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22 feb 2015

Submit Ur Muzik On Afrihooop ¬¬¬ D'An Musa GRLA Ft Billy Banger (Prod By D'An Musa) #Ghana #FD #2015




Gorilla is the 3rd single off the #Cloud9EP by Ghanaian based Rapper'Producer @D'An Musa which features @Billy BanGer and co-produced by @KaySo. The verses are menacing and the beat is electrifying with alternative Trap and South African samples this is a definite banger.

Thank you for the continuous support. Its truly appreciated.

Stream & Download - http://bit.ly/1yFEKNU

Twitter  @North_buoy
             @iambillybanger
             @deycallmekayso



18 feb 2015

Blitz The Ambassador Shares Full Switzerland Concert Video In The Lead-Up To ‘Diasporadical’ EP #Ghana




Blitz The Ambassador’s Upcoming 2015 Dates:

February 18 – Ebony Lounge, Nairobi, Kenya
February 21 – Ghana Club 45, Accra
March 1 – A Tribute To Miriam Makeba, Cologne, Germany
March 19 – The Howard Theatre, Washington, D.C.
March 20 – Brooklyn Night Bazaar, Brooklyn, NY
July 31 – Los Angeles, CA TBA

25 ene 2015

M.anifest #Ghana - Mind games (Official Video)


Publicado el 13 de ene. de 2015

Directed by Garth Von Glehn (Film Fam)
Get mp3 http://bit.ly/1oXQMD6.
Twitter/Instagram: @manifestive
TTD Media/ Singitdamnit Music

Song Produced by G Mo
Location: Brooklyn, NY

"All these old happy photographs framing us
Mind Games give migraines, how I for do? In the war of roses, nobody wins, it’s true...”

The video, which was shot in New York, sees director Garth Von Glehn skilfully weaving between the happy and frustrating moments that characterize many romantic relationships. Von Glehn focuses on the emotional detail of a relationship’s toughest times with stylistic elements of organic retro chic.

An aesthetically minimalist video, we see the two protagonists, M.anifest and his love interest reminisce on the vicissitudes of relationships - happy to sad to angry all over again. M.anifest plays an avant garde avid 8MM filmmaker who blurs the lines between life, love and art.

16 ene 2015

Sarkodie - Revenge Of The Spartans‬ (Official Music Video) #ghana #sark*die




Publicado el 14 de ene. de 2015
Artist: Sarkodie
Song Title- Revenge Of The Spartans
Directed by David Nicol-sey
First Ad by John Eshun
Production Company - North Production 2014 

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Unauthorized upload of this video is strictly prohibited
Info : sarkcessmusic@gmail.com

28 abr 2014

Afropolitan Dreams by Blitz The Ambassador #BrandNew #afrihooop2014


Afropolitan Dreams–released today–is Blitz the Ambassador’s 3rd studio album and features Angelique Kidjo, Seun Kuti, Nneka, Oxmo Puccino and more. Buy on CD+Vinyl+MP3 as well as on iTunes in France and theand the U.S.  Photo Credit: Quazi King.

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10 nov 2013

Jayso (Skillions Records) - Paul Nuamah Donkor Accra - Ghana






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Independent Record Company based in Ghana
Mission
Changing the World through Music
Description
A Ghanaian-Based Recording Company.


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14 oct 2013

M.anifest Accra, Minneapolis, Ghana "Immigrant Chronicles: Coming to America" in stores, itunes and www.manifestmc.com


Best Rapper of the year at 2013 Ghana Music Awards. BBC's The Strand tipped M.anifest as one of four artists to watch for in 2012. Featured on 5 songs on Rocket Juice & the Moon - an album by Damon Albarn (Gorillaz), Flea (Chili Peppers), & Tony Allen. M.anifest released his sophomore album "Immigrant Chronicles: Coming to America" in September 2011 to critical acclaim - including top 10 album of the year honors in the Star Tribune. In 2010, MTV spotlighted M.anifest as a hot new artist to look out for on the program "Seven." He was voted City Pages “Songwriter of the Year” after his critically acclaimed 2007 debut Manifestations. He has been described as an artist with “an incredible gift” (the run off groove) who possesses “the kind of assured, joyful, ruminative voice that made Mos Def into Hollywood's favorite conscious-rap star" (City Pages).





http://manifestmc.com

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29 ago 2013

Jakarta Records presents "The Warm Up EP" by Blitz The Ambassador



Jakarta Records is a record label from Berlin/Cologne, Germany. We release music with a passion since 2005. 
Check our homepage for more infos (www.jakartarecords.de).

