Less Without Him

The Exquisite Delegates started with Amine from the Netherlands, and Sunbiz from Canada meeting in Shanghai working for the same music production house. Fellow delegate Dana Shellmire a.k.a. ‘Ocean Keep Waving’ from the US soon joined the duo as well. Finding out quickly they had a shared interest and passion for good music and a specific sound, the MC, vocalist and producer trio dove into the studio and thus the Exquisite Delegates were born.

Amine’s career spans numerous releases and involvement with groups the likes of ,’Z4’ , ‘BP’M’, ‘Afrosonic’, and ‘The Word’.

Sunbiz has his own contributions with album releases such as ‘Serious Sound’, ‘Manoeuvers 1’, and ‘愛屋及烏 - Love Before Everything’

Ocean Keep Waving (a.k.a. Dana Lorraine Shellmire) has enjoyed a vast global career as a composer, vocalist, producer, actress, and emerging author since 2000 – working with artists like Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Das EFX, Chuck Leavell, Philip Woo (Roy Ayers), After School Kids, The Word, and Tia Ray.

This Exquisite album is more then just vinyl samples and drum machines, it features China’s under-ground diva ChaCha from ‘AM444’ & ‘Faded Ghost‘, laying down her sound on the smooth head-bobbing track “Ships Like Space”.

This album is the culmination of love and dedication to a genre that has forever changed the way we all listen to popular music. Hiphop is not just street music - it’s way of being, a way of living and the soundtrack for an entire generation.

The Exquisite Delegates have a simple guiding philosophy at heart ; do what you love and do it the best that you can. 

We hope you enjoy this album as much as we enjoyed making it.

Its music - just listen.

Peace.

- ExD