The Prototype (CD)

Description

MANAFEST VISION MEDIA LLC. is excited to announce a new instrumental album by MeccaGodZilla (aka ADUM⁷) called “The Prototype.” The new album is one of many that will be released during the last quarter of 2019.

“I paint with sound and these instrumentals I ​cooked up are songs ​you can dive into and get lost in. This ​is ​simply me​ ​as a visual artist​ ​having fun channeling​ my spirit each and every time ​while sitting in front of the keyboard to paint with sound.”

Inspired by MC and music producer Undakova during Fall 2019, MeccaGodZilla was gently challenged to release 100 instrumentals before 2020. Undakova, while teaching music production alongside MeccaGodZilla to at-risk youth in the Bronx, discovered that MeccaGodZilla, akin to numerous artists in history, had a stash of unreleased work unfamiliar to the world, particularly fans of indie Hip-Hop. Accepting the challenge, ADUM⁷ shares 15 new instrumentals that blend elements of NYC boom-bap style with trap, experimental, lo-fi, and electronic music.

“Sometimes as artists, we create so much material that the world never gets ​to see or experience it​. We end up hoarding our divinely inspired ideas and vibrations for whatever reason ​we create for ourselves.  It makes me think about all of the amazingly unique material that has gone unreleased via countless friends of mine that have already ascended back up​ to the stars.  I’m so over a lot of things these days, especially any barriers or hurdles for me being fully self-expressed​ as a creative. ​​Sometimes as artists we overthink – we want a team, we want better mixes, we want better marketing strategy…we want, we want. While we wait for those things to fall into​ place, life continues ​on ​and before you know it…none of our work gets heard​ because you are just waiting​.  We get in our own way and the people that want to see us win never really get to see how serious we are​ when it comes to the quality and volume(s) of what we create​. Hoarding the work isn’t really where the fun is, the fun is in creating​​ and letting go to make space for new inspiration​. It is kinda like a rinse and repeat cycle so to speak. I am enjoying this challenge of just letting go and letting my work resonate where it’s supposed ​with the people it’s supposed while not being focused on any expectations for reactions at all. I am just really happy and on tilt to put the music out and let it go. This album is dedicated to a friend that I lost earlier this year to non-Hodgkins lymphoma. She was one of the founding members of EOW Toronto. Much love to Monica “Nika Dala” Nguyen.”

The Prototype Tracklist

01. Ai City (fka Future City)
02. Another One
03. Behold (A Tribute to Wu-Tang Clan)
04. Blissed 20
05. Blissed 7
06. Blissed 29
07. Broken Promises (fka Blissed 5)
08. Dont Start
09. Make Love ³
10. Mothra Meets Battra
11. No Filter -(Tribute to Killmonger & the Wu-Tang Clan) – Remix
12. Quiet Life ²
13. Satan Meet Up
14. So What
15. Stranger Things

All songs from “The Prototype” ​​​were created ​using Akai’s MPK 49 and Propellerhead’s Reason 10​ software and do not feature vinyl samples or loops.​  Denied for distribution on YouTube and Apple Music, the album is available on​ all other streaming platforms​ (notably YouTube, TIDAL, Spotify, Deezer and more).​