Our current roster: Blitz The Ambassador, Akua Naru, Shuko & F. Of Audiotreats, Shogun Orchestra, 
Fabulous/Arabia & Mancini And The Creepers. 



Includes immediate download of 7-track album in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
  • Buy Now  €10 EUR or more

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15 jul 2013

M3nsa Ansah (Ghana) : No.1 Mango Street on Afrihooop




NO.1 MANGO STREET

Album Track Listing:

 1. No.1 Mango Street feat. Ryan Ansah
 2. AfroFunkin’
 3. Adjuma
 4. Anaa
 5. Biribi W’om (We Don’t Know) feat. Samini
 6. We Go Rock
 7. Fanti Love Song
 8. Asm Pa feat Samini
 9. No one Knows
10. No one Knows
11. Kelewele Pimpin’
12. Dream (Misuudi)
13. Yn Koo (Let’s Go!)
14. Anoma feat Cage
15. BRKN LNGWJZ feat Wanlov the Kubolor (F.O.K.N Bois)

COZ OV MONI

YE FRE MI RICHY PITCH

Bookings: info@afropoplive.com

+44 208 310 9147

https://soundcloud.com/m3nsa

www.reverbnation.com/m3nsa

https://twitter.com/mensamusic

http://m3nsa.com/

Biographie

From one half of FOKN BOIS, the renowned Ghanaian duo behind world-wide acclaimed short film Coz Ov Moni comes No.1 Mango Street – the international debut album by MC, singer and producer M3NSA.

Having conceptualised and performed on the hilarious Coz Ov Moni (known as the world’s first pidgin musical) with Wanlov Kubolor, and produced the bulk of its soundtrack, 2010 has been an incredible highlight in M3NSA’s 12-year music career.

The film itself premiered in the UK and the US, has been accepted at the Rio International Film Festival (Brazil), and at the Pan African Film Festivals in Los Angeles and Cannes.

It was screened at the Black August Festival in New York, where M3NSA blessed the stage with Hip-hop icons Dead Prez and Talib Kweli.

It is also partly the inspiration for No. 1 Mango Street, a nostalgic yet contemporary take on the place M3NSA grew up in Accra. Here, at a young age he produced songs for the legendary founder of Hip-Life, Reggie Rockstone, (a blend of Highlife and Hip-Hop) and also released the single “If You Don’t Know”, nominated for four awards by the pan-African music channel, Channel O.

Opening a 14-track set, the title song concisely rounds up the many musical influences of Ghana’s number one beat maker: Nu-jazz, Soul, Hip-hop, Afro beat and High-Life delicately underscore sweet harmonies with his guitarist cousin Ryan Ansah, yearning for the place he still calls home. M3NSA paraphrases, “I talk about going back to pick up from where I left things at, and where everything started. It's about acknowledging exactly where I come from and bringing all those experiences with me.”

M3NSA’s father Tumi Ebo Ansah was a guitarist in the British afro-pop collective Osibisa, while his mother taught him how to play the piano when he was eight. Now living in London, he enjoys the unique global positioning that cosmopolitan city allows.

And No.1 reflects this:
From the breezy pensiveness of the first single, the Nigerian soul singer Asa-sampled ‘No One Knows’, to the party-starter Adjuma (“work”) which could easily be as large as erstwhile Hip-hop club anthem ‘A Milli’ was. Just with the benefit of a dialect switch here and there.
With snatches of Twi and Pidgen, the clever rhyme schemes and narratives are what make this album universally relatable. Says M3NSA, “You don't have to be into African hip-hop to listen to the album, you just have to be into music.”

