Caught Up Ft. Raheem Devaughn (Prod. By Khrysis)

Dont Know Her

Kelis - Glow (ft Raphael Saadiq) - slowed & reverb

MWWM

The initial thought that came to mind in the process of making “Blackcurrent Jazz 2” was to create a landscape of ideas that capture the truest essence of Jazz but that also embodied the purest and most authentic hip-hop feel. The original Blackcurrent Jazz album (released in 2001) was a great piece of work but for me was more a mesh of beats and breaks and sometimes with tracks that didn’t even lend to Jazz at all. This time around I wanted every single song to scream JAZZ!!! But still using a combination of Jazz breaks that give off varying vibes.

I wanted this album to be more polished, more distinguished and more discernable than 10 years ago. Smoother, more intricate and ultimately more of a thought through process to it. So I set about the production process which I knew would be huge, because I wanted to use additional beats for 20 second interludes to be used in between each main track, which then ultimately doubled my production load. I also knew that the main selections all had to musically jump out at me and I wasn’t going to start writing until I had found all the right beats that made me feel as if I have the right ingredients for a classic album.

And then it started. Hours of sampling, cutting, chopping, filtering, and pitch shifting, mixing and then mixing again. Then came the writing, recording and editing, which for me is a very lengthy and meticulous process. And finally after over 6 months work came “Blackcurrent Jazz 2: The Gold Reflection” subtitled to pay dues and respect to the golden era of hip-hop (the 90’s).

Son of a Brown Bomber

Available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beauty-beast-deluxe-edition/id983024655

Beauty And The Beast (Deluxe Edition)

Believe Her (feat. Merna)

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Rapsody - Believe Her (feat. Merna)

nb_114 Instrumental intermission (Get well soon and I hope you stay well)

"DOUBTS"

Production from ENG Creation

Engineered by Donny Domino for DOJO45 Studios in Dallas, Texas

Recorded in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber

Includes samples of "Feel Like Making Love" as performed by Marlina Shaw written by McDaniels and produced by Kuhn, SFB Big Band and Finnern.

DOUBTS. (PROD. BY ENG CREATIONS)

Surf : AM is an emotional journey expressed through sound a visuals. It captures a midnight experience in the city of Durban and bundles it up into an EP that sonically resembles the movement of a wave (how it rises and crashes). Xenlaii escaped to Durban after losing his mother with the hopes that the nightlife of the coast would help him forgot but the nights would be extreme highs that would be met by extreme lows in the morning when reality strikes again. He was surfing through emotions during this period. If you listen to the EP you will hear that it starts off quite mellow but groovy then rises to the more cocky/reckless side of Xenlaii then crashes at the end to the more introspective side of him.

Who R U? (Instrumental)

anderson .paak

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