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    █ 01  Love                                                      03:18 █
    █ 02  Got to Be                                                 03:02 █
    █ 03  The Window                                                04:14 █
    █ 04  I Cant See                                                03:38 █
    █ 05  Kumasi                                                    03:42 █
    █ 06  Je Suis Un Chat Noir                                      03:16 █
    █ 07  Take it Slow                                              03:55 █
    █ 08  Paint A Smile                                             03:14 █
    █ 09  Brand New                                                 02:17 █
    █ 10  Listen                                                    02:55 █
    █ 11  Soul                                                      03:21 █
    █ 12  Savoir                                                    03:06 █
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    ▓        For almost a decade, The Apple Juice Kid has been            ▓
    ▓        building a reputation as the triangle area's funkiest        ▓
    ▓        drummer. "When I first got here," he recalls, "I used        ▓
    ▓        to sit on the street and play hip hop beats on a             ▓
    ▓        djembe and a cowbell for people on their way to              ▓
    ▓        basketball games." He smiles. "I paid my whole rent          ▓
    ▓        that way."                                                   ▓
    ▓                                                                     ▓
    ▓        Now, in addition to leading three of the area's most         ▓
    ▓        in-demand bands - the hip hop outfit Sankofa, the            ▓
    ▓        live electronica Apple Juice Orchestra and the hot           ▓
    ▓        club act known as The Remix Project - and making             ▓
    ▓        frequent trips to the recording studio to appear on          ▓
    ▓        albums both here and abroad, Juice has moved from the        ▓
    ▓        drummer's stool to the producer's chair with the             ▓
    ▓        release of his long-anticipated debut, Plus+.                ▓
    ▓                                                                     ▓
    ▓        And he's brought some friends; Plus+ is a who's who          ▓
    ▓        of the triangle's best young talent, featuring such          ▓
    ▓        luminaries as singer-songwriter Mark Wells, rapper           ▓
    ▓        Omotade, DJ Pez, and vocalist Shirlette Ammons. "In          ▓
    ▓        between my other projects, I'd started composing on          ▓
    ▓        guitar and piano, learning my way around the studio,         ▓
    ▓        messing with samples," Juice explains. "I started            ▓
    ▓        writing beats for some of the incredible musicians,          ▓
    ▓        rappers and vocalists in the area, trying to create          ▓
    ▓        the kinds of tracks I'd want to hear them on.                ▓
    ▓        Everybody who came through loved what came out of our        ▓
    ▓        sessions, and next thing I knew, Plus+ was done."            ▓
    ▓                                                                     ▓
    ▓        The record is eclectic, moving seamlessly from neo-          ▓
    ▓        soul to hip hop, two-step to Brit-pop, spoken word to        ▓
    ▓        funky dub, but the sensibility behind Plus+ is clear         ▓
    ▓        and focused. Whether on traps, djembe, or any other          ▓
    ▓        instrument from his extensive percussion collection          ▓
    ▓        -- accumulated largely during drum studies in Europe         ▓
    ▓        and West Africa -- The Apple Juice Kid's presence            ▓
    ▓        pushes the tracks forward, keeps Plus+'s musician-to         ▓
    ▓        -musician conversations percolating no matter the            ▓
    ▓        style.s                                                      ▓
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    ▓        "Love" sets things off: a swirling, dub-influenced           ▓
    ▓        cut dominated by slow, rolling drums and tight horn          ▓
    ▓        arrangements by Rob Chaseman. Sampled doublespeed            ▓
    ▓        reggae vocals, cut in by DJ Pez, tie things together.        ▓
    ▓        The track serves as both a welcome and an                    ▓
    ▓        announcement of Plus+'s sound: this is headbob music,        ▓
    ▓        evolving right before your ears.                             ▓
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    ▓        "I wanted to bring a new sound to a poetry joint,"           ▓
    ▓        says Juice of "The Window," a collaboration with             ▓
    ▓        Shirlette Ammons of Stump, "so I fused elements of           ▓
    ▓        neo-soul to elements of drum and bass, added a great         ▓
    ▓        horn line from Rob, and let Shirlette do her thing."         ▓
    ▓        The result is a coffeehouse vibe straight from a             ▓
    ▓        cooler planet. Juice -- whose study of jazz drummers         ▓
    ▓        like Elvin Jones has provided him with a uniquely            ▓
    ▓        melodic approach to the trap kit -- spikes the song          ▓