That wide-reaching relevance will be the reason why you may have heard M3NSA’s work on legendary North London producer/DJ Richy Pitch’s Ghana-inspired Ye Fre Mi Richy Pitch LP (on which he wrote 6 tracks). And also why you will have seen him opening shows for Wu-Tang Clan, The Roots, Little Brother and the Gorillaz. Not to mention recently rocking the mic with Damon Albarn, The Gorillaz, Tony Allen and Amadou and Mariam at the Africa Express events in France and Spain.

No.1 Mango Street is one of those albums which will help bring to the menu what Hip-hop has been missing for a long time – an authentic, everyday perspective which made the genre fun and enlightening at the same time.

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6 may 2013

Da Video Of The Week - Mutombo Da Poet (Ghana) - X RAY


Spoken word

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Wings have been sheared but I still soar.Above words,beyond worlds.My vocals rest beneath the abyss.I am lifted!I am MADE IN GHANA.

Biographie
Mutombo, Accra's own spoken word artiste/poet/lyricist, emerged on the burgeoning alternative scene in 2006. He has since earned his stripes as a captivating performer, and has appeared on numerous platforms including "the Mentor Show", "Face of Legon" and other local/international media outlets including TV3, ViaSat1, DSTV, GTV, Joy FM, HITZ FM etc. Mutombo is also a resident poet at Mi Prime Entertainment's "Bless the Mic" Open Mic Series and the British Council's WAPI series. "Sweet Memories" is the 1st single from his debut album "PhotoSentences". Producers and Artistes contributing to the album include Kweku Ananse, M3NSA, Wanlov Da Kubolor, Panji Anoff, DJ Juls, Yaa Pono and Kwam1. "Photosentences" will be released in January 2011 by Pidgen Music. Mutombo's goal with "PhotoSentences" is to illustrate the visceral power of his words; laced over head nodding beats, to show young Ghanaians that Spoken Word/Poetry is alive, and to pave the way for local up and coming poets in search of inspiration.

Artistes que nous aimons aussi
Wanlov Kublor, M3nsa, Yaa Pono, King Ayisoba, Sankwas Bois, Lady Jay




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"Brodo Ni Cheese Freestyle" by Sarkodie (Produced by DJ Juls)




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Kwaw Kese – Crazy (Produced by Coptic & Soul G)

Straight from the BlackStar Line, the man insane has released a brand new single which he calls ‘Crazy’. The song was produced by multi-platinum US based Ghanaian produced, Coptic. This is the first free drop from Kwaw Kese’s yet to be released album. Well take a listen to this one and do NOT forget to share it.





Source : http://ghanamotion.com / http://www.hulkshare.com/TheBlackStarLine


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10 mar 2013

BET Hip Hop Awards ’12 Cypher: Sarkodie (Ghana) On Season 2012 (10/02/2012)




BET Hip Hop Awards ’12 Cypher: Jean Grae, Ab Soul, Sarkodie and Talib Kweli 
bring their verbal wizardy to The Cypher. Season 2012 (10/02/2012)


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27 feb 2013

M.anifest (Ghana) - Blue (Chale What Dey Happen) [Official Video]


M.anifest speaks of nostalgia in this video. There's even a line that puts certain words directed at him and his recent adoption of pidgin in his rhyme in a different light. As usual, pristine visuals from the man.
The video was shot on location in Saltpond and Accra. It tells a story of longing and nostalgia inspired by living away from home. The video shows M.anifest in soliloquy whiles his mind travels to many childhood memories that remind him of home. From longing for kelewele, beans, gari (foods readily available on the streets of Accra) to girls shaking their "wele," "Blue" shows a man journeying through time, torn between melancholy and fond remembrance.
"Blue" (Chale what dey happen) is also a throwback to M.anifest's adolescent years but perhaps more importantly a historical document of the cultural shifts that hiplife/ rap spawned in the 90s. In the 3rd verse you hear and see images that serve as a reflection on the beginnings of a new wave of contemporary Ghanaian pop/hiplife music.
@manifestive | YouTube LINK

5 nov 2012

JULS – THE JUNGLE BOOK BEAT TAPE II On Freedownload


Producer extraordinaire Djay Juls presents “The Jungle Book Beat Tape 2″.
This latest tape features established stars like Sarkodie, EL, YaaPono and new and upcoming acts including Bilsrayoe, LadyJayWay, Ndex just to mention a few.

