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Choco Valens & DJ Heron drop “Culture Shift”
The prolific DJ Heron returns with a new episode of House Of Heron and single. Presented by Gridlock Production House this episode features another Miami, Florida emcee who enters Heron’s studio, draws several records from the collection (while blindfolded) for Heron to create a track and the emcee to cook to on the spot. This time it’s the highly unique Choco Valens and the resulting single is “Culture Shift” (Which is available via all digital streaming platforms now).
Watch official episode of House Of Heron feat Choco Valens: https://youtu.be/UqSFEuwj6gE?si=80J20lZ-1KDwd8Jj
This is the third episode and single related to the series with previous releases including “Shut Up.” ft. Shottie and “No More Games” ft. King Tetrus.
Listen to “Shut Up” ft. Shottie: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/houseofheron/shut-up-feat-shottie
Listen to “No More Games”: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/houseofheron/no-more-games-feat-king-tetrus
Originally from Brooklyn, DJ Heron cut his teeth in the early days of DJ Culture in Miami. Over the decades he has worked with / DJ’d for artists including De La Soul, Mobb Deep, Smoke DZA, KRS-ONE, The Lox and many more.
He has had a prolific year already including the series, a multitude of singles with his Spanglish boom-bap trio, Grupo HNE (along with DJ Exes and Nando) and a full-length remix album of LoLife General Thirstin Howl The 3rd classic material entitled Thirstin On Heron.
More Info: www.djheron.com
When the “Iron City” links up with Los Angeles no weak emcees are safe! Dropping today is Iron Angeles, the eleven track LP that combines Reagan Era Records lynchpin Dios Negasi on rhymes with production from Pittsburgh’s Tone Fultz. First single “What It Is” (also featuring a verse from Reagan Era’s Skrillz Dior) is hard-as-nails, head-nodding boom-bap greatness. As the producer states “though the Steel City is a cloudy and dark place and Los Angeles is known for its sunny weather, the two have a long history of creating legendary music together including Mel-Man and Sam Sneed’s work with Dr. Dre and Bud’Da’s producing ‘Bow Down’ for Westside Connection.” This extends to the album voice-over which makes the project feel like a long-lost blaxploitation action flick of the grimiest proportions.
Listen to “What It Is” ft. Skrillz Dior: https://youtu.be/VYSWIfN-h9E?si=2AywABT93tQ2qRrX
While Dios Negasi is known for producing his own tracks (including the recent single “Domingre Gang” featuring Young Zee) and Tone Fultz also rocks the mic in his alter-ego Messiah Of Madness, both artists stick to one role here. As Tone relates, “Dios and I have been like brothers over the past few years. I come to Los Angeles regularly to dig records, and he mentioned he was slowing down on production to focus more on rhyming. Meanwhile I was in a producer zone so I started cooking up beats specifically for this project. I came to visit when a bunch of tracks and as we cooked up in the studio, members of Reagan Era came through and it was a totally organic process.”
More Info: https://www.instagram.com/diosnegasi/
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