Hip-Hop Lives Here
Hip-Hop Lives Here
Ase Odin’s is an artist from Nigeria whose track “We Got This” is an upbeat song that celebrates the power of culture, coming together, community and support. All of these aspects have one unifying factor: the Seattle Seahawks. The track “We Got This” celebrates the power of community amongst the fans and the players.
The track “We Got This” has features from THEO MA1 and Gravelly who bring hip-hop verses to the afrobeats inspired track. The song combines multiple musical styles, reflecting Ase’s wide range of musical knowledge. The communal atmosphere of “We Got This” is strong. The music video was shot at Lumen Field, the stadium where the Seahawks play.
“While we were shooting the video, people walked up to us and wanted to be a part of it. We embraced this fully since the song was about the community amongst the fans and we enjoyed talking with them about the team and the comradery amongst everyone.” he said.
Ase Odin has been playing music his whole life with his earliest memories of it dating back to watching his Dad practice. As the years went on, Ase found himself still interested in music, however, schooling in Washington state took priority. The music of Nigeria remained in him and the shutdown of COVID finally allowed him to find the time to dive back into it.
“Nigerian music is my heritage and where I learned the fundamentals of music. Back then, we made instruments out of whatever we could but the music was still in them. The beat and the notes would still come from them. Now, I use regular instruments but the cultural foundation of where I came from is still within me. The emotional weight of the music that was still there years ago is still with me today.” he said.
The communal aspect of music is the core for Ase. His music is community centric and conversational. He wants the emotion he puts into it to be felt by listeners and evoke an emotional response. With this, there is exchange and conversation. Ase achieves this through the purposeful arrangement of the harmonies and the chords.
“When they hear the music, I want them to have clarity. I want it to be clear that I’m making music to be able to relate to them.” he said.
This relatability aspect will be enhanced even more with the music Ase has coming this year. He plans to discuss the things people are going through across the world such as wars and social injustices but also discuss the love and happiness that still exists too. By tackling each of these topics through different musical genres, he hopes the emotional intensity is felt by the listeners.
“I’m planning to do love ballads, reggae, rock, hip-hop and of course afrobeats. The storytelling, melodies and rhythm will always reflect our daily lives. I want people to know ‘You are not alone. We are all going through this.’ I also want people to share their life experiences with me. The energy and movement of shared experiences is going to be prevalent in all the music.” he said.
The title “We Got This” is a reflection of everything Ase Odin believes in musically and morally. The community based atmosphere runs throughout the whole song and will continue to run through all his music. By connecting and uniting people through his music, Ase will continue to converse and communicate with listeners through the music in a variety of ways.
You can see more of Ase Odin’s community based music by keeping up with him on these platforms.
Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube | Instagram | TikTok | Facebook
The Starlight PR Team thanks Ase Odin for taking the time to speak with us.
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Charles Barton is an electronic music artist who creates emotional and reflective songs. His latest track, “Lost Space,” is a minimal house and pop song that you can sit back and relax with but also get up and dance to. The atmosphere Charles crafted is centered around the whirlwind of emotions people can go through as they lay in bed at night.
When creating “Lost Space,” Charles wanted to capture a floaty feeling of being lost in your mind. By combining synthesizers and gentle percussion, the floating journey eases into an energized outro. The outro captures the controlled chaos of thoughts fully taking over the mind.
“When I was writing the lyrics, I was thinking about the times in my life when I’ve been trying to sleep but that anxious feeling is still there. It’s that experience of being lost in the stress. The lights are out and your mind is going crazy. Part of it is also surrendering to these feelings temporarily because fighting them is even harder. Sometimes you just have to let your mind do what it’s going to do,” he said.
His upcoming project, Grey Thoughts contains other tracks that deal with internal thought processing. There are songs centered around identity that discuss how people view themselves and how others view them and how these two perspectives can overlap together in moments of reflection.
“You’re in this gray space of having those outside influences but also your own feelings and thoughts. You’re caught between them,” he said.
In addition to the reflective soundscapes Charles creates, he also does something unique with his electronic music - he adds acoustic elements. With his background being the symphony orchestra world, Charles is well versed in a variety of instruments including guitar, violin, clarinet and unique woodwinds like the ocarina. By adding these acoustic elements, he aims to enhance the texture of his music with warmth.
“I like building the electronic soundscape and then bringing in the acoustic elements to add color, texture and an organic feeling. I don’t want it to feel too saturated with the digital sounds,” he said.
While the electronic music world is known for pulse pounding club music, Charles purposely sought out to do the opposite with “Lost Space.” By creating something with a slower tempo, he wanted to give people something different from both a tempo standpoint and a song structure standpoint. The track does have a hook, an entrancing vocal loop from Charles himself, but it has no verses.
“I wanted to play around with the idea of a non-traditional song structure. I wanted to do lyrics that are just the chorus. I was thinking of doing something simpler that people can still enjoy and appreciate the unique chorus focused aspect of it,” he said.
In addition to his solo music, Charles has also worked with multiple vocalists, especially ones from the R&B world. When collaborating with vocalists, Charles says he lets himself become the “background” and allows the artist to step into the foreground. In a literal sense, his production is the background for the artist’s vocals but he is also providing the sonic bed for those vocals.
Charles Barton is looking forward to releasing Grey Thoughts soon. He has plans for more music too which will take a different route sonically and have a new special aspect.
“Lost Space” by Charles Barton is available on streaming services now.
You can hear more of Charles Barton’s reflective music by keeping up with him on these platforms.
Website | Apple Music | Spotify | Instagram
The Starlight PR Team thanks Charles Barton for taking the time to speak with us.
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