Fans of Juls and new listeners alike will be entertained throughout the tape, which in summary is an eclectic fusion of jazz, hip hop and afrobeats.
“The Jungle Book Tape” will most definitely go down as a classic tape by this talented Ghanaian producer, who as the “Intro” to the tape suggests has worked with virtually all the top artistes in Ghana today and when one listens to the tape, it will be clear why he’s one of the most sought after producer, not just in Ghana, but on the continent as whole
Follow Juls on twitter @djayjuls
Follow Cryme Records on twitter @crymerecords

Source : http://crymerecords.wordpress.com/

1 nov 2012

MUSICOLOGY - Africa Edition w/ BBRAVE (Akwaaba Music)

     Évènement public · Par Fonkee Monk et Benjamin Lebrave



  • Musicology is back with a special edition on contemporary, funky music from Africa!!

    We are proud to present to you our very special guest and ambassador of African dance music BBRAVE, local radio royalties on Urgent.fm and connaisseurs of tropical and worldmusic THE RUDIES and Musicology resident FONKEE MONK, who will focus on the African influences in funky music worldwide. Africa is the future!

    -- Free Entrance --


    More info on Musicology: www.facebook.com/musicologyofficial

    ▲▲▲ BBRAVE ▲▲▲

    Azonto - Afrobeats - Afrohouse - Kuduro - Coupé Décalé - Soukous - Tropical

    BBRAVE is an ambassador of club music made in Africa. His roots are in Paris and Los Angeles, but his heart lays somewhere between Angola and Ghana. BBRAVE's relentless quest for sounds from Africa drive his eclectic, often times unpredictable sets. He has been sharing this African heat for years now, taking his blend of Akwaaba music to countless clubs and events all over the world.

    He is the founder and owner of Akwaaba Music. Established in 2008, the label is an outlet for BBRAVE's endless passion for African music. Lebrave has been working with over 70 recording artists from 15 African nations, and has been growing a global network spanning content production, digital distribution, marketing and licensing. Today Akwaaba Music is recognized by its peers as a much needed, forward-thinking window onto Africa.

    As a DJ, BBRAVE focuses on the dancefloor side of things, mashing together the staggering variety of dance music genres made in Africa, from kuduro to coupé décalé, kwaito and kwassa house to hiplife, gbema or soukous.

    BBRAVE also keeps an open ear to other strains of tropical beats, constantly bridging the gap between Africa, the Americas and Europe, combining his own array of beats into an infectiously potent musical stew.

    Following in the footsteps of vinyl-era crate-digging DJs, BBRAVE spins tracks that have yet to hit the blogs. Collecting CD-Rs and demos from across Africa, he makes sure to leave everyone drooling for his fresh sounds, and sweating to his contagious beats. Song after song, BBRAVE rides the thin line between authentic and accessible, always pushing the sonic boundaries at the clubs and events he plays at.

    Some of the places BBRAVE has played recently are: Munich, Berlin, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Delhi, Brazil, ...

    www.akwaabamusic.com
    www.soundcloud.com/akwaabamusic
    www.vimeo.com/akwaabamusic/arte

    ▲▲▲ THE RUDIES ▲▲▲

    Radio Taxi Soundsystem aka The Rudies are deejays Maarten Dreezen and Jan Hoozee and have been djing under that name for almost 20 years now. Rude in the way they are, they live and in the way they cut the music, but loving in the way they select the music and like their friends.

