Back in 2015, Bay Area producers Brycon and GPEK, both of the Gurp City family, teamed up to make an instrumental mix for Halloween called There’s No More Room in Hell. They had so much fun with it, they made additional volumes each subsequent year, bringing in additional contributors along the way. In 2018, it’s time for There’s No More Room in Hell Pt. 4.

For Pt. 4, we not only get contributions from Brycon and GPEK, but we are also joined by Eons One, Yelir, and B.I. Lectric. Over the course of five tracks, you get all sorts of great spooky instrumental hip hop, heavy on the boom bap, heavy on the eerie samples. Each producer brings their own unique flavor, but these are also artists who know each other well and have worked together before, so everything feels natural alongside each other, and the thing can easily be played as a continuous mix or as individual tracks. One of the really fun things about listening to a mix like this is that you can almost hear the friendly crate-digging competition that must have happened amongst these producers. Like, “Oh, boy, what until you hear these obscure horror film soundtracks I’m cutting up!” “Oh, really? You’re not ready for these old organ sounds I found!” If you like hip hop and horror, you really can’t go wrong with a beat tape like the ones that these guys are pumping out every year. It’s fun and it’s inventive, and it makes for a great Halloween soundtrack.

There’s No More Room in Hell Pt. 4 is the type of project that you wish that every beat scene could put together. It’s got a great theme, it inspires creativity and competition, and we all win because we get some great instrumental hip hop out of it.