shows through all his music and can be heard in songs like “Evil Love,” where the keyboard hits less than a second after you expect it to. It’s subtle, but these little things are what make Black Spade’s music so compelling.
Despite his strong ties to hip-hop, Spade’s taste in music walks across genres. He listens to Prince and Dilla, alongside Bloc Party and Radiohead while using all these sounds as a blueprint for his future, one that sits under the guiding light of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew era electronic sax skronk. Then there’s his rapping - Spade’s cadence flutters up and down like Pharoahe Monch, but stays introspective like Common. Before you know it, he’ll switch to singing and suddenly his songs become less like hip hop experimentation and more like fully fleshed sketches.
In addition to music, Spade is a clothing designer who makes blazers from bits of bomber jackets and whatever odds and ends he finds while thrift store shopping. Creating clothing the same way he does music runs parallel to Spade’s sampling from his father’s record collection.
At his core, Black Spade is a producer who makes music because he loves to. His sounds are grounded in the past while still sounding futuristic, and most importantly come from the heart. Spade says, “To get my music out there to people… at the end of the day that’s what really counts.”
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Beneath The Surface is finally here. This is the very first official YNotMyDream.blogspot.com mixtape. So without more wait check out the tracklist below, be sure to download it, and spread the word, tell everyone you know.
Tracklist
1. Drekidd - Black Out (Prod. Johnny Cash) 2. BK Cyph - Drawin' The Line Freestyle 3. QuEST & Donny Goines - Let The Rain Fall (Remix) (Prod. Numonics) 4. PHZ-Sicks - Yerrdig! (Prod. Black Milk) 5. The Kid Daytona - Black Superhero (Prod. 6th Sense) 6. El Prez - Flo Jackson (Prod. Vision) 7. Thr33zy Mcfly - Gone In 60 Seconds 8. D.Julien - Ventilation (Prod. Buzz) 9. Mike Dreams Feat. Christina Fisher - We Going Worldwide 10. Volition - Check The Style (Prod. Thelonious) 11. K. Sparks Feat. The MAD Poet - Smooth Thoughts 12. Love Jones a.k.a. Mike Schpitz - Same Song (Prod. Lord Quest) 13. Brown Bag Allstars - Brooklyn Queens Expressway (Prod. Marink) 14. Cymarshall Law - Officer Ricky Freestyle 15. West Restless Feat. Skipp Whitman, & Lo Tec - The Race 16. Anton Genius - Not An Amateur 17. J. Lately Supposed To Be (Prod. Jansport J) 18. Add-2 Feat. Franco De Leon - How Can I 19. The ILLZ - Faded 20. XV - Written In The Stars (Prod. Charlie Hilton)
Monday November 23rd will be the release day for "Beneath The Surface". YNotMyDream.blogspot.com is bringing you a brand new mixtape with never before heard material. You will be getting music from all over the place. I have teamed up with several different artists such as Love Jones, Add-2, El Prez, The Kid Daytona, XV, K. Sparks & many more to put this tape together. Be sure to visit YNotMyDream.blogspot.com on Monday November 23rd for the complete mixtape download. Until then I will leave you with three songs from the project and a bonus track YNMD released last night. Just hit the links below for the downloads.
Waddup Black Spade, second mix in one week, this time for the incredible moovmnt crew. And check my La Mixette Mix for musique large if you don't have it. cheerio, Paul
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Here to invite you to listen to a new stuff called "The Monk's Vibes" which is a dreamy dub track. Hope it gonna take you high. Thank's for your listenin'
Hi ! Just here to inform (like so many) that a new track is on myspace called "Subtle Things". This is a nervous and mechanic drum'n'bass stuff ! Thank's for you're listenin'.
Yo Black Spadeasaurus. I just found out that we're related...and as a special family only present we've made a new song for you called "End of Days" (start doing backflips now). It's an epic instrumental opus to the moment when our ancient Dino relatives saw a large fiery object plummeting towards them. Please come to our page, give it a listen and let us know if it makes you feel like something catastrophic is gonna happen. If the song upsets you too much we will be holding several s support groups (read: comcerts) in the near future. Check our page for locations, dates and times.
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