And then Theory Hazit, who is a producer and emcee from Cincinnati who just relocated to Portland. I forgot to mention that now I live in Portland and I've been here for about six years.
Cool. So, if you had a wish list of people to produce for or collaborate with, who would make the top five?
Hmm. . . That's a little tricky. I think I'd almost write this out and get back to you. . .
Well, what are some names popping into your head?
Yeah, there are a couple. Stereolab, some of the vocalists, maybe some of the musicians or maybe just the whole band on a track. Doing something with. . . on a musical side. . . producing something for. . . Common or even Black Thought from The Roots. Other groups or bands. There's this band named Dungan from Scandinavia. Predominantly everything's produced by this one dude and it's like cyclops stylish. He's somebody who I think it would be fresh to do something with as well as interesting just to see what he can create. And, let's see, a fifth. I can't think of right now. Everyone I think of right now that I have connections with, I just think that's too easy, I need to think bigger.
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I don't know, maybe a big soul singer or an R&B singer. Something like that.
Alright, that sounds good. You recently worked on a project called 4 Days in Geneva.
Yeah.
Can you tell us about that and how it came together.
That was from the tour through Europe that we were on last year. It was myself, Braille from Lightheaded, my buddy, Surreal - a newer emcee from Sound Providers and Braille's DJ, DJ Idull and we had these four days off on our way to Geneva Switzerland and we were just talking. We've got these days off and we're staying with this dude that my booking agent knew and he's got a studio. He said that we could hang out and if we felt like making anything or recording or whatever, we could because we had some time and it was there. And we just started thinking about it on this train ride. I forget where we were coming from, but it was a pretty long ride so we hashed out all the ideas, thinking that it would be cool to do this project just sporadically.
I remember like jazz singers would do. They'd be in a town a couple days before a show and they'd meet up with certain musicians they liked and knew. Then sometime later in the year, they'd get together for a session over the course of a couple days. So we threw that idea around and I said that we should call it 4 Days in Geneva because that's exactly what it is and it just has that ring to it like some old school jazz project.
Yeah, definitely.
We created most of everything there. I dug through some records, chopped up some samples, and made most of the beats. They wrote the rhymes, I wrote my rhymes and yeah, we recorded it in a crazy four days, which was supposed to be a rest from a month tour. it turned into more work. I remember we were scrambling until the end, when we had to leave on another train for our last date. It was like, we were recording up until then and we were going to be late. So, it was crazy but fun.