Five years after the release of his debut full-length Electronic Dream, AraabMuzik just released its follow-up, Dream World, through Empire Distribution. But the Rhode Island beatmaker hasn't been silent during that half-decade — his prolific recent output has included three mixtapes, a remix collection and two EPs in the last four years.
His most recent release, the Goon Loops EP, saw AraabMuzik moving away from his hip-hop origins and into more EDM-inspired sounds — it turned out to be a tease of what Dream World has to offer, a borderless blend of genres and moods that focuses heavily on dance, pop and house music, alongside his typical low-end beats.
"This one definitely has a different feel than Electronic Dream," AraabMuzik tells Exclaim! "It's more a different mixture of styles of music, and they also have original vocalists on a couple tracks and a couple of different producers on different songs. I don't like giving people just one side of me, I wanted to make the album interesting, colourful, something different."
Bringing in a slew of guest vocalists and producers to help craft the album's diverse feel; for that, he dipped far into the underground, collaborating with up-and-comers like Phear Phace, Mavati, WattzBeatz and Raiche.
"With this album I just went with the people that I wanted to work with. On Electronic Dream, the songs all had the same type of feel and style, but for this one I kinda wanted to give them a little bit of hip-hop, pop, dance, R&B, a couple of house tracks. I wanted to show how versatile I can be. I wanted to give them a rollercoaster of different styles."
But the fertile producer plans to work with more established musicians in the near future, saying, "For my next album I want to do something I haven't done before, working with big-name artists, and the next one could be more of a hip-hop album than electronic-y."
Those will come after some already completed collaborations are revealed. "!llmind and I have an album coming out — it's a collaboration production EP, it should be out soon. I also have a project with Joe Budden, it's being mastered as we speak — it should be out by late August," he reveals. "I have a lot of weapons coming out this summer."
Check out AraabMuzik's Dream World single, "Day Dreams" below.
His most recent release, the Goon Loops EP, saw AraabMuzik moving away from his hip-hop origins and into more EDM-inspired sounds — it turned out to be a tease of what Dream World has to offer, a borderless blend of genres and moods that focuses heavily on dance, pop and house music, alongside his typical low-end beats.
"This one definitely has a different feel than Electronic Dream," AraabMuzik tells Exclaim! "It's more a different mixture of styles of music, and they also have original vocalists on a couple tracks and a couple of different producers on different songs. I don't like giving people just one side of me, I wanted to make the album interesting, colourful, something different."
Bringing in a slew of guest vocalists and producers to help craft the album's diverse feel; for that, he dipped far into the underground, collaborating with up-and-comers like Phear Phace, Mavati, WattzBeatz and Raiche.
"With this album I just went with the people that I wanted to work with. On Electronic Dream, the songs all had the same type of feel and style, but for this one I kinda wanted to give them a little bit of hip-hop, pop, dance, R&B, a couple of house tracks. I wanted to show how versatile I can be. I wanted to give them a rollercoaster of different styles."
But the fertile producer plans to work with more established musicians in the near future, saying, "For my next album I want to do something I haven't done before, working with big-name artists, and the next one could be more of a hip-hop album than electronic-y."
Those will come after some already completed collaborations are revealed. "!llmind and I have an album coming out — it's a collaboration production EP, it should be out soon. I also have a project with Joe Budden, it's being mastered as we speak — it should be out by late August," he reveals. "I have a lot of weapons coming out this summer."
Check out AraabMuzik's Dream World single, "Day Dreams" below.
