@Hawdwerk & @JansportJ make some of the livest, most thoughtful music out here, therefore, even though I missed this email because I had finals 2 weeks ago, I'm still posting it because its probably going to be one of the dopest and most genuine videos from anyone without a 5 figure budget. Enjoy!
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May 25, 2010
April 28, 2010
Jansport J: Cultural Vibe Radio Show Interview
Via JansportJ
Here's an interview I did with Michigan State Radio Show Cultural Vibe a few weeks back. In the interview, I discuss the album "MoveMeants", the Hawdwerk & Jansport J duo, LA Scene, EP with Lansing, Michigan-based rapper P.H.I.L.T.H.Y and more.
April 9, 2010
Hawdwerk & JansportJ: Freestyling after Cali-Famous Tour Show in San Diego
@richforareason's got me speechless..
April 7, 2010
JansportJ - MoveMeants
MoveMeants is available for FREE DOWNLOAD at the aforementioned sites. However, if you'd like to make a financial donation (yes please!), you can download the album for whatever price you desire on my bandcamp:DOWNLOAD: MEDIAFIRE
http://jansportj.bandcamp.com/album/movemeants
Huge thank you to every site/fan/friend supporting the project, posting the videos, and all of that nonsense. I appreciate ALL of you. And now I'm gonna leave your inboxes alone for a little bit.
BUY: BANDCAMP
April 3, 2010
JansportJ: Two Days Until MoveMeants (Instrumental LP) Release!
Via @JansportJ
Waddup!
We're almost there. 2 Days away. In this video, I compare MoveMeants to my past discography, including my previous instrumental album The 2 AM Tape, which is available at JansportJ.bandcamp.com.
JansportJ: Three Days Until MoveMeants (Instrumental Album) Release!
@JansportJ nears the release of his next instrumental project, the last before Movements being the 3am Tape if I'm not mistaken coming over 1 year ago. I missed this the other day after going to see Wale at the House Of Blues but I'm sure you guys can get caught up fairly quickly. A word from Jansport below
3 days away from the release of my instrumental album MoveMeants. In this video, I discuss the inspiration and thought process behind the somewhat random artwork for the album. MoveMeants will be presented by Acrylick & LrgrThnLfe, available for Free Download on April 5, 2010.
JansportJ: Four Days Until MoveMeants (Instrumental Album) Release!
Won't waste too much time today. 4 days away from the release! Here's the 2nd video with me describing the instrumentation and sampling methods behind the instrumental album.
MoveMeants will be available for FREE DOWNLOAD on April 5th via Acrylick.net & LrgrThnLfe.com
March 31, 2010
JansportJ: Five Days Until MoveMeants (Instrumental Album) Release!
Via JansportJ
Waddup World
The time is near for me to release my first solo project since 2009's American Gospel Jay-Z remix album. You guys have showed me tremendous support, and I truly appreciate it. Just wanted to warn you guys that I'll be sending out material once a day until the release date of April 5th, so PLEASE bare with me, and I promise to leave you alone for most of 2010!
This project is entitled MoveMeants and is an instrumental album that I've been working on for the past couple of months with Acrylick and LrgrThnLfe. With people asking here and there about the direction of the album, I decided to give insight to the album and the creation process via youtube. I'll be releasing a video a day until April 5th.
February 14, 2010
Lauren Santiago - Hear It From You [Jansport J Remix]
New valentines day heat via Jansport J. May I introduce you to the definition of hotfiyah... no Dylan tho.
February 11, 2010
Eazee Street Presents: Hawdwerk & Jansport J's Best of 2009
Via Eazee Street:
To kick off an original Eazee Street series I present to you Hawdwerk and Jansport J. You should know them as the duo who brought you High Power Moves (a good download) and you should know Jansport J as he has produced many a track that you've been able to access here. In this original series some good people from the L.A. hip hop scene will run off their "Best of 2009". The "Best" is their personal favorite projects that we saw drop in 2009...major label releases, free album downloads and/or mixtapes. As more clips begin dropping it will all make sense later...
February 3, 2010
Hawdwerk & Jansport J: CaliFamous Tour
February 2, 2010
Hawdwerk & Jansport J - High Power Moves: The Samples
Hawdwerk and Jansport J bringing you the samples that made them famous with High Power Moves: The Samples. Jansport J's MoveMeants will be dropping soon as well so make sure you keep homie on the radar. As far as this project goes, Jansport has a word on it.
Waddup!
So I just wanna thank everybody once again on behalf of Hawdwerk and myself for all of the love that we've received with our High Power Moves LP. The support has been tremendous, and the campaign isn't over yet. But I'll get to that a little later.
Ever since we dropped the project, I've had alot of producers and album-credit nerds (which I am myself) asking about the samples for certain songs. To knock it all out at once, I figured we should throw you guys all the samples in one download. So here you go:
DOWNLOAD: MEDIAFIRE
December 12, 2009
Hawdwerk & Jansport J: The Common Ground
Hawdwerk, Jansport J, Poetik Force, El Prez & DNEZ all it tear up on stage at The Common Ground. The whole set is live. The performance for WOW was just... the epitome of the word live. Hawdwerk & Jansport continue to kill the west coast. If you have downloaded High Power Moves or bought a physical copy (for only 11$) then please, do yourself a favor and familiarize yourself with HPM.
December 10, 2009
Poetik Force - Keep Runnin (Feat. Sean Wyze & Blakface) (Prod. by Jansport J)
Poetik Force is currently crafting a brand new free album that will be presented by us here at sound society. Poetik Force's Album MaryJane will be released early 2010, but not release date is set as of yet. Jansport J, gives us some additional details below.
