November 22, 2022 - Remixd Magazine

November 22, 2022November 23, 2022

NINA JVNE shares new rockstar-vibe record “Trappin” ft. Yung Tory

NINA JVNE is someone you should know. She offers high-energy riffs, soulful vocals, and rich harmonies to all the music she puts out. The result is “Trappin” – an authentic pop-rock experience that showcases her vocals and ability to carve her own lane + stay her own path. For the new record, NINA JVNE recruited Canadian rapper Yung Tory to help deliver the message on the track.

“The track itself is mainly about not caring what others have to say or do to you,” NINA JVNE said in a recent interview. “People suck so you just gotta keep it pushin.”

She’s been making a name for herself in the music industry from when she released her first track “How It Goes,” which came out when she was 15. As a self described “deep thinker who lets complex questions and thoughts guide her music,” NINA JVNE endured an unimaginable instance of violence, trauma and darkness at a young age. However, she overcame these things through using music as an outlet for her emotions.

NINA JVNE’s artistry and passion is clear to see with every release. Every single that releases showcases growth and displays new skills that differ from the previous release.

“My tracks all have very different vibes and I love to tap into all different types of genres making me a very unique and versatile artist,” she said. “Anyone who has an ear for music will be able to appreciate any music I make. Although my music itself varies, I do have a unique and distinctive voice.”

NINA JVNE credits her musical career influences to her early days in church and listening to dancehall, early 2000s hip-hop, and R&B music that her mother enjoyed.

“One reason I’m passionate about music is simply because it is such a cool art,” NINA JVNE explained. “Putting together these patterns within the beat, the melody, the lyrics and everything else in between is just so cool to me. Life inspires me. I inspire myself. There are so many little things in this life and would to absorb and think about that we can relay it into the music we make or listen to.”

“One of my most proud moments would either be getting to work with amazing artists such as TV GUCCI, Yung Tory and Ioanna or getting to create these amazing visions through music videos such as the SPEND IT music video and TRAPPIN music video,” she said.

The music video for “TRAPPIN” ft. Yung Tory is out now, be sure to check it out below.

November 22, 2022November 22, 2022

Lyves finds her most authentic self on long-awaited sophomore EP ‘Change’

CHANGE is the highly anticipated sophomore EP from independent London-based artist, songwriter, and producer LYVES, which the alt-R&B wonder has been teasing for the past few months with songs like ‘How Would It Feel’, ‘Shame’ and title track ‘Change’ catching the attention of BBC Radio 1, The FADER, Complex, Wonderland, Notion Magazine, COLORS, Spotify, and Apple Music, along the way. Out on November 18, Lyves’ Change EP is a genre-defying masterpiece that draws inspiration from jazz, trip hop, breakbeat, UK garage, psych-rock, folk, and New Age, with its foundations rooted in alternative R&B and progressive soul.

Written and produced by Lyves, with Mercury Prize nominee Dave Okumu (Amy Winehouse, Jessie Ware) co-producing the project with her, Syed Adam Jaffrey (Tom Misch, Michael Kiwanuka) on mixing, and Grammy Award winner John Greenham (Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga) mastering the project, this Change EP captures Lyves at her very best and most authentic yet. Centred around healing and transformation, the project takes the listener on a journey from loss to joy, and finding your true self in the process. As Lyves puts it, “this quote ‘Everything that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form’ from Franz Kafka comes to mind for this project”.

Crafted over the past two years, the Change EP opens with ‘21 Days’, which sees Lyves longing for a long-lost love that never returns – this song sets the tone for the rest of the EP sonically. Then comes ‘Shame’, which builds on the project’s sonic experimentation even further with its breakbeat, future garage, and retro soul fusion, and ‘The System’, an empowering ode to self-love and healing for Lyves. The EP closes out with Lyves exploring the duality of hope and its often-slippery slope into denial on ‘Blindfold’, and the title track ‘Change’, where she learns how embracing change can become a saving grace, and lead you to finding your way back to yourself.