    ▓        with funky 16th notes on the cymbals and lightning-          ▓
    ▓        fast snare fills, creating a perfect rhythmic bed for        ▓
    ▓        Ammons mix of spoken word and singing.                       ▓
    ▓                                                                     ▓
    ▓        "Je Suis Un Chat Noir" is the next stop on Juice's           ▓
    ▓        mental world tour: a piano bar high above the Paris          ▓
    ▓        skyline, an hour before dawn. Sultry vocals weave in         ▓
    ▓        and out of the trip hop mix, as Jana Privett of Apple        ▓
    ▓        Juice Orchestra leans back against a cushion of              ▓
    ▓        subtle, funky drums, upright bass, and turntable             ▓
    ▓        cutting, purring with Eartha Kitt-like sensuality.           ▓
    ▓        "The French vocals are the key," says Juice. "This           ▓
    ▓        track takes me back to some of my favorite times:            ▓
    ▓        late night sessions in Europe, where musicians from          ▓
    ▓        five or six different countries, who've never even           ▓
    ▓        met, are just vibing together onstage.                       ▓
    ▓                                                                     ▓
    ▓        Singer-songwriter Mark Wells of Sankofa is featured          ▓
    ▓        on "Take It Slow," a stripped-down rock cut full of          ▓
    ▓        dynamic interplay between drums, turntables, guitar          ▓
    ▓        and vocals. Wells splices Stevie Wonder to the               ▓
    ▓        Beatles, and Juice, even in a more supporting role,          ▓
    ▓        drives the song with a subtle, muscular breakbeat. "         ▓
    ▓        I wanted to make a rock song based on a dope break,"         ▓
    ▓        says Juice. "The kind an early-eighties hip hop              ▓
    ▓        producer would kill to sample. And I made sure the           ▓
    ▓        guitars were loud and strong, so they matched the            ▓
    ▓        drums' intensity."                                           ▓
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    ▓        The experimental hip hop cut "Listen" sets the witty,        ▓
    ▓        laidback flow of Squeezetoy's Omatade over both              ▓
    ▓        djembe and trap kit, with percussive breakdowns that         ▓
    ▓        push the boundaries of hip hop drumming just far             ▓
    ▓        enough. "Different shit -- open ya face to it," the          ▓
    ▓        rapper says, aptly summarizing Plus+, before Latin           ▓
    ▓        syncopation & frenetic turntable acrobatics bring the        ▓
    ▓        track home.                                                  ▓
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    ▓        "I'm fascinated by all kinds of music," says Juice,          ▓
    ▓        who grew up studying jazz and still plays weekly jam         ▓
    ▓        sessions. "Anytime I hear something hot, I dissect           ▓
    ▓        it, figure out what makes it work and how to flip it         ▓
    ▓        a little differently." The result is an album that           ▓
    ▓        reinvents every genre it touches -- a tour of today's        ▓
    ▓        musical landscape led by a tasteful, highly musical          ▓
    ▓        guide who never fails to make sure that the drums            ▓
    ▓        knock.s                                                      ▓
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    ▓        "In a given week," says Juice - who earned his               ▓
    ▓        moniker at age 12, after winning a national drumming         ▓
    ▓        competition sponsored by Premium Apple Juice - "I            ▓
    ▓        might play a hip hop gig, a jazz gig, a neo-soul gig,        ▓
    ▓        a drum and bass gig, even a rock gig. All for                ▓
    ▓        different audiences. I always wanted to figure out           ▓
    ▓        how to make the hip hop fans dig the rock gig, or the        ▓
    ▓        jazz fans dig the drum and bass gig - how to bring           ▓
    ▓        something to each genre that erases those boundaries,        ▓
    ▓        lets everybody feel it all."                                 ▓
    ▓                                                                     ▓
    ▓        With the unadulterated grooves and overflowing guest         ▓
    ▓        talent of Plus+, the Apple Juice Kid makes good on           ▓
    ▓        that ambition.                                               ▓
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    ▓        For More information on The Apple Juice Kid, visit           ▓
    ▓        his website at www.theapplejuicekid.com                      ▓
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01-the_apple_juice_kid-love-jce.mp34,68 MB
02-the_apple_juice_kid-got_to_be-jce.mp34,24 MB
03-the_apple_juice_kid-the_window-jce.mp36,17 MB
04-the_apple_juice_kid-i_cant_see-jce.mp35,20 MB
05-the_apple_juice_kid-kumasi-jce.mp35,20 MB
06-the_apple_juice_kid-je_suis_un_chat_noir-jce.mp34,57 MB
07-the_apple_juice_kid-take_it_slow-jce.mp35,84 MB
09-the_apple_juice_kid-brand_new-jce.mp33,18 MB
10-the_apple_juice_kid-listen-jce.mp34,06 MB
11-the_apple_juice_kid-soul-jce.mp34,65 MB
12-the_apple_juice_kid-savoir-jce.mp34,61 MB