Free Download: Talk Strange A Beat Tape Inspired By Bjork - Dert

On his newest release Talk Strange, Dert, one of Cali’s finest beatmakers, has brought together two of music’s great innovators - Hip-Hop and Bjork - into another work full of invention and entertainment. Dert’s last release, The Short List was one of ’08’s finest, showing off an exceptional ability to sample and to produce differents moods and sounds over the course of single tracks. Its unsuprising that Dert manages to use a wide range of samples from the Icelandic genuis’s incredible catalogue and incorporate them so convincingly into a Hip-Hop landscape full of robust drums and pounding bass, as Dert has prior in this kind of work, one of his earlier projects mixing Pink Floyd and Hip-Hop together.

Most importantly, the project is a success because Dert achieves an appealing balance. Bjork fans can wrack their brains trying to pick out the samples, while those without musical taste who don’t like Bjork will find Dert doesn’t rely too heavily on her works, and keeps everything suitably straightforward and Hip-Hop. Everyone will be attracted by the quality of the beats and by yet another slice of creative instrumental Hip-Hop from one of our most overlooked producers.