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Tribal Theory collaborates with Sanga Locc from LB Califonia

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small axe - natty roots

FIRE ft HAROLD KAMA JR. & FIJI

Angela Stewart - Could I Have This Dance

Eagl Ai "In Love With A Poly" on the VIBE TIME RIDDIM

VIBE TIME RIDDIM 

In Love With a Poly by Eagl Ai(VIBE TIME RIDDIM)

There were two new students in No-Gi Jiu-jitsu class yesterday and they were both HPD officers. After class, they both shook my hand before leaving and one asked me what my last name was.  I said "Gantan" and he said: "I know you, you were in that group 5:05 - I have your CD in my car." Then he started singing one of our songs accapella: 

"You are the sun and I am the rain, 
soft gentle breezes kisses your hair, 
Tropical beauty, island woman, take me away"

When I put the group 5:05 together, my goal was to create a Hawaii's version of Toto where everyone played their instruments really well and could sing.  A lot of the songs we wrote for the CD were inspired by groups like Journey, the Police and Toto.  

Some interesting trivia behind the group name:
5 guys from the 50th state
5:05am was what time alot of people got up for work
$5.05 was what a Zippy's Hamburger Steak Plate Lunch costed back then
5:05pm was a good time to have a beer after work

I co-wrote "Tropical Beauty" with Ben Vegas and it became the 3rd single released from the 1997 "Stay Awake" CD by 5:05. It was a #1 song in Hawaii and also in Japan.

The lead vocal and George Benson style 335 Guitar hook was performed by Ben, Roland Davis played the Wah Wah Guitar, Blaise Sison laid down the Bass, I did the rhythm arrangement and played the keyboards. The background vocals were sung by Ben, Roland, Blaise and myself.

I recorded the tracks for this CD on 1" 16 track analog tape and mixed the songs to DAT at the original location of my studio Flyin' Hawaiian: in my parent's house in Salt Lake (which hosted studio clients like Kalapana, Henry Kapono, Bruddah Waltah, Na Wai Ho'olu'u O Ke Anuenue, Tony Conjugacion, Ledward Ka'apana, Danny Couch﻿, Melveen Leed, Pat Morita, Glenn Medeiros and a young Bruno Mars﻿ (who back then was known as L'il Bruno, the youngest Elvis impersonator).

When I brought the album to Future Disc Systems in Hollywood to be mastered by Steve Hall (who had mastered CDs for Pat Benatar, Fleetwood Mac and Earth Wind & Fire), he asked me "Did you record this album at Ocean Way?" (a famous studio in Hollywood) and I told him "No, I recorded and mixed it in my home studio in Hawaii." He couldn't believe it and said it sounded like I recorded it at a place like Ocean Way.

The CD is available here: www.mele.com/music/artist/5%3A05/stay+awake/

And also part of an anthology "The Best of Flyin' Hawaiian Volume 3" 
http://www.mele.com/music/artist/various+artists/best+of+flyin+hawaiian+3/

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"Tropical Beauty" by 5:05

Ray Leger - Storms

A light reggae feel mixed with the 2020 style of New Age music. 
Beats by: PJ Tuivai
Lyrics and Music: Anuh
Featuring: Joejoe Lotima 
Engineer: Navé Monjo

"Tropical Beauty" by 5:05

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