Jansport J:
New music for ya. Fresh off his guest verse on HPM's "That Spliff", the homie Poetik Force is releasing his first single from his upcoming album "The Mary Jane LP" which will be dropping first quarter 2010. This track features Blakface and Sean Wyze, and is produced by yours truly. All based out of West Covina, CA. Pow!
December 5, 2009
High Power Moves Hard Copies Are Now Available!
We've pretty much wrapped up the High Power Moves experience (well on the East coast, the West coast will probably see a few more shows and performances from Hawdwerk & Jansport J). But before we close this chapter in the High Power Moves saga we'd like to bring you the opportunity to buy a physical copy of High Power Moves. You can still download it for free, but for 11$, you can get a physical copy of one of the best albums of 2009.
High Power Moves:
Download || Order via Bandcamp || Order via HiTekFx
Download || Order via Bandcamp || Order via HiTekFx
November 23, 2009
Hawdwerk & Jansport J - High Power Moves EPK
Hawdwerk & Jansport J are back to give you the rundown on the making of High Power Moves, a few aspirations of theirs, their collaborations on the album, as well as their work with Dae One. If you aren't hip to the HPM movement, get familiar, its deinftely something hip-hop can be proud of.
We're back. But this time, we bring you our Electronic Press Kit that comes courtesy of DRG Films! In the EPK, we discuss at length the goals and thought-process behind creating our duo and the album "High Power Moves".
November 16, 2009
Hawdwerk & Jansport J - High Power Moves [Album Review]
Its been a good week since HPM has dropped and I think that the album calls for a review. Usually we would review projects with a few days but I really decided to take the extra time to let the project sink in as a whole. But anyways, for those who are unfamiliar with Hawdwerk & Jansport J, they're just 2 regular guys from West Covina, California. Jansport J is a mastermind of production and Hawdwerk is a lyrical machine. Together they've constructed a major Album in High Power Moves which was released last Tuesday, Nov. 10th. So lets get things started:
Originality: 9.0/10
High Power Moves, unlike most pieces of work don’t fit a particular mold. Neither do we find that when we look into the context of the songs individually. An average artist might feel like a complete project would consist of your basic formula hype song, party single, conscious track reminiscent flashback and repeat. Hawdwerk and Jansport J come out of left field with tracks like She Smiles that sing tales of an era that was probably before your time. The ability of create projects that eclipse just one time period and region gets HPM a 9 for originality.
Many times when we talk about delivery, we talk about the ability of the rapper. However in this case, its actually Jansport J who delivers. The soul of these beats gives the album a sound beyond just hip-hop. Samples prove as the power player here as the crate digging of Jansport seems to add a symphonic sound to the whole album, every sample works well with Hawdwerk’s delivery and rhyme style. Hawdwerk’s bars are definitely what brings the Album together with some vivid storylines and some insane verses that will make you stop the music and make you rewind it until you can put it onto you facebook profile as one of your favorite quotes.
Conceptually this album is exactly what you wouldn’t expect from a FREE album. It explores the deeper and more realistic thoughts of the common person, without hitting any cliché’s or stereotypes. The ability to be sympathetic without becoming an absolute martyr or getting cocky/confident without falling into the “swag” movement is important. This along with an almost random order of tracks for this album allows topics to change at anytime. Life is, as the album is, unexpected, unrelenting and most people in their right mind will enjoy it.
OVERALL: 9.3/10
You can probably get by now that this album is crazy. You can tell exactly why the album took so long to make while listening to it. So many things seem as if they were carefully thought out and planned for their audience to enjoy, which is exactly how hip hop was meant to be. HPM draws a definitive line in the sand as to what an album is suppose to song like, so all you artist who are working on your free debut album, try to stack up. A job well done by Hawdwerk & Jansport J.
November 6, 2009
Hawdwerk & Jansport J - High Power Moves Interview w/ The Word
As the HPM movement continues, Jansport J and Hawdwerk call into "The Word" radio show and spread some knowledge about themselves, HPM and some of their future aspirations. Marion Write, who has worked with Jansport J in the past and was also present at the show, has the info:
"Flo Deep Music Group presents "The Word" radio show hosted by Radio Ramone on www.lvrocks.com. Radio Ramone interviews the West Covina duo Hawdwerk & Jansport J on their musical influences, Los Angeles hip hop, and their debut album High Power Moves which is presented by 2dopeboyz and Kevin Nottingham."
Be sure to check out the mixtape art with the front cover at the top of the post and Back cover/tracklist below.
October 22, 2009
Hawdwerk & Jansport J Interview w/ Mercury's Epic Adventures
More High Power Moves material coming through. Hawdwerk and Jansport took some time out of their day to talk to Mercury in The Purple Lounge at The Standard in Downtown LA last month. Mercury just upped the interview to youtube so we have both parts 1 and 2 for all who are interested in learning some more about the men behind HPM.
October 19, 2009
Hawdwerk & Jansport J - She Smiles (Feat. J7)
I didn't see this new joint coming at all but I'm more than happy to give some info on this new HPM leak.
"Due to a demand via twitter for new music on Music Monday, we dropped this joint off the album for the ladies called "She Smiles" feat. J7."
So there you have it guys, you can actually push for more music from your favorite upcoming artist via twitter. So don't shy away from hitting up Hawdwerk & Jansport J to share your thoughts and support, you might get something. HPM is coming November 10th!
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