    The Rudies started as techno and disco dj's back in the days but soon included funk, reggae, hiphop, electro and rock in their sets. Since then they have been exploring every dancemusic on the globe. Since 5 years they have been making the worldmusicprogram Radio Taxi on Urgent.fm together with host Sarita. It opened further possibilities in including worldmusic in their dj-sets. The last years they have been busy playing worldmusic parties everywhere in the country.

    http://www.radiotaxi.be/

    ▲▲▲ FONKEE MONK ▲▲▲

    Fonkee Monk started deejaying in 1996 simply because of his love for music. Selecting the right tunes for the right crowd at the right time is what he does best. He can make any type of music fit in the context of any party. Tonight he will focus on raw funk and soul, afrobeat, caribbean riddims, tropical beats and crossover sounds!

    www.fonkeemonk.be

19 ago 2012

BLITZ THE AMBASSADOR On Afrihooop


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Biografía
Born and raised in Accra, Ghana, Blitz the Ambassador grew up to the sounds of Afro-Beat, Highlife, Jazz, and Motown. But when his older brother introduced him to Public Enemy’s classic album, It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, as a young boy, he was changed forever. “I had never heard young Black people express themselves in that way before,” recalls Blitz.

After moving to the U.S. to attend college, Blitz continued to hone his musical skills, releasing several mixtapes as an undergrad at Kent State University. After graduation, Blitz moved to New York City to pursue his dream. In NYC, Blitz began to record, Stereotype, a live-instrument-heavy musical exploration, that tests the limits of Hip Hop. Drawing from his diverse musical background, he dove into the project with explicit intent of changing Hip Hop forever. In order to achieve the live sound he was looking for, he formed a band, The Embassy Ensemble, and brushed off his own djembe skills.



After three long years of recording, Blitz took the album to several major labels. Getting the major label run around one to many times, Blitz decided go it alone.


“One day I just said, ‘Fuck it’,” recounts Blitz. “I was tired of record labels telling me I had to be like somebody else. So I came home and wrote, Rememebering the Future,” Blitz explains. This epic, instrument-laden, track illustrates Blitz’ refusal to be a Stereotypical rapper. The chorus of the song is, ‘I am who I am / and you can never change me / Reaching for the sun / remembering the future.’


Now, his label, Embassy MVMT is proving that Hip Hop fans are ready for the future. Hungry for a change, and sick-and-tired of the juvenile radio hits, Blitz the Ambassador is here to give the people what they want.


Descripción
Diasporighteousness:

Blitz the Ambassador Brings the Pan-African Noise with Native Sun

A blindingly bright clarity drives Blitz the Ambassador. With a spot-on sense of flow, he name-checks Basquiat and Lumumba, evokes lovelorn sighs on Accra buses, émigré alienation, history’s shadows. All set to swirls of brass, distorted guitars, and the crackle and pop of old amplifiers.

With a lightning-fast mind, the political boldness of Chuck D, and the sixth groove sense of Fela Kuti, the Ghanaian-born, New York-based MC, composer, and producer unleashes psychedelic Afrobeat colors and triple-time rhymes on Native Sun (Embassy MVMT; May 3, 2011). The album was sparked in Accra yet forged in the African diaspora.

Native Sun—as both musical journey and a striking short film—unfolds from a kaleidoscope of perspectives, with help from a Rwandan sweet soul singer (Corneille on the track “Best I Can”), from sleek Francophone sirens (Les Nubians on “Dear Africa”) and from Congolese and Brazilian samba-loving MCs (Baloji and BNegão on “Wahala”). Blitz even got a boost—including an invite to play at a packed Central Park SummerStage show—from Public Enemy’s Afrocentric thinker and rapper Chuck D himself (whose shout outs grace “Oracle”).

Blitz grew up when the fierce promise of Afrocentric, intellectually discerning rap was at its peak. In the Accra of his youth, the golden age of hip hop lived on long after rap began to go (Dirty) South in the U.S. In barbershops and on well-loved cassettes, young people rallied around a fresh and defiant expression of their concerns and perspectives.

“When you hear young people have such a command, speaking so assertively about how they feel, it resonates with you no matter where you are,” reflects Blitz. “Especially if you live in a stricter society with strong social codes where young people’s voices aren’t heard, hip hop can be a major outlet.”

Blitz and his brothers and friends became avid fans of groups like Public Enemy, one of the few major hip hop names to tour Ghana. Blitz began memorizing raps verbatim to impress the cool kids at school, making up words where he didn’t catch the lyrics, studying the flow of masters from Rakim to KRS-One.

