My newest album, Snares N' Roses, is ready. Very excited with how dope everything turned out from the mastering by Fanu to the laser-etched snare drum with the red tinted cases and my cover design.
I started working on this album right after The Porkchop Tape around late October 2021. It was sent off to manufacturing July 5 and released today, August 15th. The beauty of working with cassette and digital, I can have the music out a lot faster, and move on to the next project. Heavily influenced by instrumental Hip-Hop beat tapes from Knxwledge, Mndsgn, to HxC bands like Jesus Piece, Vein and the breakbeat butchery Equinox plays on his Scientifc Wax show, I wanted to use more breakbeats this time around and further explore this pocket I discovered while working on a forthcoming and completed Inperspective Records album. I don't think I invented it, just discovered that this flow, when I get it right, gives me that studio stank face heavy that no other music I've made has done before!
After talking with Khal about Snares N' Roses, we concluded that it was essentially 'Dilla Time' applied to Drumfunk or Choppage. Dope! He was also very generous with his time to do a write-up about the album which you can read below. Making each track was like healing and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did creating it. Press play and listen in! Out now on a limited edition laser-etched red tinted cassette, digital and streaming on bandcamp.
Words by:
Khal
As disruptive and intriguing as Guns ‘N Roses were on the unsuspecting mainstream during their late ‘80s heyday, Profane’s latest long player Snares N’ Roses could be just as chaos-inducing. With a litany of producers in the drum & bass realm sticking to tight, formulaic four-minute bangers, Profane applies Dilla Time to the entire process, furthering his experiments into the outer reaches of breakbeat science.
Confused? Imagine Paradox and The Alchemist decided to collaborate on a dnb project that sounds like “what if J Dilla made jungle?” One moment, you might get lost in the frantic drumwork on somber numbers like “Drum Slang,” but later an anthemic number like “We Bangin’ That (Jungle Music)” reimagines familiar sounds in ways you never thought possible. “Basill” pairs a hypnotic bassline with hyper drumwork; it’s like someone found archival footage of your favorite jazz bassist and drummer battling during a practice session, ala Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed at the end of Rocky III.
Snares N’ Roses ends with the honey-dripped aggressiveness of “Tearz,” where a lullaby of a loop brightens the day of some of Profane’s toughest drumwork across the project. If this album is a capable drummer trying to understand the junglist framework, “Tearz” is when that broken student becomes the proud master… through the realization that comes with paying attention, especially when the simplistic confines of the modern drum & bass scene are no longer relevant. Whatever you want to call the drum & brilliance emitting from Profane’s studio, we have one piece of advice: Play twice before listening.
LISTEN and support Snares N' Roses on:
Bandcamp (Cassette / Digital / Stream)
YouTube
Tidal
Apple Music
Spotify
And on the majority of streaming services around the world.
