PRODUCER PROFILE: Mr. Moods

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PRODUCER PROFILE is a platform in where we interview music creators, i.e. producers/beatmakers, both locally and globally, and showcase their  exclusive musical works. The goal of PRODUCER PROFILE is to further explore and reveal how these highly sophisticated and tight-knit communities of grassroots music creators are crossing borders, both in sound and geographic location. Their music is innovative and visionary – their music is powerful, brilliant, and unapologetic – and their music is part of a fast growing worldwide movement that is changing the way we listen, share, and consume music.

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PROFILE
Mr. Moods
Location: Laval, Québec, Canada
Equipment Using: Computer, some keyboards, fruity loops, sound forge, t- racks
Years Producing: 9 years, but 5 years intensily in beatmaking.
Label: Dusted Velvet Records
Collaborators: Erik Jackson, Jenova 7, VPD, Tack Fu, Lr-60, Skence, Emily Jane Carmen, Cheese, Vicky Flint, Darkside, T-pick, Innereyefull, Crop Circles 720, Sarah Winton, Dj Racy AJ and many more.
Contact: facebook // twitter // soundcloud // website // email: mr.moods@videotron.ca

STERYO’s Producer Profile series #3 features Quebec’s finest beat-maker/sound collector/graphic designer, Mr. Moods.
When it comes to sound quality, arrangement, and concepts, Mr. Moods is a master! From his cinematic rhythms showcased in his music to the artsy album covers, Mr. Moods’ music takes you on a dramatic roller-coaster journey lifted from innumerable media samples and carefully pieced together from an array of sounds, each with it’s own distinct vibe designed to cater to the listener’s neurological needs. Mr. Moods is a sound psychologist, he knows what you want immediately after you hear the music and he understands the power of his talent. In one way, ‘free-thinking music’ is a category that best describes his music, and the other, “action-based.” You cannot count his solo catalog with two hands, neither his frequent collaborations with international collectives: The Jazz Jousters, French Touch Connection, Erik Jackson, Jenova 7, to name a few. Trust me, he is the definition of work ethic!

With great pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Moods.

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Dexter – The Trip

Dexter The Trip

The Trip is Dexter’s long-awaited follow-up to his seminal album – Jazz Files. “The German Hi-Hat Club member is letting his hair down by turning the late 60s psychedelic rock sound into hip-hop.”

The Trip is all about free love, LSD, hash, fuzz guitars, tablas and revolution and at the same time probably one of the most free-thinking hip-hop albums of 2013. Dexter’s music has been in its own cloud for a while now, but none of his previous records have been as far-out as – The Trip. With a concept similar the The Jazz Files, Dexter is telling his personal psych story, one that been triggered by his digging habits.

“I like nearly every music from the late 60′s, Dexter says. He goes onto further explain “My whole musical spectrum has been shaped by this era. It was a time when everything was in progress – art, film, music, society, and I wanted to bring this vibe across on this album.“

Artwork comes from Robert (photos) and Gizem Winter (illustrations).

The first single from The Trip will be Pictures and features Berlin singer Josa Peit on vocals.

Dexter - bandcamp // website

Sinoptic Music International – Pure Dopeness (Special Interludes)

Pure Dopeness - Special Interludes


While we wait for volume three to arrive – Sinoptic Music International has released a 12-track interlude project that appears to be the unlocked beats from Volume one and two of their Pure Dopeness collection. Of course there’s some method to their madness, but at least this will keep up busy and focused on Sinoptic for the time being.

This project features beatmakers Pawcut (Germany), Paul Hares (Russia), ILL. Sugi (Japan), GooMar (France), Newton (USA), Keor Meteor (France), Je$u$ (Germany), RenRok (USA), RAmusiG (Germany), and lastly, founder Hellblazer (France).

Visit Sinoptic Music International

Erik Jackson – Remember the Night

Erik Jackson

Erik Jackson’s recent release Remember the Night was an emotional composition that required “many long hours, headaches, and heartache” for the project to come out the way that best represented the concept of remembering the night. With a year invested in arranging every instrument in live format, Remember the Night emulates the celebrations in life we each undergo everyday. Many events occur in one day, let alone – year, now just for a second imagine that if life was music and the chaos question was: how do I arrange every sound into one full album without compromising the intrinsic value of rhythm? The yang answer to the question would sound pretty much like Remember the Night.

Thus the album is a sonical ode to how we perceive order to be accomplished without the necessary intrusions of forces that cloud our perceptions of life. This album is what makes up happy, it is what keeps us going in the middle of the night, and it creates a historical storyline for listeners to enjoy and for those listeners to pass down.

Erik Jackson - facebook // twitter // bandcamp

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Erik Jackson is a master musician from the Orlando, Florida area who produces nujazz/trip hop/drum&bass music and has released various projects through record labels such as Dusted Wax Kingdom. He is a frequent collaborator with Canadian producer Mr. Moods – they recent collaboration was Clair de Lune.

