Detnator & Rembunction team up once again to bring a release for carnival 2012 under the futurerapso banner.
Remy delved deep into the psyche of the old midnight robber, a character synonymous with the traditions of trinbagonian carnival and spewed some bitter lyrics over this track. This is a new twist on an old tradition, we carry the torch burning using futurerapso as the vehicle to drive it forward.
Take yuh wife take yuh stripes
make yuh beg for yuh life
cut out yuh tongue with a knife
and then feed you a slice
turn over yuh turntable
mash up yuh dub plate and yuh crate
i got weight, through the gate
now yuh late
body lying in stateno rehash in mih stash
a kakaroach get mash
dust to dust ash to ash
kill quick for playing that trash
i got a million smash
forever real sound clash
sound boy dead
blood run red
this record cut off him head
When Image-Line introduced the Slayer synth in FL Studio 4 I started creating a lot of instrumentals using it for ideas for guitar parts in songs. The Slayer played a major role in me creating the instrumental “Runaway” which eventually became the instrumental for Curious Ringo’s – I Ain’t See and was also used as the soundtrack for Idiom Tv’s – The Bush Diaries.
“Apart” is one of those instrumentals that has been placed in a dark corner on my hard drive for many years now that I would like to see someone breathe new life into. Be it vocals or playing it over using real guitars, bass and drums… I would love to do something with this piece of music.
Late last year I was in a hip hop frame of mind, I had the pleasure of linking up with a few of the new blood in the local hip hop arena and we released the single One Way Up which was a collaboration with local rapper St. Ans. I also got the chance to listen to a mixtape called Recession Music which was put out by another local rapper called Da Face. Two songs in particular caught my attention, Trini Punchlines and Cartoon Rap. I contacted Face and told him I wanted him to feature on a detnator track. I had just finished creating the beat All The Things which uses a sample from The Soul Survivors – Lover To Me and wanted to do something with it. I sent the beat to Face and told him to write whatever he felt on it, whatever he thought needed to be said on the track was cool with me. I like to give artists free reign to interpret a track in their own way… it makes for a more creatively dynamic situation when coming up with a finished product.
That being said… this is what we came up with. Enjoy.
Sometime mid 2010 Rembunction paid the bomb shelter a visit to vibes on a couple tracks. That day we managed to record 3 tracks, My LOvah, Backyard Fete and Club Overload. I recently posted The Power Coming Strong by Daaknite on our facebook page and DJ Haskey heard it and labelled it FUTURERAPSO. I loved the label so much that it literally sent alarm bells off in my head and went on a rampage unearthing tracks that I had on the shelf for one reason or the other. Today I’m releasing for public consideration the single Club Overload by Rembunction.
We think we may be on to something big here. Remember you heard it here first. Detnator. Rembunction. Futurerapso!
Check out the latest OneTalks featuring Make It Hapn.
Make It Hapn has been shaking up the local underground music scene for some time now. His unique, no holds barred approach to his craft and his commitment to being a voice for the underdog in T&T society makes him one of the fiercest lyricists in T&T.
Now, Make It Hapn has entered the soca arena with two offerings, “Must Come Een” and “Activate”.
We had a one on one with MIH on the challenges he faced as a newcomer to the soca fray.
I visited Trincity Mall’s Food Court on New Year’s Day to check out James Hackett as well as Claire Hamel-Smith, Makesi Aquan, Nabeel Mohammed, Omari Hutchinson, Rene Holder, Ryan Rodriguez and a couple other artists at the “We Does Draw” event. It’s actually a pretty decent idea where artists would sit around a table and simply draw and lime. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to be around for the majority of the day, I only got there around 4 o clock but the scene caused quite a buzz as passersby looked on very intrigued at what was taking place. Initiatives like this serve many purposes on many different levels without even trying and that is why I liked it so much. Apart from building a community among local artists, it also raised an awareness with the public that these artists exist and gave them a very down to earth glimpse of their creative processes, which doesn’t have to be anything grand or aloof so interested parties may not be too intimidated to come and ask a question or even to participate.
I’m hoping to somehow form a collaboration between We Does Draw and the DND project in the future.
A couple months ago my friends Leo & Dayner at Marcastuta Ltd hired us to work on a tv campaign for an ngo called UNIFEM. The title of the campaign is Share The Care. This is one of the three TVCs we developed for it:
Having never worked on a TV Commercial before and not considering ourselves video editors or filmmakers, we were a bit daunted by the task at first. But Dayner & Leo were confident and convinced that we could pull it off delivering a professional, high quality product. Interestingly enough, they saw our promo for Curious Ringo – Nah Beg Dem Friend and that is what sold them on our capabilities to handle the task.
It was a combination of a lot of hard work as well as a lot of fun and definitely a learning process. From casting, to lighting to sound we literally had to take crash courses from the university of youtube to attain a certain level of proficiency that was required to complete this job. When all else failed I made a couple calls to my friend Thomas K Jemmerson who IS a filmmaker, he gave a couple pointers which helped greatly.Thanks Thomas!
In the end we came out with a good product and we’re now eager to work on another project! We must thank Marcastuta for the opportunity as well as the support for this project!
Check out the latest episode of OneTalks where we sat down to have a chat with Elan Parle front man Ming about Jazz in T&T.
Michael Low Chew Tung aka Ming has been doing music in T&T for the past 25 years. He has made an invaluable contribution to the music scene over the years and continues to do so with his band Elan Parle doing a refreshingly ingenious blend of musical styles which is labelled Caribbean/World Fusion.
Join us as we enter the realm on the improvisational with Ming.
Detnator & Rembunction team up once again to bring a release for carnival 2012 under the futurerapso banner.