every now and then i come accross somebody who just blows away my mind. djinji brown is one of those people. a criminally slept on artist, son of jazz great marion brown, producer engineer, overall musician who grew up in the bronx. just to name a few who he's worked with: pete rock and c.l. smooth, a tribe called quest, the seven head label, etc, etc.
just google the guy!
anyway in this day and age of myspace, yutubery and bloggery, whoever has a proper website, well, you just know they are serious. or maybe its just us music nerds? dunno...
explore: www.djinjibrown.com
the point is since the guy has black and spanish blood runnin through his veins, havin a really open mind towards music - and here i mean every genre - who makes heavily latin and afro influenced just plain beatiful soul music, you just know it was worth getting out of bed for one more day...
i just love it when you listen to somebody's creation and you feel they put all their heart and soul into it.
ok enough of the cheesy positivity spillage.
even though his work is rather obscure, meaning no torrent and rapidshare 15 seconds around here, check his site as he has quite a few tracks up for streaming. abeuleita's dance - a song inspired by his grandmother, who sports the front sleve of the 12" and Djinji had this to say about: "... well, if you've never seen a Latin Grandmummy dance, then you ain't seen nothing! I mean for real, it is incredible! I had the pleasure of escorting Celia Cruz on stage once and, althought she couldn't really move her knees, she was shaking her hips like she's really doing it" - is gonna be in my next mix.
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