tREBLEFREE

Chicago, IL by way of Detroit, MI

The Platinum Shit Sessions (Part 1)
- tREBLEFREE – Intro (from first reissue)
  
  2:43
- tREBLEFREE – Butter feat. LSD
  
  4:15
- tREBLEFREE – 32 Bar Decapitation
  
  1:28
- tREBLEFREE – Simplification feat. The Nomads
  
  4:39
- tREBLEFREE – Blows 2 Tha Mental feat. SouthPaw & Murray
  
  4:09
- tREBLEFREE – Mindbender Freestyle
  
  1:30
- tREBLEFREE – The Purchase (Original Version)
  
  2:51
- tREBLEFREE – Viciously!! (Freestyle Session)
  
  2:17
- tREBLEFREE – Organic Composition (Original Version)
  
  3:07
- tREBLEFREE – The Weight
  
  4:07
- tREBLEFREE – SouthPaw Freestyle
  
  2:28
- tREBLEFREE – Simplification Remix feat. The Nomads, Plee & Murray
  
  5:14
- tREBLEFREE – Back 2 Tha Real feat. Ego (Jerome) of The Nomads & B-Girl
  
  4:55
- tREBLEFREE – Hazardous feat. Black Rage & High Tolerance
  
  4:59
- tREBLEFREE – The Purchase (Part 2)
  
  3:40
- tREBLEFREE – CT-615 feat. AnTony
  
  5:50
- tREBLEFREE – Drugs For Yo Ear (Freestyle Session) feat. LSD
  
  1:39
- tREBLEFREE – The Platinum Shit All-Stars - The Last Bullshit
  
  10:28
- tREBLEFREE – gREG bASS Radio Show Opening (Winter 97) feat. DJ G-Swing
  
  2:48
- tREBLEFREE – gREG bASS Radio Show Theme performed by Incredible
  
  2:05
- tREBLEFREE – gREG bASS Radio Show Theme performed by SouthPaw
  
  0:59
- tREBLEFREE – gREG bASS Radio Show Theme performed by Mindbender aka Tangle aka Rod Wallace & Lowdown
  
  1:45
- tREBLEFREE – gREG bASS Radio Show Theme performed by Plee
  
  1:41
The fall of 1995 is what I would officially label as the beginning of my production career. Once I got sight of the school's student radio station, WQBR, I instantly started thinking of every musical idea I had in my first 20 years of life, and how exactly I could execute it.

My goal upon entering Eastern Michigan University was to get as much experience as I could recording, editing and mixing. Honestly enough, I put my goal of getting experience over graduating (LOL). These recordings show the beginnings of that experience. With the exception of "The Weight" and "The Purchase (Part 2)" (which were beats that I got from Sean Thomas), as well as "CT-615" (an original composition by an instrumentalist I met on campus) and "Butter", all of these songs were performed over loops of other rappers' beats. "Butter" was my first attempt at constructing my own beat. I had no idea how to really make beats at the time, and I didn't know how to program drums or anything like that. I played each track one at a time for 7 minutes, kick, snare, hats. "The Last Bullshit" qualifies as the only fully original idea I had at the time, and even then, that was based on me wanting to do my own version of a "posse cut", if you will (i.e.: "The Symphony").

From 9am to 5pm, the Quirk building of Eastern Michigan University was the student lab for editing, recording, production and radio broadcasting...from 7pm to 3, 4 or 5am sometimes, it was gREG bASS's House Of Hits. Thanks to Plee, word quickly spread that I had access to record people, and I had cats coming from all over campus saying they could rap and wanted me to record them. I never charged money because I was having too much fun to even think about money.

These recordings also show why I decided to focus on production and stop rapping. Yeah, I was proud of a couple of my attempts ("The Purchase" and the Winter 97 Radio Show Theme), but overall, I think I made the right decision. :-)

Also, these songs show the first drafts of ideas I would use for future recordings. I'll admit I was secretly scouting to find the best rappers to make music with that I would eventually attempt to sell.
The name "Platinum Shit" was Plee's idea. It was actually born out of the jokes that were cracked by him & Jerome (aka Ego) at end of "The Last Bullshit".

