The track marks the first single from the producer/DJ's upcoming album, Visions Out of Limelight
RJD2 has announced a new album, Visions Out of Limelightand recruited English singer-songwriter Jamie Lidell for the first single, “Through It All”.
“Through It All” is one of two songs on the record that find RJD2 incorporating vocals into his mesmerizing, sample-filled collages. The track (and the video) opens with RJD2 shaking his cheeks and then using those “mouth drip sounds” as a jump into a song that blends the psychedelic and the weird. (RJD2 co-directed the “Through It All” video with his son, Charlie Kaiser-Krohn.)
In a statement, RJD2 said he got the idea for the “mouth drop sounds” after listening to “some Aaliyah classics and realizing how Timbaland used amorphous mouth sounds as a textural element.” He added: “From there, the song was really built into the way you hear it – drums, chords and vocals from the great Jamie Lidell.”
Visions Out of Limelight marks RJD2's first solo album since 2020 The Entertainersalthough it also follows the 2022 partnership record with STS, Escape From Sweet Auburn. Along with Lidell, the album features vocal contributions from frequent collaborator Jordan Brown.
A lot from Visions Out of Limelight It was recorded with live instrumentation, although many other instruments were cut and reassembled with a sampler. The album draws on a variety of influences, from French house to bass-forward hip-hop to TV songs from the seventies, eighties and nineties: “I realized how incredibly synthetic and skillfully complex a lot of it was,” he told one statement.
Visions Out of Limelight Tracklist
1. “Cold Eggs”
2. “Take the exit door”
3. “Through It All” (Feat. Jamie Lidell)
4. “What am I doing, man”
5. “Es El Nuevo Estilo”
6. “Rest in One”
7. “Fools at the Haul” (Feat. Jordan Brown)
8. “Wild for the Night”
9. “Another Dime From Messoud”
10. “Apocalypse March”
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