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Never Knows Best

by Yameen

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    Immediate download of 14-track from the album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
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  • FEATURING:

    - Casual (Hieroglyphics)
    - Shock G (Digital Underground)
    - Georgia Anne Muldrow
    - Lady Alma
    - Maylay Sparks

    The "Never Knows Best" CD comes in a shrink-wrapped jewel case with full-color, printed graphics. 

    Features CD booklet with full credits and additional artwork (see photographs).

    Artwork and design by Pandayoghurt. 

    Drawing on past experience working with artists like Goapele, Shing02, and a pre-Hollertronix DJ Low Budget, Yameen corralled an impressive list of collaborators, including the legendary Shock G (Digital Underground), Azeem (OM Records), Lady Alma (4Hero, Black Lily), Georgia Anne Muldrow (Stones Throw), Casual (Hieroglyphics), DJ Icewater (Pharcyde, Quannum) and Maylay Sparks (!K7). While they all were artists Yameen had long been hoping to work with, he made sure that each track fit the artist. These aren't collaborations done for the sake of collaborating.

    Nor are any of the tracks simply a case of pasting vocals on top of beats.

    "When you introduce your collaborator's work and influence, it just transforms into something you can never ever predict or anticipate," Yameen explains. "From a production standpoint, you let go of your controlled, linear environment and open the song up to chaos, or events you have no control over. I could have never expected the album to grow in the way it has, and that's thanks in large part to the power of collaboration."

    The end result is a more direct, focused album drawn from the give-and-take of creative artists trying to bring the best out of each other.

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Phantessy feat. KY, Dead 2 Me feat. KY, Yarouze (Deluxe Edition), Yarouze, Cosmosis (Mark de Clive-Lowe Remix), Molasses (NEWBODY Remix), Cosmosis feat. Amp Fiddler, Molasses feat. Chester Boyd, and 21 more. , and , .

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Drawing on past experience working with artists like Goapele, Shing02, and a pre-Hollertronix DJ Low Budget, Yameen corralled an impressive list of collaborators, including the legendary Shock G (Digital Underground), Azeem (OM Records), Lady Alma (4Hero, Black Lily), Georgia Anne Muldrow (Stones Throw), Casual (Hieroglyphics), DJ Icewater (Pharcyde, Quannum) and Maylay Sparks (!K7). While they all were artists Yameen had long been hoping to work with, he made sure that each track fit the artist. These aren't collaborations done for the sake of collaborating.

Nor are any of the tracks simply a case of pasting vocals on top of beats.

"When you introduce your collaborator's work and influence, it just transforms into something you can never ever predict or anticipate," Yameen explains. "From a production standpoint, you let go of your controlled, linear environment and open the song up to chaos, or events you have no control over. I could have never expected the album to grow in the way it has, and that's thanks in large part to the power of collaboration."

The end result is a more direct, focused album drawn from the give-and-take of creative artists trying to bring the best out of each other.

credits

released June 10, 2008

Produced by Yameen

Featuring:

- Shock G (Digital Underground)
- Azeem (OM Records)
- Lady Alma (4Hero, Black Lily)
- Georgia Anne Muldrow (Stones Throw)
- Casual (Hieroglyphics)
- DJ Icewater (Pharcyde, Quannum)
- Maylay Sparks (!K7)

Mixed by Matt Kelley at The Crow's Nest, San Francisco

Mastered by Ken Lee, Oakland

Artwork by Pandayoghurt

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Philly-born, San Francisco-based producer Yameen explores the intersections of Hip-Hop, House, and R&B.

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