The Shadow Years

The years and the phase of ChromeMusic and YUM YUM was left deserted and abondened by Chrome. No production. No Love. No One Around.
We had to break down the Matrix somewhere else.

Breda – Experience (ft. Olivia Louise)

If this track is any indication of where Breda is going there’s gonna be babies made to their sound. Yes, it’s that good! If you wanna go all technical, Riverside Studio, on them, than there is some wiggle room for improvement, mostly in the arrangement on the songwriting or compositional side and a bit on the sheer production side. But and this is a huge but, almost like that butt in that ancient Sir Mix a lot video ;), the atmosphere is there from the start and throughout, and this is the most important part of music in general and where most young cats fail : they rarely match the mood or vibe that’s demanded by the melody or the vocals, which are by the way fantastically laced by Ms Olivia Louise. Seems like this entire production was made for her vocals and not the producers egos. Somebody put work, effort, thought and feeling into this one!

Sounds like a state of the art (Us & Uk) production that has the charme of a 90’s girlie R&B vibe that reminds me of Brandy and the likes while showing some skill and depth on the production side, while still transporting some heavy feels. Great effort and had it on repeat for a whole bunch of days… pretty rare in these digital days...

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Diego Raposo + Seyer – Maybe

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Smooth instrumental production by Diego Raposo & Seyer from the Dominican Republic. We haven’t heard from them before, but their release “Maybe” is a calm and chilly future bass offering for you and yours and fits perfectly in my sunny-sunday-mood playlist.

Khwezi – Like an Animal

Check out my man Khwezi, hailing from Durban, S.A. Proper original hip hop feel, with some deep futuristic approach underneath the surface. One of those tunes that could go places in Germany, and especially one place, a real live dancefloor .  Don’t know if this an old r&b vocal that’s used or not, but who cares. If it works it works. Might strike you as too popish-american-radio at first, but when you get into it after 30 seconds, you feel the depth of the production, and unlike Mura Masas music, Khwezi definitely produced this tune without 3 sound engineers. So this reeks even more of  real talent & skills and amasses into a heavy, heavy tune. I think Khwezi will be a frequent on this blog, since i consider all 3 tunes, that i’ve heard so far, are a stay… in our dj crates and on our radar. So blessings man, and hit me up directly when u have a new one!

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[VIDEO] Lauryn Hill drops serious knowledge…!

I just found this short speech of Lauryn Hill full of wisdom and powerfull words of what life is about. Thought it’s worth sharing with you…
I know the mix below is an old one and we had it up on the blog years ago but it still gives me the perfect dosis when I have one of my ‘there is a need for more power woman like Lauryn Hill in this world’ moments ;)