RJD2: "The Third Hand"
Produzent Ramble Jon Krohn, besser bekannt als RJD2, veröffentlicht am 6.März über XL Records sein inzwischen drittes Album "The Third Hand". Der Longplayer ist zugleich der erste Release von RJD2 nach der Trennung von Definitive Jux. Die 15 Tracks von "The Third Hand" nahm der Produzent komplett in seinem Heimatstudio in Philadelphia auf.

Auf dem Album versucht sich RJD2 auch zum ersten Mal als Sänger:

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"What was personally challenging was the whole vocal element to me. The entire difficulty of the record comes down to that. I've always tried to shoot for doing pop music. Pop music for me is just trying to make concise, short songs; songs with a purpose and an apex. And that's what I've done my whole career. That to me, is the pursuit of pop. At no points am I trying to be difficult or hard to listen to."

Bei der neuen Platte kam RJD2 ohne Samples aus, alle Instrumentals wurden bis auf die Drums live eingespielt:

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"This record is all live, except the drums. I wrote, played and engineered the whole thing, and it was a ton of work. I had to learn how to engineer things and mic things as well as finding what to buy, and how to fix things when they broke."