 

Single: SPA_CES – Thirty Three feat. Ariano

ThirtyThree

When artist express their most personal emotions about relationships in their music, it is our duty as listeners to pay close attention to the words and concepts that arouse attention to our own personal matters. By carefully listening we create an opportunity to channel those same emotions into making our relationships fruitful, whether we learn from them now or tomorrow, when we look back at yesterday it’ll all make sense.

The music doesn’t have to come from some mainstream artist signed to a major label for you to grasp life, and as such for those concepts to become credible sources that create some type of change. Many local grassroots artists have wonderful things about life to share like this thing called perspectives; after all this is what makes social network useful, to share.

SPA_CES will change something about us. It’s this concept for change that I like to call gradually organic – meaning if you allow an idea to simmer in your mind and you allow the proper time and consideration without more external forces clouding your mind, eventually those ideas will become your life , it becomes your own way to clarity.

Relationships are tough and had I listen to this song in my younger years, those relationships could have been worked out without the drama that pervades in such environments.

Will I ever be the same?

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SPA_CES is an experimental collaboration between Orange County, CA Hip Hop artist Zenaloa and beatmaker Junio who are set to release their long-awaited debut album in June 2013. Their latest track Thirty Three features Long Beach crooner Ariano – an underground MC/singer who has shared the stage with rap’s luminaries – WuTang Clan, The Visionaries, LMNO, and Beat Junkies to name a few. Visit Zenaloa at http://www.zenaloa.bandcamp.com.

PRODUCER PROFILE: Bones the Beat Head

STERYOPP

PRODUCER PROFILE is a platform in where we interview music creators, i.e. producers/beatmakers, both locally and globally, and showcase their  exclusive musical works. The goal of PRODUCER PROFILE is to further explore and reveal how these highly sophisticated and tight-knit communities of grassroots music creators are crossing borders, both in sound and geographic location. Their music is innovative and visionary – their music is powerful, brilliant, and unapologetic – and their music is part of a fast growing worldwide movement that is changing the way we listen, share, and consume music.

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PROFILE
Name: Bones The Beat Head
Location:  Nuremberg, Germany
Equipment Using: Software (mainly FL Studio & Steinberg Wavelab), Samples
Years Producing:  8
Label: Millennium Jazz Music / Dusted Wax Kingdom
Collaborators: The Jazz Jousters Collective and the netlabel Dusted Wax Kingdom amongst a few others.
Networks: SoundCloud // Bandcamp //

Bones 

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Ogi Feel The Beat – Lately (EP)

Ogi Feel The Beat - Lately (EP)

The Serbian beatsmith and producer known as Ogi Feel The Beat debuts on Dusted Wax Kingdom with his “Lately” EP comprised of 7 tracks of delightful trip-hop/instrumental hip-hop mellowness with bright spring aroma.

Ogi Feel The Beat - facebook / soundcloud

The Shaking Sensations – Start Stop Worrying

The Shaking Sensations

Start Stop Worrying is the second full-length album by the Danish instrumental rock group The Shaking Sensations. Three years after the release of an EP entitled This Is Your Hellfire Religion, and 2 years after the release of critically acclaimed debut album East of Youth, the band now delivers their most mature output to date with their 2nd album, Start Stop Worrying.

Start Stop Worrying was recorded live in Copenhagen Studios, downtown Copenhagen, in late September 2012, then mixed and produced by Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Russian Circles, Caspian) in Seattle. The record has been mastered by danish Emil Thomsen (Efterklang, Slaraffenland) and the artwork consists of handcrafted illustrations by Danish artist Dorthe Naomi, cut in linoleum and then silk-screen printed for the vinyl version of the album.

Album info:
Written and performed by The Shaking Sensations:
Jeppe Nygaard Christensen, Jakob Madsen, Mads Haugaard Hantho, Jens Wejs Sørensen, Christian Wejs Sørensen.
Recorded and engineered by Daniel Jørgesen at Copenhagen Studios. Keys + additional production by Matt Bayles.
Mixed by Matt Bayles at Red Room Recording, Seattle.
Mastered by Emil Thomsen at ET Mastering, Århus.
Artwork by Dorte Naomi. Recorded and produced with support from KODA

The Shaking Sensations - facebook / twitter / soundcloud

BRUKS – Urban Soul

BRUKS URBAN SOUL

After “Retransmission“, released earlier this year, the Russian beatsmith and producer Bruks is back with another album. ”Urban Soul” is a reminiscence of the 90s hip-hop full of heavy boom bap rhythms and crispy dusty samples. CHECK HIM OUT!

FREE DOWNLOAD HERE

Bruks – facebook / twitter / soundcloud