Release date: 20.09.2024

The blending of hip-hop and jazz has underpinned a great many classic releases and this new, two-track, collaborative release from Conscious Route and Chris Greive certainly pulls on this tradition. The first track, ‘Get To Like Mine,’ opens with a sparse, off-kilter break, keys and lilting brass notes that draw from Chris’ jazz trombone experience. The production slowly builds in layers as Conscious Route delivers a captivating rhyme about the struggles of growing up in a society where, as a young Black man, he was pushed into negative situations due to a lack of options, poverty and the expectations that were placed upon him. Drawing from his own experience, Conscious Route speaks on how he overcame and found compassion and self-worth.


Things switch up a notch with the second track, ‘Black’s The New Orange,’ as a crisp breakbeat creates a foundation for a playful call-and-response between Conscious Route’s lyrics and Chris Greive’s trombone playing. Bringing the improvisational and freestyle elements associated with jazz and hip-hop to bear, this funky head-nodder flexes organic musicianship with a bold lyrical swagger that will appease, entertain and intrigue hip-hop heads and jazz-lovers alike

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Give this two-track release a listen and you are sure to agree that Conscious Route’s lyrical dexterity and Chris Greive’s jazz-drenched production (plus a little collaborative idea-swapping thrown into the mix) is a formula that you will want to hear more of…

Music Produced by Chris Greive
Lyrics & Co Production by Conscious Route
Artwork Illustration by Lynzie Dray & Lettering by John Thompson
Editorial by Tom Clover

Rasodical Urchin of Inner Work Tings 

Get To Like Mine - Conscious Route & Chris Greive

Bedroom musician / producer based in Manchester.......I moved from the East Mids to the North West, like Roy Keane in '93. After spending years playing in noisy punk bands and producing jungle, I somehow arrived here....


TRACKS AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD 

Would love to do some collabs with other artists, hit me up  :)

- "Ask The Dust" aired on BBC 6 Music by Tom Robinson on the BBC Introducing Mixtape :
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/introducing/entries/ac707d76-f534-4383-b07a-69cd0a798e58

- Tom Robinson writing about 'Ask The Dust' on his Fresh On The Net blog :
"Short and extraordinary – I loved this on so many levels. The extraordinary lyrics (“Fearless in a world of wonder… Nights drunk on whiskey and grief”). The fierce artery-popping energy with which they’re declaimed – as if delivering the message was a matter of life and death. And the fact that this music isn’t remotely attempting to ingratiate itself with the cruel gatekeepers of the record industry. Here is a piece of art that sounds the way it does because that’s the way it’s supposed to sound – the world can take or leave it. Personally, I’ll take music as bold and uncompromising as this every time."

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Experimenting with electronic beats, samples, synths and some spoken word

Get To Like Mine - Conscious Route & Chris Greive

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