Kinjac Sampler

2023 Remaster of the single from my first album The Upside Of Down, originally released in 2008 when I was 20.

The Upside Of Down (2023 Remaster)

Down

Kinjac remix of River Whyless' song Stone. 

Stone (Kinjac Remix) [feat. River Whyless]

Possessed

Possession

From the upcoming Kinjac album Broken Mirrors, out on April 22nd.

Champagne

Wolf

What You Find

Tired of You features Kinjac's sister Kathryn O'Shea as a guest vocalist.

Tired of You / Arrivals

Tired Of You [feat. Kathryn O'Shea]

Kinjac Remix of Hardcore by Thavius Beck from his release Dialogue on Mush Records.

Thavius Beck is a Los Angeles based electronic musician and producer, certified Ableton trainer, and an instructor at the world renowned DJ and Production school Dubspot in NYC.

He has released three solo albums (Decomposition, Thru, and Dialogue) on Mush Records. In 2007, he contributed a remix of "Survivalism" for Nine Inch Nails, as well as producing several tracks for Saul Williams on his Trent Reznor produced album "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!" In 2008, Thavius Beck produced the album Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow for fellow Mush Records rapper K-the-I???. In 2012 he released The Most Beautiful Ugly on Plug Research and has been touring as the DJ for rapper Skylar Grey.

I had the pleasure of meeting Thavius and playing a some shows with him and K-the-I??? a few years back and always loved the lyrics from Hardcore. I asked him for the vocal track to remix, and we dug what I came up with and decided to release it.

Hardcore (Kinjac Remix) [feat. Thavius Beck]

This is a remake of the song Only from the album Incandescent. I changed the lyrics to make it past tense to turn a love song into a tale of heartbreak. That's how I roll. 

Lyrics:

you’re the only one for me
I see that clearly when you’re near me
so why’d you have to steer me away?

you’ve got the one and only
disposition that I miss and only
you can see through me when I only
halfheartedly exist
I only halfheartedly exist

a kiss on my cheek
made me weak
and question everything
the theoretical seemed so vain
when you made me feel so sane
it’s driving me insane
the subtle words
that turned my world upside down
you had me spinning round
tumble down into oblivion
just to see you again
I’d leave my world behind
to exist only in your eyes

I’d leave my world behind
but that’s not what you had on your mind

Only Halfheartedly

I pulled the lyrics to this one from an old Kinjac song called Terror from the album Seven Years Bad Luck. I wrote it in 2008 and it's unfortunately still very relevant. 

Lyrics:

we've caught the bug 
we're eaten up 
wrapped up in your 
blanket names for 
all those things that 
go bump in the night 

we're terrified 
we're terrified 
we're terrified of ourselves 
won't you save us from us? 
oh, won't you save us from us?

Terrified

Eprhyme is an NYC based Jewish hip-hop artist whose second album Dopestylevsky came out on K records and was the first hip-hop album put out by K in over a decade. 

I had the pleasure of playing a show with Eprhyme in 2009 and doing some production work for him and his side project Darshan shortly after. I really liked the lyrics to the intro track from his album Dopestylevsky, but wanted to hear what it would sound like over some heavy beats instead of the orchestral score on the album, so I asked him if I could remix it. The result is a very different song, but worked really well. Enjoy. 

Grind Thoroughly (Kinjac Remix) [feat. Eprhyme]

Here's an emotionally vulnerable electro-hop track to confuse y'all. This is the second track on the Moths album and has always been very near and dear to me.  

Lyrics:

there’s no way to erase
the memory of her face
she’ll always be in that place
you bury deep deep down

we carry scars  with us
we wear our hearts on our sleeves
the lingerings of love 
tear at us like a disease
you can’t forget 
what’s been etched in
you can’t forget 
until the end

tell me 
what you want me to see
what you want me to be
how to breathe in your skin
when you exhale your sin
through each one of your pores
if you’re bored now
I’ll show you how you mesmerize 
with your eyes
green like the envy I feel
I want to steal you away from yourself
a wealth of indecision 

your incisions cut into my scar tissue
bleeding issues I thought I had long ago left behind

synaptic misfiring
the wiring is scarred
she caught me off guard
she stopped me hard in my tracks
a lax kind of affection
I was begging for attention
but she she she couldn’t be
bothered with me

Scars

southern gothic anti-pop for sad citizens of the dystopia. solo project of music producer MG O'Shea.