JNDRNGS

Artist: knowjuander
Album: A Kid Love, beta | Download
Info: Project was completely produced by knowjuander for Genius Kid LLC. Album features “Memories,” a song originally recorded by Raymond Scott, and a vocal feature by Jarell Perry on “Determination.”
The spirit of the record is carried on the thought that when we were all kids, we truly experienced unadulterated love. The feelings we possessed as children were the most authentic. So the title implies that the work in full is the most authentic expression of (love) for, in this case, undoubtedly, hip hop that could be shown. The usage of “beta” as a suffix on this project has more than the mere meaning that this project is in a user-tested phase. Loosely, though, there is the desire for those who pick up this project to try it out, try to understand not only the material, but the artist also. Moreover, to try to give the same energy to their crafts, whether it musical or not.
Personal highlights of the record are “This Long Keep On” and “Determination,” as well as the powerful brag-swag track, “Drummer… A Little Bit.”
From the production angle I would definitely highlight “A Little Bit… More,” as it may have been the most difficult of the samples to chop that were used to create the soundtrack of this lyrical outing.
Personally, I feel that I shine on “Painting a Still,” which is my favorite of all the songs, “Determination,” being second. Combined, this project is more than six months of production and a season or so of actual writing and crafting songs in various settings and sittings.

Note: This is not a review. This is my “shameless plug-outlook” on where this album came from.

Fifteen months after I made my first beat, I’ve moved from Fruityloops to Reason + Recycle to the MPC2500. It’s been a fun and very colorful journey that has shown promise and generated love in another aspect of my craft. More important than where I am is where I’ve come from, and looking back is sometimes important to looking ahead.

The zip includes liner notes and artwork. Take a listen and provide feedback when you get the time. I hope everyone finds something on it they can feel. Tracklisting is below:

Wet Shoes Strings (GK00-001)
produced by know:juander

Side A:
The Famiunion
I Am (For You)
All Over Again
Listen

Side B:
For Dilla
Ease Into It
Drummer Some

enjoy

what’s up family. HI, today was a good day for the art. a new outlook on everything has got me inspired to write. Positivity goes a long way… so in a few short hours… I’ve written (well…finished writing) a narrative song. It’s called, “Boy Meets Girl,” produced by Skavenger of Destruments. Their crew and Skav is out of Cali. Very talented brothers… and Skav is a super talented brother who’s own work speaks for itself, and has given me the opportunity to work with some great CA talent. He also dropped me a very nice canvas in which to paint the narrative of “Boy Meets Girl” on.

The story is not a foreign concept; a boy totally opposite from a girl by every aspect of his social “position” meets her in a place where their worlds cross and common ground is established. And the song hints at different aspects of what you could assume an official short story would cover. Nonetheless… they meet and find out they have this thing in common. And from this ‘thing’ they build the foundation of their friendship which turns into a love-courtship. So yes, it’s a love song, but not in the traditional sense of what most love songs in the Hip Hop genre entail. It’s a story with a concept that molds the story into a work of art. The dopest part of the whole thing… which may seem hard to recognize at first about the song is that I’m actually telling the story in 1st and 3rd person with some narration; 1st being the male, 3rd person being the female… and then the ‘almighty’ narrator. so I think it’s dope to actually pull the concept together in a rhyme over a beat… and once it’s done… it may or may not hit the myspace… I rescind the notion to never up new songs on myspace… they got me this far huh… lmao.