Don Cash
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Don Cash | |
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 Don Cash, Canadian record producer and artist, Ontario, Canada December 2023 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | April 6, 1978 Brampton, Ontario,Canada |
| Genres | Rap |
| Occupation(s) | Rapper,record producer |
| Years active | 2001-present |
| Labels | Stereoeagle, Relish, URBNET Records |
| Website | rulez |
Don Cash(born April 6, 1978 inBrampton, Ontario,Canada) is a Canadian rap artist and record producer.
Career
[edit]In 2001, after several years working as a teenage pop journalist in Toronto, Cash decided to focus on writing and producing songs at home on his computer, releasing at least ten known full-lengthCD-Ralbums indowntown TorontoandNew York City.Though distribution was unofficial and limited, news of the works by the young artist spread. By 2004, Cash had been featured inThe Fadermagazine and had gained high-profile friends and admirers in theavant-gardepop musicscene including James Murphy fromLCD SoundsystemandDFA Records.
In 2006, Cash released the albumOn The Buson his Stereoeagle label. The debut work, which contained the club hits "Star Dust" and "Don't Crash", caught the attention ofBerlinlabel boss and dj/producer Headman, who signed Cash to hisindieelectro imprint Relish. Cash released the albumIIin 2007 via Relish and had success with "Disco Wreck" and "Hey There", while being remixed byZongaminand Street Life DJs. The album was a hit with critics and audiences alike, garnering raves inThe Sunday Times,i-D magazineandNME.[1]
Cash spent 2008 touring in Europe, while writing and recording new songs.Freshy Fresh,Cash's third full length effort, was released in May 2010 on URBNET Records in partnership with Stereoeagle.[2]In November 2010, Cash followed upFreshy Freshby releasingUnbreakableon stereoeagle/URBNET. Containing 15 new songs written and produced by the artist,Unbreakablewas Cash's first all rap LP in almost ten years.
Style
[edit]Most of Cash's songs draw on varying elements commonly associated with,hip-hop,rockandelectro.In 2004,The Fader's,Knox Robinson, christened Cash's sound "afroclash," a play on the "electroclash"trend sweeping the New York underground. Cash himself claimed in several 2007 interviews that his music was simplyrock & roll,though he allowed that it could be dubbed "new wave rap" if one were desperate to find a correct classification for his musical style.
References
[edit]- ^Lindsay, Cam."2K7 (remix)".Exclaim.Exclaim Media.Retrieved9 February2024.
- ^Rayner, Ben (17 July 2010)."Ben Rayner's Reasons to Live".Toronto Star.Retrieved9 February2024.
- The Fader Magazine, Issue #14, interview by Knox Robinson
- The Independent,July 22, 2007
- Sunday Times of London, July 22, 2007
- The Times
- New Musical Express (NME), August 25, 2007, page 55, review by Alex Miller
- i-D magazine, September 2007, page 288, article by Holly Shackleton
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110522102033/http://www.electronicbeats.net/Music/Features/Don-Cash-Meet-The-Don-Interview
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