{"id":2170,"date":"2019-12-18T17:51:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T23:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2019-12-18T17:51:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T23:51:42","slug":"kaytranada-a-true-champion-of-the-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=2170","title":{"rendered":"KAYTRANADA A True Champion Of The Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The album cuts and discrete singles that formed KAYTRANADA\u2019s 2016 debut LP, 99.9%, established the Montreal producer\/DJ as a true champion of the underground. It wasn\u2019t just evident in his features\u2014which included UK garage\/R&amp;B singer Craig David, drummer\/producer Karriem Riggins, and jazz experimenters BADBADNOTGOOD, to illustrate his stylistic range\u2014but in the way he could synthesize those artists\u2019 sounds into an amalgam of hip-hop, house, and soul that was both danceable and off-balance. When 99.9% won that year\u2019s Polaris Music Prize, it was clear that the Haiti-born KAYTRANADA, aka Louis Kevin Celestin, wouldn\u2019t stay underground for much longer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/featured\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Stream KAYTRANADA &#8216;BUBBA&#8217; Now!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/featured\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2171\" src=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bubba-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bubba-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bubba-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bubba.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>His follow-up, BUBBA, might level up the guest list, but KAYTRANADA&#8217;s guiding principles remain uncompromised. \u201cI\u2019m not trying to rebrand a sound, hoping to get a session [with a high-profile artist],\u201d he tells Apple Music. Where KAYTRANADA goes, the vocalists follow, whether that\u2019s Estelle punctuating the low-slung, lo-fi beat of \u201cOh No,\u201d Pharrell getting gleefully lost in the slow-winding funk of \u201cMidsection,\u201d or Tinashe gliding over a loping house track. His instrumentals\u2014all swervy synths, rubbery bass, drums that rush and drag, and filter sweeps in the French-touch tradition\u2014find him homing in on his singular club sound even more. KAYTRANADA is so deeply committed to keeping a groove going that even a tune about securing one\u2019s finances (\u201c10%,\u201d on which Kali Uchis manages to find a rhyme for \u201cresiduals\u201d) can\u2019t kill the vibe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The album cuts and discrete singles that formed KAYTRANADA\u2019s 2016 debut LP, 99.9%, established the Montreal producer\/DJ as a true champion of the underground. It wasn\u2019t just evident in his features\u2014which included UK garage\/R&amp;B singer Craig David, drummer\/producer Karriem Riggins, and jazz experimenters BADBADNOTGOOD, to illustrate his stylistic range\u2014but in the way he could synthesize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,20,21,22],"class_list":["post-2170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-article","tag-champion","tag-kaytranada","tag-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}