Now this is a post I’ve been meaning to make since before I even started this site – and I finally think that the timing is right. Truthfully, Dolphin is still somewhat of a mystery to me. But I don’t think he’d have it any other way. I do know that he is an extremely talented solo artist (singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer) that has about 36 self-recorded full length projects to his name. I’ve heard and/or obtained somewhere around 8 or 10 or so of these, and each one is just as great as the next. Along with his solo work, he also leads an equally impressive full live band, The Airmath, and has also collaborated with artists such as Ge-ology, Waajeed/PPP, Spank Rock, Anti-Pop Consortium, Primus Luta and more. His sounds is what I image Prince would sound like if he had never signed with a label and did all his recordings at home, Cody ChesnuTT-style – but even that is a disservice to what it is that Dolphin does.

To better acquaint the world with that sound – I’ve got the Mono vs. Stereo Collection, which I think has a nice, concise starter kit for the world of Dolphin. Included here are five full length songs, giving you just a taste of what he has to offer. Here’s some more info on the collection, swiped from his blog:

“In 2005, PRPS Jeans of Tokyo Japan wanted a free promo to give away. At the time Dolphin was doing music for Akademiks and PRPS Jeans were an affiliate. He decided to put together five songs as a freebie and basically give them away for free. Two years later when he started Wardolphin.com, it doubled as one of the first albums to be up for sale. This EP is in no way the way it was originally intended to be heard, each song comes from a different album and it served as way to get people turned on to Dolphin and his many albums floating the internet. Dolphin gave me the marching orders to give yet another album… away for free. Wow. That being said, in the spirit of free music, free art, and a free mind… here is Dolphin’s MonovsStereo EP. Mixed by Earl Blaize.”

And I assure you – this is just the very tip of the iceberg. So dig on this for now and be on the look out for much more from Dolphin coming right here in the following weeks. In the meantime, leave a comment and let me know what you think of this one.

1. Light St. Intro
2. Light St.
3. Gunnin
4. I’m Dolphin
5. Fresh Flowers
6. Deserve You

All Songs Written, Produced, Composed, & Performed by Dolphin for 4th Dr. Publishing
All Instruments Performed Live by Dolphin (No Loops or Quantizing)