Speaking about her inspiration behind the Change EP, Lyves says, “Creating this EP helped me navigate my way through loss to finding joy again. It captures that process for me, and by the end, there is a sense of relief and acceptance; of seeing more nuanced colours and shades in life, of deeper awareness and understanding the embedded beauty and vulnerability in all things – how they shape and change us, ultimately helping us evolve into the best of ourselves. What felt significant in making this project is that I learnt to release perfectionism and instead embrace authenticity. Through creating this EP, I felt like I found my voice again, I also stopped hiding.

On a practical level, learning to produce gave me absolute freedom, I just trust my intuition throughout the process and let that guide me. The novelty of it all allowed me to take risks and work with sounds through feeling, rather than any expertise or previous experience. I suppose it resulted in work that found its own sound and doesn’t confine to any one particular genre. It felt like creative play and through Dave’s incredible encouragement, contribution, and collaboration as a co-producer, I feel we were able to create something true and unique. The EP captures that time for me, the last two and-a-bit years. The songs hold an imprint of that time, which feels both beautiful and cathartic”.

Check out the EP below.

http://awal.ffm.to/lyveschangeep

November 22, 2022November 22, 2022

G. Finesse captures luxurious Hip Hop & Jazz fusion vibes via soulful ‘Keep The Fame’ single

G. Finesse, a Denver-based, Columbus-bred rapper, is gearing up to release his debut album — which will see him bending genres such as Hip Hop and Jazz at his musically-inclined fingertips like never before.

In anticipation of the project, G. Finesse has joined forces with angelic vocalist Kim Dawson for their earnest collaboration “Keep The Fame.”

Equipped with a snappy, improvised live band accompaniment courtesy of a seasoned cast of musicians, G. Finesse’s latest offering is a true testament to his unique, years-in-the-making sonic timbre. As Kim Dawson’s velvety supporting vocals cascade throughout the record, G. Finesse does what he does best by effortlessly weaving in and out of rhythmic pockets with poignant flows tackling the transition from life as a debt-free adolescent to a money-obsessed adult.

“We thought we knew what we wanted/A bunch of money and some fast cars/We want to count up the hundreds/Them blue faces and some bad broads/Damn my perception changed/I don’t really think the same/Yeah I’ll still take the paper dawg/But you n-ggas keep the fame,” G. Finesse raps.

In addition to production from Josh Fairman and guitar aficionado Jay.Greens, the record is powered by contributions from Pretty Lights Live Band, Break Science keyboardist Borahm Lee, Harry Styles’ trumpeter Parris Fleming, and Tauk drummer Isaac Teel.

The arrival of “Keep The Fame,” marks the dawn of a new chapter of G. Finesse’s career, following his own uncertainty of whether or not creating rap music would be his main focus in his future. After building a following with his band Black Eagle in his native city of Columbus, G. Finesse took a brief music hiatus before moving to Denver, Colorado three years ago.

In August of 2021, G. Finesse began rolling out the music he and his team developed via his funky, punch-driven boom-bap single “Still Miss you,” along with his rap-heavy visual release “Ya Know,” featuring none other than the illustrious Black Eagle collective, as well.

Now, officially a part of Perception Record’s roster, the new community-oriented record label in the Denver metro area founded by Jay.Green, G. Finesse has tapped into yet another new frequency and is harnessing the energy while constructing the sonic DNA of new grooves embedded in his upcoming LP

In addition to his recent single, G. Finesse also joined forces with his Perception Records labelmate Midnight.Blue for his August release entitled “20/20” which appeared on Blue’s nine-track project Breathe.

Stream “Keep The Fame” below.

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Day: November 22, 2022

NINA JVNE shares new rockstar-vibe record “Trappin” ft. Yung Tory

Lyves finds her most authentic self on long-awaited sophomore EP ‘Change’

G. Finesse captures luxurious Hip Hop & Jazz fusion vibes via soulful ‘Keep The Fame’ single