Thursday, August 14, 2014

Mike Schpitz and the Topeka Tape

" For me, the tape was really meant to be the first step towards people really getting excited about hip hop from Topeka, and really creating a scene and a movement." - Mike Schpitz
The #TopekaTape project is brought to you by the mind of the man know as Mike Schpitz. Mike is an artist I've known since the days of glory for myspace.com, where I followed his weekly Wednesday freestyle videos. His videos led me onto track down some of his earlier work with the likes of Stik Figa and Adullessence, but that is for another time.

A collaborative effort with the most prominent artists out of Topeka is what fueled the #TopekaTape project. Immediately Schpitz was met with positive reactions from a large portion of those artist whom he reached out to. Once buzz was generated within the Topeka Hip Hop crowd, excitement began to grow.

Now residing in Chicago, the Topeka native Schpitz
poses in front of the iconic Joyland flea market,
named after a once prominent Topeka
amusement park.   

The tape dropped early summer of 2014,
featuring artist such as Brail, Bizzy, Stik Figa, Lyric Reddick, The Skeptics, Adullessence, str8jakket, and production value from a massive amount of masterfully talented producers the #TopekaTape is a massive mid-western titan.

The #TopekaTape drew the attention of a local media company, The Midwest Invasion. Promoter and producer Lino Brown approached Mike about a #TopkeTape documentary to accompany the project. Met with a mutual respect from both parties MWI, released mini-documentary videos via YouTube. Lino took the documentary process full force with reassurance from Schpitz, and willing participants from the artist on the #TopekaTape.

Make sure you take your time to download your copy of the #TopekaTape today, it'll take you on a multi-cultural experience emanating from 'the middle of the map, the center of attention, and whatever synonyms of that.'(much credit to Stik)
Home Sweet Home - Topeka, Ks.



The #TopekaTape is available for free download here:
http://www.djbooth.net/index/albums/review/mike-schpitz-topekatape and/or
http://www.datpiff.com/-Mike-Schpitz-And-Dj-S-Ranx-Present-topekatape-mixtape.623541.html


Reach out to Mike and check out his other works here:
https://twitter.com/MikeSchpitz
https://www.facebook.com/mikeschpitzmusic
http://mikeschpitz.bandcamp.com/

The Midwest Invasion is reachable here:
http://www.themidwestinvasion.com/
https://www.facebook.com/themidwestinvasion
https://twitter.com/LinoBrown785

Check out the #TopekaTape Documentary here:
http://midwestinvasionwithlinobrown.blogspot.com/2014/08/mwi-presents-topeka-tape-documentary.html