As far as this being Part 1? Well, all of these songs were originally recorded on a Tascam cassette 8-track, with the final mixes recorded to reel-to-reel tapes. One of these days, when I can get access to a reel-to-reel machine, I'll post up the rest.

The Platinum Shit All-Stars are (in order of performance): Mindbender aka Tangle aka Rod Wallace, dBAT, Kalif, Lowdown, Keito, Ego, Plee, Poppy Seed, Roots, Simon McMasters, B-Girl & SouthPaw.
From Parts Unknown (First Draft)
- tREBLEFREE – Preamble
  
  0:28
- tREBLEFREE – The Anthem (Original Version) (feat. Playa Ham, Kupid & DJ G-Swing)
  
  3:33
- tREBLEFREE – World Views (feat. Southpaw Jinx)
  
  3:04
- tREBLEFREE – Tainted Interlude
  
  2:09
- tREBLEFREE – The Dynasty (FPU) (feat. Southpaw Jinx, Fred, Opto, Playa Ham & Kupid)
  
  3:55
- tREBLEFREE – What's Your Point (feat. Opto)
  
  3:14
- tREBLEFREE – Thematic
  
  1:32
- tREBLEFREE – Ode To Tainted Love (feat. Kupid & Opto)
  
  5:11
- tREBLEFREE – What They Want (feat. Opto)
  
  0:39
10 years can go by fast...

Anyway, in 1998, as part of a duo, I completed what was to be my first professionally released work. Due to circumstances beyond our group's control, this work was never released.

This project was an EP that I produced as part of a group called Schematix.

When you're young, idealistic and hungry in this rap shit, one thing that's inevitable is change - change in your songs because you think you'll get sued for using samples, change to your group's name because somebody else already thought of it, you get the picture.

So yeah, this "First Draft" was what we originally were going to release. The only difference is that "Verbal Abuse" (which was indeed included on the EP that we got pressed up) is omitted because, well, you already heard that shit. :-)

The EP that we pressed up, consisted mostly of samples that were more rare, or chopped up. The scare of a sample lawsuit made us remove all of the obvious loops from the EP.

But now, you get to hear them.

Stream it over there:
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or download it from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?po25q82dn3y5jrz

Happy 10th Anniversary Schematix.

*throws confetti*
From Parts Unknown
- tREBLEFREE – The First Track
  
  2:23
- tREBLEFREE – Death Of Art
  
  4:04
- tREBLEFREE – Message To The Thugs
  
  2:02
- tREBLEFREE – Check The Data (feat. Rod Wallace)
  
  3:38
- tREBLEFREE – The Birth (feat. Vernon Hamilton)
  
  0:41
- tREBLEFREE – The Anthem (feat. Opto, Rod Wallace & Kupid)
  
  4:51
- tREBLEFREE – Sparkle In The Night (feat. Playa Ham & Fred)
  
  3:29
- tREBLEFREE – June 13th
  
  1:30
- tREBLEFREE – Verbal Abuse (feat. Kupid & G-Money)
  
  5:10
- tREBLEFREE – A Day In The Life
  
  3:54
- tREBLEFREE – When Swing Calls (feat. DJ G-Swing)
  
  1:09
- tREBLEFREE – The Purchase
  
  4:17
- tREBLEFREE – The Resurrection Of Art (feat. DJ G-Swing)
  
  1:41
- tREBLEFREE – Organic Composition
  
  3:11
Yes, this is the final version of the first professional project that I had a hand in completing.

It's available in Russia for $0.20 per song if you want to pay for it, or you can stream it over there
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for free, or download it from here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?m6v7k4ai168e8yi
Nigga I Know James!! (The EP)
- tREBLEFREE – The James Brown World
  
  1:28
- tREBLEFREE – Jewelz For Your Trunk
  
  3:20
- tREBLEFREE – Wait For It
  
  3:02
- tREBLEFREE – Nigga I Know James!!
  
