If you don’t already know, Fresh Kept Secret vet, Daru has really been doing his thing lately. From both drumming for live acts such as Slum Village, Black Milk, and Kweli’s Idle Warship, as well as producing & remixing acts like Kissey Asplund, Tableek of Maspyke, Reggie B & others – Daru has been working like crazy these last couple of years. Today we’ve got free downloads of three of the latest products of that labor.
Starting it off, we have the newly leaked track from Daru’s collaboration album with soul singer, AB, entitled “On Deck” and features a guest verse from Black Milk. I first heard the track when Ab posted the YouTube link on my newest addiction, Twitter, and I had been planning on debuting the download on here ever since – but I gotta give credit to both Eighty81 and Rhymehouse for beating me to the punch. The track will appear on Ab & Daru’s upcoming album which should hopefully be dropping in ’09.
Following that up is Daru’s (as yet) unreleased, official remix of Muhsinah‘s track, “Once Again.” On this one, Daru takes the semi-smoothed out vibe of the original track from her Oscillations: Sine album and adds his signature chopped-up groove to it, while also supplying it with a lil’ more bang than it originally had.
Closing the set out is another remix, this time for well-known broken beat singer, Joy Jones, from her latest 12″ single, “The Joy.” This is the only track of the three that’s already been released, so big up to Recordbreakin for allowing me to include it. I have to say… this remix is definitely one of Daru’s craziest works to date and it kind of took me by surprise at first. It has a dope broken/afro beat vibe to it that I really like, but leave a comment and let me know what you think of it.
You can preview & stream all three tracks before you download the free .zip containing all of them below.
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DARU IS CRAZE. S20?? You bet. All day.
i cant get over that Joy Jones joint – DAYUUMMMMMMMM!
thank u!
AB is da truth!!!
And just like Daru he has been on tour with Slum.
Everything he does with other producers is on-point (e.g. 14KT, Zo!, Black Milk (& Fat Ray))
daru is always good listening. respect.
CO-SIGNED.
period.
J$
Do.Not.Sleep.On.These.Guys.
Black Milk!
AB & DARU = The goodness!!!
Intelx
On Deck is pure fire. The lyricall style is tight. those tams are killing me.
how amazing is that “on deck” joint? wtf! really dope!