DJ Kemit: The Atlantic City music disc jockey and producer
has put together a contemporary R&B Soul album titled EVERLASTING out on iTunes July 31, 2012.
This album features a bevy of soul singing artists under the
creative direction and production of Kemit. Surprisingly good, you will enjoy a
variety of vocals, relaxing instrumentation with the uplifting smooth sounds of
soul. If you are soul music fan, you can’t listen to this album just once, because it
grabs hold and pulls you into the moment. Hats off to Kemit for helping bring
back the sound of soul to today’s market.
4 reasons you should buy DJ Kemit's new album, Everlasting
1) The return of
the word “soul”: “I really wanted to put that back into people’s
vocabulary — and not only so they could talk about it, but they could feel it.
This music can be played at events so people can have more soul in their world.
Now, I’m not saying I’m the first one to [record new soul music]; we know the
impact of Hidden Beach ... the impact of Robert Glasper ... Erykah Badu and
[other artists]. So, I’m not the first to do it. But being a DJ and breaking a
lot of those artists’ music in Atlanta when it came out ... I’m using what I
know about breaking that music and now producing it [to let] people know that [soul]
still exists.”
2) The artists: “There’s a
lot of artists that I love and listen to and played at parties over the years
... and I wanted to use my musical abilities to push them out to other people
that may not have been aware of them. All these artists are at the top of their
game ... Carl McIntosh ... N’Dambi ... Frank McComb ... Eric Roberson ...
KevChoice ... Sepsenahki [and more] ... where else can you go to get all these
artists on one project?”
3) Uplifting
themes: “I think where we are as a people in this world —
the economic plight, the social plight, all this stuff going on with the
[presidential] election, watching Africa be cut up and sold off to B.R.I.C.
[Brazil, Russia, India and China] — I think people need something uplifting and
something remind them of why we are here. [This is] music with a message.”
4) To prove to the
establishment that this music works: “There is a market for people
who need this music in their lives in these times ... I wanted to show major
record labels, distributors ... that this music works. It can make money. You
don’t have to pimp out our culture. I definitely have this thing against just
seeing “trap music” and grills all over TV. We do some of everything: from rock
to classical to country. We’re not just ... saggy jeans and a trap beat.”
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