LABZ aka LABRINTH is the Future of Music, the UK's Kanye West.. this guy is a absolute Musical Genius!! Also a great person who is a extrovert character..
- I met Labrinth whilst on my first A&R scouting trip to Yo Yos, Notting Hill Arts Club about 3 years ago where I was scouting the rapper ‘Mastershortie’ after the gig I asked Mastershortie who is your producer? He is damm good, he introduced me to Labz…
- Used to go to Labz studio when he first started to work with Bluey Robinson (now signed to RCA), was literally blown away by Labz and his talent, his ability to not just produce Urban, but classical, pop/soul everything. Seriously is there anything the guy cant do…
- Once he played me the track ‘Music box’ wow!! Lyrically, musically, his vocals it was just magical. After hearing this track one late night I rushed to my old labels studio in South London where DJ LES (Nas/Jay Z) and CHAD BEATZ (Travie Mckoy/Rhianna) were working on some hip-hop material for the label and a rapper we had from Miami. I remember playing them all Labrinths material and MUSIC BOX first about 1am in the morning and we were all going crazy!! That was exiting for me.
Here is MUSIC BOX - Just listen
- I eventually got Labrinth on board with the label to do a track with the pop artist on the label called NATALIA they co wrote a great pop/soul track together called ‘Wishing Well’ think Solange ‘Sandcastle’ disco similar feel. This track the label president was feeling as were all our radio plungers, we all deiced that it had to be a single for her States release. This was all exiting then the credit crunch hit, and the label were running low on money so in the end unfortunately we couldn’t use the track. Hope the track now is going to good use as its damm good!! That was tough for me, as Labz was a friend as well as was doing business with which some times you can’t mix with, especially when the circumstances are not your fault around you. I just wanted to do my best in where I was and help get the artist the best records possible.
- Labz and I remained friends; we went to Ireland together for a week on a music trip with his friend Irish rapper Deablo whom Labz was working with at the time. It was for a new TV show called ‘Live at the limelite’ with new Irish talent. It was a truly great experience and was aired on Irish TV couple of months after. Even then remember staying with Labz and his brother and he would just create music and play music every day, even real late at night. He has a great work ethic and was all he lived and breathed.
- 2 years later Labz secures a publishing deal with EMI has his first number 1! Then later signs to SYCO records Simon Cowels first ever signing not from xfactor wow!! So happy for him, as rememeber Labz saying he wants to create something different fro the UK market, work with artists that are part of the young new generation and be a artist eventually himself one day. And yeh at the age of 21 he has done it, and is set to do a lot more too. Most UK producers have the tendency to just try there luck in America and work with artists over there as the market obviously a lot bigger but not Labz he always said he wanted to make his mark here first and build up clear foundations.
I feel very blessed to have witnessed Labz in the studio and see his work, and also see him grow as a producer and now artist from the beginning. He is going to be HUGE!!
Check out Labrinth acoustic session -
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