DOZA THE DRUM DEALER "SUPERDozie / DOZIE:Soulful DELUXE" [ALBUM]

 

Doza the Drum Dealer has built one album and then produced it twice. That's the whole concept, and it's a better idea than it sounds. One version, DOZIE:Soulful, is sample-based. The other, SUPERDozie, contains no samples at all same songs, rebuilt from the ground up. Doza describes the relationship between the two the way you'd describe an argument with yourself: it's about what the sample is actually contributing, and whether the record survives without it. It's the same question a producer asks in private a hundred times, made public as a thirty-two-track package. The Brooklyn context Doza comes out of Brooklyn and heads up the Narcotechs. His production credits run through Raekwon, M1 of Dead Prez, Flee Lord, Saigon, Ill Bill, Hus Kingpin and Paul Cain, and his stated influences are the obvious and correct ones Premier, RZA, Pete Rock, Easy Mo Bee, Havoc. He grew up around working musicians; his father played, and an uncle did time in Kool & The Gang and the Bar-Kays. That upbringing shows up in how the no-samples version sounds: not like a sample emulation, but like an arrangement. The release itself Thirty-two tracks, produced, mixed and mastered by Doza alone, with D. Goynz and Kaeson Skrilla featured. The vinyl runs fourteen tracks seven per side and is limited to twenty-five copies. The CD is also capped at twenty-five. The full deluxe edition, with two extra tracks and all the instrumentals, is sold direct only, and SUPERDozie is scheduled to reach streaming platforms at the end of the month meaning the sample-based version and the instrumentals stay off the DSPs entirely. There's a listening party for the record scheduled the day after release. This is a producer's album for people who care about production, and the dual-version structure makes it more interesting than a standard beat tape: you can hear the same song twice and argue with it. For anyone following the Narcotechs orbit, this is the most substantial thing in the catalogue.

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