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Can't Break Me
Lionel Cohen feat. Palo Xanto · 2024
- Hip-hop
- Sports anthem
- Sync-ready
A comeback anthem for anyone who was counted out. Written and produced by Lionel Cohen, mastered for broadcast, and available with stems.
Songs
Records with voices on them, each written for one moment: the locker room, the blacktop, the slow dance.
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BlackJack (Songs)
Film companion EP · 5 tracks
- Boom-bap
- 90s Brooklyn
- Streetball
Songs from Blackjack: The Jackie Ryan Story, built to sound like discovered street anthems: heavy drums, brass loops and blacktop MCs.
- King of the Court (Phil Galanty)
- Keep It in the Zone (Palo Xanto)
- Crash and Burn (Palo Xanto)
- Grand Concourse (Jaxon Evans)
- Pulss Got Pressure (Impulss)
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Rock with You
Inobe & Lionel Cohen · 2026
- R&B
- Soul
- 80s-influenced
Silky synths, tight bass, and a deep pocket in the tradition of 80s RnB and Quiet Storm. It also plays in the Blackjack film.
Side projects: the beat albums
Three instrumental albums released in 2020 on dna-productions under the Jaxon Evans name. Each starts with a concept: two coasts, one city, one heartbeat.
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Old School Beats
Old school · 24 tracks · 2020
- Boom-bap
- SP-1200
- LA & NY 1980s
Every track is named for a real street, from Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx to Crenshaw Boulevard in LA. Break-beats, Rhodes licks, Parliament-style bass and analog hiss.
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Street Beats
New school · 20 tracks · 2020
- Hard 808s
- Trap-influenced
- Cinematic
The modern city as instrumentals. Each track holds one emotion (legacy, loyalty, betrayal, paranoia, dominion) and the sound design is built to match. No vocals.
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Drum Core
Drum core · 30 tracks · 120–160 BPM
- Percussion
- Workout music
- Motivation
Pure drums for training, shaped by marching percussion where a whole corps locks to one pulse. Tempo climbs from warm-up to peak effort, and titles like "One More Rep" push you through.
24 streets, two coasts
Old School Beats maps hip-hop history onto its tracklist. Pick a coast to see the avenues in album order.
- Concord Avenue2:07
- Brook Avenue2:19
- Grand Concourse2:16
- Prospect Avenue1:57
- Sedgwick Avenue2:01
- Southern Boulevard2:06
- Morris Avenue2:16
- Jackson Avenue2:24
- Cedar Playground1:48
- Willis Avenue1:34
- Crotona Park1:59
- Bruckner Boulevard2:09
- Jefferson Boulevard1:52
- South Central Avenue1:31
- Vernon Avenue1:49
- Crenshaw Boulevard1:40
- Adams Boulevard1:40
- Lewis Avenue1:34
- Hooper Avenue1:50
- E 103rd Street2:22
- Rosecrans Avenue1:43
- Figueroa Street1:36
- Pico Boulevard1:40
- Compton Boulevard1:31
Bronx side: the corners where b-boys spun on cardboard. LA side: South Central, Watts and Compton, where record crates went to park jams.
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Sound tied to place
He names tracks after real streets and builds them from the right tools: SP-1200 drums, funk 45s, Rhodes keys, brass stabs. The music sounds like where it comes from.
Concept before beat
Street Beats starts from an emotion, Drum Core from a heart-rate zone, Can't Break Me from a moment of doubt. The idea sets the tempo and texture first.
Range that holds together
Streetball anthems, sports sync, workout percussion, film songs and a retro soul duet, all from one producer and each fitted to its brief.
- 81tracks released
- 6releases
- 2coasts covered
- 120–160BPM range
- Palo Xanto
- Phil Galanty
- Jaxon Evans
- Impulss
- Inobe
License Can't Break Me
Non-exclusive and exclusive sync licences for sports media, TV, film, advertising, gaming and online content. Files come as MP3, WAV and stems.