Deejay Nana is a major friend of the site. He and I.James.Jones contributed a Fresh Kils-produced track, “P.S.A” to our DK11 compilation album under their group name, The Names Are Known back in 2014. Then last year he gave me the dope Afro/Hip-House track, “Lullaby” featuring fellow DK11 alum, the legendary Saukrates. Hopefully we’ll get to chat with him about the making of that latter track and his evolution as an artist, producer and DJ between the two DK compilation contributions. In the meantime though, here’s his plug for his latest single, “BIG” featuring the homies, Dennis Passley, eMDee and his Names compadre, I.James.Jones:
truth is i didn’t even realize that yesterday [March 9] was 22 years since we lost the Notorious B.I.G. as i had planned on dropping this one as soon as my engineer and i could settle on a mix we both liked. even still, here is yet another track i recorded in the living room of the apartment i shared with producer/rapper Rich Kidd, at some point between 2013 and 2015 (together eMDee, IJAMESJONES and i call ourselves ‘The Names Are Known‘ – this song appears on a EP i produced for the squad called ‘FLY BLAH BLAH’ … THE COLD is another song that appears on said EP which currently lives in the studio computer – only heard by a chosen few).
get BIG.
Credits:
Produced & Recorded by DJ Nana
Mixed by Ian ‘Project’ Theriault
Artwork by Erica Crossfield for Anchor Point Design
STRAIGHT FIYA!
Stream or download/buy the “Boasty” MP3 HERE.
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Official press announcement: Long-running, acclaimed Toronto music site, DIFFERENT KITCHEN officially announces the release of its new compilation album project, QUINCEAÑERA: MARVELOUS ISH to celebrate its 15th anniversary today (SEPTEMBER 7) . QUINCEAÑERA, a 15-track multi-genre collection of all new and unreleased music (some on an exclusive basis), will be released as a promo-only album […]
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Well here it is, you may have seen varations of this in the lead-up campaign to the release this Friday but here, for the very first time, is the official front cover of Quinceañera: Marvelous Ish, the compilation album to celebrate the 15th anniversary of this here Different Kitchen blog. I won’t reiterate the concept […]
Well here it is: one of the first two opening salvos from the next big project from the Kitchen: Quinceañera: Marvelous Ish, a 15 track compilation album of brand new or previouly unreleased music to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the blog set for release this Friday (September 7, mark your calendars). We won’t get […]
We posted the single back in May but here goes an EXCLUSIVE World Premiere of the video for “Desert Rose”, the single previous to the current online viral hit (currently #7 on the HypeMachine chart), “magic on my pillow” from Brooklyn-by-way-of-Philly artist and new Kitchen fave, Yellow Shoots. Both tracks come from the forthcoming album, […]
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