Posts Tagged ‘Andy Petr’

Andy Petr // This Can’t Be Real

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Rapper Turned Singer beat creator Andy Petr has been on a tear lately, seemingly releasing a new track (or a new EP) on daily basis for the past couple of weeks via twitter. Last night he sent out a notification to check out his latest concoction “This Can’t Be Real” with the message “if you would like to purchase this beat pay me a million dollars.” Needless to say, I had to check out what a million dollar beat sounded like.

After about five listens, I can resoundingly say that “This Can’t Be Real” would be worth every penny of that million dollars and then some. Opening up with a building start that any hype-man on the planet could get a crowd excited for, the track then slips into a drum-heavy (Petr’s leitmotif) spaced-out synth jam chalk full of unique rhythms and cuts. I’d have to come back to you with a list of MCs that I think would pair nicely with this beat (god, I sound like a fucking sommelier), but the fact of the matter is that any rapper would count himself lucky to have something this good to spit on. Check it out below:

This Can’t Be Real by Andy Petr

Andy Petr // Drinking Milk From His Hands

Sunday, May 1st, 2011

After getting completely bowled over by Andy Petr last year, I’ve been patiently following and waiting for some new material to come from this teenage Wisconsin beat master. Well the drought is over as Petr announced a fourth installment in his ever-growing freely downloadable discography, aptly titled APD004.

The track getting most of the attention, and rightfully so, is the verbosely entitled “Drinking Milk From His Hands.” A head-banger for sure (with the opening slightly reminiscent of Busta Rhymes’s “Break Ya Neck”), “Drinking Milk…” hits you hard from the get-go and doesn’t let go until the last beat. Check it out:

Andy Petr // Drinking Milk From His Hands

Andy Petr // Video + Tracks

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Got wind of the mind-melting electronic tracks of one, Andy Petr, from a recent blog post by PT-Music favorite RxRy, and I haven’t turned away from listening since. When googling the name, I came across only a trio of blog posts about him: one of a Yeasayer remix he did a couple of months ago, an extensive post by the always interesting ladies at Widows/Watch, and a quick blurb by my new favorite (possibly Czech?) site All, Everyone, United. Mr. Petr’s subterranean habitation in the blog-world is probably due to the fact he started making music four months ago (or at least posting them on his soundcloud), however even in such a short time he’s been able to crank out jams right and left — making the process look pretty damn effortless.

Below, you can check out a video RxRy put together for “Float Up” using archive.org footage as well as mp3s of my three favorite tracks of Petr’s: the dizzying 80s-inspired “Fractal Bump”, the hip-hop-ready (and Clipse-esque) beats of “Telescopium” and the universal favorite “Float Up”. You can also download a pair of collections which contain pretty much everything he has created thus far at his myspace page.

Andy Petr // Float Up

Andy Petr // Telescopium

Andy Petr // Fractal Bump