Meet Dan Black. He landed on the music radar in spring 2008 with “HYPNTZ,” a cut sampling Rihanna’s drums from that ditty “Umbrella” and a tribute of sorts to Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize,” and now he has a tidy debut ready for the airwaves. In the interim, he labored over the record, tediously blending Nelly Furtado with Daft Punk with The Smiths like a scientist in a lab. And now Cudi has laid down vocals for this remix of “Symphonies.” It’s quite clever to bring the Man on the Moon star together with Black, whose sound can be summed up as sublime emotional dreamscapes Parisienne style.
Dan Black “Symphonies (Kid Cudi Remix)”
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Black says the album, ((un)) is “an album of opposites, of happy and sad, lonesome and loved up, and I like the idea of the “u” and the “n” being the same as each other, only upside down. It’s also the perfect prefix; I wanted this album to be un-rock, un-hip hop, un-everything.” As for the typeface and parenthesis, he says that with the brackets it’s “a bit of a booming speaker.” Not too shabby.
Black’s debut is out February 23rd via The Hours.
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