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[MP3] Future feat. Kanye West – I Won (M-Rock Edit feat. Mark Brathwaite)
Been a supporter of the homie, producer & DJ, DJ M-Rock for a while now. This is his latest remix production:
After one year of going from about 300 soundcloud listens to almost 200,000, I felt like I had to take things further this year. Even though my remix got talked about on CNN, I wanted to remix less and write original music but the problem is I don’t know any artists here who I think I’d click with musically and professionally.
I met for ten minutes with a local singer named Mark Brathwaite who I’ve never met before, and we immediately began recording, and it came out really dope! I wanted to remix a new Future ft Kanye song, and asked him if we could create our own original parts to replace Future in the song…Not a cover at all. The result is something that sounds like a forgotten old Motown record with Kanye in it, and it came out of total surprise from absolutely nothing. I mean, we were recording for hours and he hadn’t known my full name yet. It’s a little funny.
Mark has a PR team who follow certain people on Twitter, and after following me, I checked his music and reached out to him. He dropped by one day to talk, and after ten minutes, I played him something, and he immediately began singing. He hadn’t even known my real name yet, we haven’t even had a coffee or talked much.
The best part is we don’t have a single sample in the song. Even the chipmunk-esque vocals in the back, are Mark’s voice sped up to give it that College Dropout feel that’s been totally forgotten.
That’s when you know you have real talent!
Related:
Listen to M-Rock‘s Best of Nas mix HERE.
Previously on The Kitchen:
– Future feat. Kanye West – “I Won” (original version) [MP3]
[MP3] The Cookers Quintet – See You Next Thursday
A little classic sounding jazz from Toronto’s own, The Cookers Quintet‘s album, Volume One on Do Right Music ripped from Jamie Cullum’s jazz show on BBC Radio 2 on 04/24/14. The TCQ line-up as follows:
Ryan Oliver – Saxophone
Tim Hamel – Trumpet
Alex Coleman – Bass
Richard Whiteman – Piano
Morgan Childs – Drums
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[MP3 + Music Video] Modulok – Golden Rule feat. HR (of Bad Brains)
From the homie, Modulok:
In the summer of 2012 I ventured to Washington D.C. to meet legendary Bad Brains front-man, HR, which was pretty high on my “things I need to do before I die” list. I slept on his floor, he cooked me dinner, and we got in the studio with a beat by Fresh Kils, Dave Stone (bassist for numerous DC area punk bands) Grant McGregor (of the Human Rights Band) on drums and Pablo Fiasco (a musical genius who used to play with The Pietasters, Iron Cross, and now runs something called Pablo Fiasco’s Reggae Sweatshop in Baltimore) on keys. Needless to say it was the experience of a lifetime. The result was a song called Golden Rule. And now there’s a video. Enjoy!
“Golden Rule” is from the album, You Look So Tragic which you can listen to in full on the DK facebook page HERE.
[MP3] Sean Leon – Narcissus
Title track from Toronto MC, Sean Leon‘s recently released, narcissus, THE DROWNING OF EGO full-length project which you can listen to HERE. The album is great, everything Yeezus wanted to be, arty, creative progressive and forward-thinking but also something it was, to my ears, not: listenable! There are shades of Drake, A$AP Rocky and MCHG Hov in the aural mix too but all spun into something fresh and original. I digs. You??
Previously on The Kitchen:
– Sean Leon – My Side of Town
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[MP3] Devon Tracy – Make Em Believe feat. Nikko Lafre
Recent track from young, Mississauga (west of Toronto suburb/city) MC, Devon Tracy off his #RoomFullOfMirrors EP that dropped last week.
#DK11: The album, This One Goes To Eleven… OUT NOW
