The concept for this album has been around for about 12 months now.... and was originally intended to be an EP.
After releasing the two mixtapes "Another Day of The Week" and "Smash n' Grab" I wanted to put out an EP. But even for an EP, it is a long road from conception to a final product.
I started looking at different beat makers on the internet... sending emails asking to have a listen to samplers etc etc... most people wouldn't give me the time of day. This left me frustrated, angry and made me look at music in a different light. No one was gonna make this happen bar myself.
As i kept writing and looking for different producers that wanted to work with me (that were also in my price range), I started putting together my own beats (my roots are in piano and drums, so starting to produce music isn't really new to me) and you can see some of my production work on "The Support Act" in the song: "Faces Have Changed".
As that project progressed, i found that i was writing better and better songs and in the end i had about 50 tracks written for what was supposed to be a "EP". The Support Act Mixtape was born from this 50 tracks... with the songs that I felt were a notch above the rest being saved for the actual EP.
I eventually found two producers that were interested in working with me: Engineer (Canada) and Twist (Germany).
It was at about this time that I met Aaron. Aaron came to me saying that he enjoyed my music, and would like to have a crack at mixing some of my new tracks for me. He had a go... did a great job, asking NOTHING in return... he then decided to do the entire mixtape. I found this... inspiring isn't a strong enough word. It re-lit a fire up under me, that i hadn't even released had gone out. My passion is at an all time high... I feel unstoppable. As i mentioned before, he's now decided to stay on for this next project as both manager and producer... I can't wait.
As it stands, Respect Is Real is about halfway through in the writing and pre-production stage... it has progressed well beyond an EP... and now will be a full length album. I'm SO goddamn excited about where we can take this... only time will tell the product that we come up with but I feel that its going to be something special... At the moment we have 9 tracks for the album, hopping to put out aprox 15 tracks... i'll go a little more in depth bout the writing of these tracks, what there like etc in the next post!
until next time,
-Kryptic.
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