PRESS REPEAT EP - Circa 2013
So, while I was talking to my homie Deez Waxx about a mix for a new song this week, I thought about an album that I did in 2013, and wanted to go and listen to the mixes from it in comparison to some of the songs I’ve been releasing for this #FPG4Ever run. I don’t tend to think much about the music I made in the past. Mind on today and the future and all the new stuff to release, generally.
Long story short, I was surprised that I still like it. Typically I only like the newest stuff I’ve done, but listening to these 6 tracks again, for the most part, I managed not to cringe. It was a moment in time when I did this, and I’m glad it’s still around to remind me of those days. Every guest is still someone I’m happy I worked with, from Self and Press from the Liberators, to DJ Dice and Baggy Lean, to Tallas doing the backups on “Hold On” or Ryjin doing the first spoken word he ever recorded (I think he told me that once anyways) on “The Fog”.
I recorded this in Edmonton at Resonate when it was still pretty new on the scene, (it’s now an award winning music school). Then I drove to Vancouver with Dice and the stem files, where we got to hang out at Nimbus recording school and run the tracks through their quarter million dollar mixing board with my homie Trevor Tews. Took those back to Edmonton and got Nato to master the thing at Up in Arms back when it was in the basement by China Town. Listening back, some of these tracks are a bit harsher on the ear than I’d prefer these days, little bit sharp with those mid range vocal frequencies perhaps.. but I’m sure everyone involved in this was then and still is probably constantly evolving, and that’s fine. The rawness of these tracks matches what I was doing lyrically, just spewing thoughts. My style’s continued to evolve since this, but this voices what I was at the time, young and frustrated.
The name of the album was referring to the feeling of doing the same things over and over, the grind, the monotony.. but also to the replay value I had hoped to be putting into the wordplay. It’s all been growth. When I put it out, this album was like a culmination for the 3 volumes of the Feelin’ Pretty Good mixtapes, something produced by people I knew, with the whole crew on board to stand with me. It was one to be proud of. Now, looking back, as I release a song a week and just hashtag the infinite playlist of singles with #FPG4Ever, I figured it was fitting to, umm, Press Repeat.
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