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Minnesota emcee Ken-C has “Premo Feel” on new single
St. Paul, Minnesota’s Ken-C returns with a “Premo Feel.” In honor of the great DJ Premier’s Birthday (March 21) Rochester, NY beat-smith Kidd Called Quest creates a soundscape that gives you exactly as the title states. Keepin’ it 90’s, the beat and rhymes touch on the importance of these influences on both independents and more mainstream stars of now. The track is available in both explicit and clean versions (at the link below).
Stream/Purchase “Premo Feel”: https://kiddcalledquest.bandcamp.com/album/ken-c-premo-feel-prod-kidd-called-quest
This is the second new single pairing Ken-C and Kidd Called Quest to drop this year already. The first one being “Rap Your Age” (link below).
Listen to “Rap Your Age”: https://kiddcalledquest.bandcamp.com/album/rap-your-age-produced-by-kidd-called-quest
The two previously released The Kenneth Cole EP (2023). Kidd Called Quest and is also readying a new producer LP, Put Your Headphones On to feature a ton of potent emcees.
Ken-C has been releasing music over the past decade with a massive back catalog (available via Bandcamp). Kidd Called Quest in addition to his work as part of the duo Young Black And Gifted (with emcee Azariah) has been dropping soulful boom-bap work with such notables as Big Shug, Kool G. Rap, Pretty Bulli, Jae Hussle, Curtis Coke and many more.
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Ten years after Host Bodies first released the album Daily Apparatus, “On A Roll” has found a completely new groove.
For the Daily Apparatus: 10 Year Remixes project, multi-instrumentalist and producer Nicholas Hasty, under his Soul Glitch moniker, takes the original electronic-rock track and pulls it into deeper, more psychedelic territory.
The remix keeps the energy of Host Bodies intact while opening up the track with new beats, electronic textures and expressive saxophone solos. Electric guitar, bass and layered production give it a rich, genre-blurring sound that sits somewhere between indie electronic, jazztronica, soultronica and alternative dance.
There’s something particularly satisfying about hearing a decade-old track treated not as a relic, but as raw material. Soul Glitch reshapes “On A Roll” , finding new spaces within the original and bringing his own musical language into the mix.
The result is energetic, sensual, psychedelic and unapologetically expansive.
Ten years on, “On A Roll” proves that sometimes the best way to celebrate where a song came from is to find somewhere completely new for it to go.
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