  2:23
- tREBLEFREE – May 3rd
  
  0:52
- tREBLEFREE – Me And Jimmy Joe (aka Dust Y'all Bitches)
  
  2:09
- tREBLEFREE – Remainder
  
  3:19
In 2007, in an effort to professionally introduce both myself, as well as DVS Jackson, the two of us created this EP based on samples of James Brown's work.

The focus was to make something creative out of James' lesser known works or create something new and different out of James' works that have been heavily abused, while still making something that bangs.

If you want to download it, go here: http://www.mediafire.com/?46r7wx1jl1z3210
The Return Of The Dirty Cymbals
- tREBLEFREE – Prologue
  
  0:43
- tREBLEFREE – 313 To 310/510 (feat. Scorpeze)
  
  2:02
- tREBLEFREE – Tight Fit (feat. DVS & Malakh El)
  
  4:27
- tREBLEFREE – Innuendo (feat. Plee)
  
  4:05
- tREBLEFREE – I'm Writing (feat. Donwill of Tanya Morgan)
  
  4:06
- tREBLEFREE – Kenetic (feat. Natural Born)
  
  4:09
- tREBLEFREE – Limelight (feat. DVS)
  
  2:49
- tREBLEFREE – Pardon My Favor (feat. DJ Life)
  
  3:45
- tREBLEFREE – Morning Glory (feat. Mercury Waters)
  
  2:57
- tREBLEFREE – Constipated Mathematician (feat. DVS)
  
  3:56
- tREBLEFREE – Certified MC (Revised) (feat. Plee)
  
  3:29
- tREBLEFREE – I Still Don't Know The Words (feat. Mercury Waters)
  
  3:35
- tREBLEFREE – Change Gonna Come (feat. ILWIL)
  
  5:09
- tREBLEFREE – Irony (feat. Plee)
  
  4:20
- tREBLEFREE – Epilogue / Appendix A: Limelight (2nd Stage) / Appendix B: RODC Demo #526
  
  9:08
- tREBLEFREE – Solomon Syndrome (Chapter 3) (feat. Plee)
  
  3:16
The digital version of my debut solo album "The Return Of The Dirty Cymbals" is now free. You can either stream it here on this page, or download it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?m6v7k4ai168e8yi

The clean versions and instrumentals of the album are packaged together in one zip folder, and you can download that here: http://www.mediafire.com/?996wra9017imsu3

If you still want to support by buying a physical copy of the album, you can still do so online at CreateSpace (http://www.createspace.com/1722448) and Discology in Reno, Nevada (http://discology.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=4329533)
Assorted tREBLEfreshness
- tREBLEFREE – The JPJ Suite
  
  9:45
- tREBLEFREE – Silent Knight - This Is It (tREBLEFREE Remix)
  
  3:56
- tREBLEFREE – OKP Producers' Contest March 2002 - COMPLETE ENTRY
  
  4:40
- tREBLEFREE – PreciseHero - Circa Runner (tREBLEFREE Remix)
  
  4:18
- tREBLEFREE – Plee - Love's Mishaps (tREBLEFREE's Symphony)
  
  3:25
- tREBLEFREE – Mercury Waters - Soundcheck (tREBLEFREE Remix)
  
  1:51
- tREBLEFREE – Windimoto - A Place For Us (Sevany2's Purple Shindig)
  
  5:51
- tREBLEFREE – The Sweetest Suite
  
  8:19
The Waldorf And Statler Experience's cinquilogy known as "Balcony Music" is currently being posted at Bandcamp (http://waldorfandstatler.bandcamp.com) and Muxtape (http://thewaldorfandstatlerexperience.muxtape.com).

Muxtape

tREBLEFREE

The Platinum Shit Sessions (Part 1)

From Parts Unknown (First Draft)

From Parts Unknown

Nigga I Know James!! (The EP)

The Return Of The Dirty Cymbals

Assorted tREBLEfreshness