Yet Blitz was surrounded by a profusion of other music in Accra, from the highlife swaying at a nearby soccer field to the kora and drums played for chiefs and sub-chiefs. Marvin Gaye and Michael Jackson, and local reactions to rock and funk all made their mark, spinning on the sometime unreliable family record player.

It all came together, resounding in his head after Blitz left home and began to feel his way toward his own voice and sound. He figured out how to launch a blazing rap in 6/8, a favorite Afropop time signature heard on the track “En-trance,” or effortlessly blend the beauties of scratching with hardcore interlocking melodies (“Akwaaba” and “Victory”). He shifts between Twi, West African Pigeon, and English, between good old R&B and Ethiopian funk jazz (“Native Sun”), without losing a beat.

“It’s easy to throw a bunch of elements together, but you have to find points where they intersect,” Blitz explains. “You have to create something so that you can’t tell where the hip hop begins and where the Afrobeat ends, and where highlife stops and future beats start. You have to create a world of equal parts.”

Refracted by life in the diaspora, the sounds Blitz became increasingly drawn to—starting on mixtapes in college and continuing with his live instrumental hip hop outfit Stereotype—crashed up against the commercial reality of what his favorite music had become.

With the DIY skills of hip hop’s old-school outer-borough instigators and decades of lo-fi innovators across West Africa, Blitz crafts his tracks from scratch, singing reference tracks for every trombone and background vocal, often laying down thirty or more lines for each song. “I don’t have any music theory training. I have no idea what I’m doing,” Blitz laughs. “That means I do things that a trained composer would never do. That’s when it gets interesting.”

This “outsider thinking” also led Blitz to make a short film with director Terence Nance as a companion expression for the album, a shorter take on the larger whole that Blitz fears might get lost in the IPod shuffle. Filmed in Ghana with a cast of 55, it maps the transformation of a boy from marginal village orphan to master of his destiny, with a poignancy and panache rarely seen in music videos.

“Native Sun the album is a journey backwards, back through hip hop, the Caribbean soundsystem culture that preceded it, back to its African roots, with the final kora,” notes Blitz. “The film looks forward, to what could be. Both are about the longing for home we feel in the diaspora, and about letting go of old notions and embracing new ideas. The sound in itself speaks to that.”


Información básica

Se unió a Facebook17/01/2008

SexoAfrotronic-hop

ComponentesBlitz the Ambassador

Ciudad de origenBrooklyn, NYC, Accra Ghana

Sello discográficoEMBASSY MVMT

Director generalJames Bartlett - Embassy MVMT
 http://embassy.mvmt.com/ 
James@MVMT.com

SexoHombre

InfluenciasDave Chapelle, Radiohead, Fela Kuti, Pele

Ubicación actualBrooklyn

Información de contacto

Sitio webhttp://blitz.mvmt.com

Contacto de prensaWill@MVMT.com

Agente de reservasNorth America - Ryan@montereyinternational.net; France/Southern Europe - Tom@yumaprod.com; 
Northern Europe - bartolo@worldconnectionagency.nl


iTunes (US) : http://itunes.apple.com/us/preorder/native-sun
iTunes (EU) : http://itunes.apple.com/preorder/native-sun-exclusive-version
Native Sun, Blitz the Ambassador's second studio album, is a mix of highlife, afrobeat, and hip hop. Born and raised in Accra, Ghana, Blitz and his band, the Embassy Ensemble, bring a new sound to international music. Native Sun, will be released May 3rd in North America, and May 6th Worldwide.

iTunes (US) : http://itunes.apple.com/us/preorder/native-sun

iTunes (Europe) : http://itunes.apple.com/preorder/native-sun-exclusive-version

Order CD (US) : www.fatbeats.com/blitz

Order CD (EU) : http://www.hhv.de

Order Vinyl : http://www.hhv.de

Album Produced by Blitz the Ambassador and Optiks

Album Mixed by Ben Kane @ DNA Studios & Flux Studios, NY.
Mastered by Will Quinnell @ Sterling Sound, NY

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