Published
Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 10:30
- RAMP Recordings will release the LA producer's latest album in July.
Down 2 Earth is the new album from Gregory Shorter Jr, AKA Ras G.
Instrumental hip-hop producer Ras G has released four full-lengths in varying forms since making his recording debut back in 2005, although his involvement in the LA scene stretches back to the early '90s. Much of his output to date has surfaced on Poo-Bah Records, the label he founded in 2005 alongside Black Monk and Ron Stivers. Down 2 Earth will see Ras G make his return to UK imprint RAMP Recordings after the pair hooked up in 2009 on the Destination There EP. In keeping with much of his work these past few years, Down 2 Earth's central motif is a marriage between earthy soul samples and often complex beat programming—a style the man himself has termed "ghetto sci-fi." Clips from the album can be streamed via the RAMP Recordings Facebook Bandpage.
Tracklist
01. D2E Intro
02. Hey Baby!!!!
03. Diiirrrtttty
04. (((Shrooms)))
05. I Love the 90s Hip Hop
06. Crenshaw Bus
07. One 4 DB - I SEE
08. That's Fly
09. Filth Factor '98
10. Leave!!!!!!!
11. Bobby Speak
12. Black Dusty Radio
13. 40 Bus
14. 303 Vs Tell-Lie-Vision
15. Peace (Saalaam)
16. Change
17. Crush on a Earthling
18. Interlude
19. Fatcat
20. Interlude
21. Harlem Negus
RAMP Recordings will release Ras G's Down 2 Earth on July 25th, 2011.