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Welcome 2 LA Instrumental

by Def Sound

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Welcome is a love letter from my soul to my soil. I wanted to share the beat of where it all started.

My journey with the song began Jan 6th 2022 when I was commissioned by DUBLAB founder Mark Frosty for a sound installation currently being featured at the Los Angeles International Airport. The prompt was that every composer (I was one of 30 LA-based musicians tapped for the project) stay within the key of C Major and at 100bpm. The end result would be a sound installation blending our stems into each other informed by an algorithm based on flight pattern data, weather and migration patterns. So essentially DUBLAB transposed the airport into an autonomous DJ - with our stems as the record crate. The DUBLAB Orchestrina System, an installation that will be up for 2-3 years.

The day I started making the beat I asked Annabelle Freedman to give it a listen and beta-test the vibe for me. And instantly they began to sanging the chorus within the first 30 seconds of hearing it.

The session was 102 track stems! Thank the Lorde for Dave my engineer who made sense of this puzzle and tied everything together.

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Its a beat so nah... Just en.joy it.

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released March 3, 2023
Artwork by Ema Reis da Cunha
Original photo by Daniel N. Johnson

Song Produced by Def Sound
Keys by Smiles High
Bass & backing Vocals by Zhao
Drums by Arthur Johnson aka Arty J
Strings by Annabelle Freedman & Allie Stamler
Mixed by Dave Weingarten
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert

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Def Sound Los Angeles, California

Def Sound is an Afro-Caribbean transdisciplinary artist. born and based in South Central LA. Def is a non binary Grammy Award considered contemporary hip-hop artist, producer, published poet, and award winning academic. Def is currently teaching Hip Hop Critical Theory & Practice at the California Institute of the Arts. ... more

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